The Birth Of An Idea
Rosenstamm Gallery, 15 Dec 2023 – 17 Jan 2024
Ida Ivanka’s artwork features recycled materials and other objects, including silk cocoons, feathers, tree branches and other materials. Color is an inspiration to Ida and her work. The genre of her work is a blend of Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting. In her early years she practiced painting in a naturalistic realistic manner, focusing mostly on figures, portraits, still life and landscapes. Her style evolved as she experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas.[1]
Ida is best known for her series The Birth of an Idea.[2] These artworks have been described as “Organic in appearance; abstract in presence. They have a being and an atmosphere that transmits to the viewer calmness and vibrancy at once. I felt touched and enlightened.”[3] ‘The Birth of an Idea’ was included in ‘Placebos for Art’ a project undertaken by the Behring Institute for Medical Research and was judged to have positive influence on public health.[4] The simple circle settings consisting of an abundance of sculptured silk cocoons on a large canvas. The cocoons are painted, manipulated and positioned. Ida has created two and three colour versions of the series, some with additional elements like ink markings or red and blue dots. “The art is at once transcendentally primitive embodying a universal oneness of geometric circle, with a subtle play of patterns. A reinvention of Indian Mandalas or reminiscent of mosaic in Ancient Greece, an assemblage and repetition of small particles. In modern parlance the repetition in Ida’s artwork could be seen as deconstructed pixelation.”[3][5]
References
- “Silk Cocoons: We Can’t Get Enough”. HuffPost. 10 August 2017.
- “The birth of Ida Ivanka Kubler’s ideas”. Europost. 10 August 2017
- “Are You Ready for Ivanka Kubler’s Transcending Art? I Am”. FAD Magazine. 2 March 2016. 10 August 2017.
- “London Artist Uses Stress-Buster Silk Cocoons”. HuffPost. 10 August 2017.
- “Ida Ivanka Kubler presents “The Letter” works”. ArtDaily. 11 August 2017.
Opening Night Reception:
Friday, December 15th
5pm - 7pm
Ida Ivanka
The Birth Of An Idea XXIII
Recycled Silk Cocoons on Canvas
78 x 39 inch
Ida Ivanka
The Birth Of An Idea XXXVIII
Recycled Silk Cocoons on Canvas
78 x 39 inch
Neo-Geometric
Exhibition dates: Oct 25, 2023 – Nov 22, 2023
Lorenzo Belenguer is an artist based in London and Valencia. Belenguer is strongly influenced by Minimalism and Arte Povera. He exhibited and performed at The Serpentine Galleries, TATE Modern and at the 57th Venice Biennale. The UCL Art Historian Susie Hodge included him as a representative of the Neo-Geometric Conceptualism (Neo-Geo) Movement alongside Jeff Koons and Ashley Bickerton in her latest book. Belenguer’s works have been featured in the national media in Spain, Germany, Italy and the UK such as The Independent, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Artforum and The Art Newspaper.
Critique written by Kathy Battista, Director, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, NY. ”Lorenzo Belenguer’s work straddles the realms of sculpture, painting and drawing. In one area of his practice, he transforms metal objects into sculptures that evolve from the visual rhetoric of Minimalism and double as ‘canvases’. Belenguer is like a hunter who trawls the city for found objects, sometimes sourced as locally as the back garden of the studios’ church. The work is then dictated by his discoveries, which include steel grids, a mattress reduced to its mesh of springs, and blacksmiths’ tools. These he reads as masculine objects. He intervenes with these structures by oxidising the metal elements in salt water or acids and dabbing them with paint of primary colours. This transforms how the objects are read, emphasising the points at which layers of meaning converge. For example, the artist paints the cone of an old anvil a vivid yellow, thereby morphing it into phallic form. In “Homage to Pollock” a spring mattress becomes a three-dimensional, and strangely fluid, abstract canvas”.
Opening Night Reception:
Wednesday, October 25th
5pm - 7pm
Lorenzo Belenguer
Eternity, Rusted metal and oils in white concrete.
Lorenzo Belenguer
Hommage to Pollock, oils on rusted metal.
Lorenzo Belenguer
Object 5, oils on rusted metal.
After nature. Constructions of the landscape
Show dates: 26 AUGUST – 23 SEPTEMBER 2023
Mariana Marino: The artist deals with the relationship of architecture , space and nature. In the comprehensive project – under the title “After nature. Constructions of the landscape “- she shows the landscape of the alpine space from the point of view of human intervention. Human artifacts, and the interaction of landscape and images interplay and are considered and are subject to a strict order.
With her resources the artist is appropriating, clarifying and creating this world. An art that draws the reality beyond her idealization and superficial critique and hence opens up a new aesthetic quality.
Opening Night Reception:
Saturday, August 26th
5pm - 7pm
Mariana Marino
Notes III
Oil on Canvas
43 x 43 inch
Mariana Marino
Notes VII
Oil on Canvas
54 x 43 Inch
Inanimate zoomorphic
Exhibition dates: 20 APRIL – 20 MAY 2023
And a real and unreal world are in a relationship of inner agreement with each other. This evocation proceeds by means of free association. A vocabulary formally more open or more geometrising while never loosing sight of how the art is organised.