April 23-25 Friday(6-8pm), Saturday (2-8pm), Sunday(2-6pm)
Opening Reception Saturday April 24, 2010 6-8pm
Location: 20 Jay Street, Suite 318
DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY 11201
718.858.1260
Triangle Arts Association is pleased to present our 2010 artists in residence*: Denis Castellas, Dana Levy, Kai Schiemenz + Iris Fluegel, Justin Storms, Summer Wheat, and Josef Zutelgte.
Denis Castellas
Denis Castellas was born in Marseille in 1951. He has a distinctly French style of painting. His use of pastel colors is a refreshing break from the thick, glossy earth tones that are popular in contemporary art today. He taps into early 20th century artists like the impressionists and photographers. The dreamy atmosphere in all of his paintings is what makes them so enchanting.
Most of Castellas pictures are documents of culture. He depicts Lenin, a bullfighter, Mozart, and Rodchenko’s friend Maiakovski. He also captures traditional French characters like a man smoking on the street, little lap dogs, and perfectly quaffed children. His paintings are as delectable as a French pastry.
Dana Levy
Some of Dana Levy’s works are narrative documentary fragments, while others are poetic and nonlinear, or sometimes a combination of both. The subject matter varies from people, to objects or animals. Often guided by mystical, apocalyptic or surreal themes, inspired by myths and metaphors.
During her visit Dana wishes to continue using photography and video, to explore the notion of home, living spaces, and abandoned spaces. She will use unexpected elements from nature, such as animals, insects, or water into the urban architecture. Releasing butterflies inside a space, for example.
Kai Schiemenz and Iris Fluegel
The sculptors Kai Schiemenz (born 1966) and Iris Fluegel (born 1971) live in Berlin. For some years their research has been directed at areas of social organization and projection.
Schiemenz and Fluegel use the infrastructure of art museums to propagate the sculptural qualities of their interior pavilions. They then invite others to lectures and talks in these spaces, so the sculptures serve as objects to be viewed as well as used. As such, they can be described as “archisculptures” that emphasize their peculiarity as forms for idea and action, combining art (concept sculpture), architecture (pavilion), and event (workshops, colloquia). Their differentiated styles of presentation synthesize and take on a processional character, which raises their artistic practice above the rampant banalization of participatory concepts.
The pair construct paraphrases of spherical architecture and direct their intentions at face-to-face communication of a mobile and ideally egalitarian community.
Justin Storms
Much like the maps of early explorers, the society Justin Storms envisions is seen at a microcosmic level. Humans are merely parasites and nature its host. These depictions perhaps allude to the Freudian concept of destrudo: the destructive impulse to destroy both oneself and everything else. This world could also be seen as a fusing of Bosch and early-Japanese landscape painting. Although in this case, man is not living harmoniously in a serene landscape, and Bosch’s “Garden of earthly delights” has frozen over, God is no longer present, and every sinner carries a harpoon.
Summer Wheat
“I don’t describe my work as “abstract painting.” I see it as failed representational sculpture, and I love its failure. How can I make paint three-dimensional? How can I depict a subject matter that is more than its form? These are the impossible questions that push me to abuse the purity of paint and uplift the awkward moments in human life. My paintings are full of messy human content: dorkiness, disappointment, humor and loss. They are impersonations in which the emotional content overwhelms the physical. Fascinated by vulnerability, I exalt in the incomplete.”
Josef Zutelgte
Josef Zutelgte is a sculptor. His artistic language is form, shape, texture and materials. In his early work he was concerned with the study of the human forms, which then progressed and developed into a research of human interaction and communication.
The investigation of the imaginary passages of people, the observation of daily activities of arriving, departing, meeting and missing, results in a network-like structure, a recurring element in his work.
His material of choice is paper: It has strength; it is sensitive and fragile, similar to human interactions.
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Residents are a rigorously selected group of national and international artists who come together to stimulate, challenge and nourish their art. In this atmosphere, artists find the courage to question old habits, explore new possibilities and grow in their practice.
Location: 20 Jay Street, Suite 318
DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY 11201
www.triangleworkshop.org
718.858.1260
By Train: Take the F train to York Street. Exit the station, turn right and walk down Jay Street. Take the A/C to High Street. Exit at the back of the train on a Brooklyn-bound train. Exit the station, cross Cadman Plaza West and walk through Cadman Plaza Park. Turn left and walk down Cadman Plaza East, right on Front Street, left on Jay Street.
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