Aistetikà
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via Cimarosa, 23 Napoli - ITALY
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EXPO
Aistetikà dispone di una Expo, galleria d'arte per mostre di arti visive, a Napoli, nel centro del Vomero. In altri luoghi si tengono incontri, presentazioni ed altri eventi ideati dall'Associazione.
Aistetikà has is art gallery, for exhibitions of visual arts, placed in the city of Naples. In other locations, Aistetikà held meetings, presentations and other events created by the Association.
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Alcuni Eventi/Events
CECELIA MARCUS
dal 27 aprile 2013
Cecelia Marcus è un'artista statunitense che lavora e vive a New York City. Usa dipingere dal vero paesaggi e persone, cogliendone il dinamismo .
Cecelia Marcus è un artista di New York che lavora in olio e acquerello. Ha studiato per molti anni presso l'Art Students League di New York, in collaborazione con Philip Lawrence Sherrod, un colorista espressionista, e, tra gli altri, Naomi Campbell. Cecelia ama l'Italia e tutte le cose italiane; passa due mesi l'anno in Toscana, dove dipinge e si abbandona all’altra sua passione, l'equitazione.
Cecelia Marcus ha esposto al Cornelia Street Cafe a New York (2012) e presso Bibliothè a Roma (2011). Cecelia preferisce dipingere dal vero, sia le persone o la pittura o il paesaggio; cerca di catturare lo spirito interiore dei soggetti mediante il suo personale uso del colore, esasperando un po’ le forze dinamiche, sia della posa che del paesaggio. Un soggetto preferito è una valle della Toscana, che scorre in direzione sud, da San Filippo verso Poggibonsi, dove si può quasi immaginare le forze violente della natura che hanno spaccato le colline, millenni fa.
I dipinti di Cecelia sono presenti in varie collezioni private.
Critical Remarks
YOKO WAKABAYASHI & CECELIA MARCUS IN NAPLES (ITALY)
Among the various and excellent exhibitions curated by Sergio Garzia this one, dedicated to watercolors by Yoko Wakabayashi and Cecelia Marcus, has a particular since it takes into consideration an artistic technique of ancient and famous tradition whose practice, in Italy, should be followed with greater and renewed passion.
This is because of more than one reason. First of all because with this painting technique of particular difficulty one obtains luminosity and transparency effects of extraordinary effectiveness, making watercolor particularly appropriate to achieve a true "painting of light".
Watercolor painting is done with glazes and certainly not with overlapping full-bodied colors, as with tempera, gouache or oil, and for this reason it doesn’t admit second thoughts, changes and corrections.
Watercolor is similar to writing for the immediacy of creation, and it’s no coincidence that in the East writing, painting and drawing are all indicated by a single term Hua, as the methods of execution are very similar.
Watercolor became a separate type of painting only at the end of the eighteenth century with the works of the great watercolor painters like Turner, then it spread to Europe and afterwards America finally losing its role of preparatory and preliminary paintings, in the form of studies and sketches when developing fresco, tempera and oil painting.For this reason the pictorial expressions of Yoko and Cecelia, absolutely unconventional ones and revealing deep feeling, must be followed with interest and participation.Yoko Wakabayashi shows a refined landscaping that is the result of a fine recording of reality, immediate and direct, and that aims at finding that "nature’s chiaroscuro" of which Constable spoke with rare effectiveness.
Her watercolors arise from life, en plein air, they are soaked with tonality and naturalism that one can catch in the clarity of colors and the freshness of the tones.
Yoko’sability to create environmental images flows from an absolute mastery of the complex watercolor technique of which she knows all the expressive possibilities. Here, then, the wise use of expansive and fluid drips and stains of color, hidden in the different color levels now clear and crisp, then impalpably misty, such as what one can notice in the acquerello representing a bamboo grove, where Yoko lets in slits of light between the chromatically diluted intense vegetation.
The scenarios, where a fairy-tale expansion is possible, are interwoven with the historical vestiges of Japan made in serene and clear images where wooden architectural elements, such as columns, beams, shelves, are vibrating with a color red predominantly.It is an exciting representations of a passed reality and that is nostalgically recalled in an undetermined dimension that poetic language allows.
Even for Cecelia Marcus observation of reality comes with a tendency to its transfiguration. This happens, unlike Yoko Wakabayashi, with a strong and impetuous impact that would reveal a expressionist pictorial attitude. We could say that Cecelia reduces and condenses the objectivity of her perception of reality in favor of the expression of the intimate subjectivity that permeates her vigorous pictorial research.
A painting, then, that confirms the cultural roots of her expressionist orientation. Of course it is not purely and simply exasperated expressionism borrowed from Kirchner or a Ensor but, instead, hers is an original and unpublished declination that is enriched with structural and compositional elements of gestalt nature.
In fact, Cecelia’s strong and free language is innervated by lines of force, by compositional guiding, structural tensions that make of reality the essential, revealing the substantia, that is the deep essence (whether of the Tuscan countryside, or of some human figures), which remains and resists fatal changes that all things face.
The syntax of the color mixtures developed by our artist is functional to this surrender: color and shape are intertwined in a condensed and dry figurative plan, where you feel the vital breath of both the landscape and the human bodies that are the main subjects of her works.
Yoko and Cecelia, linked by a solid friendship and common learning experiences, reproduce with different expressive keys the value of beauty they track by portraying landscapes and bodies. A value that seems lost forever in the world and in contemporary art, where trivial is considered a value.
And if today, as Arthur Danto argues, the only way to go in order to draw a '"aesthetics of meaning", is the "transfiguration of trivial", then a new aesthetic can also be built starting from the trivial perception of a landscape or a body, in view of the fact that the artists’ perception never leads to a faithful copy of reality, but always to its "transfiguration".
These brief considerations lead us to grasp the meaning of the extraordinary pictorial adventure of Yoko Wakabayashi and Cecelia Marcus: gazes, perceptions and sensorial records, through a consumed use of watercolors. An itinerary, therefore, able to stimulate and renew interest in beauty, now a recovered value.
Professor Franco Lista
YOKO WAKABAYASHI
dal 27 aprile 2013
Yoko Wakabayashi è una pittrice, nata in Giappone, che vive a New York - Manhattan - di fronte al ponte George Washington.
Di sè commenta: “Con la pittura ho imparato a lasciarmi andare… piuttosto che cercare di controllare la pennellata, lascio che l’acqua faccia il lavoro. Sta qui la bellezza”.
Sotto la guida di Mel Stabin, Charles Reid, Richard Segalman, Burt Silverman e Naomi Campbell, Yoko Wakabayashi dipinge dal vero, ad acquerello, in molti luoghi del mondo e nella sua città di New York. Recentemente Yoko ha sviluppato interesse a catturare l’essenza della figura umana.
Yoko è membro della New Jersey Watercolor Society, Allied Artists of America, American Artists Professional League, Baltimore Watercolor Society and North East Watercolor Society. I suoi lavori sono stati oggetto di numerosi premi, il più importante dalla New Jersey Watercolor Society, Allied Artists of America and the North East Watercolor Society e sono detenuti da molti collezionisti privati.
il Filo di Arianna
Gabriella Pucciarelli
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mostra collettiva
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Percorso Creativo
Domenico Marasco
dal 23 dicembre 2011