Friday, October 21, 2016

Agenzia Stampa Italia - article by Sarah Minciotti - my exhibition THE OTHER SIDE

Translation of the article written by writer, singer, composer Sarah Minciotti of my exhibition
THE OTHER SIDE.


AGENZIA STAMPA ITALIA


(ASI) Perugia - Anyone wishing to embark on a meaningful journey in art astonishment through the emotions of color, shapes, varied content that painting gives off, can very well do so by going to visit the exhibition "The Other Side" by American artist Stephanie Seymour at Gaia Gallery in Papiano (Marsciano-Perugia), on display from October 15 to November 20, 2016 with opening hours every day from 10 to 13 and from 16 to 19.30.

The event is curated by Pino Bonanno and has been placed in the context of the Twelfth "Contemporary Day" established by AMACI. (For information and contacts: www.artfarmgaia.it; tel. 3473652984).

The works of Stephanie Seymour all have an unbreakable bond: depth and color, colors are strong and determined as ecstasy imprints art of this painter not only essential but more ironic sometimes. playful woman, an interrogater, restless and curious as in the character of  healthy children when the great questions about the world, the surrounding scenery, the equations and the enigmas of life are the essential lifeblood to find out the reality. His paintings tell of lives that intersect with ours, while we pause to learn their contours observing the manifold production of this artist of California at Los Angeles who lives in Umbria for many years.

Paradoxes repeated in most iconographic forms of figures that are imprinted on the canvas as to radiate the static restless of life, the dynamics of the eternal return of the equation or never stable of concepts that transpire from perfection, from irregularities of exposed people.

For this painter, illustrator and American photographer is not (only) an exponential multiplication, but existential: Who is man? Or who is Stephanie Seymour?


In "The Other Side" there are questions not only about the artist in question but above all on themselves. The man who investigates through looks, poses, eyes that is 'wide open' in the mirror without ever reaching a solution, is the man that yes, it looks from the outside, but from within is the real star of life , of what he sees and what he lives. There never is a  separation between artist and the observer that creativity produces never parish. Stephanie Seymour offers a 'world' in which she herself is a reflection of all of us, as well as art is life in all its complexity, in every color, intense or dull, rational or irrational, or just playful mocking ... Paintings a pictorial naturalness where every brushstroke is in the right place and where each color says and gives her space to time that goes beyond its horizon. And even where there is the contrast of colors, it seems to re-emerge even other colors and shades, as if to signify that even if the colors are not seen are still within the perceptual world of being and existence. Faces and images painted with very sinuous and almost surreal in the ability to settle on the canvas without misled by a millimeter: the canvas at the bottom is that space where time, the dynamic, the form and substance of things have their bond. Is the artist with his talent to know how to say it in so little space. Stephanie Seymour succeeds naturally and those who can enjoy the great creative power of this woman, will understand perfectly what is hidden to most people, being able to sense the ultimate expression of the self, potential that takes the form of the soul. This is the true art of Seymour: grasp the essence and dynamics dispute of the things that are interwoven and which seem to have no links ... But instead they thin the bond of life and union with the transcendence of reality with reality transcendent that becomes part of the new and unique in time monograms and color, space and synchronicity, interiority and consciousness, self-irony and pure actuality. All thickened by crystalline colors, effective, full of shiny softness, the colors defined but that capture the human soul polychrome, radiated from the look with which the heart rests and dips into reality. snapshot of a busy life that makes Seymour a real artist, a real big woman, who always offers us new answers before questions. With the taste of wonder. Sarah Minciotti - Agency Print Italy






