THE POOL NYC is pleased to announce THE HIDDEN SHOW part two, a group exhibition featuring Eteri Chkadua, Eric Mistretta, Andrea Salvatori, and Bianca Sforni to be held at Design-Apart, the temporary space of the gallery in the city, in Chelsea.
Design-Apart is a new NY reality and it has been elected as the perfect venue for the nomadic show of THE POOL NYC, as their mission is extremely related to the crucial goals of the gallery. Both Design-Apart and THE POOL NYC want to showcase the best and the more hidden of contemporary art and design, focusing on the quality of the objects and art works on display. Both projects are global and local, they travel and they stop in places they consider essential.
Design-Apart delivers bespoke Italian design around the world with a team of artisans who integrate advanced technologies with ancient traditions, producing furniture and objects of uncommon utility and beauty. Design-Apart showroom in NYC is a platform in which the founders live, cook, work, and invite artists, chefs, clients to create and collaborate with them.
The gallery aims at displaying the work of four artists internationally renowned, all related one another for their quality and manufacture, and various media, in conversation in New York with design, in a new context and where all the different media can be highly appreciated.
The show has been named after the selection of the venue and this time we would like our collectors to see the works of art already placed in a living space, actually a gorgeous apartment.
In order to show difference with the typical white cube of gallery spaces, we will show the works of the artists we work with in a domestic environment, furnished and unusual.
American artist Eric Mistretta will be on display at Design-Apart with a new series of Apex works made of nylon, all sold out in Miami.
Andrea Salvatori, one of the Italian artists of the gallery, will be back in New York for the second time with his exquisite glazed ceramic pieces. For this show he will showcase a new series of vases made of glass and ceramic and an elephant with balls.
Eteri Chkadua, a Georgian painter who has been working with the gallery for ever, will present two small works where she portraits herself.
Chkadua is currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art of Istanbul.
Bianca Sforni, an Italian artist who works with a 4×5 camera, and lives between New York and Paris, presents a wide range of photographs from the Pandoras Box Series to the Poppies Series, and the famous Broken Teapot and a black and white piece named Hugoton. Through Biancas camera, flowers, plants and natural objects assume appealing shapes and become icons.
It will be open every day from 12 to 6 pm and by appointment.
For further information, you can contact the gallery directors Luigi Franchin and Viola Romoli:
Luigi +1 646 244 9783
Viola +1 347 257 4103
www.design-apart.com
May 5 – 24, 2014
THE POOL NYC
at Design-Apart,
110 W 25th St. 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001, USA
NY-BO
Bologna, 23 Gennaio-10 Febbraio 2014
In occasione di ARTE FIERA BOLOGNA,
THE POOL NYC annuncia l’organizzazione di NY-BO, una mostra collettiva che include il lavoro di Patrick Jacobs, Eric Mistretta, Andrea Salvatori, Bianca Sforni e Giuseppe Stampone.
La sede temporanea di THE POOL NYC sarà lo spazio di Via D’Azeglio 35, accanto a Palazzo Bevilacqua.
L’obiettivo dell’esposizione è di presentare il lavoro di cinque artisti noti a livello internazionale, ciascuno alle prese con un media diverso, tutti operativi a New York e in Europa, stavolta in conversazione a Bologna,
Patrick Jacobs, nella collezione permanente del MAD Museum di New York, già presentato a Bologna dalla galleria, si distingue per i suoi celeberrimi diorami, visti attraverso due lenti.
Per la prima volta nel capoluogo emiliano Apex, i lavori in nylon eseguiti da Eric Mistretta, giovanissimo artista newyorchese.
Le opere in ceramica invetriata di Andrea Salvatori sono ormai un grande must nella rosa degli artisti presentati dalla galleria itinerante.
Per la mostra bolognese Salvatori ha creato una serie di nuovi vasi.
Le fotografie di Bianca Sforni, artista italiana che vive a New York, vengono presentate per il secondo anno a Bologna. Stavolta in diversi formati e con lavori a colori e in bianco e nero. Tutto rigorosamente in formato analogico.
