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Thursday, October 3, 2013
Weekly Recap
DMITRY SHORIN Growing Wings on the Way Down Private View with Artist:
DMITRY SHORIN
Growing Wings on the Way Down
Private View with Artist:
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
6 to 8 in the evening
NEW YORK: Erarta Galleries will present Dmitry Shorin’s exhibition Growing Wings on the Way Down. This show consists of one of twelve life-sized sculptures and 10 large-scale paintings that debate technological processes and the limits of the human body in a digital age.
The sculpture is part of the series from I Believe in Angels, Erarta’s latest joint project with the artist. According to Shorin, “Man has long coveted the ability to fly, but the faster and farther we travel, the more we must look to the angels for direction. Though ostensibly capable of high-speed travel, my angels are caught in a moment of daily routine – a contradiction.” Engaged in familiar everyday routines, Shorin’s subjects seem frozen in time. It seems that despite the speed of our technology, the physical burden of the heavy airplane wings has rendered these beings immobile.
Shorin’s paintings evoke an atmosphere of uneasiness and psychological eroticism. He uses images of washed-out beauties from the media and breathes a new momentarily human life into them. Stripped of advertisement text, these fragile heroines become ephemeral and mysterious beings both appealing and provocative.
In exploring definitions of beauty and the transcendental power of the feminine, Shorin assigns guardianship to womankind. In today’s age when speed is more important than physical strength, the artist gives an angel her wings in the most modern sense. Shorin looks at contemporary society and revises clichéd standards in mythical terms.
Dmitry Shorin’s works can be found on permanent display at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Additionally, his work has been auctioned throughout the world at major international auction houses such as Sotheby’s and Phillips.
About Erarta
Erarta Galleries is dedicated to promoting contemporary Russian art both domestically and on the international stage. The international group of Erarta Galleries, established in New York, London, Zurich, Hong Kong, and Saint Petersburg offers for sale contemporary works of art by over 120 artists from more than 15 regions of Russia.
Notes for editors:
Dmitry Shorin was born in Novosibirsk in 1971. He studied at the Graphic Art Department at the M. Gorky Teaching Institute in Omsk and continued his studies at the Omsk Academy of Service specializing in costume design, graduating in 1990. The same year, he moved to St. Petersburg where he commenced special post-graduate studies. In 1993 he was admitted to the Association of Artists and in 1998 he joined the UNESCO International Federation of Artists. He continues to live and work in St. Petersburg.
Contact Erarta Galleries
Meesha Chang, meesha@erartagalleries.com, T. +41 (0)43 344 60 40
Photographs:
The photographs shown in the above text and additional images are available in high resolution by contactingmeesha@erartagalleries.com
In exploring definitions of beauty and the transcendental power of the feminine, Dmitry Shorin assigns guardianship to womankind. In today’s age when speed is more important than physical strength, the artist gives an angel her wings in the most modern sense.
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Fine Art Magazine | Woodstock’s Wall of Peace Comes to Germany
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| Helpful assistance hanging art in Nuremburg |
It was hot in Germany, this summer. Forty degrees Celsius in the shade. Which is the equivalent of 104 Fahrenheit for the entire two days of the Young and Free Festival in Nuremberg, Germany.
We were on the festival grounds where Hitler held his Reich rallies prior to any and all invasion forces having been deployed by ’39. The bucolic beauty and the elegance of the Nuremberg landscape had been the backdrop where all of Leni Riefenstahl films where produced. The propaganda machine hammered out it’s iconic statements here in this field. No better place for the “Woodstock Wall of Peace” and The Artists for Peace and the Environment” art panels, I thought to myself as I first walked the grounds.
There was nothing to hear but the resounding dead memories that rang in the air. No music, that was to come. More of a lack of sound. A pity they, the unheard sounds of the many, cluttered and vied with the earthy perfume of an ancient Bavarian beauty, that must have always prevailed here. Let intolerance slug it out with “Love, Peace and Rock and Roll”.
There was nothing to hear but the resounding dead memories that rang in the air. No music, that was to come. More of a lack of sound. A pity they, the unheard sounds of the many, cluttered and vied with the earthy perfume of an ancient Bavarian beauty, that must have always prevailed here. Let intolerance slug it out with “Love, Peace and Rock and Roll”.
