We are pleased to announce our participation to ‘Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary’, with a group presentation featuring new works by:
Juan Cuellar Costa (Valencia, 1967) | Egami Etsu (Tokyo, 1994) | Jerkface (New York, 1982) | Ai☆Madonna (Tokyo, 1984) | Tania Marmolejo Andersson (Santo Domingo, 1975) | Buff Monster (Hawaii, 1979) | Naritaka Satoh (Tokyo 1979) | Johan Whalstrom ( Sweden, 1959)

PALM BEACH COUNTY CONVENTION CENTER
650 Okeechobee Blvd, West Palm Beach, FL 33401

Thursday, March 21, VIP Preview: 5pm – 9pm
Friday, March 22 11am – 7pm
Saturday, March 23 11am – 7pm
Sunday, March 24 11am – 6pm

South Florida’s premier and most prestigious winter art fair, PBM+C takes place during the height of season and is the only “can’t miss” event for all serious collectors, curators, museum directors and interior designers, providing an intimate look at the most important works available for acquisition at the forefront of the international contemporary, modern, classical modern, post-war and pop eras.

PBM+C is the most important fair each winter as it brings a world-class, internationally respected group of 70 galleries and their artists to the discerning and ever growing high net worth audience that has migrated South.

The Fair will coincide with the world-renowned Palm Beach International Boat Show, located along the waterfront and Flagler Drive in Downtown West Palm Beach, FL. The show will feature more than $1.2 billion worth of yachts and accessories, including hundreds of boats ranging from 8-foot inflatables to super yachts nearly 200 feet in length.

We are thrilled to announce our participation to Art Miami 2023 with a solo presentation of new
works by Indonesian artist Suanjaya Kencut.
This project, titled “Guardian Galaxy”, will showcase a series of paintings,
never revealed before, focused on the exploration from different perspectives
of the figure of an unconventional superhero. This new body of works include
four round wood panels, 60 inches in diameter and four slightly smaller
rectangular canvases. The artist in his childhood, as most of the kids, has
aways wondered if he could have become a superhero and fly up into the sky
through the clouds, while wearing an old blanket as a cloak. But then was
getting suddenly discouraged because the traditional characters are depicted
as athletic, powerful, and dashing men and he didn’t have the stocky, strong
manly body seen every day on television. Another frustrating issue was that
commonly all the aliens that were landing from other planets looked like
monsters, were treated like enemies and needed to be exterminated. These
facts were raising further questions about aliens being evil or not, life outside
our world and if other planets had superheroes too.
This multi generational childhood fantasies could appear shabby but are able
to lift extremely sensitive and contemporary issues as long as to generate a
strong interest from a very variegated audience, boosting from Kawaii art lovers
to sci-fi movies, comics and video games aficionados to figures collectors and
rising diversified social, gender and psychological interpretations. This pushed
Suanjaya to bring his childhood reveries into this new series. He fantasizes
about superheroes not following any predetermined physical or gender
stereotype, not only existing in the human world, but in other parts of the
universe, and about aliens being friendly, graceful and inclusive, not scary or
belligerent.
Kencut created his own planet inhabited by individuals who have radar shaped
ears, used for communicating with each other, as well as connecting with living
forms on other planets and in between galaxies. In the ‘Connection Series’ he
describes how they can walk in the air, swarm with each other accepting
everyone diversity, free from any discrimination, like an advanced social
community. The ‘Guardian Galaxy’ is the paladin of this progressive society and
the cloak, a symbol very important to the artist as a childhood memory and
previously explored in other series, defines the character stature. With the
existence of the superhero there is also his counterpart, the enemy, depicted in
the painting ‘The Villain’ without dreadful appearances or monstrous features,
defeated by ‘The Captain’, with the help of his friends, who, after the strenuous
battle, like every regular being, is tired and need to will chill a relax, together
with the companions he just saved, in the artwork ‘The Break’.

We are pleased to announce our participation to ‘VOLTA’ New York, with a group presentation featuring artists: LUKE AGADA, KILA CHEUNG, JUAN CUELLAR, ALBERTO DI FABIO, KWANG HYUN KIM, SEAN MCGAUGHEY, SHUN SUDO and THREE STUDIO, revealing 14 new pieces including, paintings, works on paper, sculptures and wall sculptures.

