This month’s artist is on the forefront of a new wave of both tattooing and painting. A born storyteller, in his formative years he aspired to work in the comic book industry. However, after several interviews with some of the biggest publishers he lost interest upon discovering that within that industry one could either be an artist or a writer, but not both and set his sights elsewhere. He spent the next several years exploring and expanding his craft. He began tattooing, painting in oil, and produced two novels (Down Highways in the Dark... By Demons Driven and The Black Seas of Infinity), both of which have been published by Permuted Press. A profoundly gifted, focused, and determined artist; he has reached across an array of mediums to tell the stories that he has always had within him. Of course, any artist, no matter how naturally adept they are at their craft, must have the work ethic to match their aspirations. Even in the face of turmoil, illness, and tragedy, he persisted in the expression of his strange and wonderful vision, through the constant pursuit of his art. We proudly present to you our September Spotlight artist: Dan Henk. PEN & INKTATTOOSPAINTINGSDan Henk Born in 1972, on a small army base in the south, Dan Henk grew up on a diet of science fiction and horror books. At eighteen Dan Henk was kicked out of his house. He spent the next eight months homeless, often living in the woods. Six months later, he was in the passenger seat of a car that flipped and his face broke the windshield. Soon after that, the tendon on his thumb was severed in a fight with a crackhead. He came down with brain cancer in 2001, and his wife died in a hit-and-run in 2007. In 2012, a car shattered his bike, throwing him through the windshield and putting him in a coma for hours. In 2017 he flipped his truck and woke up in the woods. There's a running theory that he is a cyborg. He's done art for Madcap Magazine, Maximum Rock and Roll Magazine, Tattoo Artist Magazine, Black Static, This is Horror, Deaddite Press, Skin Deep, The Living Corpse, Aphrodesia, Splatterpunk, Tattoo Prodigies, Pint Sized Paintings, Coalesce, Zombie Apocalypse, Most Precious Blood, Indecision, Locked In A Vacancy, Shai Hulud, Purity Records, and a slew of Memento books. 2011 saw the release of his first book, The Black Seas Of Infinity, care of Anarchy Books. Permuted Press reissued it in 2015, and a few months later released his second novel Down Highways In The Dark...By Demons Driven. Splatterpunk issued his short story “Christmas is Cancelled” as a signed and numbered chapbook. Now living in Pennsylvania, he owns half of The Abyss Art Studio in New York, and spends what little spare time he has doing Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiujitsu. To See More Of Dan's Work Follow Him At: www.instagram.com/deadguyllc AVAILABLE NOW!
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Guerilla psy-op pop-ups and predictive program painting (PPP) are just the tip of a much larger iceberg and now we have uploaded a virus into the mainframe of the collective unconscious: The Exploding Digital Inevitable.
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Stone masonry is one of the civilized worlds oldest and most respected art forms, it is a trade which is steeped in tradition. Stone masons are still expected to apprentice under a master, and it still retains a linkage to the master masons of the past. As a trade it has given the world some of its greatest man-made wonders. In the realms of architecture and engineering we have the pyramids of Egypt, the Parthenon, Easter island, and the Taj Mahal. In it’s relation to sculpture we have the Belvedere torso, Venus Di Milo, Michelangelo’s David, and Bernini’s Ecstasy of Saint Teresa; and of course, the list goes well beyond these examples. As a fifth generation Ito Sekizaiten (stone mason), this month’s artist is well aware of the rules he is breaking in order to expand the scope of his craft both on a technical and creative level. His ancestors helped build the iconic Matsumoto castle, and it seems as though a granite sediment coursed through their veins and has flowed down the bloodline to this month’s artist. He has an innate sense of both the simplicity and complexity of his ancestral media, and while the work you are about to see is a radical departure from traditional masonry or even the general field of sculpture itself, it still honors the traditions it is ultimately rooted in. Zippers, teeth, coins, and much more find their way into these awe-inspiring pieces of art; yet perhaps some of the most incredible points of interest are the blank expanses of stone which generally make up the majority of these pieces. They make evident what the artist refers to as the paradox of pleasure, how a stone can obtain the appearance of butter or cloth through the alchemy of the chisel’s touch. We are proud to present to you this month’s artist, the first sculptor that we have had the pleasure of sharing with you in this forum. Our August Spotlight artist: Hirotoshi Ito. Hirotoshi