Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Untitled (Fugue IX), Untitled (Fugue X), Untitled (Fugue XI), oil on canvas, 200 x 180 cm each, 2013. Photo credit: Sylvie Chan-Liat.

Jean-Baptiste Bernadet: Fugue
June 11 – August 9, 2014
American Contemporary
4 East 2nd Street
New York City
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It’s basically impossible for me to define my art. All I can say, is that it carries strong spontaneous energy featuring Abstract Expressionism. My artistic career started in 1990s—the crisis times of Post-Soviet Georgia. Total disorientation of this complicated space greatly inspired me. Through observing the environment I lived in, I used to experiment with different media and forms. It was a big experience. Nowadays, I’m interested in possibilities of art by exploring the resources of painting and texture. The research of various styles, movements, and my artistic practice serve to express blurred threshold between abstract and figurative painting.

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I am painting. When we have become friends, my painting and I, when our intimate and intense interaction has proved successful, when we have found ourselves to be soul mates—then my work is done.

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My background in art and anthropology, along with Kandinsky-inspired abstract art training at The La Veta School of the Arts in Southern Colorado have both informed my work. My paintings represent the energy essence of animals, landscapes, and images from cultures around the world. My technique can include layering of charcoal drawings, textures, pastels, and acrylics on unsealed wet canvas, which is then dried, stretched, and sealed. The amazing thing about this technique, which sometimes begins blindfolded, is the spontaneity and symbolic content of the art, which seems to come directly out the Universal Unconscious.

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My first steps are applying watercolor paints and pastel, then I use an abstract style in oil and acrylic.
After living a few years in the abstract world, I began to be disgusted by huge global abstract productions.
My style now is very much trivial or primitive.  I adore letting off steam and creating a unique design from scenery, faces, nudes, drifts, emotions, and so on. Next, I’d like to take pictures in B/W, and to give them a special mark with my paintbrush, of course in acrylic and with a lot of effects.

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For Immediate Release:

Adriatic Wonder: the Work of Davor Vukovic

Broadway Gallery, 473 Broadway Fl. 7, New York, NY 10013.

October 16^th – 29^th 2013

Opening Reception October 17^th 6-8pm

Broadway Gallery is proud to announce an exhibition featuring the new work of Davor Vukovic.

His most recent and largest paintings (300×300 cm) are to be shown in the artist’s second one-man exhibition at New York’s Broadway Gallery in October 2013. Although they depict the sea, islands, and submarine landscapes in tones of dark blue and indigo, they also reflect the sky, the infinity of the space, and the moving of myriads of stars and galaxies. The work involves reflections of dark and light sky with the bottom of the sea on the surface and in the deep water. These shades, spots, and effusions of paint evoke Monet’s large-format paintings, although they are carried out in a completely different way by using the techniques of action painting. The background, due to the artist’s tectonic moves in the process of constructing and deconstructing, emerges on the very surface of the painting like islands emerge from the sea. They are the images of brightness and the future, but also of the depths of infinity where we can easily vanish and disappear in the artist’s ecstasy. These paintings reflect our experiences and our collective inner anxieties with the unknown.

When we indulge in them, we see the tide and the ebb and flow through the magma of paint. We see the glittering flicker of the sun, the moon, and the stars on the surface of the axiomatic, Vuković most recent works pulsate in harmonic rhythm so that the dense radiant open colors of the coast, undersea, and the islands, are poured into his paintings like the sea itself. They are as transparent as watercolor paintings but also saturated with ultramarine blue, the trademark color of the people living in southern Croatia.

On one side, there is the impression of fragile diffusion, instability and motion, the permanent interaction with the sea, the sky, the light, and the chromatic and tonal varieties of color. On the other hand, hidden from our eyes, there is the static nature of archipelagoes, their primordial character, their hidden connection to the land, their deep roots in the ground – an almost metaphorical paraphrase of the artist’s being.

Davor Vukoric is a Croat and was born in 1951. While he initially studied economics, his artistic instinct led him to enroll at the Fine Arts Education Center in Zagreb. It was here that Vukoric mastered his understanding of form and composition, and began culminating his own style. Since 1995 he has been a member of the Croatian Association of Artists and Likum. He has had more than 50 solo exhibitions and 25 group shows. He works and lives in Zapresic. Croatia.

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Every time when I start to create a painting, I already have a concrete idea in my mind. What is going to happen? I am not making the painting, the painting is creating me! The result is – without surprise – definitely different. All the paintings, which were done this way, became my favorites. It is always important to find the right balance of release and to allow.

I love it to engage myself in the unknown, to work with different materials and colors. My work is representing my feelings. And every person that knows me would confirm, these feelings are tremendous. Welcome to my world!

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