Volta is located in the Metropolitan Pavillon at 125 WEST 18TH STREET, New York, NY

Booth D-13

Wednesday May 17 VIP Preview: 5pm – 9pm
Thursday, May 18: 12 pm – 9 pm
Friday, May 19 12 pm – 8 pm
Saturday, May 20 12 pm – 8 pm
Sunday, May 21  12 pm – 5 pm

We are pleased to announce our participation to ‘Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary’ with a solo presentation of Tania Marmolejo Andersson, revealing 7 new large scale works on canvas.

Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary is located inside the PALM BEACH COUNTY CONVENTION CENTER, 650 Okeechobee Blvd, West Palm Beach, FL 33401

Booth A-5

Thursday, March 23, 2023, VIP Preview: 5pm – 9pm
Friday, March 24 11am – 7pm
Saturday, March 25 11am – 7pm

Sunday, March 26 11am – 6pm

Titled “Elsewhere”, this presentation will showcase a new series with an intense focus on the maritime and subtropical landscape, strongly representative of the south Floridian environments. Marmolejo’s characters, usually able to loudly communicate their feelings and behavioral patterns, now became more subtle and enigmatic, suggesting a debate over the connection between feelings and nature. This exhibition will introduce to the public seven large format  artworks on canvas, appositely created for this event. This new body of work, exemplarily executed with the artist’s signature technique, show the exceptional capability of depicting emotions imbued with personal implications and social issues pushing even further beyond the boundaries the references to the Expressionism and the Flemish Renaissance that have influenced Tania’s work. Her protagonists appear altered by the surrounding, in a sort of epiphany moment after a deep meditation on the wilderness of nature.
The emotions that Marmolejo expresses through her characters are also works of self-questioning about civil, gender, political and environmental controversies.

Tania Marmolejo Andersson was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (1975). Influenced by her Scandinavian and Caribbean heritage, she studies Graphic Design and Illustration in Norway and returns to the Dominican Republic to study Fine Arts at the Altos de Chavón School of Design. In 1998 she receives the Bluhdorn Scholarship, and continues her studies at Parsons The New School for Design in New York, graduating from Fine Arts and Illustration in 2000. She begins her artistic career as an illustrator for the fashion and lifestyle sections of Obsidiana magazine (New York). Since then, her work has been exhibited in numerous collective and solo national and international exhibitions, several Iberoamerican Art Salons in Washington DC, representing Dominican Republic; as well as in international art fairs.

Marmolejo was selected to represent the Dominican Republic with her textile designs at the Fourth and Sixth Ibero-American Design Biennial (BID), in Madrid, Spain, in 2014 and 2018. Her artwork has been displayed as part of important national cultural campaigns in the Dominican Republic and she has been recognized as a remarkable Dominican contemporary artist by important Dominican magazines and institutions.

Marmolejo is also the author of 2 books and the illustrator of a children book series. She currently resides in New York, where she is devoted full time to her artistic practice.

Solo presentation of NKSIN new works at SCOPE Art Fair

Booth C01

801 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach FL

November 29 – December 04 2022

GR gallery is pleased to announce its participation to SEATTLE ART FAIR with a group presentation featuring artists: Geoffrey Bouillot, Egami Etsu, Adam Handler, Suanjaya Kencut, Ai Madonna, Kazusa Matsuyama and Daniel Nunez from July 21 to July 24. The show will put together a total 14 artworks on canvas, two per each artist.

Opening reception:
Thursday July 21 , 5:00pm – 09:00pm

General Admission :
Friday, July 22nd: 12:00 – 8:00 PM
Saturday, July 23rd: 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Sunday, July 24th: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Booth F11 @ SEATTLE ART FAIR
Lumen Field Event Center
800 Occidental Ave S
Seattle, WA 98134

Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary art fair

BOOTH A – 3 
Thursday, March 24, 2022
VIP Preview: 5pm – 9pm
Access for PBM+C VIP Cardholders & Press, benefiting the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens

GENERAL ADMISSION
Friday, March 25 11am – 7pm
Saturday, March 26 11am – 7pm
Sunday, March 27 11am – 6pm

FAIR INFORMATION
+1.800.376.5850 or info@artpbfair.com

Tania Marmolejo Andersson was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (1975). Influenced by her Scandinavian and Caribbean heritage, she studies Graphic Design and Illustration in Norway and returns to the Dominican Republic to study Fine Arts at the Altos de Chavón School of Design. In 1998 she receives the Bluhdorn Scholarship, and continues her studies at Parsons The New School for Design in New York, graduating from Fine Arts and Illustration in 2000.She begins her artistic career as an illustrator for the fashion and lifestyle sections of Obsidiana magazine (New York). During these years, she also designs characters and backgrounds for MTV, PBS, Hyperion/Disney, and Scholastic Books among others, as part of the Data Motion Arts studios animation team, receiving various ASIFA and CINE awards. In 2005 she joins the group of artists at MadArts Studios in Brooklyn, NY, and District and Co. Gallery in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where she participates in several group exhibitions, focuses entirely on the development of her artistic career along with the design. Since then, her work has been exhibited in numerous collective national and international exhibitions and Art Fairs all around the world.

