Christoph Everding. It's all about the view / Ex-stasis

“Art and religion are, then,
two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.”
(Clive Bell, from “Arte”, 1914)
 
On the occasion of the month dedicated to contemporary art celebrated in Florence, the Galleria360 proposes a double artistic event: the solo exhibition of the German artist Christoph Everding "It's all about the view" and the group exhibition "Ex-stasis". The opening of the exhibition will take place on Friday 13th of October 2017 at 19:00 in Via Il Prato 11r Florence. During the vernissage it’ll be offered a welcome cocktail while jazz musicians’ll play live.
 
CHRISTOPH EVERDING Christoph Everding was born in Monaco of Bavaria in 1966. After obtaining a degree in "Graphic Design and Illustration", he works as artistic director in London, Zurich and New York. Despite the brilliant professional career, the close and repeated contacts with the art world, rekindle in Everding the memory of a youthful passion for painting. From brilliant Art Director to talented painter it is a brief step, resulting, in a short time, in an art that doesn’t attempt vanguard adventures, but rather it unites the emotion to the color, with extreme simplicity and purity of soul. Preferring a colored ink technique on paper, enhanced by the suggestions of acrylic tempera and pastel, the artist "puts on stages" the kaleidoscopic beauty of life through coloristic nuance perfectly calibrated, that chase one with the other on the surface of the painting now impetuously, now with harmony generating graceful motions. Delicate pictorial touches, are overlapped with decisive graphics, pouring into the maze of color rivulets, all the essence of his expressive impetus.
The chromatic matter now obedient to the interior artist's dictation, now rebellious and free, slips fast, impregnating the pictorial surface of memories, traces of life, and emotions. Therefore, if the artist initiate the creative process, is actually the color that, splitting into sudden delicate chromatic nuances rivers, determines the final outcome. An intuitive painting, which responds to an inner dictates and which maintains a degree of unpredictability creativity, that also distinguished some ancient Japanese decorative technique, such as that of the suminagashi. The suminagashi art developed in Japan to decorate the paper by ink (sumi) floating (nagashi) on the water. The traces of the ink formed abstract designs, which could be influenced by the artist with a light puff, with the tip of a needle or brush. The images that were created were then imprinted in a sheet of rice paper leaning on the water itself.
 
A technique that in the ritual simplicity of a gesture was able to give rise to suggestive works where the artist's action was intertwined with casual and uncontrollable natural forces. Thus, in German painter’s artworks, scenarios arise from enveloping chromatic sonorities that, in their continuous concealed and manifested becoming and in their multifaceted nuances, become the expression of the emergence of new awareness in the perception of the visual world. Christoph Everding's painting is not conceived as a pure aesthetic exercise, but on the contrary, it is intertwined with the deepest inner necessities, that brought to light by the recesses of the soul, imprinted themselves on pictorial space in the rich and complex chromatic texture. In the Christoph Everding’s paintings intense chromatic vibrations contrast and succeed on the pictorial surface in a continuous flow, where nothing is discounted or immutable and that nourishes itself from an imaginary that, through color, never renounces an idea of beauty and harmony.
 
As argued by the Russian father of abstraction, Vasilij Kandinskij, “colour is a power which directly influences the soul. Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammer, the soul is the strings.The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.”
 
Virginia Bazzechi Ganucci Cancellieri

"Ex-stasis" is a group exhibition in which various international artists have to deal with the complex issue of Ecstasy. The term ex-stasis, derives from the greek (ex "out of" stasis "stability"), which literally means "out of place". The ecstasy then indicates a "kidnapping beside himself" material and spiritual, but it implies also a reconciliation between spirit and mind. So, “Ex-stasis" is an exhibition where the thought renounces to any claim to objectivity by surrounding to an emotional dynamism that leads to a trip "outside the self," on the thin boundary line between the visible and the invisible, between material and immaterial between what is and what may take one form. The protagonists of this exhibition are:
 
DANIEL BORDI, Brazilian artist, who thanks to a very characterized personal language, which is the result of eclectic hybridizations and ingenious manipulations, from the world of advertising, graphic design and graffit art, leads us into vibrant and colorful visionaries "environments". Among unpredictable mental balances and unprecedented hybridizations, Daniel Bordi’s art, reveals, behind the seemingly ludic and genuine aspect, all its complex and experimental character.
 
SANDRA NITCHIE, was born in Baltimore and currently she lives and works in her gallery in Bucerias, a city on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. Strongly imbued with suggestions of Mexican tradition, Sandra Nitchie's art investigates the complex theme of the nature of personal identity. So, behind the elegant dresses of smiling and celebrated icons of the show world, there is a constant appeal to “La Catrina”, a Mexican symbol linked to the "El Día de los Muertos" celebrations.
Among continuous sensory inputs, perceptuale strangements and chromatic emotions, the "Ex-stasis" exhibition accompanies the observer in a real sensory ecstasy, waking the mind and spirit from the drowsiness of emotional stasis, igniting the senses.

Virginia Bazzechi Ganucci Cancellieri

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