Peter Peri’s abstract paintings resound with a dislocated and ephemeral ambience. Transcending the apprehension of perceptible space, Peri’s astringent compositions oscillate between both macro and microcosmic conceptions of scale. Emerging from and enmeshed within abyssal black grounds, faintly tinted cilia and floating orbs suggest molecular structures or cosmological configurations, converting the precision language of science into visualisations that are poetic and sublime.
With titles such as Bloodsucker, Slab Block, and The Hearing Forest And The Seeing Field, Peri’s canvases offer portentous suggestions, extracting a disquieting mysticism from their sparse pictorial fields. Within the pristine contours of his diagrammatical motifs, Peri interrupts the ascetic sterility of his surfaces with minute traces of intimate intervention. In areas the pitch density of his veneer spontaneously bubbles over impasto under-painting or erodes to leave an oil-stained effect; while delicately rendered lines and arcs shift imperceptibly in tone, some vanishing into nowhere, others interceding with trailing drips of paint. Through this subtle mediation, Peri’s work entrances with a rarefied elegance, creating a highly articulate abstraction that is both analytical and synesthetic.
The word that springs to mind looking at these images is holistic not a particularly fashionable one to use in art criticism, with its echoes of New Age marketing or the kinds of artists who still think it’s worthwhile pursuing quasi-religious giganticism. Yet the idea of holism put snappily by the Penguin Dictionary of Modern Thought as the thesis that wholes, or some wholes, are more than the sums of their parts in the sense that the wholes in questions have characteristics that cannot be explained in terms of the properties and relations to one another of their constituents seems apt in Peri’s case. On a purely formal level (if there is such a thing) they oscillate between microscopic and macroscopic levels, old-fashioned studies in opticality.Against unbleached paper the texture of pumice stone each hairline bulks out into an undulating graphic wormery that tickles the eyes. Back away, and elementary shapes begin to constitute themselves cancerous tumours, rectilinear slabs, or the occasional graceful arc redolent of an architectural detail. Some of these follicle stylings amass themselves into more readily identifiable representations; an exotic looking headrest, say, or an ornate ceremonial religious prop.
These forms are positioned awkwardly on the page, like cress seeds sown on damp tissue, left free to grow. So fibrous are these drawings that I almost feel the urge to shave them. And such a peculiar choice of imagery Roman Catholic reliquaries, ethnographic trophies, sleek Modernist graphics.
What to Do Next…
If you want any information about Peter Peri or looking for his paintings please visit us on http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/peter_peri.htm
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September 30th, 2009Online Art Gallery: a Striking Triangle of Creativity, Trade and Technology for You!
September 29th, 2009The concept of online art gallery quenches the thirst of art connoisseurs by making art and crafts just a click-away option. While, this gallery makes stalwarts’ creativity easily accessible, it simultaneously gives a big platform to budding artists to display their talent and skill. Apart from that, online art gallery is by far the easiest way, where paintings for sale are made available. Even more, as far as abstract act is concerned, all those e-art galleries are also enriched with scores of sites.
Thus, it is very appropriate to say that any online art gallery is nothing but an impressive amalgamation of imagination for profit-making purpose using the state-of-the-art technology. To revisit in detail, it is an arena where art is being showcased with the help of modern technologies for the fulfillment of the purpose of displaying paintings for sale. Mainly, various websites, contain arts and crafts, are referred as online art gallery. Most of the times, the pictures are snapped and showcased on these websites. Sometime, a single site exhibits the paintings for sale of a single artist and sometimes, a single site can bring the creations of various artists under a common roof.
Further, you do not need to be a rocket scientist to access these online art galleries. Some guidelines will lead you to find the wonder world of creativity inside an online art gallery. Most of the times, these galleries will ask the visitors to create their own accounts, that is, register themselves with the site. Once you get your own account on a particular gallery, you can check the online abstract art of your favorite artists from the catalogue of the particular online gallery. And ultimately, you will get the price tag of every picture displaying on the site. Besides, many art galleries also publish the story of paintings for sale to double the fun.
