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New Modern Times
February 16th, 2008NEW MODERN TIMES:
PAINTINGS, PRINTS & WALL SCULPTURE
October 2-28, 2005
Landow Gallery, Landon School, Bethesda MD
New Modern Times, a thirty-six foot long wall sculpture transforms styrofoam packing forms collected over many years into a vast, complex topography.
The exhibit includes black and white monotypes from Les Fleurs du Mal Suite, paintings with embedded objects on canvas, packing-form assemblages, and small, colorful encaustics on wood and paper.
Touches of color throughout the show, curated by artist Luciano Penay, play against the white sculptural forms, their shadows, and the black of the prints.
Peace in Our Time
February 16th, 2008PEACE IN OUR TIME
Artomatic 2004
The title echoes Neville Chamberlain’s proclamation in front of 10 Downing St. on September 30, 1938 after the Munich Conference. He said, “My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time… Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.”
Here Italian Peace (PACE) flags dangle from the ceiling grid while a flag from each of the 192 countries of the world look on. Walking through the gallows, sound becomes quiet, muffled. The hush tells all.
Peace from Every Balcony has been a rallying cry in Italy since the invasion of Iraq and the Pace flags were hung from windows and balconies all over Italy. The first Italian pacifist flag was made at the request of the Italian non-violent leader Aldo Capitini, for the March for Peace Perugia-Assisi, September 24, 1961.
Capitini lost his job in 1932 because he refused to join the fascist party, and became a lifelong peace advocate. The march resulted in the The Italian Consultation for Peace and the Nonviolent Movement for Peace which is still active. The flag was inspired by an anti-nuclear protest led by Bertrand Russell in Aldermaston, GB. In the story of the Flood, God puts the rainbow as a seal of his alliance with humans and nature, promising that will never be another Flood. So the rainbow became the symbol of peace between the Earth and Heaven,and, in consequence of that, among all mankind.