Ito: Pleasure of ParadoxBiographical Highlights & Exhibition Record1958 Born in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture 1982 Graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts 1987 Award - Atelier Nouveau Competition 1990 Tokyo Daily Art Competition 1992 ABITARE IL TEMPO (ITALY) 1995 Award - Trick Art Competition 2006 Sole Exhibition "Pleasures of Paradox" (USA) SOFA Chicago 2006 Solo Exhibition, Laughing Stone 2007 SOFA New York (08,09) (USA) 2008 MIASA EXHIBIT (USA) 2009 Marble and Stone Sculpture (AU) 2011 Sole Exhibition "Pleasures of Paradox"(USA) 2013 ART FAIR TOKYO 2015 HEY! Modern Art & Pop Culture (FRANCE) HUMOR IS ME (DENMARK) 2016 SOMMERUDSTILLINGEN (DENMARK) 2017 CAILLOU PAPIER CISEAUX (FRANCE) Solo Exhibition "Pleasures of Paradox"(Romania) Hirotoshi ItoMy family has been involved in stone work since 1879. From my birth I grew up surrounded by various kinds of stone and work such as stone lanterns and graves tones. Although I was determined to eventually take over my family business, I entered the Metal Work Department of Tokyo University of the Arts. The stimulating encounters with other metal artists in the school, and their work, became the foundation of my way of thinking and of my creativity. My work can be divided into two groups. One is solid sculpture carved from marble or granite where I alter the natural surface of the stone into sculptural forms that do not appear to be stone but some other material. The other group is made from beach stones where I use the natural forms of the stones and make alterations and additions that give the natural stones different character. All of my work in both categories relates to the ordinary images, objects and experiences in daily life. A prominent characteristic of both types of my work is my attempt to create the illusion that the stone is something MORE than stone or is a different material altogether. Matsumoto City, where I live, is surrounded by splendid mountains and is richly endowed with natural beauty. The stones delivered from these mountains have been washed by fresh streams of water over very long periods of time, and each stone has a unique form that has been created naturally. As I gather stones on the riverbank, I imagine stories and works of art I can create with them. However, I try to emphasize the natural shapes, colors and beauty of these stone and generally try not to change their original shapes. Respecting and utilizing the natural characteristics of original material is a very old and important aspect of Japanese culture. We have a concept of creativity known as mitate, which involves creating new values by taking something that holds certain significance in one context and placing it in a different context. A typical example is the raked gravel in a temple garden that resembles flowing water. Although I am a contemporary artist I feel that such ancient Japanese concepts are deeply embedded in my DNA. To Purchase An Original Piece Of Art From Hirotoshi Ito Visit His Website www.jiyuseki.com
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Within a theater of canvas, whose grain is covered with floral bouquets of pastel hues, primary colors, and often the iconic faces of Hollywood. Delivered by a brush which bounces about, smudging it's imagery onto the canvas, like a projector illuminating the blank, white expanse of a movie screen. It is within said theater that this month’s artist keeps the viewer enraptured in a cinema of acrylic paint. What you are about to see is the epitome of modern British pop-art, and then some. The familiar figures of the screen (both movie and television), find strange counterparts among the portraits of everyday people, as well as his strangely expressive portraits of animals; some of which are straight forward representations, while others lean towards a much more surreal approach. Whatever the subject matter may be, ultimately this artist is much more interested in the technical aspects of painting and approaches the problems that come with portraiture in the same calculating manner as an enigmatologist would a puzzle. Behind this artist’s work there looms no great philosophic statement or contemplation thereof, no ideological set or desire for such a set. This, however, is not to the detriment of the art. For in the absence of any intellectualization regarding his subjects, we find pictures which communicate a sheer exuberance at the act of painting, the joy of the process itself. An artist forever goading himself to take the brush in his hand time and again with nothing more than the promise of attaining a further mastery of his craft. We are proud to present to you our July Spotlight artist: Gregg Watts. Gregg Watts My name is Gregg Watts, I am an Acrylic artist based in the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England. I was obsessed with drawing as a kid, always sat in front of the TV with a sketch book and some pencils, copying from my favorite comics and inventing some of my own. In my teenage years however, art took a bit of a