REMINDER The Director of the Italian Cultural Institute Silvio Marchetti is pleased to remind you of the following event

500 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 1450 Chicago, IL 60611 REMINDER The Director of the Italian Cultural InstituteSilvio Marchetti is pleased to remind you of the following event HISTORY On the Run: Two Little Girls in the Italian Alps and in Rome, 1943-1944 What is the story? What are the consequences for the survivors, and for the second and third generations? On the occasion of Yom HaShoah, Gitta Fajerstein and Chaya Roth will share details of their personal experience.  Survivors living in the Midwest will participate in the discussion.     With Gitta Fajerstein and  Chaya Roth Moderator: Silvio Marchetti Facilitator: Shael Siegel Special guest: the Consul General of Italy Adriano Monti  Q and A with the Audience Chaya Roth, Author The Fate of Holocaust Memories Elaine Fox, Editor Out of Chaos    Monday, January  27th 6:00 pm Italian Cultural Institute        Gitta Horowitz Fajerstein was born in Berlin into an Orthodox Jewish family.  In 1939, the Gestapo arrested all Jewish men born in Poland, including her father, who was sent to the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp and beaten to death.  Gitta and her sister Chaya were smuggled into Holland, then to Belgium and France, finally crossing the Alps into Italy.  Chaya and Gitta hid in a convent in Rome until the Allies liberated the city in 1944.  Under the auspices of Youth Aliyah, Gitta and Chaya went to Palestine in 1945.  The sisters spent a year and a half in Ben Shemen, a Youth Aliyah children's village. Today, Gitta is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice.  She is a member of the Holocaust Community Services Committee of Jewish Child and Family Services, a cofounder and member of the Holocaust Educational Foundation, a past director of a senior center of the Jewish Community Centers, a past chapter president of Hadassah North Shore, and cofounder of the Hidden Children/Child Survivors Chicago.  Gitta is the mother of three children and grandmother of eight. Chaya Horowitz Roth was born in Berlin.  After the Nazis murdered her father, Chaya lived on the run or in hiding, carrying forged papers.  In 1953, she came to Chicago and graduated from Roosevelt University in 1955.  She received her doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1960.  She trained in psychoanalysis and child development and was appointed professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of Chicago.  She maintained a private practice from 1979 until 2005.  Roth developed a new concept for parent-infant treatment, which she described in her book The Multiple Facets of Therapeutic Transactions (1997).  She was most recently a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Institute of Juvenile Research.  Her most recent book is The Fate of Holocaust Memories: Transmission and Family Dialogues (2008).  Roth is a fellow of the American Orthopsychiatric Association and a member of the American Psychological and Jewish Studies associations.  She was a cofounder of Hidden/Children/Child Survivors Chicago.  Walter and Chaya Roth are the parents of three and the grandparents of seven. Copies of the books The Fate of Holocaust Memories: Transmission and Family Dialogues, by Chaya H. Roth (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013) and Out of Chaos, edited by Elaine Saphier Fox (2013, Northwestern University Press) will be available for purchase.      To RSVP, please click here.    NEW EVENT  Cinema Screening of "Story of a Love Affair" ("Cronaca di un amore") by Michelangelo Antonioni with  Massimo Girotti and Lucia Bosé 1950, 98 minutes in Italian with English subtitles Tuesday, January 28th at 6:00 PM at the Italian Cultural Institute     A light reception and discussion will follow. Please click here to RSVP. Groundlessly jealous of his wife's romantic past, Enrico Fontana hires a private detective to finally determine whether she is faithful or not. Ironically, his suspicious attitude unconsciously brings his wife Paola (Lucia Bosé) together with Guido (Massimo Girotti), a man with whom she had once been in love. Paola and Guido's past was clouded in tragedy. Guido had been involved with Paola's close female friend's death. Their passion rekindled once again, the lovers even get to the point where they are thinking about murdering Enrico... In 1951 the film won the Silver Ribbon Award for Best Original Score (Giovanni Fusco) and the Special Silver Ribbon (Michelangelo Antonioni) for human and stylistic values. Story of a Love Affair was Antonioni's first full length feature film.  #fineartmagazine

ESMoA requests the pleasure of your company at a special reception for the opening of  Experience 09 | SILENCE Friday, January 31st, 2014  7:00PM to 10:00PM 208 Main Street, El Segundo, CA 90245 Admission is FREE.  Please RSVP by replying to this invitation. Artists Wassiliy Kandinsky | Joseph Beuys | Johann Wilhelm Preyer | Ellsworth Kelly | Piet Mondrian | Richard Serra | Wilhelm Leibl | Andy Warhol Contemporary artists include Pia Fries, Ingo Meller and Rebecca Lowry.  A major floor drawing by German artist Amely Spötzl creates a pathway through the experience. Read more about SILENCE here. #fineartmagazine

