The United States Artists Biennial

At the Broadway Gallery NYC
September 16‐30, with an opening reception: Saturday, September 25, 2010, 3 ‐ 6pm

The United States Artists Biennial is a group exhibition project that reunites the U.S participants from the Florence Biennial. The United States Biennial gathers together 50 artists whose work has been shown nationally, and internationally. Creating new global perspectives with their art, each artist will spotlight their work in the epicenter of the art world: New York City.

The salon-style exhibition will features 50 artists from all over the world, now based in the United States in a unique and dynamic visual dialogue.

Featuring Cecilia Del Toro, Bronwyn M. Towle, Flavia D’ Ascoli, Jake Beckman, Jane Ellen Murray, Paloma Bernaldo De Quiros, Rosalyn Engelman, Corinne Whitaker, Jackie Brenner, Shawn Man Roland, Emilia Garcia, Debra Vantuinen, Donna Butnik, Teri Starkweather, Ann Gores, Kimiko Fujimura, Yelena Aronson, Robert May, Kimberly Howland, Daniele Marin, Adrienne Yorinks, Richard Bailey, Lyubov Muravyeva, Nicholas Hernandez, Gulay Berryman, Irene Neal, Pavel Tayber, Kimberly Berg, Al Wildey, Seda Baghdasari, Ana Bikic, Elisha Ben Yitzhak, Roman Janeczko, Ronna S. Harris, Sheryl Westegreen, Gazala Chinwalla, Nancy Gray, Alicia Torres, Rachel Simmons, C. Drummond, K-Soul, Marilynn Gottlieb, Angela Hague, Patricia Secco, Amanda Petrash, Eduardo Chirino Said, Lesley Bursten, and Benjamin Boland.

From September 16‐30 The United States Artists Biennial will be on display at Broadway Gallery, in conjunction with several Internet projects, and a print catalog. The exhibit will offer writers and viewers the chance to submit essays and comments on the nature and significance of biennials, fairs and public exposure for new and emerging artists. Featuring over 50 artists with new and old works, of all mediums, The United States Artists Biennial offers a platform for artists, curators, gallerists as well as writers to voice their ideas on the contemporary art world.

Gulay Alpay’s Gold Thought at Art Expo

March 25-28, 2010 | PIER 94 on the Hudson River

This March Turkish artist Gulay Alpay will construct of her signature environmental installations, at the Art Expo show New York. The Two Hands Art Store Alpay’s most recent happening, is a collaborative effort between herself and the audience which she creates using florescent paints and a variety of other media. In such environments, Alpay recreates her studio, a free-for-all, anything-goes space where anyone and everyone can draw, paint, talk, move, and interact and make marks on any surface he or she sees fit. Curator of The Two Hands Art Store is Turkish artist Emre Erturk, who has collaborated with Alpay on previous works. Erturk will also create a performance featuring his own geometric box design. The “box” has an opening where Erturk and Alpay invite art lovers to look within. Initially the viewer is shocked and surprised by the vision of a real naked person within, however upon closer inspection the viewer realizes there is actually real condoms in the hole light with bulbs and startiling message of ’ use condom unless you want to produce useful kids to this planet!” Participants become a part of the visual field, interacting not only with the artist, but also with the imagery around them, effectively capturing the energy and vitality of human communication. Through her unique vision, Alpay evokes a range of theoretical positions from the phenomenological to the psychoanalytic in her surprising and exciting performative extravaganzas.

Following from the long list of previous artists engaging with relational or participatory practices, from Allan Kaprow’s happenings, to Fluxus’ performances, as well as the contemporary practices of artists associated with “relational” practices, such as Rikrit Tiravanija, Thomas Hirschorn, and Liam Gillick, Alpay carries these artists’ legacies infusing her work with her own unique voice. Such artists all have one thing in common – activating the spectator. This is exactly the track that Alpay takes up. However, much like Jacques Rancière who argues in the “Emancipated Spectator” that the spectator is already intrinsically activated by the very fact that she is an active, thinking subject, Alpay does not underestimate her audiences. She treats her viewers as equals in an endeavor aimed at producing a group artwork, for whom authorship is shared equally among all.