Per la prima collaborazione con THE POOL NYC, Giuseppe Stampone, famoso in tutto il mondo per i suoi eccezionali disegni a BIC, presenta una grande mappa e una serie di lavori di piccolo formato.
La mostra inaugurerà giovedì 23 gennaio alle 17 e resterà aperta tutti i giorni dalle 11 alle 19 fino al 10 febbraio 2014.
Per informazioni i direttori Luigi Franchin e Viola Romoli sono contattabili ai seguenti numeri:
333 78 91 947 e 335 62 51 723.
NEIGHBOURS
Contemporary Narratives from Turkey and Beyond
January 9 – May 8, 2014
Within the scope of its 10th year anniversary celebrations, Istanbul Modern presents Neighbours Contemporary Narratives from Turkey and Beyond, an exhibition that investigates contemporary art practices in Turkey and the surrounding region. This exhibition brings together artists from neighboring geographies that have historical, political, and cultural ties with Turkey: the Balkans, the Caucasus, and the Middle East.
Neighbours explores practices that relate to social life in the public space, such as spectacles and ceremonies, and the way these have seeped into today’s visual arts. The exhibition focuses on two aspects that are ingrained in the regions cultural weave: narratives and travel. These dovetail into a number of works tangent to themes like mobility, nomadism, inner journeys, language, and cultural and oral transmission.
Neighbours explores the visual arts, as well as performance and spectacles, including extensions of disciplines that have developed outside the academic circles of art, like political cartoons and folk art. Paradigms of this wide region’s layered narrative traditions are shadow theater, the a??ks (travelling bards), and the meddahs (public storytellers) of old, whose voice, in a new form, still echoes in the work of artists today.
Neighbours features works by 35 artists from 17 countries and a rich program of events including screenings, performances, panels, talks, and workshops dedicated to the regions art and culture. Come Again?, a video program comprising works by 13 artists from the exhibition, will be screened in a special video room as part of the main exhibition.
Artists
Abdülcanbaz (Turhan Selçuk), Furat al Jamil, Mounira Al Solh, Maja Bajevic, Sonia Balassanian, Vesna Bukovec, CANAN, Eteri Chkadua, Ana ?igon, Rena Effendi, Nezaket Ekici, Cevdet Erek, Adib Fattal (Installation by the Museum of Everything), Mona Hatoum, Hamlet Hovsepyan, Gül Ilgaz, Babak Jalali, Lamia Joreige, Hayv Kahraman, Hatice Karada?, Sevdalina Kochevska, Pavlos Nikolakopoulos, Fahrettin Örenli, Adrian Paci, Michail Pirgelis, One Square Meter (A Festival by ACCEA), Younès Rahmoun, Yehudit Sasportas, Wael Shawky, Slavs and Tatars, Asl? Sungu, Nasra ?immes, Burcu Ya?c?o?lu, Nil Yalter, ivadinov::Zupan?i?::Turi?
Curators
Çelenk Bafra, Paolo Colombo
Assistant Curator and Come Again? Program
Birnur Temel
Advisors
Negar Azimi, Zdenka Badovinac, Magda Guruli
ARTE CERAMICA OGGI IN ITALIA
a Cura di Jean Blanchaert
30 Novembre-6 Gennaio 2014
Sabato 30 novembre, in concomitanza con Manualmente ceramica, verrà inaugurata al pubblico la mostra Arte Ceramica oggi in Italia, a cura del noto artista e gallerista Jean Blanchaert . Fino a lunedì 6 gennaio 2014 negli spazi di Villa Necchi Campiglio saranno esposte un centinaio di ceramiche d’autore, caratterizzate da stili, tecniche ed ispirazioni culturali differenti, tutte prodotte con eccezionale maestria, firmate dai più famosi maestri ceramisti, designer e artisti italiani, che si pone l’obiettivo di raccontare l’eccellenza che caratterizza oggi l’arte ceramica in Italia: da Antonia Campi ad Alessandro Mendini, da Bertozzi e Casoni a Franz Staehler e ancora Antonella Ravagli, Paolo Anselmo, Bottega Gatti, Ugo La Pietra, Andrea Salvatori, Giacomo Alessi e tanti altri. Le opere in mostra saranno in vendita e, grazie alla generosità degli artisti, parte anche di questo ricavato verrà devoluto al FAI.