ART MIAMI OWNERSHIP GROUP ACQUIRES NEW YORK'S DOWNTOWN FAIR INAUGURAL EDITION TO OPEN DURING FRIEZE WEEK IN NEW YORK MAY 8 - 11, 2014

ART MIAMI OWNERSHIP GROUP ACQUIRES NEW YORK'S DOWNTOWN FAIR INAUGURAL EDITION TO OPEN DURING FRIEZE WEEK IN NEW YORK  MAY 8 - 11, 2014   NEW YORK/MIAMI (January 21, 2014) The ownership group of Art Miami today confirmed that it has acquired the Downtown Fair for an undisclosed price. The previous fair organizer will not have any involvement or interest in the new fair. The inaugural Downtown Fair will take place May 8-11th during Frieze Week in New York.  The Fair will be held at the historic 69th Regiment Armory, a 30,000 square foot venue at Lexington Avenue and 25th Street, in the heart of the Flatiron District. Approximately 50 international high caliber contemporary art dealers from around the world will exhibit. The Fair will open with an invitation only VIP Private Preview onMay 8th to benefit a charity to be announced in the coming weeks. Art Miami Partner and Director Nick Korniloff will direct the first edition along with a seasoned Marketing, Exhibitor Services and Operation staff that will manage The Downtown Fair.  "The Art Miami ownership team recognized the overwhelming requests from its collectors and exhibitors for us to produce another quality show in New York during Frieze Week and the Spring Auction previews," said Nick Korniloff Fair Director and Partner of The Downtown Fair. "We are an extremely experienced and connected organization that knows what it takes to launch and manage an art fair." Since acquiring Art Miami in 2009 Art Miami ownership group has launched four new fairs, acquired one and always had a vision for New York.  "We will deliver a well-vetted show that features a quality roster of artists that are represented by important international galleries. The advisory committee of dealers will insure that galleries are making every effort to show quality works that are fresh to the market," said Korniloff. Exhibitor Applications are now being accepted and can be found online at www.downtownfair.com About The Downtown Fair: The Downtown Fair will be operated and produced by a partnership consisting of art and media industry veterans Nick Korniloff, Mike Tansey and Brian Tyler. The ownership team also produces the Art Miami, CONTEXT, Aqua, Art Wynwood, Art Southampton and Art Silicon Valley / San Francisco Fairs. #fineartmagazine

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Interstice February 19 to March 14, 2014: Opening, February 19, 7-9 PM Curated by Rachel Adams and Rob Greene

Interstice February 19 to March 14, 2014: Opening, February 19, 7-9 PM Curated by Rachel Adams and Rob Greene Interstice is a group exhibition specifically curated for a small space with an imposing architecture. The gallery, situated between offices and a break area, is pocked with different-size columns jutting out from the walls, and long, deep window sills. Each artist capitalizes on this oddity by creating a work the interacts with these architectural features in the space. The artists turn what could be seen as an obstacle or a deficiency into a platform. Artists include: Mara Baker, Kate Bonner, Scott Calhoun, David Del Francia, Rolf Nowotny, Nora Shields, and Peter Wu For more information please contact Rachel Adams at rachel.elizabeth.adams@gmail.com or Rob Greene at rob@greene-exhibitions.com www.racheladamsprojects.com www.greene-exhibitions.com 308 at 156 Project Art Space 156 Fifth Avenue, Suite 308 New York New York 10010 308at156@gmail.com 308at156.tumblr.com  #fineartmagazine

