Each of the 14 zones of the exhibition immerses audiences in works of stunning beauty and powerful elements of nature. This exhibition incorporates both the natural landscapes and the cultural backdrop of the city as new media artworks. WATERFALL INFINITE, being exhibited at ARTE MUSEUM DUBAI, stretches across all planes to transport viewersĭubai, United Arab Emirates: ARTE MUSEUM, the internationally acclaimed immersive digital art venue produced by the world-class Korean digital design company d’strict, has officially opened its doors for the first time in the Middle East, in the prime location of Dubai Mall.ĪRTE MUSEUM DUBAI invites guests to immerse themselves in a space of 30,000 square feet, showcasing works inspired by nature in its breathtaking exhibition 'ETERNAL NATURE'.Of Line and Landscape and Through the Gardens continue at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt until March 9. “I’m always trying to think about what it means to use organic forms and the use of pink or red or colours we normally associate with women.” Her colours and designs suffuse feminine elements into the abstract medium, which she explained has traditionally been dominated by male figures. In A l’aube, a slight arc of white portends the break of dawn over a landscape of dusky crimson. So I’m always trying to play with that tension when I create a piece.”īelzile uses acrylics with pencil crayon (“There’s something really intimate about working with it,” she said) in works like Détendre l’impression, in which magentas and sapphires blend, drawing the viewer into the churning heart of a blossom. “So it becomes an image that you can navigate in, so there’s pulling and pushing. “I like to mix really bright colours and really dark colours to create a sense of space within the artwork,” she said. I have to find joy in what I’m doing to be guided from within.”įor Belzile, profuse varieties of gardens are a perfect match with her abstract style. But when I work in the studio, while these are all my concerns, I have to just let them all go. I try to try to extrapolate the beauty that’s still there. “I’m very much an environmentalist,” added Down. In Snow Looking for a Glacier, he uses white acrylic and gels to create a scene of arctic yearning visible only through the sheen of reflected light. “They’re hard to get,” Down said, “but it’s like painting with butter.” He received 70 giant pastel sticks from the French company.ĭespite Down’s absorption with colour’s visceral qualities (“Cadmium crumbles,” he said, “but the blues are dense and you can be pretty aggressive with them”), he can also portray emotional potency without them. To qualify for use of their materials, he provided samples of his work to Sennelier, a 130-year-old purveyor of pigments. The pastels used by Down have an exclusive heritage. He used the shape of its rocks to guide his compositions, then filled the contours with vivid colour. The vivid acrylics in his triptych Blue Rock Yellow Moss are applied effusively, effecting whorls of texture within the two-dimensional canvas.Īlthough many of Down’s scenes evoke the woodland surroundings of his studio, which is perched on a forest-bounded granite ridge, his line drawings took shape after spending time in the desert of New Mexico. Even the solitary conifer in Last Tree Standing presents a brawny counterpoint to a broad-brushed mass of encroaching clouds. By drawing and painting, it’s like, well, here’s the natural, but what’s in me? What’s my aesthetic? How can I pull this out of the landscape and myself?”ĭown uses bold strokes in acrylic, charcoal, calcium and pastel to depict scenes that embody nature’s vigour. “I use the physical landscape as a way to get into my interior landscape. “My work has been pretty much nature- or landscape-based for a long time,” said Down, who is originally from Vancouver and has exhibited his paintings and pastel drawings on three continents. Meanwhile, Laurence Belzile, born in Gaspésie, Quebec during the same decade that Down was cementing an international reputation from his former base of New York City, unveiled bright-hued abstracts in acrylic and pencil crayon titled Through the Gardens. 9.Ībstractionist John Down, who moved to Halfmoon Bay 10 years ago, attracted an enthusiastic throng of Sunshine Coast supporters for the unveiling of his new series of works, Of Line and Landscape. Two faces of nature - unruly terrain and cultivated plantings - are juxtaposed in complementary exhibitions that opened at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre on Feb.
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