backseat as a new obsession for the guitar and rock music took over my life. Cut to twenty five years later and my love of art resurfaced with a vengeance when I discovered digital painting while doing a web design course. I was amazed at what I could create and was really inspired by some fantastic digital artists. Soon I began to get an itch to create something more physical, to have an end product I could hold rather than being stored on a computer. I loved the thought of oil painting, but I didn’t have the patience for the drying times, so Acrylic seemed like the next best medium for me. I love to paint. That’s it. I’m not trying to make a statement, my pieces don’t contain any subliminal messages, I am not trying to make any political or social references. I paint subjects that appeal to me and inspire me, and I endeavor to paint them as well as I can. The drive to improve my painting is my motivation and my passion. The challenge of portraiture is my main interest, animals or humans. The start of a painting can be quite frustrating for me as I try to find the likeness of the subject. Once I have the correct proportions in place I can relax and start to have fun. I like to add energy to my paintings, jarring the background with the foreground, adding contrasting colours, all to create an illusion of movement. It’s an instinctive and emotional process, sometimes it’s traumatic, but the end result is worth it and keeps me hungry to create the next painting. ….And the next painting is always going to be the best one. See More From Gregg Watts at:
Website :www.gwstudioart.com Facebook : www.facebook.com/ArtbyGregg Instagram : @gwstudioart
Third
adjective \ ˈthərd \ 1a :being next after the second in place or time 1b :ranking next after the second of a grade or degree in authority or precedence 2a :being one of three equal parts into which something is divisible 2b :being the last in each group of three in a series Friday noun Fri·day \ ˈfrī-(ˌ)dā , -dē \ The day after Thursday and the day before Saturday. It is the fifth day of the week. Third Friday \ ˈthərd \ ˈfrī-(ˌ)dā , -dē \ An act of subversion.
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Sierra MatzJim MazzoccoSteven Lee MatzDavid MacDowellMortimer DempseyGus Romero IV
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e·merge /əˈmərj/ verb To move out of or away from something and come into view. Welcome and thank you for joining us for Emerge, exclusively at Rogue Gallery. Presented for your enjoyment and edification is a list of a dozen emerging talents. This list suggests the breadth and scope of the New World Creative and introduces artists who are making their presence known in the movement. These twelve artists bring an array of inspiration, methodology, and technique to their work. A couple are already immediately recognizable, and all are on the path to becoming household names. For the most immersive experience we recommend using a PC for the duration of your Emerge viewing. Pictures will be formatted in rows of three, click on the thumbnail to enlarge the image. Thanks for visiting Rogue Gallery! Enjoy your stay! Ayogu KingsleyBorn September 23rd, 1994, in Aji Igboeze North L.G.A. Enugu, Nigeria. Ayogu Kingsley holds a Masters NCE in Painting and Graphics, Certified by Enugu State College of Education. He is one of the leading figures of the Hyper-realist movement, an artistic style that can often be mistaken as photography at first glance. Kingsley treats his paintings as poetry which captivates the viewer and inundates you in emotion. His art appeals to the conscience of the people whom experience his work. His paintings allow you to find compassion within yourself; they act as a trigger to tap into human solidarity. Kingsley achieves this intensity through the stunning, lens-like detail applied to his work. Every blemish, scar or intricate feature he adds to his paintings help express the truth in his work. The majority of his work depicts his subjects in uncomfortable situations; situations with a wide spectrum of displayed emotion through tears, despair and affinity. The viewer is compelled to feel connected to the paintings, searching for ways to console or free the subject from distress. His paintings endorse unity and human empathy, bridging a relationship between his work and his viewers. When putting paint to canvas Kingsley examines nuances of the human figure. The facial structure is a key element he explores in his work. The movement of muscles, hair and even sweat are components of his art that make the pieces more dynamic. The way he paints shows that he understands the human figure at a superior level, possessing the ability to recreate a figure and manipulate it to convey a vivid message. Tina Lynn EllisTina Lynn Ellis is a multi-disciplined self taught artist. She is primarily an intuitive artist, her work is the result of a desire to have direct communication with the unconscious to further connection with the greater world around her. Tina uses many different tools to achieve