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reception : venue : contact : bleuacier at verizon.net venue url : | OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY MARCH 18, 2005, 7?10 PM WITH DOWN TEMPO GROOVES FROM SOUL DOWN
Free admission, cash bar EXHIBITION FROM MARCH 18 - APRIL 24 Gallery Hours: Saturdays 1:00 - 5 PM, and by Appointment Contact: Erika Schneider 813.272.9746 Bleu Acier is proud to present ART PLASTIQUE, a group exhibition featuring works by NEIL BENDER, PIERRE MABILLE, ULF RUNGENHAGEN, and STEVE MCCLURE. Art Plastique, which translates as the plastic arts or the visual arts, is a group show exploring the concepts of narrative and surface. The plasticity of the surface in painting and drawing as well as the concept of narrative have been important issues in the thinking of modern and contemporary image- makers. This exhibition explores the manner in which these artists define the narrative through the plastic qualities of their work, allowing the image-making process to create a new and personal space. Two American and two European artists, these image-makers tell stories through the interactions of drawing, painting, and surface. The techniques explored; oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, pencil, charcoal, and collage, construct the narrative through the plasticity of the surface. These four artists explore the acts of painting and drawing in very different manners with different outcomes for the viewer. Neil Bender ?s images thrive on fantasy and sexuality. The use of graphic imagery, color and a thorough knowledge of the history of painting allow him to construct the foundation of his images. The layers of images brought to the surface come into superposition and create a rich, sensuous, and baroque surface and narrative about painting and contemporary existence. Neil is new painting faculty at the University of South Florida. Pierre Mabille painted lyrical landscapes dense with color. He desired to rethink his space and began reducing the images to the use of signs and symbols. Mabille?s next move was to ?simplify and purify? his image-making process. One sign became the visual symbol for him to continue telling stories with color, surface and line. Mabille teaches painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, France. Ulf Rungenhagen is a master of collage. Found images are the way with which he starts his sentences, completes his paragraphs and writes his stories. The ground is often treated by hand as if he were adding personal commentaries to a journal. His main works are 3D installations designed for specific spaces. These paper works compliment the installations. Ulf is the Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Applied Sciences in D?sseldorf, Germany. Steve McClure an emerging painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and graduated from USF in 1996. McClure defines narrative in terms of landscape. His use of watercolor in the translation of the landscape allows him to interpret and transform the space into a series of phrases, which constitute partial narratives to be brought together by the perception of the viewer. McClure uses the notion of landscape as the fusion of time and history, which at the horizon turns toward the future. | Artists involved order list by : First NameLast Name
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