La mostra “Arte Ceramica oggi in Italia” sarà aperta tutti i giorni a esclusione dei lunedì e martedì non festivi dalle ore 10 alle 18.
FAI – Villa Necchi Campiglio
Via Mozart, 14 – Milano
Tel. 02 76340121
Email: fainecchi@fondoambiente.it
Featuring
PATRICK JACOBS
ERIC MISTRETTA
BIANCA SFORNI
FABIO VIALE
THE POOL NYC, Booth B 13
On the beach, at Ocean Drive and 12th Street
Monday, December 2
Preview and Benefit
Hosted by Marina Abramovic 6pm-9pm By Invitation Only
Tuesday, December 3
Press Preview 12pm3pm
VIP Preview 3pm7pm
Wednesday, December 4 Saturday, December 7
Open to the Public -11am-7pm
Sunday, December 8
Open to the Public -11am-6pm
100 Anni 100 Stanze 100 Artisti
6 Aprile – 31 Ottobre, 2013
The title 100³: 100 anni, 100 stanze, 100 artisti (100³ : 100 years, 100 rooms, 100 artists) encompasses the far-sighted ambition of creating a point of reference for art and culture in the Campania region, with an annual program of exhibitions and activities and a direct dialogue between participating visitors and protagonists in the International art world. In fact, the opening of the 2013 edition will be an unmissable, week-end long exchange between the artists, gallerists and art critics invited to contribute their exceptional vision to the small solo shows installed in each room. In a day far removed from quotidian reality, a carom of Art, Music and Poetry, with Dionysian muses accompanied by Bacchae, satyrs, wine and delicacies will unfold.
Art Hotel Gran Paradiso | Via Catigliano, 9 80067 Sorrento Italy | t. +39 081 8073700 | f. +39 081 8783555 | info evento: www.arthotelgranparadiso.com | e-mail: art.granparadiso@gmail.com
THE POOL NYC on the occasion of the Biennale di Venezia is coming back to Venice and is organizing a group show called Wide Shot, including works by Tadao Ando, Alison Blickle, Gaia Carboni, Eteri Chkadua, Patrick Jacobs, Robert Lazzarini, Austin Lee, Jonathan Rider, Andrea Salvatori, Bianca Sforni, Ilaria Venturini Fendi, and Fabio Viale, to be held at the temporary space of the gallery in the Italian Lagoon, next to Palazzo Grassi and Galleria dellAccademia, from May 28 to June 30, 2013.
THE POOL NYC conceives the space as a contemporary wunderkammer, in order to display different types of works all related one another for their quality and manufacture, and various media.
Wide Shot is the watchful eye of the camera with focus both on the work of the artists with whom the gallery has been working for almost four years and new artists that have a lot in common with the gallery. Its a wide angle view on contemporary art.
For the 4th anniversary of the opening of the gallery, THE POOL NYC groups together the work of reknown artists like Tadao Ando, and young artists like Alison Blickle, in order to reproduce a nowadays version of the Cabinet of Curiosities.
Infact a Wonder-Room is an encyclopedic collection of types of objects whose categorial boundaries were yet to be defined: objects included in these art-rooms belonged to Natural History, Archaeology, Religion, Art, and Antiquities.
The gallery is actualizing the concept bringing together artists working with a wide variety of media: Ceramic for Andrea Salvatori, Painting for Eteri Chkadua, Austin Lee, and Alison Blickle, Diorama for Patrick Jacobs, Photography for Bianca Sforni, Cardboard and Paper for Robert Lazzarini and Jonathan Rider, Marble for Fabio Viale, Drawing for Gaia Carboni, Glass for Tadao Ando and design for Ilaria Venturini Fendi.
