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When I was young I used to play classical music, and I think that the connection I developed with music then has had a significant impact on my painting. When I hear music, I see the colors, and when I paint I hear the music. The two art forms work with my memories to create my art. Chelsea’s Agora Gallery announced they will launch an art exhibition consisting of four parts that is scheduled to run from July 21, 2009 through August 11, 2009.
Tsisana Kavtaradze-Eyerman—a Georgian painter now living in New York—conjures mystical expressionistic scenes tinged with the fog of distant memories. Her landscapes swirl and bend in faded tones of green and orange, giving themselves
over to abstracted, rhythmic repetitions, an evocative trace of Kavtaradze-Eyerman’s previous career in music. These lilting, sonorous spaces are peopled by figures between childhood and adulthood, characters whose ghostly faces recall the paintings of Edvard Munch. Pictorial space—pliable and shifting—manifests their internal states and implicit relationships. This expressive iconography emerges from Kavtaradze-Eyerman’s charged scenes of collective memory. Recurring caged birds suggest the suffocating binding of family and cultural tradition; children being moved by parents as by puppet masters question the legacy of emotional inheritance; crisscrossing gazes and uneasy poses betray unspeakable tensions in fantastic group portraits. Kavtaradze-Eyerman’s whimsical scenes invariably evoke and re-configure the viewer’s own childhood experiences and family history. Her visions, informed by our memories, economically conjure entire narratives of cultural origins and personal histories. Tsisana Kavtaradze-Eyerman graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts.
Exhibition Dates: July 21, 2009 – August 11, 2009
Reception: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, New York City
Gallery Hours: Tues – Sat, 11a.m. - 6 p.m.
Featured Artists:
Metamorphosis- Daniel Guillen, Sisa Jasper, Sandra Schawalder, Gayl Sharabi, Vladimir Titov, Nina Tuqtaman Valetova
Labyrinth of Color- Marie Ban, Aktrice Edith Egger, Devon Govoni, Maciej Hoffman, Lali Lalie
Portal to Enigma- Tsisana Kavtaradze-Eyerman , Rory D.L. Moorer, T. White
The Persistance of Form- Isabel Bolivar, Anna Carina Fleischhacker, Sandra McArthur, Mary Nangah, Guy Nelvand, Eleanor Sackett
About the Exhibition
The Portal to Enigma collects three contemporary artists whose visionary works defy easy definition as they craft personal revelations with a powerful, expressive force. This phenomenal selection of paintings confronts the viewer with poetic visual puzzles and graceful statements about the human subconscious. Literally reaching out into the abyss, Labyrinth of Color finds artists as they approach the deepest regions of our real and imagined space. Radiant colors shine forth, as each artist travels into the unknown, bringing back surreal visions of our universe to share with audiences. Visitors will enjoy exploring and interpreting the messages so brilliantly expressed through the power of color. Metamorphosis is a captivating journey into the hearts and minds of a talented grouping of artists with unique backgrounds and experiences. The works explores the possibilities beyond our ordinary perception, keying into personal insights, metaphysical concepts, and timeless mysteries beyond each corner is a new way of perceiving the world that will electrify fans of contemporary art. For art lovers who are seeking unbridled visionary painting, they need search no longer. The versatility displayed in the works of The Persistence of Form underscores the idea that as long as people dream and imagine art will never cease to exist, inspire, and bring about contemplation in others. These talented artists bring their thoughts and feelings to reality in a stunning variety of styles and forms that will touch audiences long after viewing the painting.
AGORA GALLERY
Agora Gallery is a fine art gallery located in the heart of New York City’s Chelsea art galleries district that was established in 1984 and is famous for showcasing a spectacular array of talented artists from around the world and around the corner, while providing quality and original art to collectors. The gallery also publishes ARTisSpectrum Magazine, a bi-annual magazine that is distributed to museums, galleries, art institutions and art schools around the world. It provides artists, collectors, museums, galleries, art organizations and enthusiasts with access to the work of internationally talented emerging and mid-level artists as well as feature articles, reviews and interviews. Agora Gallery is also the sponsor of Art-Mine.com, one of the most comprehensive resources available worldwide to view and purchase fine art from emerging, mid-level and well-established artists.
