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The brilliant colors and dazzling forms that characterize the tradition of Latin American art are still found in contemporary painting today. The talented artists collected here channel their zest for life, transforming it into energetic paintings that explore the individual world while celebrating the beautiful people and places that surround it. Masters of the Imagination offers a rare chance to experience the nuances of fine art by Latin American artists, not merely with the eyes, but the heart.
Columbian painter Giovanny Sanchez Tot’s frenzied, bustling canvases bring the imagery of street art into the gallery with a unique, vibrant vocabulary of forms and icons. Characters based on cartoon cats stare out at the viewer through thick, swirling swaths of neon paint that cut across the picture plane with a brash swagger. The resulting mixture of abstract expressionism, graffiti and pop art seems boundlessly energetic. Colors and figures leap from the canvas’s high-contrast palette and booming dynamics.
In some places Sanchez deploys an illustrator’s eye for composition, creating a balanced tableau of characters whose forms are defined by stark, bold lines. Elsewhere, his canvas explodes with dripping oil and acrylic shapes splashed across glowing chemical hues of aerosol spray paint. In these thickets of overlapping and competing energies, Sanchez’s cat figures become playful puns, clever reminders of the artist’s presence in a seemingly wild environment of chaotic visual pleasure. This balance between humor and vigor, continuity and innovation, makes his work simultaneously challenging and rewarding.
Exhibition Dates: September 8, 2009 – September 29, 2009
Reception: Thursday, September 10, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00 pm.
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, New York City
Gallery Hours: Tues – Sat, 11am - 6 pm.
Featured Artists:
Francisco Agraz, Marcela Albitos, Giancarlo Bertini, Rosane Demeterco Bussman, Christine Drummond, Sonia Ferrari, Ana Maria Garcés R., Pedro Leon, Mayumi Luppi, Javier Peña, Maria Laura Pini, Giovanny Sanchez Tot, Isabel Santta Cecilia, Israel Vazquez
About Agora Gallery
Agora Gallery (agora-gallery.com) 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.
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