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ARTS NEWS: February 05, 2009
 Top Stories Nazli Madkour
Safar Khan Gallery, Cairo, EG Egypt Call for Artists: Residency Programme ATHENS BIENNALE
European Biennial Network, Athens, GR Greece Uprising: Jerry Ross - Figurative, Portrait Paintings Inspired by Italian and American Revolutions.
Springfield Museum, Springfield, OR USA United States of America Improvisations On Site: Pastels - Nancy Balliett
First Street Gallery, New York, NY USA United States of America | | Nazli Madkour
Safar Khan Gallery, Cairo, EG Egypt From the 3rd to 27th February the Safar Khan Gallery in Cairo Egypt will host the Exhibition of artist Nazli Madkour. The�artist, who has been exhibiting widely around the world, will be�showing a new collection of works focusing on women. Madkour's works are textural and content laden, exploring the inner world of women. Her works fall in between abstraction and figuration,leaning more towards absctraction when it relates to innerscapes. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Call for Artists: Residency Programme ATHENS BIENNALE
European Biennial Network, Athens, GR Greece As part of its ongoing Residency Programme, the European Biennial Network is issuing an Open Call for applications for a residency position offered by the Athens Biennale. The European Biennial Network is a collaborative structure, active in the field of contemporary art, that aims to promote dialogue, interaction and collaboration between contemporary art Biennials in Europe. It intends to use the knowledge, experience and wealth of information accumulated by organisers of large-scale periodic art events, in order to support the communication and mobility of artists and art professionals. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Uprising: Jerry Ross - Figurative, Portrait Paintings Inspired by Italian and American Revolutions.
Springfield Museum, Springfield, OR USA United States of America The Springfield Museum in Springfield, Oregon opens a painting exhibit called 'Uprising' which presents Jerry Ross' figurative and portrait work inspired by both the Italian and American revolutions. The exhibition opned Tuesday, January 27th and remains on view through February 21st 2009. 'Figurative art in Italy, often called 'grand manner painting', underwent a fundamental change in the 19th century with the I Macchiaioli Movement that introduced spontaneity and impressionism into this genre. I have taken things a step further with more abstraction and gesture painting that has characterized my style for many years,' states Jerry Ross who has been a Premiere Portfolio at absolutearts.com since 2000. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Improvisations On Site: Pastels - Nancy Balliett
First Street Gallery, New York, NY USA United States of America 'Improvisations On Site: Pastels - Nancy Balliett' is on show at First Street Gallery, New York from February 3 through 28, 2009. Nancy Balliett is a very modern landscape painter (Long Island, Cape Cod, Florida, Lake Como, Venice) who passes into her subject, finds its spirit, and translates it into colors and shapes and rhythms that become a surprising alterscape. You know you are seeing a tree or a moon, but it is a wholly original tree, a wholly original moon. Her pictures challenge, then surround you. First Street Gallery promotes their artists with a Gallery Portfolio at absolutearts.com. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | No. 5 - Peepshow
O'Born Contemporary, Toronto, ON CA Canada O�Born Contemporary is heating up these cold winter months with No. 5 - Peepshow. Open from February 4th, 2009 until March 13th, 2009, this new exhibition draws on the voyeuristic history of the peepshow, and is our Valentine�s Day gift to our clients and friends. It gives a nod and a wink to the Yonge Street location of the gallery, which was previously a sex shop. Work from artists Finn O�Hara, Leanne Eisen, Camilla Holmgren, and a selection of mid�?, century vernacular nudes by several anonymous photographers make up the show. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
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Universal subjects of art are not necessarily a guaranty for universal interest in them...
Ilan Lichtnayer
 Money for nothing Most artists do not deal with anything. The "art geniuses" deal with "artistic issues" which are of interest only to the art critiques and a hand full of artists, and by that narrow the language of art - the language of shapes and colors, the most universal language possible - down to a collection of petty conflicts and dilemmas with tedious solutions that are of no importance to anyone, at any scale. Few are the artists who deal with issues and problems concerning the whole of humanity and the essence of existence, probably just as few are the people who really care about others of their kind. Perhaps the beautiful thing about the art of the Middle Ages, for example which was mostly religious, is that it really served a purpose. There is no doubt (I think) that they are primitive, and there is no doubt that utilizing different solutions and revelations from the course of art along the ages might assist in conveying messages in a more articulate, advanced, attractive, credible, authentic and diverse manner. However, I feel that in the great efforts of escaping the conditionings and fixations of the archaic and institutionalized art and of creating new "art languages" every alternate day, perhaps unconsciously art has gradually become a tool in its own hands and nothing more.
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