The First Art Newspaper on the Net
by Claudia Carr Levy
NEW YORK, NY
.- Upon first seeing Jason Stewarts new work, I thought of Filippo Brunelleschis facade of the Ospedale degli Innocenti, the foundling hospital in Florence that he was commissioned to design in 1419. The arches of the hospital facade have always captivated me. Brunelleschis arches are perfect in their form and progression: perfect graceful architecture. Why, I wondered, did that architectural image appear as I looked at the series of paintings called Shaping Color? The precision of Jason Stewarts arcs in their spaces on canvas resonate with Brunelleschis architecture. The paintings seem to transpose geometric architectural form into pictorial space. Perhaps this geometry would seem to belie the dominance and importance of color in these paintings. Yet color holds the arcs; the arcs hold color. The more one looks at these works, the more one observes the paradox between color and form. And the mo
Latitude member galleries exhibit at ARCOmadrid
Héctor Zamora Photokinetic, 2020 video 4K, duration: 0448 ed 1/30.
MADRID
.- ARCOmadrid celebrates its 40th edition this year between 7 - 11 July, incorporating a special Latin American art section, produced in collaboration with Mariano Mayer. At this event, Latin American takes on new importance with the incorporation of a special section dedicated to Latin American art. Luciana Brito Galeria participates both in the newly curated section and in the online section ARCO E-XHIBITIONS, while Galeria Luisa Strina participates exclusively online, in ARCO E-XHIBITIONS, running parallel to the permanent physical spaces of the galleries.
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo