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ART VENTI 2009 - 13
I like to experiment with shadow, light and depth in an environment that starts with a forest of tissues in a light box. The view in this box of translucent paper suggests landscape scenes that seem to move and change as the sun crosses the sky. If the inferred panorama is beguiling enough, the mind will move from the seen to the unseen and finally to what can only be a dream. Sketches of these moments are assembled and used as an elementary scaffold to begin what becomes elaborately constructed worlds drawn in color pencil. When they are complete, the observer will have an opportunity to travel through random meaning to find his own personal significance.
Tissues are as humble and fragile as human lives, and living those lives crumples each into a unique form. Through death and tragedy, people clutch at tissues in a futile attempt to hold back a river of tears. Working as an artist is my strongest defense of our fragile existence. As I endeavor to leave my mark in the world around me, I am reminded that mortality is a powerful adversary to be counteracted with beauty.
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WORKS ON PAPER The Peripherals SERIES
Art Venti has been invited to be in the Venice Art Walk Auction in May 19th 2013.
"Exquisite and Expressive" Rebecca Wilson director of Saatchi On Line wrote this in describing Art Venti's work and has featured several times during 2012-13. April 2012 Newsletter link http://saatol.us/Hj88We In June 2012 the artist was chosen to be in the California Dreaming Collection with Underside of Up which won Best of Show Award, in the TAG Gallery California Open Juried show. Santa Monica, CA. Also in the Surrealist Collection.
The complete Peripherals series is available from the Saatchi On Line site. Selected pieces available from Hale Art Space, Santa Monica, and White Dog Gallery, Carbondale, Colorado (see Purchase Info)
Mixed Media: Predominantly color pencils, water color underlayer, lasceaux finishing spray, on 100% rag paper. Images are amorphic shapes, gracefully moving or motionless. The entire surface of the paper is covered with intensely detailed work. Each piece takes a minimum of four months or more to complete. The compositions appear dream like.
Spatial Colony of the Inner Landscape 34" x 51.5" (February 2013) Color Pencil on paper |
The New Requiem 40" x 56" (sold) Limited Edition of 5 available |
artist in progress on Under the Shadow of Mortality November 2012 |
The Underside of Up 45" x 34" (sold) Limited Edition of 5 available
Beauty Be My Soul (2012) 27" x 77" Available at Hale Arts Space, Santa Monica, CA |
The artist with his dog in the studio. |
Red Scene 30" x 70" Unfinished, not available
Sunset in a Portion of our Lives 21.5" x 48" (sold) limited edition of 5 available |
VIDEOS: Peripherals 1-4 You Tube link click on image or title Proposal for Viewing Room
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Last Man on Earth 36" x 84" |
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Slow Movers 29" x 83" |
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Heart of Humanity (sold) |
Framed by Universal Framers Lincoln Blvd. Venice |
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2009 This was the first drawing in the series. What better place to start with than the Surrealists. An homage to Magritte, Salvador Dali, Yves Tanguy and Jean Cocteau. This generation of mind expansion on canvas and film, and the written word; filled with visual and romantic notions that drew me in like a moth to a flame.
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