Much like her compatriots, the Turkish collective, Oda Projesi, Alpay honors the participant and viewer, treating him/her as an artist himself, capable of producing a valuable contribution to her creations. The creative act is social, one of healing and companionship in which people come together to construct something larger than themselves. This is a spiritual and moral act that implies the betterment of humanity. Ultimately, this is a gesture of love and companionship. From the psychoanalytic perspective, her constructed environments could be seen as what D.W. Winnicott calls the “holding transitional environment,” a space for pure freedom and play where emotional healing and transformation, psychological integration can fully occur. For Alpay, each artistic act is a creative and transformative ritualistic experience. For every gesture that she takes – from applying paint to silk, to painting her own body – are spiritual acts of rebirth, expressions of love for humanity. Challenging the boundaries of the art world, she stretches her own imagination and ours, to envision another kind of world where people interact freely and openly in love and companionship.

1. The Armory Show
Piers 92 and 94, 12th Avenue at 55th Street
Thursday, March 4 – Saturday, March 6, 12-8pm; Sunday, March 7, 12-7pm
$30
This year’s fair boasts 209 contemporary dealers, 80 modern dealers, and 6 non-profits. The Armory Show – Modern, which focuses on 20th century works, takes place on Pier 92, while Pier 94 is chock full of current work by a wide array of top-notch, international artists. Berlin is the focus city, a new feature at this year’s fair, and British conceptualist Susan Collins provides the 2010 fair’s visual identity. An excellent program of panel discussions, which are free with the entry ticket, takes place at Pier 92 and at VOLTA NY, the Armory Show’s sister fair.

2.The Art Show
Park Avenue Armory
Park Avenue at 67th Street
Wednesday, March 3 – Saturday, March 6, 12-8pm; Sunday, March 7, 12-6pm
 $20

The Art Show, which is organized by the Art Dealers Association of America, features contemporary, modern, and master artworks in a variety of media. The 70 American galleries represented in this year’s fair focus on solo and thematic presentations of international artists in a dynamically designed setting.
3. Pulse New York
330 West Street (corner of West Side Highway and West Houston)
Thursday, March 4 – Saturday, March 6, 12-8pm; Sunday, March 7, 12-5pm
$20
Pulse is a cutting-edge fair with some 60 international galleries, featuring solo and group exhibitions. The Impulse section focuses on solo presentations of emerging artists. Large-scale sculptures and installations are sited throughout the show and a video program offers new works by artists of Caribbean and Latin American descent.
4.Scope New York
Pavilion at Lincoln Center Damrosch Park, 62nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue
Thursday, March 4 – Saturday, March 6, 12-8pm; Sunday, March 7, 12-7pm
$20
Occupying a tent in Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park, Scope offers an eclectic mix of some 50 galleries from around the world. Additionally, this year’s fair presents a fashion exhibition, organized by Parisian fashion blogger Diane Pernet; a fascinating film program; and a Personal Development Auction, where bidders vie for a chance to win mini mentorships.

