QUAM Gallery opens today in Scicli Italy

  I am excited to announce I will be working with Antonio Sarnari and his new contmeporary art gallery Quam in Scicli, Italy. The opening of Quam is today and my video Running Still will be included in the inaugural exhibition.

Opens Quam (Collections of the monastery) new headquarters in Mixed Media

 

 Saturday, May 12, 2012 18:00

 

Quam is located in Via Mormino Penna, one of the most beautiful baroque streets declared a World Heritage Site, and equips Scicli one of the most modern exhibition spaces thanks to the international media preparation, the composition of spaces and modular exhibition routes, and the small but precious bookshop with lounges for consultation. 

Quam is proposed as a qualified platform for connecting with other countries, with a distinct identity in the Sicilian painting and Scicli inserted in the most qualified path of the growing cultural tourism. From the masters of the Scicli Group (including Mixed Media is overseeing a major exhibition in New York scheduled for September) to the emerging group of Asterisk, to exhibitions drawing on the early twentieth century Japanese prints or those on the 700 and 800, ending events such as the GAF Scicli 2011, Quam inherits a great cultural heritage that promises to raise with the new schedule, which is closer to the young artists, with an area of foreign authors, and new events such as African Art (scheduled for spring 2013).

The exhibition, inauguration, collectors of fine authors such as Pirandello (exhibited a large canvas unpublished), foreign artists like Dawn Breeze (New York video artist) and Robin Astley (in Melbourne, shows a large painting on the theme of war), Piero Guccione (exposed two large historical canvases) and Franco Sarnari (present work as much as 4 feet). There are also works of Manlio Sacco, Roxana Taormina, Nut and Francis Rinzivillo (authors that represent the identity of the new tunnel) and then the great contemporaries such as Peter Zuccaro Sicilians, and Paul Parisi Canecapovolto languages ​​ranging from informal to videos with themes social. [...] QUAM (from the press release 09/05/12)

Tecnica Mista by Antonio Sarnari

Collections of the monastery

Scicli Via Mormino Penna 79

www.tecnicamista.it

Showing in Sicily this week.

If your in Sicily next week and if my paintings clear customs in time, you will see 8 of my paintings!!! I was asked to participate in an incredible new art festival in one of the most beautiful city's, Scicli. The curator of the event is Antonio Sarnari who runs an exceptional gallery of contemporary art. he is also the son of a famous Sicilian artist, Franco Sarnari. What was a very happy coincidence for me was that 2 years ago I saw a special exhibition of Franco Sarnari's work and really enjoyed it-bought the catelogue etc. So when I saw his work last year at the gallery 'Tecnica Mista' in Scicli I told the gallery director how much I liked his work..yada yada yada..it turned out that Franco Sarnari was his Dad, he then generously gave me some books. A very good friend of ours( Gratzie Corrado!!!!) shows at this Gallery and recommened me and my work for this show and to be included as one of the artists in the gallery. So I just shipped them 8 smaller paintings I did in 2009. I selected these paintings because they are somewhat transitional work. they were painted when I really wasn't painting and they were painted when I was experiencing such intense greif. When I rediscovered these works while thinking about what I would give to this gallery and show, first I thought they were not not my strongest work. But I was still drawn to the "not so strong" element and I read the writing and looked at the lightness of materials. They are so fragile and the writing is so raw in that moment of dysfunction and questioning. I decided these works are powerful in their testimony of my truth in that period, they are markers. They were weak. They were a transition. They were a breath. They were honest in a moment when I didn't know what that looked like. Their strength is in their fragility and humble marks. Hopefully they make it, which is a whole other saga......another thing for me to learn about. How the fuck to ship to Italy and it arrive there!