APRIL 10-22, 2013 

BOLSA DE VALORES,

MéXICO D.F. 

Paseo de la Reforma, 255 Col. Cuauhtémoc

THE POOL NYC is proud to present Selvatica, a show at the Bolsa de Valores, with works by Eteri Chkadua and Bianca Sforni.

Selvatica is  a Latin word used to refer to plants and flowers growing spontaneously on the earth.

The show is titled Selvatica because both Chkadua’s and Sforni’s research comes from a primordial interest in natural and human instincts.

Flowers are a recurring subject in Bianca Sforni photographs and the artist is attempting to draw, their shapes and their constant metamorphosis through her 4×5 camera. Her flowers become something else in her photographs.

Sforni transmits the viewer her hard effort to be surrounded by these magical and dangerous flowers for long time. Bright and primary colors, coming out of her images, are captured in different moments, with extra long exposures and Datura, out of the photographic film, moves into view suddenly blooming stimulating feelings of dance, lightness and mutation.

Daturas are infesting flowers, blossoming at night. Their properties, often used for medical purposes, can also be very dangerous and toxic. ‘Datura intoxication typically produces a complete inability to differenziate fantasy from reality’.

For Bianca Sforni the photographic subject is just a pretext to study forms and emotions.

For the exhibition at the Bolsa, we propose Datura next to the Gentlemen’s club work from After-Dark, which is also a book.

During Sforni’s investigation on the gentlemen’s club in L.A., there is a great desire of revealing the human side of women and men, from the perspective of a special ‘reporter’.

Bianca emphasizes certain lights and signs, in order to confer a mysterious atmosphere, made of a city that appears extremely empty and full at the same time. There is a sense of loneliness in those places that are extremely well illuminated and pointed out.

The exterior image is probably the reflection of what happens inside.

Speaking of Eteri Chkadua’s paintings, the word selvatica can be immediately associated to her work.

Her penchant for representing someone who resembles herself, but it’s not exactly herself, as she says, is a primitive gesture.

Eteri, who is originally from former Soviet Georgia, but emigrated in the late 1980s to the USA, has been painting since early childhood.

She paints women to describe different emotional conditions of a human being. Chkadua can mix in the same canvas stories and traditions of her motherland with objects, meanings, and influences of places where she has lived and has visited, among them New York, Tokyo, and Kingston (Jamaica). Traditional jet black Georgian hair braids and ancient battle swords dance improbably against Jamaica’s slow-motion tropical backdrop. Her many trips to Mexico deeply influenced her otherwise Flemish palate. Eteri’s frequent use of floral images are not extant botanical representations, but rather phantasmagorical displays of her own creations.

There is a heroin, who is always the Deus Ex Machina of the painting, who is orchestrating the whole scene, showing many human feelings and a deep decadence of the whole world. Traditions, costumes, food, technology, and nature are all linked together in order to highlight how easily a human being can be tempted.

Curated by ELENA MAGINI

Tuesday, February 26-Friday, April 5

Opening Reception: Tuesday February 26, 6:30 – 9 pm

F_AIR 

Florence Artist in Residence

 Via San Gallo, 45R 50129 Firenze, Italia

DANIELE D’ACQUISTO @ VOLTA NY 

7-10 March 2013,

New Location: 82, Mercer St. 10013 New York

‘ORGANIC INTUITIONS’

featuring

Gaia Carboni, Patrick Jacobs, and Martin Roth.

April 16-May 4, 2012

Opening Reception: April 16, at 7 pm

Bolsa de Valores, Mexico D.F.

THE POOL NYC is proud to present “Organic Intuitions”, a group show held at the BOLSA de VALORES, in Mexico City.

The show includes the work of three artists operating worldwide: Patrick Jacobs, an American artist based in New York, Gaia Carboni, an Italian artist based in Faenza, and Martin Roth, an Austrian artist who lives and works in NYC.

