Agora Gallery, Manhattan, New York
Persistence of Form
April 25 - May 16, 2017 Reception: Thursday April 27, 2017 6-8 PM
Persistence of Form brings together a select few artists playing with realism and form for a unique exhibition in today's art landscape. There are several approaches to depicting the human body: as a full-length study of emotional body language, as instantly recognizable famous figures playfully reimagined, and as a hyperrealistic confrontation in tight close-up. There is the painter who depicts contemporary life as a series of details snatched from the everyday, blown up and treated with grandeur. There is the pastel artist who creates nature imagery out of heightened colors and idealized details. This collection of work highlights the different ways that we recognize and understand familiar shapes.
Featured Artists
Christian Barbosa | Raul Mariaca Dalence | Josie Mengai | Sandra Nitchie | Marina Sutter
April 25 - May 16, 2017 Reception: Thursday April 27, 2017 6-8 PM
Persistence of Form brings together a select few artists playing with realism and form for a unique exhibition in today's art landscape. There are several approaches to depicting the human body: as a full-length study of emotional body language, as instantly recognizable famous figures playfully reimagined, and as a hyperrealistic confrontation in tight close-up. There is the painter who depicts contemporary life as a series of details snatched from the everyday, blown up and treated with grandeur. There is the pastel artist who creates nature imagery out of heightened colors and idealized details. This collection of work highlights the different ways that we recognize and understand familiar shapes.
Featured Artists
Christian Barbosa | Raul Mariaca Dalence | Josie Mengai | Sandra Nitchie | Marina Sutter
Galeria 360, Florence, Italy
Show: Group exhibition "Ex-Stasis"
Organizers: Arch. Riccardo Piagentini, Art.Director Angela Fagu
Opening Show: Friday, October 13th 2017 at 7:00 p.m.
Duration Show: October 13th - November 7th 2017
Location: Galleria360 Via il Prato 11R Florence
"Ex-stasis" is a group exhibition in which various international artists have to deal with the complex issue of Ecstasy. The term ex-stasis, derives from the greek (ex "out of" stasis "stability"), which literally means "out of place". The ecstasy then indicates a "kidnapping beside himself" material and spiritual, but it implies also a reconciliation between spirit and mind. So, “Ex-stasis" is an exhibition where the thought renounces to any claim to objectivity by surrounding to an emotional dynamism that leads to a trip "outside the self," on the thin boundary line between the visible and the invisible, between material and immaterial between what is and what may take one form. The protagonists of this exhibition are:
SANDRA NITCHIE, was born in Baltimore and currently she lives and works in her gallery in Bucerias, a city on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. Strongly imbued with suggestions of Mexican tradition, Sandra Nitchie's art investigates the complex theme of the nature of personal identity. So, behind the elegant dresses of smiling and celebrated icons of the show world, there is a constant appeal to “La Catrina”, a Mexican symbol linked to the "El Día de los Muertos" celebrations.
DANIEL BORDI, Brazilian artist, who thanks to a very characterized personal language, which is the result of eclectic hybridizations and ingenious manipulations, from the world of advertising, graphic design and graffit art, leads us into vibrant and colorful visionaries "environments". Among unpredictable mental balances and unprecedented hybridizations, Daniel Bordi’s art, reveals, behind the seemingly ludic and genuine aspect, all its complex and experimental character.
Among continuous sensory inputs, perceptuale strangements and chromatic emotions, the "Ex-stasis" exhibition accompanies the observer in a real sensory ecstasy, waking the mind and spirit from the drowsiness of emotional stasis, igniting the senses.
–Virginia Bazzechi Ganci Cancellieri, Art Critic for Galeria 360
Organizers: Arch. Riccardo Piagentini, Art.Director Angela Fagu
Opening Show: Friday, October 13th 2017 at 7:00 p.m.
Duration Show: October 13th - November 7th 2017
Location: Galleria360 Via il Prato 11R Florence
"Ex-stasis" is a group exhibition in which various international artists have to deal with the complex issue of Ecstasy. The term ex-stasis, derives from the greek (ex "out of" stasis "stability"), which literally means "out of place". The ecstasy then indicates a "kidnapping beside himself" material and spiritual, but it implies also a reconciliation between spirit and mind. So, “Ex-stasis" is an exhibition where the thought renounces to any claim to objectivity by surrounding to an emotional dynamism that leads to a trip "outside the self," on the thin boundary line between the visible and the invisible, between material and immaterial between what is and what may take one form. The protagonists of this exhibition are:
SANDRA NITCHIE, was born in Baltimore and currently she lives and works in her gallery in Bucerias, a city on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. Strongly imbued with suggestions of Mexican tradition, Sandra Nitchie's art investigates the complex theme of the nature of personal identity. So, behind the elegant dresses of smiling and celebrated icons of the show world, there is a constant appeal to “La Catrina”, a Mexican symbol linked to the "El Día de los Muertos" celebrations.
DANIEL BORDI, Brazilian artist, who thanks to a very characterized personal language, which is the result of eclectic hybridizations and ingenious manipulations, from the world of advertising, graphic design and graffit art, leads us into vibrant and colorful visionaries "environments". Among unpredictable mental balances and unprecedented hybridizations, Daniel Bordi’s art, reveals, behind the seemingly ludic and genuine aspect, all its complex and experimental character.
Among continuous sensory inputs, perceptuale strangements and chromatic emotions, the "Ex-stasis" exhibition accompanies the observer in a real sensory ecstasy, waking the mind and spirit from the drowsiness of emotional stasis, igniting the senses.
–Virginia Bazzechi Ganci Cancellieri, Art Critic for Galeria 360