Agenzia Stampa Italia - articolo di Sarah Minciotti

seyeur copy(ASI) Perugia -  Chi volesse intraprendere un viaggio significativo nello stupore dell’arte attraverso le emozioni del colore, delle forme, dei contenuti variegati che la pittura sprigiona, può benissimo farlo andando a visitare la mostra “The Other Side” dell’artista americana Stephanie Seymour presso la Gaia Gallery di Papiano (Marsciano-Perugia), in esposizione dal 15 ottobre al 20 novembre 2016 con orari di apertura tutti i giorni dalle 10 alle 13 e dalle 16 alle 19,30.                                                                                                                        
L’evento è a cura di Pino Bonanno ed è stato inserito nel contesto della Dodicesima “Giornata del Contemporaneo” istituita dall’AMACI. (Per info e contatti: www.artfarmgaia.it ; tel. 3473652984).
Le opere di Stephanie Seymour hanno tutte un legame inscindibile: profondità e colore, colori forti e decisi sono come impronte dell’estasi artistica di questa pittrice non solo essenziale ma il più delle volte ironica. Donna giocosa, interrogatrice, inquieta e curiosa come è nell’indole sana dei bambini in cui le grandi domande sul mondo, sui panorami circostanti, sulle equazioni e sugli enigmi della vita sono la linfa essenziale per scoprire la realtà. I suoi quadri narrano di vite che si incrociano con le nostre, mentre ci si sofferma a carpirne i contorni osservando la produzione multiforme di quest’artista californiana di Los Angeles che vive in Umbria da molti anni.
Paradossi ripetuti in più forme iconografiche di figure che si imprimono nelle tele come a irradiare la staticità irrequieta della vita, la dinamica dell’eterno ritorno o dell’equazione mai stabile dei concetti che traspaiono dalla perfezione o dalle irregolarità dei soggetti esposti.
Per questa pittrice, disegnatrice e fotografa statunitense non c’è (solo) una moltiplicazione esponenziale, ma esistenziale: chi è l’uomo ? Oppure chi è Stephanie Seymour ?
In  The Other Side” ci si interroga non solo sull’artista in questione ma soprattutto su se stessi. L’uomo che indaga attraverso sguardi, pose, occhi che si ‘spalancano’ dentro lo specchio dell’anima senza mai raggiungere una soluzione, è quell’uomo che sì, osserva da fuori, ma che dal di dentro è il vero protagonista della vita, di ciò che vede e di ciò che vive.
Non c’e mai separazione tra artista e colui che osserva ciò che la creatività produce senza mai perire. Stephanie Seymour propone un ‘mondo’ in cui ella stessa è un riflesso di tutti noi, così come l’arte è la vita in ogni sua complessità, in ogni suo colore, intenso od opaco, razionale o irragionevole, beffardo o solo giocoso… Quadri di una naturalezza pittorica dove ogni pennellata è al giusto posto e dove ogni colore dice e dona il suo spazio al tempo che va al di fuori del proprio orizzonte. E anche dove c’è il contrasto dei colori, sembra riemergano pure le altre tinte e sfumature, come a voler significare che i colori anche se non si vedono sono sempre all’interno del mondo percettivo dell’essere e dell’esistere. Volti e immagini dipinte con forme molto sinuose e quasi surreali nella capacità di stanziarsi sulla tela senza fuorviare di un millimetro: la tela in fondo è quello spazio dove il tempo, la dinamica, la forma e la sostanza delle cose hanno un loro legame. Sta all’artista con la sua bravura saper dire tutto in così poco spazio. Stephanie Seymour ci riesce con naturalezza e coloro che potranno gustare la grande capacità creativa di questa donna, capiranno perfettamente quello che si nasconde ai più, potendo intuire la massima espressione del Sé, potenziale che prende forma dell’anima.
Questa è la vera arte della Seymour : cogliere l’essenzialità e la controversia dinamica delle cose che si intrecciano e che apparentemente sembrano non avere nessi… Ma che invece hanno sottilissimo il legame di vita e di unione con la trascendenza del reale, con la realtà trascendente che diventa parte nuova e unica nei monogrammi di tempo e colore, spazio e sincronia, interiorità e coscienza, autoironia e pura realtà effettiva. Il tutto addensato da colori cristallini, efficaci, pieni di pastosità lucente, di tinte definite ma che catturano la policromia dell’animo umano, irradiato dallo sguardo con cui il cuore si posa e si immerge nella realtà.
Un’intensa istantanea di vita che fa della Seymour una vera artista, una vera grande donna, che ci propone sempre nuove risposte ancor prima delle domande. Con il gusto dello stupore.
Sarah Minciotti - Agenzia Stampa Italia

Sunday, October 16, 2016

Opening day The Other Side

Opening of my exhibition THE OTHER SIDE at Gaia Gallery, Papiano of Marsciano (Perugia), Italy.
A good crowd, many artists, friends who came from a distance to see the exhbition and enjoy a buffet afterwards.
                                    Fiorenza Mosci, writer and friend who presented the show. 