Born in 1995, David Babatunde Olatoye is a Nigerian visual artist whose skill lies in the art of penmanship. David’sart is created with both traditional black pen and colour. Also known as Orisa to n mu ink, meaning, the god that sucks ink; his portraits, which are created with ink, are mostly made lifelike with the aim of portraying black excellence. David describes his background as a place of no consciousness and a sense of responsibility. Regardless, he began practicing art in his home by using any medium he could lay his hand on. After his secondary school education in 2011, David trained at Topfat art gallery in shop 156, Adamasingba, Ibadan where he sharpenedhis knowledge and acquired more skills. Inspired by music when working, David’s artworks largely addresseshumanity, with a focus on common daily activities in order to educate and encourage people emotionally, financially, and in other areas. David was one of the six artists selected for the Rele Young Contemporary Residency in 2020.

Maiko Kobayashi was born on 19 January 1977 in Yokohama-City, and grew up for 10 years in Sagamihara-City, Kanagawa Prefecture, then moved to Machida-City, Tokyo where she spent a lot of time. She lives and works in Tokyo. She studied in Scenography and Display, in Tokyo Japan, then did in Life drawing and sketching at Setsu Mode Seminar in Tokyo and studied in Art Practice, School of Arts and Social sciences, at the Northumbria University, Newcastle England. She exhibited extensively for the past 20 years in galleries, museums and art fairsaroundtheworld.”ThemoreIgettoknowthingsintheworld,themoreoftenIfeelhelpless. But,whenIdiscover that human beings have that essential vitality that will never be lost under any circumstances, my heart fills with courage and hope. The « friction » caused by this contradictory sensation is my motivation to draw.

Tokyo-based contemporary artist Shun Sudo is known for his unique style combining traditional Japanese ink painting (sumi-e) with graffiti reminiscent of New York street art. His works are vibrant and colourful, imbued with lots of joy and optimism. Sudo has been deeply influenced by American pop culture throughout his career. After travels across the United States in his 20s, he returned to Japan in his 30s to begin work on paintings that allude to both his creative roots in traditional Japanese culture and contemporary street cultures of Western societies. Integrating both of these influences into his aesthetic sensibilities. In his current series “Innocent Forest,” which contains Sudo’s creations of imaginary animals, which look similar to rabbits, elephants or deer, which wanderaround the mysterious forest – he projects those animals as himself and the forest as the United States when he traveled in younger years.

Born in 1964 in Okayama, Japan, Mayuka Yamamoto received her master’s degree at Tokyo’s Masashino ArtUniversity in 1990 and joined the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artist to continue her studiesin London until 1999. Her works have been shown in several solo shows held by Japan’s Gallery Tsubaki and her2007 solo show, titled Deer Boy and Other infants, was hosted by Canvas International Arts gallery in Amsterdam. She also participated in group shows at the Korean International Art Fair (2004–2007) and Young Japanese Painting (2007, Amsterdam). Yamamoto is known for her oil paintings portraying children in animal suits or possessing animal features, to reveal their inner world. Like a protective armor in response to their emotions and psychological state, they seem to instinctively hide behind a second skin in the form of animal costumes or some other defensive physical animalistic features. In some of the pieces, Yamamoto paints settings inspired by nature, further enhancing the contemplative space into which the subject seems to find solace in the dreamlike natural habitat.

Wei Ting Chen was born in Tainan, Taiwan in 1991. He spent his childhood on cartooning, and he liked to draw characters. In Fu Jen University, he majored in Chinese Literature and started to write poems. He read Roland L. Bachmann’s concept of fragment. Roland’s work is composed of fragments. When readers read his works, they need to put together his thoughts. For Chen, he thinks that the writing is a slice of life, and writing poems has become another way of making a drawing.His works are mostly paintings with acrylic paints, often accompanied by poems that correspond to the visual parts and provide a complete sense of a story. He also works with different media, such as video art, action art, and sculpture. He attended Nuit Blanche Taipei in 2017, an art event with lots of performance. Some works he created is now in the collection of Lih-pao Cultural Arts Foundation. He always thinks that his works are showing the differences between children and adults.