I had brought images of Jimi Hendrix. One painted by an unknown and the other by Tico Torres the consummate drummer for Bon Jovi. The backdrop was a most beautiful clear blue sky. Hail Hail Rock and Roll.
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| Stan Natchez |
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| Stan Natchez |
Funny, I always viewed Michael’s concepts as stellar and amorphic, difficult to define or contain but far-reaching. Perfect fodder for art. First we had peace and love closing the thruway in New York State in ’69. Then we had the reliving of nostalgic peace and love in ’94 creating over half a mile of wooden art panels. This later developed into the “Not your Parents Woodstock” of 1999 with another set of art panels surrounding the outer parameters of the show grounds.
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| Tico Torres Still Here, Woodstock ’99, 48” x 48” |
The festivals definitely had their own personas. The last was what I considered to be a precursor of a world about to change. Energy and movement are more easily conveyed in music and art than any other form.
This is what I thought Michael had reflected. Woodstock events channeled the currents of change. Michael is a great editor of the generational exchange as Aristotel would have seen it. Simply a mirror image of the idea.
Michael offered a stage upon which ideas could find a meeting ground with people. Pretty impressive and open minded if you ask me. It was my hope this would be true in Nuremberg. So I had packed with the aid of my friend and partner Anatoli, thirty canvas panels in three cylinders, which I carried on the plane. The packing was a strategic accomplishment and Anatoli was great. They were now to be unpacked and displayed on these famous grounds. |
| Herr Freller The Bavarian MInister of Culture and Jamie Ellin Forbes |
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| Mr. Borhm, founder “People to People” after signing, additional art panels, painted by the children of Nuremberg for the continuing Peace Wall. Charitable donations were made online during the festival for “People to People”, matched by Siemens Computer. |
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| Two visitors to our exhibit from the German cast of Queen |
Fiona Smyth’s mantra of tantric design seemed to speak to me on this July 27,2005 in the city of Nuremburg inside the hot tent of the coliseum. Her canvas picture appeared to have been painted with this setting in mind. I reflected if it was possible for Fiona to have had a meditative moment and seen the Documentation Center, Reichsparteigelande in Nuremberg, down the road. Her work a small microcosm with in the great Macro-cosmos. I decided yes.
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| Fiona Smyth’s Woodstock ’99 canvas, 8′ x 4′ |
Here two distinct ideological concepts, existed side by side, in direct opposition, housed and displayed on old cultural cross roads. Peace and love and the other. The same beautiful pool of reflection that is seen in Fiona’s painting is in the center of the city. A lake where at night, in the evening Nuremberg shadows, dancing with the moon, I could imagine some beautiful nymph emerging to help a hapless or hopeless fellow find true meaning or love. The lake and the history of the city had brought the Reich , to hold it’s rallies. Dieter Schneider had had brought the wall of peace to be a reminder of tolerance.
Kids were beginning to pass in front of our tent as we finished. Just like in ‘99 the young people came in and out to see the art. To witness the visual voice of creativity. I though in ‘99 and once again now . Michael Lang’s plans for several days of a “Musical Antiquarian Festival” had rocked a nation, a generation, and the world in 69’. Lets see what it would do here. I looked at the canvases as we finished and spent some time admiring Stan Natchez’s “ I Will Fight No More Forever” A homage to the slaughter of Sioux women and children by the US Calvary at “Wounded Knee”. Their transgression had been Ghost Dancing. Stan’s was a personal favorite of mine. This painting too seem to have a special meaning here. Not all peoples are tolerant at all times. To this I have been a witness.
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| Steve Zaluski’s tribute to a friend, Woodstock ’99, 48” x 48” |
In this poem the embodiment of the feminine divine as viewed by the Gnostic Christians of the 2nd century is given a voice of poetry. She bellows out a powerful directive, regarding the fate of those who stand in the path of love, light and knowledge.
This poem is not distinctly Jewish, Christian or Gnostic, but proclaims the voice of the transcendental , the incomprehensible the unfathomable greatness inherently surrounding us all at all times. I looked at the traditional Russian folk art painting done by Yuri Gorbachev, the “Cross of Flowers” by Kevin Kelly. My eyes traveled the room, I took in the great Pop work of Ron English. I saw that all of art looked as if the pieces could have been commissioned for this setting.