Your fondness of abstract art can also make you a regular visitor to online art galleries. The availability of online abstract arts at various websites undoubtedly gives you a sense of completeness of these galleries. It not only helps to enhance the sell at a particular website, but also helps the site to get maximum visitors and increase its rank.
At the end, it would be quite appropriate to say that online art galleries have made the world of arts closer. Now, buying the paintings of eminent artists has become easier for the art connoisseurs worldwide. Truly, a single click can easily create a huge miracle in the world of creativity- a perfect triangle of creativity, trade and technology!
By: Smit Mathur
Exploring The World Of Art In Glasgow
September 29th, 2009Art galleries contain all kinds of delights from all stages in history. While there are paintings and drawings by well known artists to look for and appreciate, there are also plenty of more modern works to enjoy.
Lots of cities have plenty of art galleries to explore too, and Glasgow has some wonderful additions to its collection of galleries. If you are heading there in the near future, try some of these for size.
Firstly there is the Burrell Collection in Pollok Country Park. This is so called because the city owns the artwork as a direct result of having been given it by Sir William Burrell. There are thousands of items to look at and they don’t just cover paintings either. There are tapestries and much more besides to browse around and appreciate.
Elsewhere in Glasgow you can visit the Compass Gallery. This is worth a mention in particular because it is one of the few galleries that focus more on young artists, rather than those who have already succeeded in their careers.
The gallery has been going for three decades now, and one of the most intriguing parts about it is that it has a rich mix of artists whose work it shows. As such a visit is definitely recommended, because there is bound to be something there that appeals to you.
Next up you could try the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art. As the name would suggest you won’t be surrounded by any classic painters from years gone by. Instead you can delve into the art world as it is now.
One of the key features about this gallery is that it gives space to local artists as well as those who have come to the attention of galleries worldwide. Millions of people have visited the gallery and its impressive surroundings since it first opened back in 1996, and still more are likely to go in the future too. This is also Glasgow’s most popular gallery, and once you have been you will see why.
There are lots of other galleries throughout Glasgow as well. Mainly they are smaller more intimate ones, but they might appeal to you if you have a particular love of art that they cover.
If you want to see all of them you will need more than a day to do so. Book a weekend away in the city if you can – Glasgow flights are readily available and will bring you in just to the west of the city itself. It is then just a short trip to reach the centre of the city. Once you have arrived, all that remains to do is to explore the world of art and enjoy every minute of it.
By: Jonathan Wallace
Most Famous Art Museums Around the World
September 25th, 2009Art museum is the collections of much variety of exhibitions and paintings. There are old art, new art, pretty art, art that makes us think or is even shocking. Anything that people experience turns up in art: love, war, eating, sports, nature, and faith, anything at all. Most museums are either free or have free days when you can go and enjoy the art. Commercial galleries are also free. Many places offer free lectures, either by an artist whose work is on display, or by individuals who are very knowledgeable in a particular collection on display.
At Saatchi Gallery you can see the List of Main Art Museums around the World as follows.
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art is the leading advocate of 20th- and 21st-century American art. Founded in 1930, the Museum is regarded as the preeminent collection of American art and includes major works and materials from the estate of Edward Hopper, the largest public collection of works by Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, and Lucas Samaras, as well as significant works by Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, Bruce Nauman, Georgia O’Keeffe, Claes Oldenburg, Kiki Smith, and Andy Warhol, among other artists.
The State Hermitage Museum
The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg is Russia’s premier art museum. It began life as the private art collection of the imperial family and was nationalised and greatly expanded after the Revolution. The Museum is housed in the buildings of the former imperial palace in the centre of St Petersburg.