GR gallery is pleased to announce “When Power Plays” a solo presentation of Dennis Osadebe new works at CONTEXT Art Miami, from November 30 to December 5. The show will put together 10 artworks, including the artist signature compositions on canvas, a print, a gold leaf bronze sculpture and, for the first time in his career, a magnificent tondo made of stained glass and metal.

Opening reception: Tuesday November 30, 6:00pm – 10:00pm ( Show dates December 1 to December 5 11am – 7 pm) Dennis Osadebe will attend the vernissage and Members of the press can contact GR gallery in advance to schedule an interview with the artist.

Booth A7 @ CONTEXT Art Miami Pavillon, One Herald Plaza @ NE 14th street | Downtown Miami On Biscayne Bay Between The Venetian & MacArthur Causeways T: 305 517 7977

“When Power Plays” is a new body of work that reflects Osadebe questioning the connection between art, authority, play, and prestige. The works are rooted within a playful visual investigation surrounding the balance of power, pushing the boundaries of art as the tool to undo established political order. The recurring characters depicted throughout Osadebe’s practice have been re-dressed in suits of armour, this pertinent symbolism alluding to ideas of strength and status. We find these regal knights partaking in playful action through gestures of sport, this tongue-in-cheek contrast highlighting the fragility of power, and the role that play holds in deconstructing authoritative dynamics. This series sees new mediums explored for the artist, working with stained glass, a medium that sings to both Osadebe’s utilisation of colour and fascination with history through its elemental ties to tradition and worship. In the sculptural piece, the combination of bronze and gold leaf speaks to ideas of material wealth, while questioning the esteem held within traditional methods of making. Osadebe has forged a body of work that unpicks how we understand the complexities of power, allowing this series to present itself as one that will leave behind a legacy for future rule-breakers to reference.

There is so much to consider when an exhibition is called Back to Life. There is the sense that, like here in New York, that life is back to life, so to speak, that we have begun to emerge and either live with a new sense of purpose of a new sense of what we want to be now. In the context of this Back to Life, GR Gallery has presented a showcase of three artists, Magdalena Kirklewska, Johan Van Mullem and Zheng Tianmin, all with new paintings and in the spirit of both a spiritual awakening and a rebirth of NYC.

Booth 041 with a group presentation with:
Yoon Hyup
Joan Cornella’
Buff Monster
Dylan Gebbia Richards
Alberto Di Fabio
Meguru Yamaguchi

GR Gallery is pleased to announce its participation to PULSE Miami Beach Art Fair, with a double presentation of new works by MEGURU YAMAGUCHI and YOON HYUP.

LOCATION: Booth 415 + PULSE Projects section.
INDIAN BEACH PARK 4601 COLLINS AVENUE, MIAMI BEACH, FL 33140 (Collins Avenue and 46th Street with direct access from the beach and the boardwalk).

DATES & HOURS: 

Thursday, December 5 | 1PM – 7PM
Friday, December 6 | 10AM – 7PM
Saturday, December 7 | 10AM – 7PM
Sunday, December 8 | 10AM – 5PM

The presentation will show the latest series of artworks conceived by the artists appositely for this occasion.
Yoon Hyup will reveal a new body of works executed on shaped canvases, together with his first 3-D edition sculpture.
Meguru Yamaguchi will unveil a variant of his signature “Split Horizon” series enforced with new color gradients, together with a gigantic 13 x 13 ft. artwork, exhibited in the “Project” section.

Solo Presentation of artist JOAN CORNELLA’
Showcasing new Prints/Merchandise and original artworks on Canvas and paper.
The artist will be attending the Art fair. Booth B-19
801 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33139

Tuesday, December 3 4pm – 8pm
Wednesday, December 4 11am – 8pm
Thursday, December 5 11am – 8pm
Friday, December 6 11am – 8pm
Saturday, December 7 11am – 8pm
Sunday, December 8