The opening reception will take place in the gorgeous garden of adjacent Ca’ Civran Badoer Barozzi now Marcello del Majno, on the Canal Grande, just on the left side of the Ponte dellAccademia, one of the most visible bridges of Venice, on the way to Piazza San Marco.
All the mentioned artists operate worldwide, considering they have exhibited in museums, galleries, and art fairs in the following places: New York, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Rome, Florence, Venice, Bologna, Miami, Houston (Texas), San Francisco.
Artists:
Tadao Ando, Alison Blickle, Gaia Carboni, Eteri Chkadua, Patrick Jacobs, Robert Lazzarini, Austin Lee, Jonathan Rider, Andrea Salvatori, Bianca Sforni and Fabio Viale and Carmina Campus designed by Ilaria Venturini Fendi.
Address: San Marco, Campiello Giustinian 2883, 30124, Venezia
Dates: May 28 – June 30 2013
Opening: May 28 at 5 pm. Campiello Giustinian 2883, 30124, Venezia
ArtPadSF 2013
@ PHOENIX HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO
8:00PM 10:00PM // After Hours Events Saturday, May 18th 12:00PM 8:00PM // General Admission
8:00PM 10:00PM // After Hours Events Sunday, May 19th 11:00AM 5:00PM // General Admission
APRIL 10-22, 2013
BOLSA DE VALORES,
MéXICO D.F.
Paseo de la Reforma, 255 Col. Cuauhtémoc
THE POOL NYC is proud to present Selvatica, a show at the Bolsa de Valores, with works by Eteri Chkadua and Bianca Sforni.
Selvatica is a Latin word used to refer to plants and flowers growing spontaneously on the earth.
The show is titled Selvatica because both Chkaduas and Sfornis research comes from a primordial interest in natural and human instincts.
Flowers are a recurring subject in Bianca Sforni photographs and the artist is attempting to draw, their shapes and their constant metamorphosis through her 4×5 camera. Her flowers become something else in her photographs.
Sforni transmits the viewer her hard effort to be surrounded by these magical and dangerous flowers for long time. Bright and primary colors, coming out of her images, are captured in different moments, with extra long exposures and Datura, out of the photographic film, moves into view suddenly blooming stimulating feelings of dance, lightness and mutation.
Daturas are infesting flowers, blossoming at night. Their properties, often used for medical purposes, can also be very dangerous and toxic. Datura intoxication typically produces a complete inability to differenziate fantasy from reality.
For Bianca Sforni the photographic subject is just a pretext to study forms and emotions.
For the exhibition at the Bolsa, we propose Datura next to the Gentlemens club work from After-Dark, which is also a book.
During Sfornis investigation on the gentlemen’s club in L.A., there is a great desire of revealing the human side of women and men, from the perspective of a special reporter.
Bianca emphasizes certain lights and signs, in order to confer a mysterious atmosphere, made of a city that appears extremely empty and full at the same time. There is a sense of loneliness in those places that are extremely well illuminated and pointed out.
The exterior image is probably the reflection of what happens inside.
Speaking of Eteri Chkaduas paintings, the word selvatica can be immediately associated to her work.
Her penchant for representing someone who resembles herself, but its not exactly herself, as she says, is a primitive gesture.
Eteri, who is originally from former Soviet Georgia, but emigrated in the late 1980s to the USA, has been painting since early childhood.
She paints women to describe different emotional conditions of a human being. Chkadua can mix in the same canvas stories and traditions of her motherland with objects, meanings, and influences of places where she has lived and has visited, among them New York, Tokyo, and Kingston (Jamaica). Traditional jet black Georgian hair braids and ancient battle swords dance improbably against Jamaica’s slow-motion tropical backdrop. Her many trips to Mexico deeply influenced her otherwise Flemish palate. Eteri’s frequent use of floral images are not extant botanical representations, but rather phantasmagorical displays of her own creations.
There is a heroin, who is always the Deus Ex Machina of the painting, who is orchestrating the whole scene, showing many human feelings and a deep decadence of the whole world. Traditions, costumes, food, technology, and nature are all linked together in order to highlight how easily a human being can be tempted.