Paulo Brighenti

“Pó” means nothing more than dust in Portuguese. The apparent simplicity of the title of the exhibition dissimulates the deep level of introspective research Paulo Brighenti’s works convey. Dust accumulation has the ability to hide while not hiding completely. Dust is no more than loose particles that build up over a certain surface, dissimulating its essence but never distorting its shape. A bone will still be a bone and its shape will still be that of a bone. The residue that accumulated on its once shiny surface allows the viewer to understand the passage of time and its implications, but its distinguishable shape will still be recognized. Life and death coexist in it and so they do in “Pó.” Paulo Brighenti’s (b. 1968) work and investigation in painting and drawing, on color and light, lies on a permanent equilibrium between these two opposite forces. The interdependency of antagonistic movements is expressed through exchanges between positive and negative values, light and shadow, small and large scale, close and distant views. The dilution of recognizable motifs and others of abstract suggestion attenuates the division between things and the world from which they are outlined. Form becomes rarefied, a superficial phenomenon of immediate reading turned spectral residue of a broader meaning. Time is prefigured as the condition for unveiling the image, as its perception depends on the habit of the spectatorʼs gaze to each new encounter. “The Diamond Sea,” a large site specific charcoal wall drawing on Rooster’s ground floor – titled after a Sonic Youth song – is the unifying element, as well as the motto for the exhibition. In it, the viewer will perceive two different images from two different perspectives. A landscape inspired on Albrecht Durer’s Alpine drawings hides in its core an anamorphosis of a skull. This idea of an image that cannot be read or seen in its entirety at first glance has been part of Brighenti’s work and reflections about painting and its impossibilities. In the lower gallery, a vertically positioned bone (“Tower”) relates itself with the still life paintings on display on both galleries, which include recurrent figures of skulls, lilies, a conch and a turtle’s carapace. The bone will still be a bone, and its shape will still be the shape of a bone despite the dust, the old verdigris or the artist-made cuts that section it horizontally. As George Bataille qualified Louis Ferdinand Céline’s “Voyage au Bout de la Nuit” as “the discription of the relationship a man has with his own death” (La critique sociale, January 1933), so can one perceive Brighenti’s candid metaphor on time the same way through the use of phantasmagorical images – but without Céline’s sins and tormented spirit. After all, we will all be dust in the end. Paulo Brighenti lives and works in Cascais and is represented by Galeria Baginski (Lisbon) and Galeria Pedro Oliveira (Oporto) and his work is represented at Banco de España, Madrid (Spain), CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporâneo, Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Colecção António Cachola (Portugal), Colecção Pedro Cabrita Reis, Lisbon (Portugal), Sovereign Art Foundation, London (UK), Colecção PLMJ, Lisbon (Portugal) Fundação Arpad Szenes – Vieira da Silva, Lisbon (Portugal), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon (Portugal), Museu do Chiado, Depósito Isabel Vaz Lopes, Lisbon (Portugal), among other collections. PAULO BRIGHENTI: PÓ EXHIBITING FROM FEBRUARY 13–MARCH 16 OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 6–8PM ROOSTER GALLERY, 190 ORCHARD STREET, LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC ROOSTERGALLERY.COM   Alexander Slonevsky, Director                        Andre Escarameia, Curator 212.230.1370                                                    646.637.2097 alex@roostergallery.com                                andre@roostergallery.com    #fineartmagazine

D A V I D G R A E M E B A K E R

info D A V I D   G R A E M E   B A K E R When you view a painting by David Graeme Baker, you're immediately transported into a world touched by nostalgia and a humble grandeur. In Clear a young woman steals a moment of introspection in the chilly outdoors. This quiet scene, set near the artist's home in Maine, evokes an enigmatic kind of serenity. Objects lined up along the truck's edge- a vase of hand picked flowers, a collection of feathers, a tin can phone, an empty bird's nest- hint at the characters who may be in the young woman's life. "I deliberately conflate reality and fiction to suggest ambiguous narratives within a subtly symbolic image," writes Baker in the Spring, 2013 issue of Artists on Art. "The outcome, rather than clean, iconic meta-image or narratives, are paintings with more purposefully modest, tangled, local threads."  What makes Baker so good is his ability to capture and distill the eccentricities of youthful imaginings. Few paintings by the artist become available each year. I invite you to come view this special piece hanging in the Winter Group Show before its gone. Or contact the gallery for more information on Clear.   David Graeme Baker, Clear, Oil on Linen Mounted on Panel, 15 1/2" x 28" E R I C   W E R T Eric Wert's still lifes have a luscious, seductive quality that can make a viewer blush. There's no surface in these paintings, like Capsicum below, that's left unadorned-from the paisley design of the backdrop to the water droplets on the marble tabletop. Eric uses "small pools and rivulets [in his paintings] to energize certain areas and draw the viewer's eye through his paintings." (from Artist's Magazine, November 2012) Eric Wert, Capsicum, Oil on Panel, 16" x 16" FROM THE LAST EMAIL: S T E V E   M I L L S It's easy to mistake one of Steve Mills' paintings for a photograph. He's that good. Mills estimates that anywhere between 300 and 500 hours of work go into each painting, and the results are stunning. His new work, The Family, is hanging in Gallery Henoch for our Holiday Group Show. The reflection of the marbles in the marble surface on which they're assembled gives this painting a luminous depth. But the most striking part for us is how Mills captures the sun refracted through the marbles, creating a brilliant spot of light in the layered shadows. If you've never seen one of his paintings in person, now's your chance. Email or call the gallery for more information on The Family and other work by Steve Mills.   Steve Mills, The Family, Oil on Aluminum, 40" x 60" Steve Mills, Leaning to the Middle, Oil on Board, 36" x 48"

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