a solo exhibition by Catalan artist Joan Cornella’.
The exhibition will showcase 25 pieces, including works on canvas and paper, prints and the artist signature merchandise. Beside some of his classical iconic pieces the artist will reveal a completely new body of works, especially linked to this occasion and environment and will release two brand new screen prints.
Joan Cornella’ (1981, Barcelona). Is an artist illustrator and a cartoonist, well-known for his dark and quirky humour, often described as disturbing and outrageous. With his own visual code, which is minimalist and unusual, Joan Cornellà uses satire to denounce the grim and dark part of the human nature. He raises awareness on our hypocrisy and our obsession with many topics of our everyday lives. The colors of the sets and the perturbingly stillness of his characters reminds the spectator of the 1950’s advertisements, however, a morbid atmosphere hides behind this happy, yet cynical, faces. Cornellà does not hesitate to mock taboos. His artworks are bold and direct, and describe our daily routine scenes. Since no topic is “off limit” for Joan, some people might feel offended by his work, but once the viewer get deepen into his cynical and direct approach the appreciation grows exponentially. Honest and incredibly entertaining, Cornellà’s work sends a true signal: he puts us in front of our own failings, masked behind an obvious humour. Besides having collaborated with a lot of major magazines such as: La cultura del Duodeno, El Periódico, Ara the The New York Times, he exhibited his artworks in galleries and public venues all over the world.

In esposizione 30 opere di Tommaso Bet che compongono una personale che attraversa gli ultimi anni del giovane Maestro sacilese, con particolare rilevanza ai cicli dei paesaggi acquorei, dei ritratti celebri e delle composizioni antropomorfiche. Dalla formidabile capacità di questo artista – che non ha ancora toccato i 40 anni – nel coniugare visionarietà, violenza espressiva e radicamento nel suo tempo, scaturiscono prove di straordinaria originalità e di grande forza evocativa.

GR gallery is pleased to announce its participation at Scope Art Fair 2018 in Miami Beach with a solo show featuring  Japanese artist Meguru Yamaguchi.

December 4 – 9, 2018.

Miami Beach Pavillon, 801 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL. Booth D07

DRIVE IN

a cura di Luca Palermo

REGGIA DI CASERTA.
RETROSTANZE APPARTAMENTO SETTECENTESCO

13 gennaio – 13 febbraio 2018

Il 13 gennaio 2018 alle ore 17.00 si inaugurerà, presso le retrostanze dell’appartamento settecentesco delle Reggia di Caserta, la mostra Drive In di Marco Casentini. Tale mostra, a cura di Luca Palermo, rappresenta la tappa conclusiva di un percorso espositivo portato avanti dall’artista a partire dal 2017 e che ha coinvolto musei ed istituzioni italiane ed estere: dall’agosto all’ottobre del 2017 la mostra è stata, infatti, ospitata dal MOAH, Museum of Art and History di Lancaster in California; dal novembre al dicembre del 2017 è stata la Bocconi Art Gallery di Milano a farne da palcoscenico.

La tappa casertana, realizzata in collaborazione con la Galleria Nicola Pedana Arte Contemporanea, sarà supportata da Gobbetto – Special Resins, Polin e Sikkens.

La ricerca di Marco Casentini affonda le sue radici in qualcosa di molto simile a quanto sostenuto da Piet Mondrian: semplificare le forme secondo l’ordine della geometria e dello spazio al fine di ricreare, con elementi minimi, quello stesso spazio nel quale viviamo e con il quale costantemente ci si confronta. Quella di Casentini è una vera e propria geometria dello spazio, dunque, nella quale le forme sono solo un punto di partenza, un pretesto necessario per l’esplorazione e la riproposizione di luoghi che, in qualche modo, sono diventati parti integranti del suo “viaggio” artistico. Gli elementi che compongo le sue immagini, l’essenzialità, quasi minimalista, delle forme e del colore, dematerializzano lo spazio rappresentato introducendo lo spettatore in un non-luogo mentale emotivamente rilevante, la cui fisicità si lascia solo intuire. La pittura di Marco Casentini è una pittura architettonicamente intesa, in grado, cioè, di trasmettere impressioni e suggestioni di un paesaggio urbano e naturale svincolato dalla sua immagine reale, ma che, in qualche modo, ad essa rimanda.
La mostra sarà visitabile tutti i giorni dal 13 gennaio 2018 al 13 febbraio 2018 secondo gli orari di apertura e di chiusura della struttura ospitante.

Dal 10 gennaio al 12 febbraio 2018 si terrà al Museo Archeologico di Mantova, già Antico Teatro di Palazzo Ducale, la mostra “Marcello De Angelis, Mara Fabbro, i progetti della natura”, a cura di Giovanni Granzotto e Leonardo Conti.