5. VOLTA NY
7 West 34th Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues)
Thursday, March 4, 2-8pm; Friday, March 5 – Sunday, March 7, 11am-7pm
$15
No Guts, No Glory, the title of this year’s show, presents 88 solo projects from a tight line-up of international galleries. Special artist projects are also peppered throughout the lobby, elevators, and bathrooms, while the catalog is designed as an artist book by onestar press. Talks are held in conjunction with the Armory Show.
6. Fountain New York
Pier 66 at 26th Street and West Side Highway in Hudson River Park
Friday, March 5 – Sunday, March 7, 11am-7pm
$10
Starting out as a renegade fair, Fountain has established itself as freewheeling, experimental exhibition. The 2010 show features 20 exhibitors, which range from scrappy Williamsburg galleries to Gawker Artists’ NSFW (Not Safe For Work) exhibition.
7. Red Dot New York
Skyline Studios, 500 West 36th Street at 10th Avenue
Thursday, March 4, 12-6pm; Friday, March 5 – Saturday, March 6, 11am-8pm; Sunday, March 7, 11am-6pm
$10
With few international exhibitors, Red Dot features a line-up of 33 small town galleries from across the US.
8. Verge New York
The Dylan Hotel, 52 East 41st Street (Between Madison and Park Avenues)
Friday, March 5 – Saturday, March 6, 12-8pm; Sunday, March 7, 12-6pm
$10
A hotel fair, Verge features 24 diverse exhibitors from Europe, Asia, and the US.
9. PooL New York
Gershwin Hotel, 27th Street and 5th Avenue
Friday, March 5, 6-10pm Vernissage ($20)
Friday, March 5 – Sunday, March 7, 3-10pm
$10
Another hotel fair, PooL offers independent artist projects.
10. Independent
548 West 22nd Street
Thursday, March 4, 4-9pm
Friday, March 5 – Saturday, March 6, 11am-8pm; Sunday, March 7, 12-4pm
Free
An exciting new event in the former X Initiative and former Dia Center for the Arts space, Independent presents 38 galleries, independent curators, publishers, and nonprofit spaces in an experimental format.
11. Dutch Art Now
The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South
Wednesday, March 3 – Sunday, March 7, 11am-5pm; March 8-14, call ahead
Free
A dozen galleries from the Netherlands offer new work by 33 Dutch contemporary artists, working in a variety of media.
12. Korean Art Show
la.venue
608 West 28th Street, between 11th and 12th Avenues
Wednesday, March 3 – Sunday, March 7, 11am-7pm; Thursday, March 4, 11am-8pm
Free
The Korean Art Show grants visitors the unique opportunity to see the work of emerging and established artists from 24 Korean galleries.

Global Art Perspectives: ART 2010 ANNUAL PREVIEW EXHIBITION @ Broadway Gallery NYC

Image Courtesy of Jennifer Contini Enderby

January 2 to 30, 2010.

NY Arts Magazine and World Art Media are pleased to announce a continuation of the international traveling exhibition Global Perspectives which will be shown in three different continents; Europe, North America and Asia.

From January 2 to 30, 2010 the next exhibition Global Art Perspectives: Art 2010 Annual Preview will be on display at Broadway Gallery, in conjunction with several Internet projects, the exhibit will continue to offer writers and viewers the chance to submit essays and comments on the nature and significance of biennials, fairs and public exposure for new and emerging artists. Featuring over 200 artists with on-site commissions, new and older works, of all mediums, dynamically executed on paper. The curators include Basak Malone and Tchera Niyego from New York, Agustina O’Farrell and Santiago Bunge from Buenos Aires, L.Brandon Krall from New York, Cosimo Di Leo Ricatto from Amsterdam, and Stefano Pasquini from Italy.

Utilizing the ideologies of the international art fair, exhibition and symposium, this unique exhibition emphasizes the process of creation and discovery. Marked by local and global relationships, aesthetics, and practices Global Art Perspectives: Art 2010 Annual Preview comments on visual culture in a wider context, than the traditional art fair exhibition.

The first exhibition in this traveling show Works On Paper, A Global Perspective was previously on display at Pavillion Consorzio Cantieristica Minore Veneziana, concurrent with the 53rd Biennale di Venezia, and featured eight international curators working with a dozen different countries. Global Art Perspectives will also be shown at a different New York location in March concurrent with NYC Art Fair’s week including The Armory Show. Soon afterwards the exhibit travels to Beijing, China where it will be on display at Arts Space Beijing.

