The Works of Alexander Shundi – Winter Exhibition 2016. Opens Jan 16!

WINTER EXHIBITION 2016

The Art of Alexander Shundi

January 16 – April 14, 2016

Opening Reception
Saturday, January 16, 5:00-7:00 p.m.

The exhibition will focus on paintings, and a collection of collages accompanied by poems, written by Shundi in English or Italian with the accompanied translations, and will open with a gallery talk by the artist followed by a reception on Saturday, January 16 from 5-7pm at 48 Main Street Millerton. Both are free of charge and open to the public.

The collages/poems are conceived to explore a synergy between expression in spoken-written language, and reactions to visual images. It is all an illusion, primarily. But what follows is of interest: one may serve as a key to decipher the other, and vice versa.

The pieces are conceived primarily as illustration in its purity of meaning: to shed light on a thought concept. Both the discipline of vision and of the written poem, have much in common in the formal means of expression, as in their requirement for balance, mystery, rhythm, atmosphere, and harmony.

As a master of his craft, Shundi’s works display a complex and imaginative mind that is rarely at rest. His work is compositionally intricate, and rich in symbolism. Brimming with references to religion, sacred geometry, spirituality and mythology, the work incorporates organic forms, often set within an architectural framework, and often plays with perspective in a unique way – think Bosch, meets Dali with overtones of José Clemente Orozco and De Chirico, while paying homage to African, Amerindian, and early Italian Renaissance art, all within a particularly subjective interpretation of space and time very much within context of modernism.