INSTANTS - International Painting Exhibition Istanbul

This exhibition is taking place March 1-10, 2008, at Dolmabahce Palace Museum Art Gallery, Besiktas (Istanbul), and is organized by ERENUS ART, in cooperation with Paola Trevisan.

TIA members exhibiting at INSTANTS are: John Weeronga Bartoo, Alessandro Dalbuono, Fran Mc Cann, Blanca Ruth Casanova, Marga Duin, Ton Lindhout, Maud Quaedvlieg and Gayl Sharabi.

Photos by Marga Duin

MODERNA 08 - Mar del Plata International Art Fair

Jose Maria Casas was one of the main organizers of Moderna 08, the Mar del Plata International Art Fair, that took place at the "Sheraton Mar del Plata Hotel", January 10-20, 2008. Moderna 08 gathered more than 200 plastic artists from Argentina and all over the world, placing Mar del Plata as the host to one of the most important international meetings of South America.

Several TIA members participated at this exhibition:

Jeannette Berndsen, Jose Maria Casas, Jerry L. Day and Ton Lindhout.

New NYC Gallery: ACCESS ART

Our friends Cariya Breemen and Sharon Goldberg have just informed us they are opening a new gallery in Manhattan in March, with potential plans to add showrooms in the Far East later. We wish Cariya and Sharon full success in their exciting new venture. Here some photos of the opening, and what they write us:

ACCESS ART is a new exhibition and event space complementing the expanding arts scene in Manhattan’s dynamic Midtown West. We are a resource for artists, designers, collectors and art dealers, and seek to create mutually beneficial avenues of exposure and discovery. We are dedicated to promoting the work of selected artists by hosting exhibitions in a creatively vibrant environment at an affordable price. We offer approximately 40 feet of exhibition space, available for both group and solo shows. During each exhibition we also host at least one other event, such as wine tastings, trunk shows or date specific events in order to increase artist exposure.

For more information, or to inquire about submitting an application to exhibit at ACCESS ART New York, contact us at info@accessartny.com

The website is still under construction, but some information is there, click: www.AccessArtNY.com

Keith Morant has been honoured with several art awards lately: at "Spirit - The Spirit in Art" (Ferrara 2007); at the 2007 Biennale dell'Arte Contemporanea he received the prize "Lorenzo Il Magnifico - Premio alla Carriera" (Life time achievement in art award) and lately at the San Valentino exhibition held in the Palazzo della Bella in Vico del Gargano. (He is shown here at the Florence Biennale with New York art critic Edward Rubin).

Keith lives and works in New Zealand where he is represented by Alexis International. He has just opened a new studio/gallery  which is shown here. It is a private studio and the gallery is, by appointment, for Alexis’s and overseas clientele.

On April 10th Keith will be opening a major solo exhibition at Alexis International. The work will be titled ‘Italia’ based on his recent six week foray into Italy. His New Zealand public eagerly awaits this show.

On April19th Keith flies to New York for three weeks to meet with many friends and arrange future shows there. Meanwhile, on May 5th Keith will be opening at the Galleria de’ Marchi in Bologna. This is Paola’s wonderful new show titled ‘Little Treasures’. Photographed here are four of Keith’s works for the show. They are titled ‘Gioello I – IV (gioello = jewel)

Melanie Prapopoulos writes: I am attaching the invite to the next show I am in - at Ico Gallerie in Tribeca, NYC. (March 4-29, 2008).

Also last night I was interviewed in NYC on the Greek American radio for 45 mins! Once I have the CD, I will send you a copy.
 
Why not put that email I sent about vanity galleries in the news letter - and maybe ask the members of the names and emails of people who try to scam them - just this week I had three!!

Robert Mirek informs us of his ongoing exhibition at the Butter Gallery in Miami-Coconut Grove. Attached is an image of the mailing card.

It is a group exhibition in Miami's fashionable south end, and features the work of Robert Mirek along with other notable artists as Ross Ford, Yomarie Silva and Francisco De La Torre III.