this... painting, illustrating, photography, photo editing , and in 2008 she added Art Dolls/Sculpture to her repertoire and has developed a deep love of the art form. It is always her hope that something she creates will spark a flame of thought in the viewer that leads them to their own creative expression. FolkicideA punk musician by proclivity and an artist by inevitability, Burnie Booth began creating his primitivist collages as album covers for Folkicide, his performing moniker since 2007. Folkicide’s music, an acoustically violent folk driven exploration of extreme pessimism, despair and the nightmare of existence found a logical visual extension in the piecemeal medium of collage. Tired of bothering his artist friends for album cover art, Booth assembled his first collage for the 2010 cover of the Folkicide release Let's Worship Degenerates. It juxtaposed Theravada Buddhist imagery found at a Bangkok street stall with ‘80s Warner horror comics, along with snippings from the Queen News of the World album cover. Surprised by the positive reaction to the odd aesthetic he had stumbled upon, Booth continued assembling collages now numbering in the hundreds. Eschewing digital in favor of original source materials, Booth gets his imagery largely from estate sales in his native Kansas City (preferably on the final day when items are 75% off their original price), gifts from friends and other oddities he has acquired over the years. Favorite visual elements come from the aforementioned Warner horror comics, books on primitive man, Medieval art and Hare Krishna promotional material. Images are sliced and glued in a manner designed to invoke feelings of unease and existential dissonance but yet are often tinged with a deliberate element of humor: like H.P. Lovecraft whispering in the ear of a nitrous oxide intoxicated and X-Acto knife armed Hieronymus Bosch. Over the years Booth’s collages have been displayed on the walls of various KC bars and music stores as well as a Saint Louis pop up art show. A Folkicide animated music video entitled Empire of the Ants utilizing Booth’s collage imagery was produced by local filmmaker Mikal Shapiro in 2013. His art is also to be featured on the cover of the upcoming Kool 100s record. Cecelia Ivy PriceCecelia 'Ivy' Price (°1986, Buffalo, New York) makes paintings, photos, drawings, tattoo designs and conceptual artworks. With a conceptual approach, Price tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by expressing the human form and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations. Her works directly respond to the surrounding environment and uses everyday experiences from the artist as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context. By choosing mainly formal solutions, she tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way, and likes to involve the viewer in a way that is sometimes personal. Her paintings are based on formal associations which open a unique dialog. Multilayered images arise in which the fragility and instability of our vanity is questioned. She tries to develop a pallet that does not follow diluted criteria, but are created to incite the viewer to make new personal associations. Her paintings are notable for their perfect finish and tactile nature. This is of great importance and bears witness to great craftsmanship. By choosing mainly formal solutions, she finds that nudity reveals an inherent social awkwardness that echoes our own vulnerabilities. The artist also considers movement as a metaphor for the ever-seeking man who experiences a continuous loss. Her works create new sequences which reveal an inseparable relationship between motion in life and the stillness of death. Other subjects the artist has tackled include sexual abuse, personal loss, racism and body shaming. The artist can easily imagine an interpretation without being hindered by the historical reality. She has completed a study abroad in Italy and has started working from photographs she took while away. Some artists who influence her include Roberto Ferri, Shawn Barber, & Brom. Cecelia 'Ivy' Price currently lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio. Doug WaterfieldDoug Waterfield is a Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. His work has been shown at the United Nations Headquarters in Vienna, the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque, the Los Alamos Historical Society Museum and the American Museum of Science and Energy. Also, in various galleries,bars, souvenir shops, tattoo parlors and seedy dives across America. He enjoys hob-nobbing with the rich and infamous, watching terrible movies, world travel and collecting autographs. He hates lima beans, but loves good bourbon. He lives in Kearney with his wife and three children. He is also hell-bent on world domination through the creation of his own personal army of robot super-men. Miquael ResMiquael Res was born in 1968 In Germany, but now resides in the Netherlands. His love for horror and science fiction made him discover the artwork of artists like H.R.Giger and