Featuring International Artists:

ennifer Reeves, Yue Kyoeng sub, Emma Braslavsky, May Stevens, Bailey Doogan, Edamon Namusiv, Carl E, Hazlewood, Kilian Kerner, Rudolf Baranik, Carol Flax, Hearne Pardee, Lauren O Neal, Victoria Hanks, Tony Zaza, Robert Sievert, Michael Wilson, Paul Parcelllin, Graeme Sullivan, David Berger, Frances Devuono, D.Dominick Lombardi, Claire Wolf Krantz, Ana Tiscornia, Markus Winkler, Charles Giuliano, Richard Huntington, Claudia Ruth Schomig, Nancy Dohn, Raul Zamodio, Mark Van Proyen, John Perreault, John Antoine Labaie, Abraham Lubelski, Leigh Trifari, Phong Bui, Jamey Hecht, Deborah Garwood, Jeanne C.Fryer-Kohles, Victoria Korb, Kay Miler, Janet Culbertson, Jeffrey Carr, Jemes Rosenthal, Lori Don Levan, Patricia Miranda, Maureen Mullarkey, James Little, Diane Calder, Elisabeth Kley, Betty Collings, Leon Golub, Mario Naves, Nelleke Nix, Alison Knowles, Roger Boyce, Christopher Chambers, Matt Freedman, Joel Silverstein, Robert C.Morgan, Howardena Pindell, Daniel A.Heyman, Loren Munk, Jan Estep, Gary Duehr, Robert Taplin, J.D.Javis, Patritia Pac, Siri Berg, Alejandro Montaldo, Juan Pavlovsky, Julieta Barderi, Peter Leonard, Santiago LLorente, Andres Ghiorzo, Adriana Torregrossa, Dario Solman, Fabrizio Rivola, Federika Ponnetti, Grace Rim, Jennifer Schmidt, Kaz, Laura Serri, Marco Fantini, Marina Gasparini, Mili Romano, Natalija Ribovic, Oreste Baccolini, Roberta Piccioni, Sabrina Muzi, Saeri Kiritani, Stefano Cagol, Stefano Pasquini, Frans Goddijn, Hans Franz, Joanneke Meester, Josien Vogelaar, Kurt Nahar, Maartje Folkeringa, Patricia Kaersenhout, Saskia De Brauw, Ana Bonamico, Jean James, Marco Antonio Abbagnara, Masaki Asakawa, Matthew Lauretti, Maz Jackson, Michel Beaucage, Sisko Ruskokivi-Runeberg, Sophie Hedderwick, Whitney Mcveigh, Andrea Amelung, Anna VanMatre, Ayse Kucuk, Dilek Ozmen, Francois Geffray, Hanna Scheriau, Heidemarie Kull, Juergen Buhre, Keith Morant, Andres Giles, Claudia Lucini, Leonardo Pellegrini, Marcelo Linares, Santiago Bunge, Santiago Deramo, Tomas Ghiorzo, Valentina Cambiaso, Carla Gannis, Carter Hodgkin, Jerelyn Hanrahan, Karni Dorrell, Dirk, Janjager, Georgeta Stefanescu, Heleen Wiemer, Maaike van der Linden, Richtje Reinsma, Roosmarijn Schoonewelle, L. Brandon Krall, Nura Petrov, Patrice Lerochereuil, Seth Carnes, Teri Hackett, Gunilla Oldenburg, Vernita Nemec, William S. Stone, Ari Liimatainen, Beatrice Englert, Destroy Be, Hansen Thiam Sun, Ioanna Voskou, Carlos Aquilino, Theodor Barr, Iuri Izrastzoff, Patrick Fenech, Michel Collet, Valentine Verhaeghe. Helmut Zwerger and many more.

