Wonder Domain Gallery
Manhattan, New York
Ivette Cervantes
Surrealism
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Exhibition
Dreaming the Unimaginable Exhibition
Artists Included:
Naohisa Inoue
Maria Remedios Varo
George Grie
Daniel C. Chiriac
Rene Magritte
Michael Maier
Max Ernst
Salvador Dali
Alex Cherry
The following exhibition has been primarily focused on the different perspectives of artists in the fantasy/surrealism theme. Works by various artists are captured having a connection with an unimaginable way of letting their imagination flow to give viewers different feelings and messages. All, however, with the same connection in having the freedom to endless way of thinking and putting their thoughts into a painting. Artists have a unique secret in all of their works, making viewers think deeply and thoroughly to enjoy the beauty of their pieces of art.
Naohisa Inoue
Naohisa Inoue
"Encounter with Megezo"
Oil Painting Canvas
Two Dimensional
2000
Naohisa Inoue born in the year of 1948 majoring in graphic design and a high school fine arts teacher keeps his freelance artist obsession present since 1993. He is most known for his fantasy Utopian world depicting ideas throughout his pieces of work. Yearly he has had the opportunity to exhibit internationally his new works based on his theme of Iblard, the Utopian world.
"Encounter with Megezo" is based on a fairy like elephant who appears in Inoue's exhibitions yearly, who interprets different oinions and feelings to different people viewing the work. In relation to a legend, if a powerful person is encountered with a Megezo, he is apt to loose all the powers.
Inoue has a peculiar way of connecting all his pieces of work to the same theme of Utopian world, giving viewers the one and most important choice of opening up their imagination and entering into a world of fantasy. His work includes various choices of colors to give viewers a one specific feeling, in regards to this piece is feeling blue.
Maria Remedios Varo
Maria Remedios Varo
"Premonition"
Fine Art Oil Canvas
Two Dimensional
1953
Born in the year of 1908, daughter to a skilled engineer whom spent Varo's first eight years traveling staying away from the Spanish Civil War. With the technical drawing influence of her father, she soon enrolled in the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid spending long study sessions with artists learning the new style of art during that time period. Unfortunately the year of 1940 came around and with the invasion of the Nazis she found herself moving to Mexico City where she worked as a commercial artist, restoring pottery and designing costumes. Central America became her new home where she learned a unique painting style that was able to give her pieces of art a remarkable recognizable ability bringing millions in value.
"Premonition" Varo's piece of art depicting the human destiny in the middle of the universe, with stars, planets and the galaxy being presented. A spinning wheel with the presence of three women who are seeing as the representation of the 3 Parques from the Roman mythology who decide birth, marriage and death of humans. The painting is seeing as an indirect criticism to religion and any other force that is meant deny a person's freedom.
Knowing the mythology behind the destiny of a human being gives the viewers a better understanding of the thought in which Varo was able to interpret it in her own viewpoint giving the freedom to envoke a message to those who do not run their own lives as accordingly. The work gives dimension with its settled color use and makes a noticeable impact in reference to its unique style in fantasy in which ideas were brought in.
George Grie
George Grie
"Silence is Deceitful"
Fine Art Oil Painting
Two Dimensional
1992
George Grie was born in Russia, where he also experienced
the world of art. He drifted away from the popular and traditionally
political-bound representations through art, and instead geared towards a less
common art practice. He actively describes his art as a form of neo-surrealist
apprenticeship, and has carried quite significantly throughout his artistic
career. Grie’s art pieces tend to show powerful images that draw their energy
from a visual perspective, by the distinct alterations in light patterns as
well as colors. Coming into the more modern era, Grie has not fallen behind and
has also adopted technological practices that he introduces into his artwork.
He acknowledges that with the assistance of technological innovations, the
possibilities in the digital art world are endless and explains that “There’s
is only one chilling obstacle between you and your perfect design-lack of
imagination.”
“Silence is Deceitful” draws on both elements of past
surrealist practices as well as more modern techniques to portray a sort of
imaginary realm that at the same time is distorted from what we perceive as
reality. Just like in many of his previous works, Grie works by merging real world
images with emotions from the subconscious mind to create a sort of puzzle by
which the audience are to try to take apart and solve.
Grie’s way of thinking combining emotions with the real
world images reflects what fantasy and surrealism are. There are endless possibilities
of what can be added to the theme reflected through this exhibition but in
regards to this piece of art, a viewers imagination might be shifted into a
world of emotions for example fear, fear of the outside world and its dangers
to be brought into the home.
Daniel C. Chiriac
Daniel C. Chiriac
"Façade Masquerade"
Fine Art, Oil on Canvas
Two Dimensional
Daniel Chiriac, born in Romania, for the most part of his
artistic career underwent the creation of art pieces that followed traditional
abstractionism guidelines. Entering the 21st century Chiriac began to
develop a special interest in magic realism, and began to create art pieces
that reflect past traditional surrealist practices. He draws inspiration from
his wife and two daughters and consider them to be his inspiration for many of
his art pieces. His collection of artwork can be found all over the world and
it encourages him to continue on this path.
“Façade Masquerade” is a piece that although is not uncommon
from Chiriac, it is definitely different than his past works. As a representation
of his art, Chiriac states “I believe that an artist it to bring up to the
worldview beauty, simply beauty as the main rule. The rest must be a rare
exception… My mission is to reveal the beauty there, where no other eye sees it
but the artist’s eye does.”
The theme being fantasy/surrealism, Chiriac’s piece of art
was in no doubt convincing to be added to this exhibition. Its remarkable
choice of objects used and its distinct way of making the viewer think deeply
into what possible message or thought the artist going through during this time
of being developed is intriguing. Colors are able to catch the attention and
take you into a world of imagination.
Rene Magritte
Rene Magritte
"The Son of Man"
Oil on Canvas
Two Dimensional
1946
Rene Magritte, a well-known artist, who takes everyday objects and
transforms them into a work for the audience to take a deeper thought in
understanding his main messages conveyed. Born in the year of 1898, whose
mother had committed suicide when he was just fourteen years of age, making a
decision to study at the Academie des Beaux-Art, transforming works with the influence
of highly known Pablo Picasso. Magritte was not well-known until the 1950’s
when he was finally able to be recognized by his work of taking normal day
objects and rearranging them with certain locations in order to make the
audience take a deeper look and see the difference at what is truly in front of
them and what is not.
Magritte’s statement about his work includes the
following, “Everything we see hides another thing. We always want to see what
is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and
which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite
intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is
hidden and the visible that is present.” "The Son of Man" was made as a self-portrait in hopes to translate very
valuable messages to an individual about himself/herself as a human being.
The work has given its audience a connection to surrealism or fantasy
in a way for an individual to open up its imaginative expressions concerning an
individual and what possible objects or ideas are hidden in daily lives. This
art piece was chosen to understand the reason of why the artist placed a
specific object exactly in front of the individuals face, was his reason maybe
to give a meaning of what a insignificant fruit, in this example, seen in
everyday life’s, can hide as a greater interest.
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