"ROSETTA SANTUCCI Contemporary Paintings "
by ROSETTA SANTUCCI
10-05-2012 - 09-06-2012

" ROSETTA SANTUCCI EXHIBITION "
by ROSETTA SANTUCCI
10-05-2012 - 09-06-2012

"CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE SYDNEY"
by TODD STUART
11-05-2012 - 09-06-2012

Exhibition Comments:

 ANTONIO COLANGELO  WALL RELIEF  

Exhibting at Art Park and Art Melbourne May 24 to 27.

The latest works, the aluminium bas relief, have  been of particular interest in the today's modern fitout including stainless steel and alloy highlights. 

Colangelo's finish is extremely high, evoking a topographical effect, with a highly light responsive monochromatic surface.  The work is ideally placed in low light areas, as it absorbs and reflects the available light revealing a metallic incandescence, a kind of understated sensuality.  

His work comes in various sizes that can be combined to form diptyches, triptychs and series of panels

The Creative Process  

A number of processes go into the creation of Tony's highly fabricated sculptures.   

Various objects are screwed into and/or attached to the tyres of a tractor. Tony then drives the tractor over the aluminium. The result is a substrate with rippling, dimpled effects, negative and positive.   

This may seems "simple" but at this point the emerging sculpture goes through a number of highly fabricated processes:  

* The corners are welded and ground sometimes up to 3 to 4 times – aluminium welding being a highly skilled function. The bas-relief is now a smooth continuous surface which can then be fitted seamlessly onto the specially constructed timber support.  

* The sculpture is then polished many times enabling light to play off against the surface shapes.   

* The work is finished off with a specially formulated clear lacquer. This not only gives the sculpture a lustrous surface but prevents oxidization.   

* Further polishing results in a circular lustre, enhancing the surface which has now taken on a sense of swirling movement.  

Exhibition Comments:

 GROUP EXHIBITIONS SOHO GALLERIES STAND A17

SOHO GALLERIES SYDNEY  Exhibiting  at  Art Melbourne AFFORDABLE ART FAIR 2012

STAND  A17  ( Close to the Cafe)  ROYAL EXHIBITION BUILDING, CARLTON,   MAY 24 to 27, 2012.

Soho Galleries visual for Art Melbourne

AFFORDABLE ART FAIR - ART MELBOURNE

Some of the highlighted exhibiting artists  including :

Jerzy W Michalski, Andrew  Bartosz, Tracy Dods, Conchita Carambano, Jonathon Hayde,  Andrew Mangelsdorf, Neville Pilven,  Miertje  Skidmore,  James Willebrant, Marshall Williams, Walangari Karntawarra, Nicholas Broughton, Ross Wilsmore,  Alison Coulthurst,  Bruce Earles, Michelle Breton, Alexandra Spyratos, Rosetta Santucci, Tiffany Calder Kingston, Joanne Villani, Tony Colangelo,  Wendie McCaffley,  Todd Stuart,  Andrew Kasper, Main  Artery Studios.   

Exhibition Comments:

GRAEME BALCHIN CONTEMPORARY PAINTINGS

LEVEL ONE OPEN GALLERY SOHO GALLERIES & ART MELBOURNE  MAY 24 to 27.

Always Open on the weekend

12-6pm  Saturday and Sunday

Exhibition Comments:

GROUP EXHIBITIONS SOHO GALLERIES  STAND A17

SOHO GALLERIES SYDNEY  Exhibiting  at  Art Melbourne AFFORDABLE ART FAIR 2012

STAND  A17  ( Close to the Cafe)  ROYAL EXHIBITION BUILDING, CARLTON,   MAY 24 to 27, 2012.

Soho Galleries visual for Art Melbourne

AFFORDABLE ART FAIR - ART MELBOURNE

Some of the highlighted exhibiting artists  including :

Jerzy W Michalski, Andrew  Bartosz, Tracy Dods, Conchita Carambano, Jonathon Hayde,  Andrew Mangelsdorf, Neville Pilven,  Miertje  Skidmore,  James Willebrant, Marshall Williams, Walangari Karntawarra, Nicholas Broughton, Ross Wilsmore,  Alison Coulthurst,  Bruce Earles, Michelle Breton, Alexandra Spyratos, Rosetta Santucci, Tiffany Calder Kingston, Joanne Villani, Tony Colangelo,  Wendie McCaffley,  Todd Stuart,  Andrew Kasper, Main  Artery Studios.   

Exhibition Comments:

 GROUP EXHIBITIONS SOHO GALLERIES -  STAND  A17

SOHO GALLERIES SYDNEY  Exhibiting  at  Art Melbourne AFFORDABLE ART FAIR 2012

STAND  A17  ( Close to the Cafe)  ROYAL EXHIBITION BUILDING, CARLTON,   MAY 24 to 27, 2012.

