I am excited to share with you the art of two up and coming young artists, Simone Mantellassi and Zena Gurbo. Their work is a marriage of the minds and the heart. This tandem exhbition explores their surreal domestic inquiries in Zena's oeuvre, small functional dwellings based on family, friends homes...and Simone's, small drawings and paintings that number up to 500+ that construct an environment of interior states of being that are frozen into frames of visual poetry.
Together they show us that "home is where the heart is."
Having read parts of Susan Stewart's book, ON LONGING, and Gaston Bachelard's, THE POETICS OF SPACE, these artists give us a post-modern commentary on life and love in the
21st Century that are very much in keeping with these books that have been a barometer for
art, literature, philosophical thinking for me and other artists like one of my favorites, Anne Hamilton.
Simone has shown in two biennials, The Everson Museum, where he won first place in 2006, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and in 2008 again at The Everson. Goggling Simone's work,
his kudos are listed.
Zena has designed sets for The Foothills Theater in Upstate, NY, her small dwellings function as stage sets to my eye, perhaps she is setting the stage for future play named "DWELL"...she also is very involved in the community of art and artists in Oneonta, NY. She currrently cooridinates arts, education and exhibitions at ARC in Oneonta, work she finds challenging and rewarding.
Please join us on June 6th, 6-9pm to welcome them both to our home, and to hear the musical stylings of up-and-coming group "Ones Left Behind" ...tentatively to be held in the East Theater.
Chris Bahr
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