Zdzidslaw Beksinski which inspired him to start painting and develop his own morbid style. His work has already been included in the Dark Art Tarot project and will also be featured in a forthcoming documentary on Dutch national television. LoneHawk WhitlockI like to bring forth life and beauty from the deceased. I manipulate bones, skulls and pelts into wearable art. As a youngster while hiking in the deserts of Texas, California, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah I would run across dead animals. The animal bones and death grin always filled me with a certain dread. An event that was promised to all but left to the surmising of when and how. Now, in my late forties, death itself still has an odd unsettling aspect for me. The animals lying by the roadside, lives tragically taken while in search for food or shelter. Humans whom are murdered or taken by predators. Others that are dying by their own misdoings; others that are tyrannically stomped out, evicted from their homelands by government agents. Yes, men and woman with guns and their own psychopathic agendas, willing to kill and murder for a paycheck, for a job or to advance their career. I have a fascination with the dead. Their story, their life before it was taken from them. I wish all beings could depart at their leisure. In accordance to their own agendas. Without unnecessary stress. It is for those beings that I find and the ones that are purchased, that I bring a different life force to. An improbable creation of unparalleled colors and beauty. I work towards creating and bringing forth an appreciation for these beings that are no longer offered. A life force that was once its own can now be honored in a form of art; at times even wearable art. Moving towards making ones animal spirit for people to remember this life is not just about them, it’s about all of us. The young, the old, the diminutive and the gigantic. Magick and wonders are around us every day. Magick and the supernatural are as natural as the rising and setting of our galaxies sun. We must stop, look and listen. Even more importantly, ask, will and work that magick that is inherent in us all. Elvin ArmandoElvin Armando studied painting under Victor Roman and through self study. He spends most of his free time painting, creating contemporary narratives, while also developing a style unique to himself. Elvin was born in Escondido, California, in 1997 and continues to live there. Jon ReyesJon Reyes is an artist who lives and works in Denver, Colorado. Jeremy LampkinJeremy Lampkin is a Chicago based artist whose work is focused on mental health awareness and spirituality. Having mental health issues as a youngster, he lost all faith in the field of psychology by the time he reached adulthood. He discovered alternative methods that got results where psychology failed. Exploring a variety of personal development systems, one test called for the creation of a tarot deck, which is what ultimately reawakened Lampkin's love of art. Religious and occult symbolism are ever present in Lampkin's art, often borrowing stories from mythology. Personal and humiliating experiences often overlay religious story lines, bridging the gap between personal and universal experience. Lampkin sees art as therapy: a constructive way to deal with issues, and a way to start conversations on subjects that can be too difficult to speak of. Valentin KanellopoulosValentin Kanellopoulos began painting and drawing at school from 2010 till 2013. Since then, he has been working with dry pastel. In 2016 he started painting with acrylic on panels, and began exploring the medium of photography. JoKaWhile you are enveloped in sleep, JoKa is toiling into the night stippling acrylic paint to blank facades, using images of styles and faces of yore. Having a penchant for meticulous and detailed work led JoKa to his method of hyperpointillism, wherein he uses only toothpicks to apply his tiny dots of color. Although his images may be skewed from direct interpretation, the meanings behind his work are usually dark in tone and leaning more towards a devious nature. Currently residing in Philadelphia, he has exhibited from coast to coast as well as lands afar. Drawing his inspiration from a plethora of pop culture influences and his own unique sense of self, the work of this month’s artist is created using a stream of consciousness Freestyle technique. Meaning that they are executed with no preconceived ideas, rather they are birthed spontaneously, once he captures the germ of the piece it is refined and perfected. This impetus to create was initially fueled by the confines of a sickly and often bed ridden childhood. When his mother brought him paper and pens home from her work he enlisted them in the service of his increasingly powerful imagination. An imagination which he fed with a steady diet of comic books, music, movies, and Mark Kistler’s PBS children’s art instruction series The Secret City. A fiercely undiluted palette which blazes boldly across the canvas and burns the imagery into the viewers