Marcello De Angelis e Mara Fabbro sono due giovani artisti che in questi anni stanno riscuotendo apprezzamenti a livello nazionale e internazionale con la presenza nelle grandi Fiere, nei musei, nelle gallerie e nelle committenze europee ed americane.
A Mantova si confrontano, attraverso le loro opere più significative, lungo la traccia del rapporto tra progettualità mentale e fascinazioni naturalistiche.
La mostra, infatti, conduce lo spettatore fra i meandri della concezione ideale della bellezza di Marcello De Angelis e della concezione emozionale e fisica della stessa bellezza di Mara Fabbro.

A Trip with Marco Casentini to Bocconi Art Gallery 2017

THE SEVENTH EDITION OF BAG INCLUDES ‘DRIVE IN’, A PERSONAL EXHIBITION OF TWELVE PAINTINGS AND A 30METER WALL PAINTING BY THE ARTIST, CELEBRATING THE THEME OF THE JOURNEY

A journey into the art of Marco Casentini, but also a journey into the theme of the journey. In the seventh edition of Bocconi Art Gallery, which will be inaugurated on November 13, there will be a personal exhibition of the artist curated by the critic Federico Sardella. The exhibition, which will remain in Bocconi until December 22, exhibits a large wall painting of thirty meters plus twelve paintings. It represents the second stage of an exhibition tour that began in August at the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster (California) will end in February at the Reggia di Caserta, curated by Luca Palermo.

“In ‘Drive In’ there is the memory of the journey,” says Marco Casentini. “It’s a way to enter my art and follow the outlines and feelings, the exhibition space becomes the place where the spectator can perceive the emotions I shared. But at the same time, since all my works refer to places or travel experiences, ‘Drive In’ is also a metaphorical reflection on the subject of being in another place. ”

In each of the venues where it is set up, “the show develops with different exhibition criteria dictated by each space, holding as a common denominator the on-site realization of a mural painting that deals with the works exhibited. In the case of the exhibition in Caserta, there is also of a floor colored with resins, made in an exhibition hall, “continues Casentini.

At Lancaster, where the show was curated by MOAH’s director, Andi Campognone, the artist modified a Fiat 500 with his typical colorful pattern and exhibited paintings done on reflecting metal that resemble the ca’s body. “For BAG, a large 30-meter wall painting will be realized and there will be 7 paintings in acrylic and perspex on canvas plus 5 paintings on perspex and aluminum.”

GR gallery is proud to announce the participation of

Alberto Biasi

Franco Costalonga

Nadia Costantini

Sandi Renko

Claudio Rotta Loria

to Venice 57th Biennale in the occasion of  ‘Alberto Biasi, Sara Campesan, Bruno Munari e gli amici di Verifica 8+1’, ongoing from July 28 to October 8 at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice.

On July 2oth from 6:00 to 9:00 GR gallery will celebrate the exhibition “Interstellaris”, with a closing event and the presentation of the exhibition catalogue.

RSVP at info@gr-gallery.com

GR gallery will exhibit  at the Contemporary Art Fair ARTEFIERA di Bologna.

January 26-30  2017,  quartiere Fieristico di Bologna, entrance Ovest Costituzione.

“Main Section”, Booth B69, Hall 25

artista exhibited:

Tommaso Bet
Alberto Biasi
Sergio Collussa
Franco Costalonga
Nadia Costantini
Carlos Cruz Diez
Mario Deluigi
Marcello DeAngelis
Ulrich Erben
Mara Fabbro
Riccardo Licata
Julio Le Parc
Gino Morandis
Felipe Pantone
Alberto Pasqual
David R. Prentice
Sandi Renko
Pierluigi Slis
Jorrit Tornquist
Emilio Vedova

First solo exhibition on Optical and Kinetic artist Sandi Renko at GR gallery – Italy. Viale Zancanaro 44 – 33077 Sacile PN

Opening on December 17 2016 and running until February 10 2017 this show is featuring 40 Artworks from the late 60’s till nowadays.

Renko’s modus operandi is usually to set up a work surface of corrugated cardboard that has been treated with acrylic colors, using solid geometric structures with seemingly elementary patterns based on a cube motif. The modular development of space is treated with methodological rigor, offering the viewer variable sequences that are reduced to essential visual elements, where vertical lines, legible from several angles, bring life to the images.
The works of Sandi Renko use simple lines that vary in length and thickness, creating volumetric effects that take on kinesthetic characteristics when observed from different viewpoints. As happens in nature, the subjects become modulated phenomena of geometric structures that change according to elementary patterns. Adhering to the neo-avante-garde spirit that developed in Italy in the 1960s, Sandi Renki elaborates his personal visual and architectural lexicon, experimenting with perceptive and multisensory variables, and diversifying light effects.