Once More With Feeling

A Solo Show of work by Wim Zorn

March 1-15th, 2009

Wim Zorn is no stranger to new challenges. With an extensive array of visual styles from sculptural wall reliefs to abstract vistas, his body of work is vast and varied. It was with this continual sense of pushing himself in new directions that he has used to create an inspiring and impressive overture. Central to the work in this show is the sense of weight and matter, on the two-dimensional surface. Matter is the common thread running through all objects and beings in the world, and here the artist explores its elusive nature, from an elemental paring down of form and shape to classic color theory. What sets this show apart is Zorn’s ability to resistance to conventional categorization, and the expression with which he explores the simplest elements of visual definition.

Inspired by his own journey through life, Zorn’s work takes its primary focus on the form of people and culture. Zorn’s artwork takes a psychological perspective of the “other”. His own relationships clearly inform his paintings and unique color palette. He layers colors to create the razor-sharp and gauzy, soft textures that coexist in his work, best exemplified in his piece entitled Movements in Red. His colorful blending of passionate color with abstraction reveals his physical involvement in the work—paint has been applied with fervor, leaving behind a verifiable artistic signature as testimony for the viewer.

Zorn’s striking paintings draw us into an enigmatic and sensual world of fantasy, seduction, and spirit. Zorn’s work often appears formalist in its concerns; aesthetically the artist is equally drawn to isolated and quiet places—as he is to crowds and chaos. The one strand linking the various facets of Zorn’s work is his overwhelming sense of fluidity, swelling brushstroke, and his sumptuous approach to applying paint on canvas.

In his art François Geffray transforms painterly movements into something tangible, something intriguingly fluid on canvas, upon seeing which viewers can’t help the desire to touch and feel. His works are intuitive and vibrant, composed of shapes and lines that are free-spiritedly manipulated to form a world of fanciful naïveté yet his portrayal of humans and objects echo Classicism, while exuding warm, ominous, or eccentric atmosphere. The work is vivid and refreshing, creating an otherworldly atmosphere where nature comes to life on canvas and invites viewers for a walk in Geffray’s world.

French artist Geffray is no stranger to new challenges. With an extensive array of mediums from digital art to painting, his body of work is vast and varied.
Geffray’s visual interpretations are deceptively child-like, minimalist and captivating works, which he creates through detailed ink, acrylic and oil paint, and also in his use of bold, vibrant, colors. His paintings are a kind of electrified impressionism; with a palette of bright hues Geffray captures light and movement with an unusual forcefulness. Manipulating linear and geometric shapes, Geffray creates imagery that is at once surreal and rooted in an affinity to reality.

Geffray’s artwork takes a psychological perspective of the “other.” Drawing on images from day-to-day life Geffray’s work highlights both the highs and lows, contrasts and similarities between human relationships by producing morphed images that combine literal representation with metaphor.

Utilizing the ideologies of the international art fair, exhibition and symposium, this unique exhibition emphasizes the process of creation and discovery. Marked by local and global relationships, aesthetics, and practices Global Art Perspectives: Art 2010 Annual Preview comments on visual culture in a wider context, than the traditional art fair exhibition.

The first exhibition in this traveling show Works On Paper, A Global Perspective was previously on display at Pavillion Consorzio Cantieristica Minore Veneziana, concurrent with the 53rd Biennale di Venezia, and featured eight international curators working with a dozen different countries. Global Art Perspectives will also be shown at a different New York location in March concurrent with NYC Art Fair’s week including The Armory Show. Soon afterwards the exhibit travels to Beijing, China where it will be on display at Arts Space Beijing.