mind like mental pyrography, is one of the quintessential hallmarks of his work. His adept sense of color is complimented and accentuated by the fluidity of his draftsmanship, creating a style which is uniquely his own. We proudly present to you our June Spotlight artist: Cyrus Fire. Cyrus FireCyrus Fire My work is very much based on improvisation and allowing myself to be free in the moment of creation. Anything that I can do to remain present in the moment and connected to how I feel seems to translate into the piece that I am working on at the time. I have found that it makes the piece more authentic, not just for myself but also the viewer. A part of my process begins with exploring the world around me and finding the things that make me feel genuine emotion. That could be music, movies, art, relationships, weather, food, almost anything basically. If I can actually find that thing then I want to create a piece that lets my viewer also experience it. That leads into the color pallet and composition. Sometimes I instantly know what colors I would like to use in order to complete a piece and other times I have no idea what I am creating. In those moments there is just a need to make a piece in order to fill some empty space in my soul. If that is the mode I am in, then I just focus on covering the canvas with paint from edge to edge. I may just make one piece, or I may work on several all at once. Weather it is just a flat color or something that looks tie-dyed, this part of the process is more about communicating the raw emotion of that instant than it is about creating any actual subject matter. After I have covered a few pieces of canvas with paint I begin a competition of sorts to see which piece I enjoy the most. If I prefer one over the rest then that is the one I work on. Once that piece has been brought up to a certain level of completion I then look for the next piece that most catches my eye. I then judge them against each other and try to make the lesser piece better than the one that I previously favored. I repeat this process until at least 3 or more pieces seem equal to each other in terms of quality and the amount of effort put into them. The next phase is deciding what type of figure/figures belong in the piece. Maybe it begins with just taking a solid color that works well with the background and making a stroke with the paint that takes up a dominant section of the canvas. Maybe it begins with taking black paint and carving out the shape of a head and only working in silhouette until I have what I want and move onto creating the body. The beginning stages are all very fluid and open to outside influence until I know what the piece is supposed to be. Once I have a grasp on the direction that the piece needs to go in then everything is more about the details. What can I do to make everything that I am thinking or feeling more clear to the viewer? How can I make the piece more fun or eye catching? I have found that if I can add things that keep me engaged in creating the piece then the viewer can be equally engaged while observing it. When I am in the final stages of a piece I have more than likely been thinking about the meaning of it for a while and also the emotions behind it. This leads me into choosing a title for the piece. This part of the process is definitely more cerebral and satisfies all my nerdy bits. I may choose a word from the dictionary that I enjoy but would not have a chance to use in everyday conversation. I may choose a foreign word or phrase that speaks about the piece but that I couldn't actually pronounce. I like this part of the process because hopefully it leads the viewer to do some type of research. I love enigmatic things! I have always enjoyed mysteries and detective stories. Watching the human mind digest information in order to come to a conclusion and solve a problem is wonderful and keeps us sharp. I want to create intrigue in a person and make them want to know why a thing is what it is. Hopefully if a person enjoys my work enough then they will not mind doing a bit of research to get the answers that they are looking for. Visit Cyrus Fire's Official Website at:
cyrusfire.com
“It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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Cover Photography by Flavio Di Nardo
Visit His Website at www.flaviodinardo.com COMING SOON
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This month’s artist is a master of polarity, juxtaposing the warm, familiar aesthetics of Byzantine icon painting against the cold BD/SM couture’s which are often the main affectation of his subjects. He also employs medical devices in these paintings such as forceps, dental tools, pumps, and various other apparatuses; to give the paintings added ornamentation and to “emphasize the function of the body in order to overcome death”. We are therefore left with a finer understanding of the versatility of these implements as bringers of ecstasy or agony (depending upon their application), and how this relates to our own duality.