GR gallery is proud to announce its participation to the 27th Edition of Arte Padova – 2016
Booth 196 – Pav. 7
Via Niccolò Tommaseo ENTRANCE TO PAV. 7 and 1
Park Nord Via Rismondo, Gate L: ENTRANCE TO PAV. 8

November 11 – 13 10.00 to 8.00
Monday Nov. 14 – 10.00 to 1.00

Opening Reception:
November 10 6:00 to 9:00

GR gallery is pleased to announce its participation to Berliner Liste Art Fair.

We will be located at booth G25, with an exhibition project dedicated to artists Tommaso Bet, Marcello De Angelis, Mara Fabbro and Pierluigi Slis.

Exhibition Venue: Kraftwerk Berlin, Köpenicker Straße 70, 10179 Berlin

Exhibition dates and Opening Hours: Thursday, September 15th to Sunday, September 18th, 2016
Opening: Wednesday, September 14th 2016, 6 pm.  Thursday – Saturday: 1 pm to 9 pm
Sunday, September 18th: 11 am to 7 pm

New York, 7/12/16 – GR gallery is pleased to present “Emilio Cavallini: Harmony Runs On A Thread”, artist Emilio Cavallini’s first solo show at GR gallery. Given the artist’s fame as an innovator in fashion design, the exhibition will start on September 8 2016 in conjunction with the beginning of New York Fashion Week. Spanning over three decades of his career, the retrospective will feature twenty-five of his works, including his best known series Attuale-Infinito, Biforcazioni, Frattali and Diagrammi.

The exhibition is curated by GR gallery’s founder Giovanni Granzotto and its director, Alberto Pasini. The exhibition’s fully illustrated catalogue presents an essay by Giovanni Granzotto.

Throughout his creatively innovative career, Emilio Cavallini has seamlessly weaved fashion and fine art together, two worlds that have in turn benefitted greatly from his contributions. Beginning in 1970 with his founding of Stilnovo, a fashion company that has made a lasting effect on the textile industry, Cavallini unleashed his creative expression with thread, printed fabrics, and textiles through his art as well as through his journey in the fashion world.

Only a few years ago in 2010, Emilio decided to dedicate himself solely to his art.

In February 2011, at the Triennale Expo in Milan, Emilio showed his work to the public for the first time.

Cavallini comments: “At the age of sixty, the time had come to make up lost time (let me be clear: I never waste my time but during the years of the great “tra la la” with fashion, I had limited it, circumscribed it within the sphere of pure family and entrepreneurial duty).”

Cavallini’s artwork is characterized by free experimentation under the influence of op and kinetic art, abstract constructivism, and spatialism. His thread and fabrics are the uniting force of his artistic output. Through his use of unconventional materials (designed and produced by the artist throughout the years) like thread over a mannequin leg and yarn spools, he journeys to discover relationships between chaos/disorder and organization and placement. In his own words, “I was breaking down barriers, going beyond the limits of censorship.” His geometric patterns (squares, circles, rectangles, dots, lines, etc.) accurately present as though put together through precise calculations in a process of experimentation and organized disorder. The combination of brilliant colors, dizzying patterns, and repetitive rhythm almost paradoxically create great unity. With thread and printed fabric stretched over yarn spools in complex arrangements, we are struck not only by intricate designs and shapes but also by the beautiful tension of thread, a subtle force that comes through in all his works. His art is rife with metaphors of weaving, pushing, and pulling- the literal weaving of thread and the conceptual weaving of art and design. His rhythmic push and pull of fabric not only catches but holds the eye.

Opening reception:  Thursday September 8,  2016,  6:00pm 9:00pm

(Exhibition Dates:  September 8 – October 9, 2016)

New York, 7/11/2016 – LAST CHANCE -GR gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of the Italian artist and kinetic and op art innovator Franco Costalonga. On view, thirty of his works from the Seventies until today, including his best known series “Oggetti Cromocinetici”, “Riflex”, “Gradienti di Luminosità” and “Mokubi”. The exhibition will focus on the artist’s most kinetic works, powered by motors and illuminated by light bulbs, such as “Riflex” and “Oggetti Cromocinetici”.

