Thursday, October 9, 2008

International Art News: October 9, 2008





ARTS NEWS: October 09, 2008

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Yucel Donmez: Millennium Stamp 2
Tatbiki Art Gallery, Istanbul, TR Turkey

MEMORIA: Photographs by Sabrina Maltese
Ryerson Gallery, Toronto, ON CA Canada

Amar Kanwar, The Torn First Pages
Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE Germany

Dusty Boynton: Recent Work
Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY USA United States of America

Yucel Donmez: Millennium Stamp 2
Tatbiki Art Gallery, Istanbul, TR Turkey

Turkish artist residing in the United States, Yucel Donmez presents a new exhibition 'Millennium Stamp 2' at Tatbiki Art Gallery in Istanbul. We have done some research on the artist, who also stages exhibitions in and has a studio in Turkey, in order to for you to become better acquainted with him. Painting is an area about which Donmez becomes passionate very early on in his life. �I remember the first day of school, when I was eight years old,� he muses. �I even remember my desk, at the front of the classroom. The first thing I did was copy a picture of a horse on it. Our neighbors had children, older than I. They used to make comic books, and I would like observing them. Then one of them became art teacher. I was determined from secondary school onwards that I was going to attend Applied Fine Arts. My family were against me going, they would tell me, 'you are going to become a doctor'.' (Yucel Donmez has been a Premiere Portfolio Artist at absolutearts.com since early 2008.) - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com

 
 
MEMORIA: Photographs by Sabrina Maltese
Ryerson Gallery, Toronto, ON CA Canada

The exhibition Memoria is a series of luminous colour photographs by Sabrina Maltese, a recent graduate of Ryerson University�s Image Arts Program. Tranquility is often present in these meditative images, which point out the delicacy she sees in the world around her. In the artist's own words: �Memoria serves as an archive of tangible remembrances of a place that will eventually fade in my memory.� The Memoria series, shot in medium-format film, depicts personal details of the interior of Maltese�s grandparents' home. Through this work she has made an attempt to hold onto the existence of her grandfather, whose health was diminishing at the time the work was made . Each photograph in this series is a fragment of a collected memory, which carries with it an effort to cope with loss and the desire for a material form of remembrance. Maltese's use of soft focus and natural light combine to create a series of poetic photographs which are both elegant and serene. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com

 
Amar Kanwar, The Torn First Pages
Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE Germany

'Imagine the formal presentation of poetry as evidence in a future war crimes tribunal. Imagine twenty sheets of paper floating forever in the wind.' (Amar Kanwar) 'The Torn First Pages' is a 20-channel video installation in three parts by the Indian artist and filmmaker Amar Kanwar, co-commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Made between 2003-08 this filmic installation will be premiered at Haus der Kunst in its recently completed form and run from October 8 to November 9, 2008. 'The Torn First Pages' is an ode to the thousands engaged in the struggle for democracy in Burma and presented in honor of the bookshop owner Ko Than Htay, who was imprisoned for 'tearing out the first page' of all books and journals that contained ideological slogans from the military regime. The twenty-channel video installation directly, elliptically and metaphorically encounters resistance and the struggle for a democratic society, contemporary forms of non-violence, political exile, memory and dislocation. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com

 
 
Dusty Boynton: Recent Work
Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY USA United States of America

Denise Bibro Fine Art is pleased to present our third solo exhibition of work by Dusty Boynton on view October 9 through November 1, 2008. These energetic canvases acquaint us with a motley cast of characters-- human, animal and in between-- painted with confident, gestural strokes in radiant color. The work encompasses the intensity of Abstract Expressionism with a joyous sense of child-like exuberance. Boynton's ability to construct emotionally and psychologically charged imagery is reminiscent of De Kooning's Women series, as well as the mysterious yet playful works of Paul Klee. Her works have the ability to incite uncanny humor, without losing their poignant intellectual sensibility. Boynton stealthily communicates equal parts poetry, irreverence, elation, fear, and gentle empathy. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com

 
Call for Artists: 2009 MASTER ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL USA United States of America

ATLANTIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS calls for artists to apply for their 2009 MASTER ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM which runs FEBRUARY 16 - MARCH 8, 2009 (Application Deadline: October 17, 2008) RESIDENCY #132. Masters for this session are MOLISSA FENLEY, dance/choreography, BOB HOLMAN, poetry, and JAMES SIENA, visual arts. Since 1982, Atlantic Center's residency program has provided artists from all artistic disciplines with spaces to live, work, and collaborate during three-week residencies. Located just four miles from the east coast beaches of central Florida, the pine and palmetto wooded environment contains award-winning studios that include a resource library, painting studio, sculpture studio, music studio, dance studio, black box theater, writers' studio, and digital computer lab. Each residency session includes three master artists of different disciplines. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com

 
Art Fair Course: Join a unique 3-day course on contemporary art during Frieze Art Fair in London. Learn about the contemporary art world today and the art market. Led by Sotheby's Institute of Art with visits to Frieze Art Fair. To book a place, click here:"

Sotheby's Institute of Art in London presents a unique 3-day course on contemporary art, the art market and collecting with additional sessions on art from emerging markets, 16 - 18 October. The combination of lectures and visits to Frieze Art Fair in London provides a unique understanding of the contemporary art world today. Click here to book a place:

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DERIVATIVISM - sandwiching oils between digital buns
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There is a difference in my creative art process between "copy" and "replication." Let me explain. As artist I start off with digital tools, use oil paints as an intermediate step, then end up with a digital derived final product. So how does this compare and differ from the commonplace procedure of reproducing paintings by copyists? I'll try to clarify so here goes- I started off in painting and sculpture, earning a master's degree in Studio Art (Northern Illinois University, 1975). This developed an affinity as well as artistic sensitivity for the expressive powers of the paint medium. But with the introduction of the personal computer (PC graphics) in the 80s, I decided to emerge along with it as digital artist. I abandoned my paint tubes and brushes. In the beginning I was a purist, never scanning or importing photographs (of course back then there was no digital camera). I took pride in starting with clusters of pixels on an otherwise blank monitor screen. But times have changed and my attitude and approach has evolved along with the medium. My work now is truly "multi-media" or as they said before, "mixed media." I am now free to use whatever resources are available to make innovative imagery.
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