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Gallery4allarts
"THINKING ABSTRACT
6/02/2010 - 31/03/2010
Contact and address:
GALLERY4ALLARTS
LLAWRCC / SMLLCA
80 Lark Lane,
The Old Police Station,
Liverpool, L17 8UU,
Merseyside
Website: www.gallery4allarts.com
E-mail: nbartos@gmail.com (as subject please, mention: ‘miniature
show’)
Telephone: 07756912911
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“THINKING ABSTRACT”
Curator's notes and other info:
"…pure form and pure expression, the aesthetic evidence that in art
feeling and thought are prior to the represented world". Abstract artists,
alike Kandinsky, worked with colours and patterns as a correspondent of their
moods, and as Meyer Shapiro writes about, "They are the concrete evidences,
projected from within, of the internality of (…) mood, its independence
of the outer world. Yet the external objects that underlie the mood may re-emerge
in the abstraction in a masked or distorted form. The most responsive spectator
is the individual who is similarly counterpart of his own tension, but a final
discharge of obsessing feelings."(Excerpt from Meyer Schapiro (1937), "Nature
of Abstract Art"), pg. 8)
"
Thinking Abstract" brings together a group of gifted artists from whom some
are internationally known and appraised, such as Fanchon Fröhlich, Nagachoo
and Sue Ironfield. Most are Merseyside based artists with the exception of
international guests from Japan, Romania and Hungary, working in a variety
of abstract mediums
such as: painting, etching, collage, mixed media, sculpture, drawing and photography.
The exhibition is dedicated to those who appreciate, collect abstract art or
simply enjoy art and colour therapy. Join us to embrace the metaphysical space
and philosophical taste of abstract art.
Exhibiting artists: Jane Adams, Andra, Richard Ashworth, Nicole Bartos,
Jo Bywater, Paul Burns, Chris Butler, Fanchon Fröhlich, Mick Gill, Sue
Ironfield, Daniel John, Eimear Kavanagh, Tony Kennedy, Adel Kiss, Andor Kömives,
Jacqueline Mckenzie, Andras Koncz-Münich, Stanislaw Krakiewicz, Xia Lu,
Emil Moritz, Nagachoo, Neil Phizacklea, Colin Serjent, Christine O'Reilly Wilson
and others.
Exhibition curator and organiser: Nicole Bartos
Selected artists' statements:
Jacqueline
Mckenzie
“
My practice is continually evolving. I create
collections that intertwine to make their own stories, old and new.
'It's about expression and exploration of ideas, media, materials,
the unknown, the world and life. I have an integral need for the variety
that exploring brings. Curiosity and the adventure of discovery keep
my practice moving and evolving,
I work in a wide range of media depending on what materials are available
and how they inspire me.”
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Colin Serjent
I specialise in abstract photography. My pictures contain, to varying
degrees, a combination of many tones of colour, shapes and sometimes
dense textures and patterns. People sometimes make reference to the
way I have manipulated my images. But I have to point out that none
of my photographs are produced through manipulation. All of my photographs
are non-digital. I basically use a Nikon 801 with varying types of
lenses, compose and take a photograph, and that’s it! I possess
a strong sense of keeping my images, in a sense, pure. What I see through
the viewfinder is ultimately what I want printed, framed and exhibited.
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Fanchon Fröhlich
Artist and philosopher born in Iowa, U.S.A. and based in Liverpool.
Has written a book on Bill Hayter’s methods of experimental drawing,
and the origin of ‘Collective Phenomena’ which is a group
of painters painting together in Paris, London and Liverpool, with
a musician who tunes into their movements. “While living in Paris
I was attracted to Bill Hayter, the fabulous etcher and painter who
lived in New York and Paris. He had Jackson Pollok as his student in
New York and Viera de Silva in Paris.”
Fanchon Fröhlich (nee Angst) was a philosophy student at the University
of Chicago, where she worked with Rudolf Carnap (formerly of Vienna,
and the founder of the Vienna Circle) and Oxford where she studied
with Sir Prof. Peter Strawson, doing a doctorate in Primary and Secondary
Qualities. She studied at Liverpool College of Art, then moved to St
Ives to work with Peter Lanyon. Later she travelled to Paris where
she worked with the sculptor Szabo and finally studied at Stanley William
Hayter’s etching atelier, Atelier 17, all of the time preserving
her faith in Abstract Expressionism. Fanchon’s artwork unites
philosophy of science and art, evident for instance in the ‘Position
of Light in Art’ and the ‘Paradoxes of Abstract Expressionism
and Pop Art’ the book she co-edited with Sylvie La Search (who
was also a pupil of Hayter): ‘S.W. Hayter Research on Experimental
Drawing: Systems of Oscillating Fields’.
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Richard Ashworth
"
In relation to my work I have for a long time been attracted to the
idea that art does not have to be about an object, but work ca in itself
be the object, and does not have to be artificial of anything. The
work is what it is.
In relation to these ideas I have chiefly been interested in surfaces,
textures, lines, depth, and shapes, etc. When sometimes I do form figurative
or part figurative or symbolic images it is usually to give purpose
to my lines, forms, textures, surfaces, reflected light, etc. Not that
they need ay meaning: they can hold their own power and beauty. I do
it because I choose to do it."
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Nicole Bartos
"
The rhythm and vibration of my work is determined by the levels of
energy and the waves of thought. By allowing space, energy and irrational
expressions, of the subconscious mind, to take form through the tip
of each brush or painting knife, meditation follows; I relax and certainly
heal. These exercises coming from an awareness or 'mimicry' of a certain
feeling are mostly performed in silence or, accompanied by (classical)
music.” Artist and curator born in Romania, and based in Liverpool.
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Emil Moritz
Born and living in Romania. “Approaching the ‘Genesis’ concept:
suggesting cellular structures and textures, partially controlled but
still hazardous. For the realisation of these works I have used paper
as a matter and ‘Fire’ as an instrument for ‘writing’.”
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Nagachoo
"
...I aimed to incorporate energy, passion and vigorous elements into
this subject matter. Pyrography pieces are “RETSU” series,
which means “vigorousity or intensity”.
By combining the forms created accidentally and intentionally, I aimed
to express them in more instinctive and energetic manner.
…
works were drawn being conscious of the ideas of "a chunk",
solid
object. I believe a chunk appears to be the core of the planet earth
and also human deeds.”
Nagachoo - Japanese artist based in Chiba, Japan - made his presence
felt in Liverpool through his art and street performances, along the
Independents Biennial 2006. He has a wide portfolio within mixed media
and live performance Art, 'happening', involving dancing, painting
or Calligraphy at huge scale, flute music, etc. He also excels in creating
paintings and mixed media work, combining the 'old and the new 'techniques
such as: calligraphy or pyrography (a wood burning technique using
a specific tool) and oil painting creating unique abstract artworks
with a Japanese spirit.
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Jo Bywater
Based in Liverpool, performs both, music and art with uniqueness and
joy. Her painting is detailed and positive, with rhythm in composition
and a promising energy and as linked to the sound of her voice. (N.
Bartos)
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