PAST EXHIBITION
MoriDen
September 6, 2007—October 18, 2007
Press Release
On Thursday, September 6th 2007, Monkdogz Urban Art, located at 547 West 27th street opens their season with a stunning array of extraordinary International artists. This show may have historic ramifications as the first time these individual artists with stellar careers ahead of them will have shown together. Each and every one of these artists have a unique talent and commitment to the arts that is very real.
Jean Marc Calvet (Nicaragua) An explosive self taught artist who is already sending shock waves through the Latin and European countries comes ‘loaded for bear’ with a series of powerful primitive works that reach out and capture the viewer’s instincts, while at the same time slapping them with the hard cold primordial fist of reality.
Lello Esposito (Italy) A well known painter and sculptor for over 30 years whose work is well known in Italy and abroad considers himself a cult artist. Esposito works with a variety of materials to produce work based on interpretations of symbols relevant to the cultural evolution to his home in Naples.
Sylvia Hennequin (Holland) Her work is spontaneous, colorful, expressive, experimental, confronting, dark, lunatic, wild, and full of fantasy and madness. A personal world exhibited on canvas. Hennequin’s work is indicative of the new COBRA movement that reaches into and embraces the dark, yet beautiful side of life and stimulates the primitive as well as intellectual sides on our nature.
Betina Jung (Denmark) A dedicated artist, Jung intuitively seeks to build and adopt new themes. She searches for ways to express magic and loss, and how the human soul rejoices and mends to deal with both and restore balance. Her use of color and form radiates a rhythm that is as seductive as a Latin tango and as refreshing as a cool southern breeze.
Minya (Italy) Over the past decade Minya has continued to dazzle art viewers and collectors from the former Yugoslavia to Rome and on into New York with a distinctive style that is reminiscent of petroglyphs morphed into current technological schematics. Her surfaces take the viewer into the past and future simultaneously. It is a kaleidoscope of symbols and impressions that allow the viewer to get lost in reflection and gain freedom through the thought provoking images.
Alex Mitchell (Spain) Mitchell relates simple universal sentiments about loneliness, cruelty, secrets, fears, wishes, or dreams, which can be understood by anyone. A constant in her work is a gripping desire she has to hold on to something that has been lost, such as forgotten dreams, memories, friendships, or wide-eyed childhood innocence. This leads her to invent her own universe of characters and their stories as consolation for that which she feel she’s lost, but without losing her sense of humor in the process. In the end, she has to be able to laugh at herself and her own little handmade universe.
David Novak (U.S.A.) For Novak it isn't an easy task to define his art. He doesn’t like fixed rankings. He paints images. He draws images. He computes images. For over 40 years the images he creates tend to be abstract and non-objective. They tend to exercise the foundations of Abstract Expressionism - both camps: gesture and color field; separately and in combinations. Starting in 2002 he wanted to change this program. His research into alternative associations began. Minimalism and reduction secured his focus. Today his images shift from one extreme to the other. He wanders between the polarities that define simple-complex, modulated-flat, brush-no brush, hot color-cold color, hard edge-soft edge, and further polarities that differentiate Abstract Expressionism and Minimalist philosophy. At the moment, there is no single image that he identifies exclusively as typical, but he likes the images chosen for this outing. Steve Reinhart (U.S.A.) This is Reinhart’s place in art. He has chosen to remove all forms and recognizable shapes as well as traditional tools (paint brushes) from his compositions to create a sense of place or mood and even imagery through the use of color to obtain freedom.
Paul Rousso (U.S.A.) Has developed the concept of working in three dimensional arts. Using gallons of acrylic paint to sculpt or create an independent object, which may be best described as a painting of a painting. The reality of Rousso’s work is best understood by allowing the viewer to stand in front of it to really understand the value and texture of his truly unique impressions.
Charles Schindler (U.S.A.) Is a sculptor who has lived and worked for the last 27 years in Greenwich Village, the heart of New York City. He is for the most part self taught. He is always on the lookout for those "objects of inspiration" that allow him to create some of those visions that he perceives. In recent years he has found that searching for those "objects of inspiration" has opened up a whole new world of creativity and challenges.
Mari Yamagiwa (Japan) Mari’s work conceptualizes our dark and dirty secrets; the part that we all keep well hidden. It is a side that she is sure exists in all of us. She acknowledges the existence of different types of values and she is prepared to accept them all. Mari suggests that if you have any fears or worries that hold you back, you might find an answer to the problems in her multi-faceted, mixed media artwork.
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