Soho Galleries visual for Art Melbourne

AFFORDABLE ART FAIR - ART MELBOURNE

Some of the highlighted exhibiting artists  including :

Jerzy W Michalski, Andrew  Bartosz, Tracy Dods, Conchita Carambano, Jonathon Hayde,  Andrew Mangelsdorf, Neville Pilven,  Miertje  Skidmore,  James Willebrant, Marshall Williams, Walangari Karntawarra, Nicholas Broughton, Ross Wilsmore,  Alison Coulthurst,  Bruce Earles, Michelle Breton, Alexandra Spyratos, Rosetta Santucci, Tiffany Calder Kingston, Joanne Villani, Tony Colangelo,  Wendie McCaffley,  Todd Stuart,  Andrew Kasper, Main  Artery Studios.   

Exhibition Comments:

ARTIST SCULPTOR MASTER  CHEN

LARGE FORMAT SCULPTURE

VISIT  ART PARK , SYDNEY 

CHEN SCULPTURE    ARTWORK VISUAL
Exhibiting at www.artpark.com.au

To mention a few countries - Monaco, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Dubai,  Russia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia & China, Chen's sculpture creativity and workmanship has been appreciated from all corners of the globe. His works have been placed both within well known commercial commissions, luxury super yachts & with numerous prominent private collectors.

To understand Chen the sculptor more deeply; he states that some people may not know who he is, but for sure will know him if they come to understanding his sculpture. Chen does not believe in mass produced processes in creating his art as to do this he feels the art will not be authentic & will lose its human feeling & personality. To ensure that this does not happen he is always personally involved in every step of the creation to ensure his skill, craftsmanship, emotion, talent & level of exceptional quality are integral in every step of the process. The combination of these elements ensures a beautiful outcome to be appreciated not only with the eyes, but also to feel with the heart & mind.

He loves to create harmony in each of his pieces by combining natural materials that are exciting in their contrast but still retaining a degree of softness & random effect that gives a humanize appeal. He says that unfortunately this is contrary to the many objects human beings tend to surround themselves with, that are cold, sterile, machine made which produce a feeling of tension rather than a natural state of relaxation.

Chen states that a hallmark of innovative art is the deeper understanding of emotion & applying this to the latest industrial technology & techniques. It is also the willingness to experiment with a material or technique to the point of fully understanding it. Chen is not comfortable in accepting the limits of innovation, trends or knowledge of current techniques & technology. He is on a continually mission to exhaustively explore, learn, develop new ways to express emotion through his sculpture creations …. And this is why many avid collectors wait in anticipation to view and understand his next creations.

For Chen, to know that he has touched others with his art & inspiration is of great importance in his spiritual journey of life.

He only wishes & hopes that the onlookers of his art will also have the feeling of joy as was the emotion that he experienced during the creation of each master piece.

Artworks visual available on  application.

Exhibition Comments:

CHRIS KENYON

‘’27 LANDSCAPES FROM THE LIFE OF BEN HALL’’  JUNE 9 to 29.

Opening speaker Peter Bradley author of The Judeus Covenant “The Death of Ben Hall”

(direct descendant of  Ben Hall)

Bernard Doc Neeson,  (Musician) will perform at the event.

This exhibition of 27 landscape paintings portrays significant places in the life of the bushranger, Ben Hall. From his marriage to Bridget Walsh in Bathurst, in 1856 to his violent and lonely death at Billabong Creek near Forbes in 1865.

I was helped and guided in my research with some of the sites being difficult to locate. I was also fortunate in gaining access to private properties that had been attacked and robbed by the Hall gang. Some like Cliefden, still bear scars in the form of bullet holes.

In the process of producing the paintings I found them becoming increasingly darker and less structured  as Ben became more lost and desparate, with the world closing in on him.

Each site is portrayed as it is today, not as it was at the time; the intention was to allow the history of what happened in each particular place to filter through in  the emotion of each painting.      

Exhibition Comments:

LUKE WAGNER

CONTEMPORARY PAINTINGS

Exhibition Comments:

 MIERTJE SKIDMORE ARTIST PAINTER

EXHIBITING JULY 21 to AUGUST 10. 

Exhibition Comments:

CONCHITA CARAMBANO ARTIST PAINTER

ABSTRACT PAINTINGS

‘Through a fusion of vibrant and unexpected colour, Ms Carambano generates a strongly individualized interpretation of her natural surroundings and experiences.’ 

Conchita Carambano’s textured paintings are filled with a fusion of light,  colour  and a dash of metallic leaf, and have  a nuance of  playfulness in  abstracted figures etched into the canvas. No canvas is alike even with the restraint of pallet in some works.

Her  work is full of the joy of the enchantment  of working with paint and canvas. Conchita’s work has consolidated with her progressive reputation as an established, collectible artist.

The series depicts an emergence of less abstracted works with small elements of the figurative, which is unlike any of her previous painting. Her work creates a strongly individual interpretation of her natural surroundings and experiences.

The painting technique has been  refined over 30 years as a mid career artist working with both canvas and paper mediums. The progress of the work is not determined by time as her painting schedule may take up 16 hours on any day. 

The colours, texture and content of her paintings have proven over time to be most intuitive, which explains her success with commissioned works including the National Canberra Library and the new Sydney Hilton. 

Viewing her work is both absorbing and complex. The work is composed of layers, mixed medium detail, and subtleties of colour, light and  form.