(Exhibition Dates: May 27– July 17, 2016)

About the artist: Franco Costalonga (b.Venice, 1933). In 1965 he joined the Dialettica delle Tendenze group and started employing different materials in the attempt to create new surfaces that could generate three-dimensional forms. His research brought him to Bruno Munari‘s Sette-Veneto group (linked to Brescia’s Centro Operativo Sincron). Costalonga was thus able to thoroughly develop his interest in kinetic and visual effects. In 1969 Peggy Guggenheim acquired for her collection Costalonga’s work Sphere, made of Perspex and chromium metal. The artist has been the recipient of many awards for his work in the fields of furnishings and design and has taken part in many national and international art shows among which: the 1966 Quadriennale of Rome, the itinerant exhibition of The Arts Council of Great Britain, the 1970 Venice Biennale, the exhibition Grands et Jeunes d’aujourd’hui – Art cinetique Peinture-Sculpture at the Grand Palais of Paris in 1972, the Internationale Kunstmesse-Art5, Base in1974l. In 1978 he founded the group Verifica 8+1, focusing on concrete and structural art. In the 1980s and 1990s he took part in several Venice Biennales. The artist currently lives in Venice.

About GR gallery:
Founded in the mid-seventies by Italian art critic Giovanni Granzotto in Sacile, Italy, Studio d’Arte GR has been specializing in Kinetic, Op and Programmed Art; its US branch, GR gallery, continues its mission in North America.

Visitor Information:  Tue- Sat 12:00pm – 7:00pm;

Contact/ Press enquiries:  Eva Zanardi at GR gallery ezanardi@gr-gallery.com

Image: Franco Costalonga “Lente Cromocinetica” , 1970, ø 100 cm, 39.37 in.

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GR gallery is pleased to announce its participation to The Solo Project Art Fair.

Presenting the work of artist Alberto Biasi and Jorrit Tornquist in booth A 20

Preview: Mon, June 13, 1.00 pm to 3.00 pm
Public vernissage:  Mon, June 13, 3.00 to 7.00 pm

Tue, June 14 to Sat, June 18, 2016, 10.00 am to 8.00 pm

Dreispitzhalle, Helsinki-Strasse 5, Basel/Münchenstein (Dreispitz-Areal)

Group exhibition running from February 6 to April 3 in Museum of Villa Brandolini, located at Piazza Libertà n. 7, Pieve di Soligo, Italy. The show is focused on artist Jorrit Tornquist and displays 40 artworks from the early sixties to nowadays. Furthermore the exhibition shows works from 6 other artists that dedicated their research to the color: Josef Albers, Max Bill, Hugo Demarco, Kuno Gonschior, Ulrich Erben and Marco Casentini

Marcello De Angelis and Claudio Rotta Loria “double” personal exhibition, opening on the 12 of December and running through February 6 2016 at Studio d’Arte Gr, Viale Zancanaro 44 – Sacile – Italy

Curated by Giovanno Granzotto and Alberto Pasini the exhibitions displays over 40 artworks, from the late ’60s to nowadays; it is mainly focused on the latest production of Marcello de Angelis and on the series superfici ad interferenza luminosa and spazializzazioni di forme elementari by Claudio Rotta Loria catalogue available at the gallery

Franco Costalonga solo exhibition, opening on the 13 of September and running through November 15 at Studio d’Arte Gr, Viale Zancanaro 44 – Sacile – Italy

Curated by Giovanno Granzotto the show displays 32 artworks from the late ’60s to nowadays, including the most representative series of the artist: Oggetti Cromocinetici, Oggetti Quadro and Riflex, focusing on the “Boîtes”, artworks animated by engine and light.

catalogue available at the gallery

August 23 – September 20, the exhibition takes place in the refined Museum of Villa Brandolini, Piazza libertà 7, Pieve di Soligo – Italy. Curated by Giovanni Granzotto and Alberto Pasini, catalogue edited by Vianello Publishing. Opening event: August 22nd at 6:30 pm.

This show put together about 40 artworks among paintings and installations. The exhibition is divided into three parts , each one displays a different series of artworks brought on by Tommaso Bet from 2008 till nowadays. The first one exhibits a series of portraits, the second a group of creative contamination of immaginary animals and post industrial machinery, and the third one a series of semi-abstract paintings nicknamed “Landscapes”.

This exhibition, held at Gr Gallery Italy, put on show over 40 artworks among paintings, sculptures and installation, conceived by historical optical artists Nadia Costantini and Rino Sernaglia. What brings together the creativity of these artists is a particular research based on the unicity of the light. The viewer will have the chance to admire two different ways to interpret artistically the light .

March 19 – May 31