Art Institute of Chicago
A world of art is on display––European and American paintings, sculpture, prints and drawings, photographs, textiles, decorative arts, and architectural fragments and drawings, plus the arts of Asia, Africa and the ancient Americas.
British Museum
The British Museum holds in trust for the nation and the world a collection of art and antiquities from ancient and living cultures. Housed in one of Britain’s architectural landmarks, the collection is one of the finest in existence, spanning two million years of human history. Access to the collections is free.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston was founded in February 4, 1870 and on July 3, 1876 opened its doors of its building in Copley Square, a John H. Sturgis and Charles Brigham-designed gothic structure of red brick and terra-cotta.
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David Noonan’s Biography and Exhibitions at Saatchi-gallery
September 21st, 2009David Noonan was born on 1969 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.Beginning each of his screen prints by making a collage, David Noonan brings together an eclectic array of found imagery – sourced from film stills, books, magazines, and archive photos – to create dramatic scenes that suggest surreal narratives. These collages are then photographed and turned into large-scale screen prints, a technique remarkable for its sumptuous finish that relates to both artistic authenticity and mass media. Printed in harsh contrast black and white, Noonan’s images encapsulate the romanticism of golden age cinema, and its associations to memory, fiction, and modern mythology.
Approaching image making with an auteur’s indulgence, Noonan presents a fabricated vision that is awesome in its complexity. Using the liturgy of art itself as a departure point for invention, Noonan conceives his work as ‘documentation’ of plausible performances: his cast of characters are positioned as participators in highly elaborate artworks, invoking covert and futuristic ritual. Stylistically referencing Surrealism and experimental film, Noonan’s work poses as the aesthetic remnants of ‘lost masterpieces’, weaving his own extravagant fantasies into fabric of collective consciousness.
Piecing together plausible narratives from his readymade motifs, Noonan renders the intimacy of psychological space as indistinguishable from public cognisance. Using the qualities of photomontage to replicate the linear aspects of film, Noonan’s disparate imagery collates to convey a transient sense of time and space that is both theatrical and strangely insular. Through his process of screen printing, Noonan capitalises on the effects of transluscent layering and exaggerated lighting to replicate the flickering chimera of cinematic projection; an intangible illusion simulating the abstraction of dreams.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006
• David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
2005
• Images, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
• David Noonan: Four New Films, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
• David Noonan: Films and Paintings 2001-2005. Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
• David Noonan, HOTEL, London, England
2004
• they became what they beheld’, Foxy Production, New York
• they became what they beheld’, Three Walls, Chicago
• Paintings, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
• Translation, Villa Kobe, Halle/Saale, Germany
Conclusion:
David Noonan Gallery is pleased to present the first Los Angeles solo exhibition by the London based, Australian born artist David Noonan. Historical imaginations, invented memories, bohemianism and late 20th century British theatre inspire David Noonan’s installation of large-scale screen prints, collages and bronze sculptures.
what to Do Next…
Find more information about David Noonan Exhibitions or looking for his paintings please visit us on http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/david_noonan.htm
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Promoting Various Arts
September 19th, 2009The art fairs are festivals that are organized to promote and put emphasis on the visual arts as well as on other forms of art. Artist from different locations find such fairs as the right place to share their common interest to encourage art and artists. The art fairs are held annually or at irregular period around the globe and artists with their amazing adroitness swarm together to display their work to public.
Art fairs are the right place for art lovers as they can acquire knowledge and meet artists personally. If you are an art lover and want to have a clear perspective into the mind of the artist then such fairs act as a niche. The prime subject matter of this art exhibition is to impart information about the latest advancement or changes in the world of art. Various famous galleries of both local and international esteem meet together to share the common interest and exhibit work of both modern and contemporary art. Art lovers can also take into consideration as an ideal time to know art in a better way.