                          Pino Bonanno, curator and owner of Art Farm Gaia and the Gaia Gallery.

The first floor of the gallery which hosts four larger works. On the floor above another seventeen works varying from 30x30cm to 60x90cm, works in acrilic and oil on canvas.

Here are some of the pieces on display:

Se io fosse te, 100x100cm                                                          Vuoto moderno, 100x100cm
Blue jazz, 60x80cm acrylic                                                               Gioventù solare, 60x80cm acrylic
 Timid ballerina, 40x50 acrilic

Bon ton, 40x50cm acrilic

Quick shopper, 40x40, oil 

Monday, October 10, 2016

Sunday, October 9, 2016

Press Release for THE OTHER SIDE



PRESS RELEASE
Saturday October 15, 2016, during the event AMACI (Contemporary Art Day), the opening of the personal art exhibition “The Other Side” will be held at 7pm at Gaia Gallery, Strada per Caprareccia, 220, Marsciano – Papiano (Perugia) of the artist Stephanie Seymour, with the presentation by Fiorenza Mosci.
The exhibition is an event organized by E20Gaia.

Between irony,  social commitment, the need to represent the limits that  existence imposes, the pleasure of letting go to the aesthetics of creating, to the incessant dialogue with  color and its mysteries, Stephanie Seymour fascinates us with her works in the exhibition "The Other Side ".

The exhibition is a project in which the search for one’s self  exalts through sustained action of internal analysis. Seymour is an artist who stubbornly pursues  responses between landings and departures, in the need to crystallize the poetic inclination of life, invisible and elusive of this present illusion.  She is a diviner who has an urgent inner need to give shape and structure of language to her emotions.

Hers is an expressive and human universe, dense and complex: her art lives on poetry and, at the same time, is extraordinarily visionary. It is expressed on the border between  dreamlike and surreal, and  takes unpredictable forms, never predictable.

Her attention is to the psychological relationship between
herself and  reality that surrounds her, in the attempt to imagine other identities that enable them to live and overcome the increasingly suffocating  and repetition of everyday life.   

The nature of humanity and her deep poetic feeling is the center for artistic reflection that finds its maximum expression in intense chromatic elaboration  full of suggestions for insatiable soul-searching.
The exhibition is also a reflection on  woman and her role in relationships with  reality that surrounds her.  As body and character, precious presence and misunderstood human figure, strong and weak.              Pino Bonanno





Artist:  Stephanie Seymour
Opening :  Saturday October 15, 2016, 7pm
Gallery:  Gaia Gallery, Strada per Caprareccia, 220 – Marsciano-Papiano (Pg)
Dates:  15 Ottobre   –  20 Novembre 2016
Curator:  Pino Bonanno
Presentation of exhibition: Fiorenza Mosci
Hours open: Monday to Sunday 10am-13pm  – 4pm – 7.
Secretary organizers:  E20 Gaia - e-mal: info@artfarmgaia.it -  tel.+39.347.3652984                


Thursday, October 6, 2016

Third prize won - La Nobil'Ebbrezza Montepulciano

While out of the country this past August (I was in Chna)  I learned of my winning third prize in the art competition at Montepulciano
during the contest/art exhibition

"La Nobil'Ebbrezza"

Here is a photo taken by Pippo Biribim of me in front of my painting "Red Wine Woman"


THE OTHER SIDE of Stephanie Seymour in the program of AMACI



With just a little over a week from my exhibition THE OTHER SIDE 
that will be held at Art Farm Gaia in Marsciano (Papiano), Perugia, Italy,
 below is the link to  the latest post on Facebook by Pino Bonanno,
 curator of the show regarding the show and how it is related to AMACI this year. 

This year as in other years, GAIA GALLERY partecipates, in the
  "Day of Contemporary Art" which is on October 15 and part 
of the program of AMACI  (Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums).
 My exhibition begins on that day and is listed as a part of the events planned for this special day.



Click on the following link to view my event


 listed on the AMACI website