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| Almaz and Kharlhienz Borhm, with their presentation donation photo on behalf of Much-en de Much-en “People to People” ,Mr. Borhmʼs foundation which aids the children of Ethiopia in cooperation with UNICEF. |
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| Steve Matrick of Better Music |
It is the hope and plan of Dieter to have this art forum continue and expand. We will bring this work, show and extrapolate, to development further with school children in Germany, the US and other additional panel and show sights. The “Wall of Peace” that the award winning documentary film maker Mel Lawrence started has wings and will soar to distant lands. There is a distinct possibility that the “Wall of Peace” will extend and reach around the world. All this takes is a vision, and a good mental plan.
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Call for Artists: Borders & Identities - October 05, 2013 International Video-Art exhibition
Deadline: October 03, 2013
International ArtExpo is selecting all interesting video/short films to include in "Borders & Identities" exhibition, during the 9th Giornata del Contemporaneo - the Day of Contemporary Art - on October 5, 2013, in the prestigious Palazzo Barone Ferrara in Bari (Italy).
Palazzo Barone Ferrara is a magnificent historic building of XIX century, symbol of importance and progress of the city. Located in the centre of Bari, is the headquarters and exhibition space of BancApulia bank.
The Day of Contemporary Art is the major annual event promoted by the AMACI - Association of Italian Museums of Contemporary Art and it focuses on the art of our times and its public. It will be held throughout Italy to experience the complex and lively world of contemporary art. Since its inception, the Day of Contemporary Art has been supported by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, and has obtained not only the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic but also the sponsorship of Italy’s leading institutions.
"Borders & Identities" exhibition will be based on main concept of hybridization between identities and urban environment, as the result of liquid identities and liquid contacts between people.
The deadline for applications is October 03, 2013.
The event is open to video-art only. To take part in the selection, send your videos’ submissions with a CV/biography, videography and some still images via email to lucacurci@lucacurci.com or via mail to:
International ArtExpo Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33
70122 Bari, Italy
The number of works you can submit is free and unlimited. The participation in the International Art Festival requires an entry fee only for selected artworks. Participation open to: artists, architects and designers, associate groups and studios.
International ArtExpo is an art organization that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. ArtExpo is grateful to all of the institutions, corporations, and individuals who support our artistic projects. We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and critics from all over the world. We help artists through solo and group exhibitions, gallery representation, magazine reviews and advertisements, press releases, internet promotion, as well as various curatorial projects.
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The "I Am Afghanistan" Exhibition at Rogue Space | Chelsea
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The "I Am Afghanistan" Exhibition at Rogue Space | Chelsea
Opening Reception: Thursday Oct. 3.
Exhibition runs: Oct. 4,5,6, 12-6pm.
NEW YORK, SEPT 12: Children from one of the most persecuted ethnic groups in Afghanistan will exhibit their artworks for the first time Oct. 3-6 at Rogue Space | Chelsea in New York.
The children are Hazara, an ancient clan with historic ties to the Mongolian empire of Genghis Khan, who are now fighting for survival amid the current turmoil of their homeland. For many Hazara children--especially girls--attending school is an impossible dream.
The exhibit at Rogue Space | Chelsea is being organized by Kevin O'Hanlon, a New York-based documentary filmmaker who first visited Kabul last November to deliver art supplies to the children studying at Le Pelican Center, an institution started in 2003 that now provides basic education, recreation, a hot daily meal and vocational training for over 350 children. All proceeds of the show will be returned to Le Pelican to help further the children's creative education.
The Hazara people have a storied history as descendants of Genghis Khan's 1,000 soldiers from the time of the Mongol Empire. The name of their clan, Hazara, means "1,000" in Persian. They are the third largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and have historically been persecuted, most brutally by the Taliban.
The paintings largely express a wistful and idyllic feeling of "home" with landscapes dotted by trees, rivers, mountains and sunshine. The Hazara hail from the mountainous regions of Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan. Many have been displaced from their homes and farms amid fighting and have settled in communities of western Kabul. Mr. O'Hanlon says the artworks they have created for the show depict the lands and homes they were forced to leave behind. Other paintings conjure new homes they wish they could inhabit someday.
Rogue Foundation's mission is to empower children in conflict zones around the world by giving them the tools and encouragement to create art and, by extension, to seek creative solutions to their challenges. Previous projects took art supplies and teachers to work with children in Haiti after the 2011 earthquake and with children living in homeless shelters in New York. Current projects are being planned for Egypt, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Syria. Created by Mr. O'Hanlon, Rogue Foundation is supported by shows at Rogue Space | Chelsea, a gallery in the heart of New York's Chelsea gallery district.