Art fairs also act as the spring board for fresh artist. The debut artist can display their work to the audience and express their innovation ideas for their judgment. To participate in such fairs, artists have to qualify themselves with set eligibility principles. As eligibility criteria, artist is asked to submit their works for evaluation. Thus, art lovers can interpret artist vision and skill to shape their ideas to public. To prop the young artist fairs collect revenues and funds like scholarships and support the young brilliant artists.
The practice of showcasing art is also promoted on site daily, by uploading the images, descriptions and other relevant information that are rewarding. Using this online, art lovers can collect information about the recent art fairs in their cities. This is a resource to enhance oneself and take work to the people in an easy manner.
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Modern abstract artwork – the perfect choice for your home décor!
September 14th, 2009Home decoration represents a subject of interest for a lot of people, especially when it involves modern art. In general, art exists to cultivate our taste for all that is beautiful and remind us of the things that are unique in life. Choosing oil paintings with abstract motives for your home décor definitely represents a great idea and, luckily, there are some pretty amazing creations to be found over the Internet. Take a few moments and visit Bawadina Heritage Art Gallery; you will be surprised at how beautiful those oil paintings truly are and allow yourself a short period of time in order to savor their uniqueness. What makes these art pieces so recommended for home decoration is the multitude of intricate Arabian patterns found in each and every painting.
Perhaps one of the most interesting things hidden behind these oil paintings represents their history. While you’re trying to decide which of the paintings you want for your home decoration project, stop for a moment and read about the story of these Arabian patterns. You will suddenly find yourself in the Arabian Desert, imagining how Bedouin women moved from place to place, impressing with their original creations and patterns. Today, these patterns have become famous all over the world, sometimes being even envied by artists with experience. There are widely appreciated by those who have a passion for home décor and it’s not for nothing that they are often chosen to fit the existing furniture in ones house. For a lot of people, having these beautiful Arabian patterns decorating their walls means the world. For others, it simply represents an attraction to art, oil paintings and quality above anything else.
We can all agree that a home décor is always improved with the addition of art. Given this fact, you can understand why so many people want to purchase oil paintings for home decoration. By visiting this rather splendid online gallery, they are able to discover original paintings, being definitely impressed with the quality of the canvas on which the Arabian patterns are painted and the diversity of colors offered. A home décor will look completely different the moment a few oil paintings are hung, the difference being clearly visible. Abstract artwork is always a sign of good taste and that is exactly what this art gallery has to offer. They have managed to take abstract art to a whole new level, basing the oil paintings they provide to interested customers on one of the most important things in the world: heritage.
Online, you have an entire virtual gallery filled with oil paintings that you can purchase for your home décor. As soon as you find yourself looking at this amazing artwork, you will realize that it is practically impossible to leave with just one painting. Not only are these paintings perfect for home decoration, but you should know from the start that each and every creation is different. You can purchase several oil paintings and hang them in various rooms of the house, creating a special atmosphere, one that is alive with culture. The materials used for the making of these oil paintings match the highest standards of quality, the canvas being especially treated to guarantee a long life and increased resistance over time.
No home decoration project is complete without taking care of the finishing touches. A simple vase can change a desk in no time. An empty wall will never look as good as one that has a painting on it. We all need art to cultivate our senses and abstract artwork is definitely a great choice. Arabic patterns are unique and beautiful, making us understand that life can be celebrated through art, that heritage remains an important element of this world and that we can change our home décor easily. So, what do you say, does that sound like something that might interest you?
By: Jhoana Cooper
Maurizio Cattelan Exhibitions and Paintings at Saatchi-gallery
September 14th, 2009Maurizio Cattelan was born on 1960 in Padua, Italy. Maurizio Cattelan’s art often combines sculpture and performance. Maurizio Cattelan has a subtle sense of the paradoxes of transgression, the limits of tolerance. Since the early 1990s, his work has provoked and challenged the limits of contemporary value systems through its use of irony and humor. He teases the art world without ever falling into the naive trap of thinking he can subvert a system of which he is part.