Featuring International Artists:
Jennifer Reeves, Yue Kyoeng sub, Emma Braslavsky, May Stevens, Gaye Chan, Bailey Doogan, Edamon Namusiv, Carl E, Hazlewood, Kilian Kerner, Rudolf Baranik, Carol Flax, Hearne Pardee, Lauren O Neal, Victoria Hanks, Tony Zaza, Robert Sievert, Michael Wilson, Paul Parcelllin, Graeme Sullivan, David Berger, Frances Devuono, D.Dominick Lombardi, Claire Wolf Krantz, Ana Tiscornia, Markus Winkler, Charles Giuliano, Richard Huntington, Claudia Ruth Schomig, Nancy Dohn, Raul Zamodio, Mark Van Proyen, John Perreault, John Antoine Labaie, Abraham Lubelski, Leigh Trifari, Phong Bui, Jamey Hecht, Deborah Garwood, Jeanne C.Fryer-Kohles, Victoria Korb, Kay Miler, Janet Culbertson, Jeffrey Carr, Jemes Rosenthal, Lori Don Levan, Patricia Miranda, Maureen Mullarkey, James Little, Diane Calder, Elisabeth Kley, Betty Collings, Leon Golub, Mario Naves, Nelleke Nix, Alison Knowles, Roger Boyce, Christopher Chambers, Matt Freedman, Joel Silverstein, Robert C.Morgan, Howardena Pindell, Daniel A.Heyman, Loren Munk, Jan Estep, Gary Duehr, Robert Taplin, J.D.Javis, Patritia Pac, Siri Berg, Alejandro Montaldo, Juan Pavlovsky, Julieta Barderi, Peter Leonard, Santiago LLorente, Andres Ghiorzo, Adriana Torregrossa, Dario Solman, Fabrizio Rivola, Federika Ponnetti, Grace Rim, Jennifer Schmidt, Kaz, Laura Serri, Marco Fantini, Marina Gasparini, Mili Romano, Natalija Ribovic, Oreste Baccolini, Roberta Piccioni, Sabrina Muzi, Saeri Kiritani, Stefano Cagol, Stefano Pasquini, Frans Goddijn, Hans Franz, Joanneke Meester, Josien Vogelaar, Kurt Nahar, Maartje Folkeringa, Patricia Kaersenhout, Saskia De Brauw, Ana Bonamico, Jean James, Marco Antonio Abbagnara, Masaki Asakawa, Matthew Lauretti, Maz Jackson, Michel Beaucage, Sisko Ruskokivi-Runeberg, Sophie Hedderwick, Whitney Mcveigh, Andrea Amelung, Anna VanMatre, Ayse Kucuk, Dilek Ozmen, Francois Geffray, Hanna Scheriau, Heidemarie Kull, Juergen Buhre, Keith Morant, Andres Giles, Claudia Lucini, Leonardo Pellegrini, Marcelo Linares, Santiago Bunge, Santiago Deramo, Tomas Ghiorzo, Valentina Cambiaso, Carla Gannis, Carter Hodgkin, Jerelyn Hanrahan, Karni Dorrell, Dirk, Janjager, Georgeta Stefanescu, Heleen Wiemer, Maaike van der Linden, Richtje Reinsma, Roosmarijn Schoonewelle, L. Brandon Krall, Nura Petrov, Patrice Lerochereuil, Seth Carnes, Teri Hackett, Gunilla Oldenburg, Vernita Nemec, William S. Stone, Ari Liimatainen, Beatrice Englert, Destroy Be, Hansen Thiam Sun, Ioanna Voskou, Carlos Aquilino, Theodor Barr, Iuri Izrastzoff, Patrick Fenech, Helmut Zwerger and many more.

]]> http://www.worldartmedia.com/2009/10/dilek-ozmen-on-politics-practices-and-emotions/feed/ 0 http://www.worldartmedia.com/2009/10/bluarte-interview-with-franco-meloni-on-realm-of-invention-at-the-ny-arts-beijing-space/ http://www.worldartmedia.com/2009/10/bluarte-interview-with-franco-meloni-on-realm-of-invention-at-the-ny-arts-beijing-space/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:23:50 +0000 admin http://www.worldartmedia.com/?p=591 Franco Meloni, the artist develops the themes of the sub unconscious dialogue with sensitivity. Take a deep search for irregularities dreams. His is an artistic approach that looks into the distance, until the imagery of the mind, beyond belief …

Franco Meloni, the artist develops the themes of the sub unconscious dialogue with sensitivity. Take a deep search for irregularities dreams. His is an artistic approach that looks into the distance, until the imagery of the mind, beyond belief …

For Franco Meloni what it means to paint, what is your language?