As a student at the Accademia di Belle Arti he was never one to paint. Focusing his attention instead on photography, cinema, and conceptual art. Once he did begin to delve into the medium of oil painting he shunned the influence of individual artists and movements. Instead he took his inspiration from the broader scope of art history, and his own inner world, in order to leave the originality of his work intact. His brush delivers parables of both the profound and the profane. As these works emerge from the ephemeral light of your screen, forever arrested in their red lacquer atmospheres, you will quickly realize that both puritan and heathen are equal in the eyes of this artist’s gaze, and he pours his vision onto these wood panels without restriction or compromise. We are very proud to present our May Spotlight artist: Saturno Buttò.
Saturno Buttò Tells His Story
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Camera & Editing: Al Bruni
Music: Violoncello & Voice by Laura Bisceglia
Saturno Buttò, born in Venice in 1957, started his exhibition career in 1993, when he published his first monograph titled "Portrayed from Saturn: 1989-1992". Since then he's exhibited in Italy, Europe and the USA (New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco).
In addition to two other monographs "Works 1993-1999" and "Martyrologium" (2007), the Mondo Bizzarro Gallery in Rome at the recent exhibition has published his latest catalog in chronological order: "Blood is my favorite color" (2012). And "Saturnico", from Core art gallery of Naples. The last book (with works from 2007-2014) is "Brevarium Humanae Redemptionis". Saturno Buttò's artwork is characterized by a personal, formal interpretation of European sacred art and technical skill, that reminds one of the great masters of our pictorial tradition. Figurative rituals, tableaux vivants, neo-Gothic altar pieces are the skillful creations with which Butto extracts the fascinating mysteries of an "obscure, dark religion". This concept is brilliantly illustrated by the juxtaposition between the body's innate sensuality and its deeper spirituality. Through illustrating the conflict between eroticism and pain, transgression and rapture, Buttò's valuable paintings on wood examine in depth the strict and conflicting vision of Western religious iconography by comparisons with the body. The body is, on one side exhibited like an object of cult, while simultaneously being denied its value of nascent erotic beauty. It's a fascinating tension that above all exalts the human figure, to the centre of the exhibition. The human figure, which in Buttò's poem, is constantly represented as sacred, is depicted in its physical and psychological decadence. It is sometimes illustrated by instruments and/or medical tools, that represent human pain on one hand while simultaneously highlighting the will to defeat death in a Utopian way. It also manages to vividly depict the inescapable condition of physical decline, more accurately than ever. This way, a beautiful girl's parade consecrate from a golden halo, as the Byzantine icons, shine from a lively and sensual physicalness, but are hidden from a mysterious demoniac fascination, as if they were wedded in purity to destruction and decay. Solo Shows 2017 "Det Sorte Rum" Midtjyllands Kunst Center - Bryrup, Denmark 2015 "Rosso Saturno" a cura di G.P. Brusca - Galleria Hippocratica - PORDENONE
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A great specter is looming over the art world: the specter of Inter|Sekt. For far too long we have watched the artists of our generation turned into a disposable commodity, bought and sold by the galleries, stifled in their expression by the tastes of the art consultants who purchase pieces on behalf of financially minded clients who want a "solid investment".
They have been amalgamated into schools, said schools are a device of gallerists and art historians to divide and conquer the creatives and free thinkers. For we live in a nation which thinks itself to be free yet is not, they expect the same of their artists. Our culture has been raped and plundered by the upper echelon, picked apart and sold by the same greed mongers who claim to be it's patrons. The tool which has most effectively stunted the growth of modern American art in particular is the clever indoctrination of this idea of schools to not only the art student but anyone whom even reads a brief survey of the history of art sees that it is broken up into these categorized schools; the philosophies of these various sects creates conflict, division, and ultimately destruction of the morale and submission to the established order. Thus rendering the creative spirit confused and useless. This helps curb the rebellious spirit of the average citizen outside of the art world in other spheres of society. Art history is a lie and galleries are dens of thieves! Inter|Sekt is not destroying the schools or the galleries, we are simply showing you they were never real, at least not in a world outside of that constructed by academics to sell text books to art students. The reign of the gallerists and art consultants is over when you want it to be. From the ashes of the indoctrinated schools of every form of art shall arise The New World Creative. -Steven Lee Matz- The inter|sekt manifesto
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September 2021
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