Image slideshow
Mondo Bizzarro Gallery reopening after summer with two exhibition that you can’t miss!
JENNYBIRD ALCANTARA Suspicious Activity And CIOU Rebirth
Curated by Luisa Montalto
From 9th September to 17th October 2010
Mondo Bizzarro Gallery is proud to launch its 2010/2011 season with the first European solo exhibit of Jenny Bird Alcantara. The exhibit, entitled SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY, as one of her last work, will display works made exclusively for this occasion. A true talent, visionary and sensitive, to which it’s impossible to remain indifferent.
Main Room - Jenny Bird Alcantara
Looking at an artwork by Jenny
Bird Alcantara is like seeing a magical anthropomorphic world from a fish tank.
It leaves you breathless. A proud and detailed display of deformity, a lovely
way to recount a dream through a sequence of images, to explain the magic of
love and its unfathomable mystery. The imagines displayed on her oil paintings
are intense, melancholic and cruel, almost unaware of their existence, proud of
their diversity; a very personal blend of myths, fairy tales and fantasy,
wrapped in a glueyness that recall the depths of the ocean and the density of
blood. She lives in San Francisco, a city imbued with the most authentic and
revolutionary ideals, constantly flooded with a sunshine that brightens every
color of the landscape, and it seems that the brightness and the freedom of
this city went deep into her skin. Since 2002 she begins to exhibit her
thorough works on oil, acrylic, wood, paper or fabric (dolls), and her resume
does not lack any of the top art galleries, from the Billy Shire Fine Arts
Gallery and Thinkspace in Los Angeles to the MF Gallery in New York and The
Strychnin Gallery in Berlin,and also in the Varnish Fine Art Gallery in San
Francisco.
Project Room - Ciou
Ciou, born in Toulouse in
1981, succeeded to gain a relevant place in the world of contemporary pop art
at a very young age. Due to a style characterized by a line of great expressive
force and a language where the power of color and deformation of shapes combine
to make her stroke unmistakable. The exhibit that gave her international
visibility was in 2004 at the Flux Factory in New York City where her works
were shown among those of Miss Van, Camille Rose Garcia, Junko Mizuno and Sunny
Buick. From there she went on to show in Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona, Brussels
and, regarding Italy, Napoli, where she had an exhibit at MADRE, the famous
museum of contemporary art. Suspended between dream and nightmare, her
paintings consist of a base made of a collage of old papers where she uses
acrylic and ink, expressing a technique that brings to mind the one typical of
traditional tattoo. The result pertains to an imagery overlooked by quotations
from the sacred texts of any time and country, Japanese culture, radical
Primitivism and Art Nouveau.
Charming, passionate and sometimes angry, Ciou is one of the most original and
representative artist of the last years. A painter who, like few others,
managed to impress on her canvas, the meaning of our time.