Exhibition location and opening hours:
Rogue Space | Chelsea
508 West 26th Street, 9th Floor
+1 212-751-2210
Opening reception: Thursday, Oct. 3, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Show runs Oct. 4-6, 12 noon-6 p.m.
Follow Le Pelican's story at lepelican.org and on Facebook atwww.facebook.com/lepelican.
For further information please contact:
Kevin O'Hanlon
info@RogueFoundation.org
+1 212-751-2210
roguefoundation.org
Exhibition runs: Oct. 4,5,6, 12-6pm.
NEW YORK, SEPT 12: Children from one of the most persecuted ethnic groups in Afghanistan will exhibit their artworks for the first time Oct. 3-6 at Rogue Space | Chelsea in New York.
The children are Hazara, an ancient clan with historic ties to the Mongolian empire of Genghis Khan, who are now fighting for survival amid the current turmoil of their homeland. For many Hazara children--especially girls--attending school is an impossible dream.
The exhibit at Rogue Space | Chelsea is being organized by Kevin O'Hanlon, a New York-based documentary filmmaker who first visited Kabul last November to deliver art supplies to the children studying at Le Pelican Center, an institution started in 2003 that now provides basic education, recreation, a hot daily meal and vocational training for over 350 children. All proceeds of the show will be returned to Le Pelican to help further the children's creative education.
The Hazara people have a storied history as descendants of Genghis Khan's 1,000 soldiers from the time of the Mongol Empire. The name of their clan, Hazara, means "1,000" in Persian. They are the third largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and have historically been persecuted, most brutally by the Taliban.
The paintings largely express a wistful and idyllic feeling of "home" with landscapes dotted by trees, rivers, mountains and sunshine. The Hazara hail from the mountainous regions of Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan. Many have been displaced from their homes and farms amid fighting and have settled in communities of western Kabul. Mr. O'Hanlon says the artworks they have created for the show depict the lands and homes they were forced to leave behind. Other paintings conjure new homes they wish they could inhabit someday.
Rogue Foundation's mission is to empower children in conflict zones around the world by giving them the tools and encouragement to create art and, by extension, to seek creative solutions to their challenges. Previous projects took art supplies and teachers to work with children in Haiti after the 2011 earthquake and with children living in homeless shelters in New York. Current projects are being planned for Egypt, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Syria. Created by Mr. O'Hanlon, Rogue Foundation is supported by shows at Rogue Space | Chelsea, a gallery in the heart of New York's Chelsea gallery district.
Exhibition location and opening hours:
Rogue Space | Chelsea
508 West 26th Street, 9th Floor
+1 212-751-2210
Opening reception: Thursday, Oct. 3, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Show runs Oct. 4-6, 12 noon-6 p.m.
Follow Le Pelican's story at lepelican.org and on Facebook atwww.facebook.com/lepelican.
For further information please contact:
Kevin O'Hanlon
info@RogueFoundation.org
+1 212-751-2210
roguefoundation.org
Rogue Documentary Projects
Drawing Hope is a new documentary series from documentary filmmaker Kevin OHanlon focusing on creativity as a positive response in some of the world's most challenging environments. Directed by filmmaker Kevin O'Hanlon, the series introduces us to political climates around the world through the daily personal experience of a selected creative. Each episode reveals their creative inclinations and processes and how they are shaped by the conflict they witness. Creative resilience is constantly reinforced as a message that hope endures.The series intends to illuminate the politics of conflict from a grassroots, personal perspective and cultivate an awareness that in the midst of great upheaval and challenge there is also a constant stream of creative innovation which empowers us and future generations.Upcoming projects take place in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Burma, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Jonathan Mandell's Latest Public Commission
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BorderBody | Mixing Cities and Identities - Poland 2013
Opening: October 4th, 2013
BorderBody | Mixing Cities and Identities, festival of photography, video-art, computer graphics, architecture, installation and performing-art, will be held in Gdynia (Poland) at Gdynia InfoBox - Observatory of Changes, from the 4th to the 18th October 2013. Thirty-four artists, from different countries, have been selected to be part of this project.