Jacobs, Carboni and Roth work on the theme of Nature and its related aspects: this exhibition aims at showing various artistic interpretation and representation of Nature, by using different media and approaches.

Our view of nature, by nature, is always restrained, and any representation will always be a “constructed landscape.”

Entering into a gallery or a museum often turns out to be a very cold and aseptic experience. More often than not, the outside world is not allowed to cross the border of a gallery or a museum.

We intentionally overcome that boundary separating art and life, and we do that by surprising the viewer welcoming nature into the gallery, and this time into the Mexican Stock Exchange.

The general idea is to present a space with works  inspired by nature and focused on the nature itself.

Carboni’s works can be paired with Jacobs’works for their concentration on the naturalistic aspect of the world and for their obsessive technique. Carboni is paying attention to the evolution of the object: it’s the chain of life, as a circle, and everything begins and ends in nature. Carboni represents nature in its constant metamorphosis revealing the profound interconnection within different worlds, either architectonic, organic or vegetal.

Through what appears to be a small window on the wall, Jacobs is taking the viewer to a new reduced world, made of natural components and bizarre details. Patrick Jacobs’ work blurs perceptual distinctions between painting, photography and constructed reality. Set behind lenses, these foreshortened spaces occupy the hidden architecture of the wall, offering the viewer an encompassing and magical view of the mundane – a backyard overgrown with dandelions, a kitchen linoleum floor pierced by the leg of a stool, a downspout clogged with dead leaves.

Roth is cultivating grass on a peculiar surface: a rug.

Martin Roth creates a situation —and that situation inevitably, in the words of the artist, “takes on a life on its own”. Sometimes this work can be uncanny because it defies expectations and the inanimate turns animate right before the viewer’s eyes – in a sense his art comes alive. In Martin’s constructed landscapes, animal and plant life takes center stage. By bringing nature into the gallery, Roth challenges the viewer to reevaluate our relationship with the natural world.

By bringing the lawn indoors he plays with the notion of how nature has been already domesticated. The grass will grow upwards towards the artificial sun for a few weeks, and then die as its roots fail to find essential nutrients in their soilless environs.

In the Islamic religion everything is symbolic of the wisdom of the creator. Islamic carpets often depict gardens; in Muslim belief, the woven wool representation is of the same symbolic order as an actual soil and leaf garden.  All things here, be they natural phenomena, or representations, are expressions of spiritual wonders there. “Here in this carpet lies an ever-lovely spring.”

For these artists there are three different ways of representing nature: in Jacobs you can feel beauty and cruelty, in Roth you can see renovation, persistence and hope, and in Carboni you will find all the shapes of the natural evolution.

Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV)
Avenida Paseo de la Reforma #255
Colonia Cuauhtémoc. Delegacion Cuauhtémoc. 06500 Mexico D.F.

Contacts:

viola@thepoolnewyorkcity.com

luigi@thepoolnewyorkcity.com

fcampuzano@bmv.com.mx

+52 (55) 5342 9061

+1 646 244 9783

http://www.bmv.com.mx/

PATRICK JACOBS

will be participating in

AMERICAN DREAMERS.

Reality and Imagination in Contemporary American Art.

REALTA’ E IMMAGINAZIONE NELL’ARTE CONTEMPORANEA AMERICANA

9 Marzo 2012 – 15 Luglio 2012/ March 9 2012- July 15 2012

INAUGURAZIONE MOSTRA / EXHIBITION OPENING

Giovedì 8 marzo 2012 ore 19.00 / Thursday 8 March 2012 at 7 pm

Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze

In collaborazione con / In conjuction with: Hudson River Museum
(Yonkers, New York)

Artisti / Artists: Laura Ball, Adrien Broom, Nick Cave, Will Cotton, Adam Cvijanovic, Richard Deon, Thomas Doyle, Mandy Greer, Kirsten Hassenfeld, Patrick Jacobs, Christy Rupp

A cura di / Curated by: Bartholomew F. Bland