For installation images from the exhibition please go to the following link:

www.lmstudio.com/mirek/butter_gallery.htm

Anthony Buczko's video "Consciousness in Action" shows dynamically the "emergence of line as a birth of form in space and duration". How do you show it, and how do you watch it? Easy, just click here:

"Consciousness in Action"

Nadyia Jinnah had a recent show at Broadway Gallery in New York. Here are excerpts from a review by Simone Cappa of Nadyia's work at the show, published in the NYArts January/February 2008 issue:

"... More specifically however, in her recent show at Broadway Gallery in New York City, Jinnah has taken up as her subject matter the complex beauty of the Mediterranean coastline. In this show of new works by the artist, Jinnah again proves her Chagall-esque mastery of color and texture, but this time within the specific terms of the ever-shifting Mediterranean. Captured in the rise and fall of her unique technique of applying clay as a negative mold against the surfaces of her canvases, Jinnah’s work here incorporates an unfiltered rainbow of color that represents the hundreds upon hundreds of gradations inherent in this temperate sea.

In her work Sun Expressions, four panels of radiating light and color unite to form a powerful image of our earth’s ultimate energy source upon which all life, both on land and at sea, is entirely dependent. Here, Jinnah constructs fine bursts of bulging clay reminiscent of the blisters of intense heat and solar winds found upon the sun’s violent surface. Each panel here has a different color scheme than the last, and it is the fact that Jinnah has incorporated a slightly different texture and consistency into each that most fully points to the diversity of the vital environments that the sun supports. Here, the subtle alterations in color and texture upon each canvas represent the complex “lifescape” that is our natural world. The Mediterranean may be only a tiny facet of this vast universal scheme but, within this arresting series, the artist proves that this aspect of our global ecosystem provides extensive fodder for conceptual as well as visual exploration.
   
In a work like her triptych Ocean Glory, for instance, Jinnah establishes an off-kilter world just beneath the ocean’s surface within which vibrant life flourishes under the push and pull of the ocean current’s constant sway. Particularly dominant in this underwater scene is a substantial yellow and orange entity that appears to twist and turn its way across the length of all three canvases. Although Jinnah’s oeuvre is rarely figurative, this work suggests the likes of sea creatures like shrimp or brightly colored corals, thanks in large part to the complex patterns of texture that the artist works onto the canvases’ surfaces.
   
The textures Jinnah applies in this work, however, are most successful of all in terms of their play with light and shadow. When viewed under a light source of any kind, the tiny ripples that the artist so carefully crafts here glimmer like the inconstant surface of the sea. All in all, Ocean Glory could not be a more stunning example of this artist’s immense talent at refracting the world around her in an even more immaculate and brightly hued light than she originally found it.
   
In a time of increasing ecological anxiety, Jinnah joins a growing number of artists whose works, both implicitly and explicitly, confront the fragility of our unstable planet. Jinnah’s majestic canvases both survey and successfully evoke the beauty and the ferocity of the natural world, but they also force us to reconsider the present-day vulnerability of the landscapes that she so eloquently captures through light, color, and texture."

Stephen Gostt, the English born artist and painter, having lived for the past 10 years, working and exhibiting in Ireland, has recently moved permanently to Switzerland; living in the beautiful hills above Montreux and Lac Leman. After most recently exhibiting in the "Spirit in Art" show in Ferrara, Italy, the artist is scheduled to exhibit in the following exhibitions this year: "Little Treasures" Bologna, Italy, expected dates 10-24 May 2008, organized by Paola Trevisan (www.trevisanarte.com). Also at "Gallery Icosahedron" Tribeca, Manhattan, New York dates: 15-23 July 2008, organized by Karel Stoop/galeriazero (www.galeriazero.com).

www.stephengostt.com

Karl Maenz, photographer and painter, has moved to Le Mont-Pelerin above Vevey/Montreux and Lake Geneva, and has also now completed the conversion as a painting workshop of a 400 year-old old barn, next to their mountain chalet in the Swiss regional mountain park of Binn. He recently exhibited at Paola Trevisan's "Spirit in Art" in Ferrara, and at the Florence Biennale, at Lambert Design Studio in Nyon, Switzerland, and at Centro Storico, Florence. Karl is preparing for Paola Trevisan's upcoming "Little Treasures" Bologna, in May 2008, and his first exhibition in New York in the fall of 2008.

www.karl-maenz.com