“BorderBody” festival is composed by two sections: “Mixing Cities”, which deals with modern urban changes and their influence on citizens, and “Mixing Identities” focused on the hybridization of social identities in contemporary time. The selection was based on the main concept of fluidity, motion, changing networks and cities transformations. In contemporary society boundaries are getting more and more fleeting, and also the identity; what makes every person or place a recognizable entity, turns out fluid, multiple, making the cultural, religious, ethnic borders changeable too. This change, this mutation has allowed to cross the inside of the identities creating new possible crossings, new blends. And it’s just this “contemporaneity” that makes our civilization conceived as subjected to a process of continuous evolution and cultural hybridization. There is no more limit between an identity and the other one but it is possible to walk, to cross a passage and to find oneself halfway through it, in a non-place, in a non-identity. People, backgrounds, societies, progress and all their inputs creates hybrid identities, modifying each other and being mixed in prospect to shape a better world. Mixing sustainable transport; modern (ICT) communication infrastructure; sustainable economic development; and wise management of natural resources, human, intellectual and social capital, is the key to reach a future better life quality. Changes are always positive and they represent our future.
organizer: International ArtExpo
curator: Luca Curci
exhibition & screening place: Gdynia InfoBox – Observatory of Changes, Gdynia (Poland)
dates: from the 4th to the 18th October 2013, from Monday to Friday, from 10.00 AM to 7.00 PM; Saturday from 12.00 PM to 6.00 PM (Sunday closed)
opening: October 4th, 2013 at Gdynia InfoBox – Observatory of Changes, at 6.00 PM, ul. Świętojańska 30 (30 Świętojańska St.), Gdynia, Poland
Gdynia InfoBox is a place of interest due to its remarkable architecture and also as a source of information on new projects in town provided in an interesting multi-medial and fascinating form. Gdynia InfoBox is a place where both the local community and tourists can have a good time in a coffee place with a terrace, or resting on a bench in the shade of the trees.
.video artistsFred L’Epee . Switzerland | Katrina Stamatopoulos . Australia | Kalle Hamm and Dzamil Kamannger . Finland | Toni Simò . Spain | Kyle Trowbridge . USA | Debbie Davis . USA | Seaton Lin . USA | Tatiana Travisan and DeCo Nascimento . Brazil | Teresa Sala . Italy | Faizan Naveed . Pakistan | Gregory Steel . USA | Antonio Buttitta . Italy | Vera Arjoma . Finland | Liz Blum . USA | Carolyn Doucette . Canada | Claire Villacorta and Gian Cruz . Philippines
.photo artistsNina Moilanen . Finland | Ilia Yefimovich . Israel | Ašiku Svetlana . Serbia | Yulia Shnayder . Russian Federation | Dami Onifade . USA | Wojtek Łukowski . Poland | Elodie Albergel . Israel | Enzo Sartori . Italy | José Gutierréz . USA | Allison Welch . USA | Alessandro Stellari . Italy | Sultana Raza . Luxembourg | Alain Galet . France
.computer graphics artists
Laura Ferrarello . USA | Stéphanie Koett . Canada | Sarah Delaney . Australia
.installation artist
Kaja Mihajlović . Slovenia
During the Festival will be projected the video presentation of the amazing project “Human Harp” by London based artist and researcher Di Mainstone which creates sculptures that connect to the body, designed to initiate movement and storytelling. Human Harp is a collaborative creative project led by Di Mainstone and supported by Queen Mary University of London.
International ArtExpo is an International art organization that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. We depend on the support of you. ArtExpo is grateful to all of the institutions, corporations, and individuals who support our efforts. We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and writers from all over the world. We help artists through solo and group exhibitions, gallery representation, magazine reviews and advertisements, press releases, internet promotion, as well as various curatorial projects.
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Monday, September 30, 2013
Bruce Gagnier National Academy of Design
Bruce Gagnier
National Academy of Design
The commissioned fountain sculpture by Bruce Gagnier based on the theme of "Moses striking the Rock “ is on display from September 26, 2013 until January 26, 2014 in the Rotunda of the
National Academy of Design
1083 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10128
Bruce Gagnier is represented in Hudson, New York by John Davis Gallery, courtesy of Lori Bookstein Fine Art
"Moses Striking the Rock" 64 x 33 x 44 inches
The Collection of Henry Justin
The Collection of Henry Justin
Photography: Maud Bryt
John Davis Gallery
Hudson, NY
Hudson, NY
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