The characters and personas inhabiting Maurizio Cattelan’s world are ghostly appearances in a personal theatre of the absurd: policemen flipped upside down, stuffed animals hanging from the ceiling, a swami who buried himself in sand
for hours at a time…suspended between reality and fiction, Maurizio Cattelan’s work simulates and subverts the rules of culture and society in a continuous game of detournement, acts of insubordination and symbolical theft.
Constantly exploring different materials, contexts and strategies, he refuses to take any moral or ideological position, concentrating instead on reproducing reality in all its complexities. While he does not offer solutions, he shows that one can survive and use the system without being consumed by it.
Maurizio Cattelan Jokes and pranks are common in art but what makes Maurizio Cattelan special is that his are funny. Funny peculiar and funny ha-ha. Cattelan is a knowing and sophisticated artist who teases the art world without ever falling into the naive trap of thinking he can subvert a system of which he is part. He specialises not in Dadaist aggression but in slight shifts of reality that are a bit pathetic, a bit embarrassing, a bit silly. In 1994 he persuaded his Paris dealer Emmanuel Perrotin to spend a month dressed as a giant pink phallus. Errotin Le Vrai Lapin was striking precisely because it was so ludicrous: aggressive anti-art gestures and extreme acts have long since been accommodated into commercial art dealing, but to have a dealer make a fool of himself goes some way beyond the call of duty, and of chic.
Born in Padua, Italy, in 1960, Cattelan did not attend art school but taught himself. Cattelan brought his bad taste to New York’s Museum of Modern Art when, in 1998, he arranged for an actor in an over-sized cartoon Pablo Picasso mask to meet and greet visitors. Cattelan said he was satirising the postmodern museum and its similarity to a high-cultural Disneyland. He was impressed MoMA put up with such a cruel joke against itself.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1999
• Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1998
• Institute of Visual Arts (INOVA), Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Project #65, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
1997
• Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
• Le Consortium, Dijon, France
• Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
• Espace Jules Verne, Centre d’Art de Bretigny-sur-Orge, France
1992
• Edizioni dell’Obbligo, Juliet, Trieste, Italy
1990
• Strategie, Galleria Neon, Bologna, Italy; Studio Oggetto, Milan, Italy; Leonardi V-Idea, Genoa, Italy
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1995
• Photomontage, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
• Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju, Korea
• Caravanserraglio, Ex Aurum, Pescara, Italy
• Le Labyrinthe Moral, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
• La Collezione, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
1994
• Soggetto Soggetto, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
• Prima Linea, Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy
• L’hiver de l’amour, ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France; P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban • Resources, Long Island City, New York
1993
• Hôtel Carlton Palace, Chambre 763, Paris, France
• Documentario, Spazio Opos, Milan, Italy
• Nachtshattengewächse, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
• Aperto 93, Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
1992
• Ottovolante, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
• Una Domenica a Rivara, Castello di Rivara, Rivara, Italy
1991
• Loro, Castello Visconteo, Trezzo, Italy
• Anni 90, Galleria d’Arte Moderna , Bologna, Italy
• Operazione S.Giustino, Milan, Italy
• Siamo qui e stiamo facendo, Communie di Castellafiume, Italy
1990
• Existenz Maximum, Instituto degli innocenti, Florence, Italy
• Improvvisazione libera, Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy
• Ipotesi d’arte giovane, Faqbbrica del vapore, Milan, Italy
Conclusions:
Maurizio Cattelan’s art often combines sculpture and performance. Maurizio Cattelan has a subtle sense of the paradoxes of transgression, the limits of tolerance. Since the early 1990s, his work has provoked and challenged the limits of contemporary value systems through its use of irony and humor. He teases the art world without ever falling into the naive trap of thinking he can subvert a system of which he is part.
What to Do Next…
If you want any information about Maurizio Cattelan or looking for his paintings please visit us on http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/maurizio_cattelan.htm
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