For me it is a primary need. Painting means telling myself and my emotions, facts that strike me intimately, through images that come directly from my unconscious and that guide my production. Most of the time images are already determined in form and color, which I feel I must represent. The language they use is devoid of specific rules and for that I think we can approach the dream language.

Remember his reflection when he set the first opera?

Yes … I remember …. I was in the throes of emotion between tears and laughter. Then the tears prevailed, and again a big laugh. I spent a few days to contemplate the work I had done, then I thought he was ready to quit the study. Well I returned the energy that had given him. If this does not occur to me the work can not be regarded as such and not explain it.

In his works there is a point of surrealism, refers to this current?

Surrealism has always fascinated me as indeed also many other movements, which have subsequently contaminate my work, but I do not think they belong to this current. When I started painting I was completely ignorant of everything. I’ve found myself slowly and the entrance to the painting was traumatic for me. I think that within my work can be found many quotes ranging from art to surrealism and visionary art raw. I confess I do not like categories, but we can not do without.

In its expressiveness is born before painting or sculpture?

Surely it is born before the drawing and then painting and follow the sculpture. At first I used the oil pastels, because I liked the feel of direct contact with matter. Brushes always create a certain distance, that’s particularly nervous because when I work with clay that allows me to download the negative emotions. When I paint sometimes can not resist the temptation to destroy the work. I think that the destruction, meaning courage to cross the limits, always something good can emerge and unexpected. Only when I can balance all the elements of the work I am doing. I like smudging, things out of place, everything is not perfect. In the irregularity is a deep sense of authenticity.

Melons research and experiments with new techniques?

I like to use new techniques and materials, but to organizational issues at the moment I can not go beyond what I do. My approach to creative design is the typical attitude of a child who is hungry for information. I see and hear what is around me and forfeited, then begin to eliminate what I liked. Surely, unconsciously, I gather all in one predominant image, I feel the need of having to represent. From there.

Where do you find inspiration?

I find inspiration from what happens to me in everyday life and from my past. I like to go into unknown territories of the mind where I can grab images for brief moments that seem to come from the collective unconscious.

As in any field, even in art there are no rules of marketing and “product”, as she encountered difficulties in being an artist today to know?

It is right and I believe these rules may be castrating if you do not want to submit to the market, because it has something to say with their own mode of expression that is perhaps at odds with the artistic trend of the moment. This tendency often borders on the design and may be lacking in content. For me it would be more interesting than the industry bring to an emphasis on creativity, rather than on the aesthetic beauty of a work that harmonizes with the surrounding environment. The risk is to generate real bubbles. Difficulties for the artists are mostly economic in nature and accessibility to the market that counts.

The galleries are investing in the young contemporary artists?

It ‘hard to find galleries that invest in the young artist, risking capital and credibility, this was mainly through the figure of the merchant. The galleries do not invest on artists they consider very durable in the market and not economically viable. Many dealers think immediately realizable, but we must wait and give confidence. An artist may decide to permanently abandon its production at any time for various reasons. But it is only in perseverance and determination in their work that may emerge among many. Today is the beginning artist who is betting on himself. There is a trend reversal. It ‘an unequal battle but the harsh reality of business. The road is very long and certainly the liberation takes place after many years of hard work, if it occurs.

Today there is a new trend, several artists exhibit in the streets or squares, what do you think?

It can be fun but you may run the risk of being misunderstood as if you were going to the markets. Always depends on the strategy that the artist decides to put in place to become visible and the type of work that produces and who ultimately organized the exhibition square. The visitor target changes depending on the location. However, the road is a way to reclaim the territory. It ‘a way of saying I exist.

For Meloni, 2009 an important year: Exhibition in Beijing (China) Collective: “Realm of Invention” to the “NY Arts Beijing Space,” and participation in collective “Unfiltered IV Industrial Projects Gallery, Detroit, opens a new path on the international scene?

Certainly China is an attractive market and is catching on with the U.S. even though New York remains the hub of contemporary art around the world. I’m glad some of my work will be permanently exhibited in NY Arts Beijing Collection, because I think that may be well accepted by Chinese culture. As for Detroit show is a segment in which I participate a few years. I liked especially the choice of location, an old industry reclassified, now used for art events. These are not my first shows outside Europe. In fact I like to confront me and contaminates from cultures different from mine. For some time now have relations with foreign artists and gallery owners, which allow to develop my artistic experience and enriches me personally and professionally.

There is a place of art that fascinates you so special?

Surely New York! It’s very fascinating, surprising, where anything can happen both positively and negatively. When I was there in 2008, during a show, I tried both a series of conflicting emotions because of the strong contrasts in the city perceived as fear and joy, insecurity, security, loss and awareness . New York is a drug in its pure state is very challenging on all fronts, certainly from a lot of energy.

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D.A. Therrien (Phoenix, USA)
Light Installation
Beautiful Light: 4 LETTER WORD MACHINE (mock-up), 2009
Quartz light, electricity, switching systems, human performers
Photo credit:CGI: Dayvid LeMmon

Toronto pulls another all-nighter at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche

TORONTO, September 28, 2009 - Toronto is the perfect destination for art enthusiasts this weekend as nearly 500 national and international artists descend on the city, creating 130 projects for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche: the free, all-night celebration of contemporary art.  Returning on October 3, 2009 for its fourth year, the event will once again see the familiar discarded as public spaces across the city are transformed into an artistic playground from sunset to sunrise. One million people are expected to spend 12 enlightening hours discovering art in galleries, museums and unexpected places— from churches and grocery stores to chimney stacks and bus stations.

Jeff Koons’ infamous Rabbit Balloon will float high above spectators in the Toronto Eaton Centre. The Toronto Bus Depot will, for one night only, be the site of a caged, blindfolded grudge match between New York performance artist and fighter Sean ‘El Conquistador’ Leonardo and 20 other men in Battle Royal.

In the financial district, veteran conceptual artist and Order of Canada recipient IAIN BAXTER& will gather Toronto media personalities and celebrities to play an all-night version of the iconic real estate game, Monopoly, inside the Toronto Stock Exchange – with real money. At the Sheraton Centre, installation/performance artists FASTWÜRMS will transform the waterfall atrium, lobby and gardens into a zone of live tableaux and divinatory encounters through iTouch technology.

Liberty Village will feature a moving sound installation by Oswaldo Macià, Surrounded in Tears 2004-2009, a composition of a symphony of hundreds of crying voices. Canadian art legend Tom Dean’s Fire and Sausage: Small Mercies will create a ‘hobo utopia,’ a social sculpture made up of throngs of audience members clustered around fire barrels, vying for homemade sausages and hot chocolate made by Chef Jamie Kennedy.

In addition to the Exhibition by curators Gregory Elgstrand, Thom Sokoloski, Jim Drobnick, Jennifer Fisher and Makiko Hara, and the myriad Independent Projects produced by Toronto’s diverse arts community, the City has commissioned a large installation by internationally renowned artist D.A. Therrien to capitalize on the iconic infrastructure of Toronto City Hall.

Therrien‘s BEAUTIFUL LIGHT: FOUR LETTER WORD MACHINE will suspend four giant light sculptures in the air between City Hall Towers above Council Chambers, blasting an ever-changing array of four-letter word patterns all night long.

Survey results indicate Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2008 motivated more than 100,000 tourists to come to Toronto specifically to attend the event. The night generated $13.7 million in local economic impact – impressive results for a free event lasting only 12 hours. This year, visitors to Toronto will benefit from travel packages that include discounts on transportation, hotels and attractions.

Full programming details and travel packages are available at www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca.

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