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"BODY..."
Collective Art Show
Welcome to Online Collective Art Show "BODY..."!
Have you ever had a thought about how many people in the world are ashamed of their bodies? How many of them think that their bodies are not enough beautiful, flexible? There is too much hair, too much fat, too many wrinkles or freckles? We have the mass media obsession that we can't show nipples, especially if you are a woman and even nipples are covered with a t-shirt. There is the obsession to be fit, slim, acceptable by others.
But aren't we just a part of Mother Nature? Each of these bodies is unique, exceptional, one and only in this world. Why should we be like someone said us to be? When it is not possible from the very beginning, by default.
CU46 Project gives space for artists working with the topics of the body, removing the stereotype of body objectification through the paradigm of the art practice. Each of them has her/his reason to do it. You will see the story of each of them depicted in the series of their art pieces.
Artists presented:
Daniel Venture, the United States
Daniëlle Hooijmans, the Netherlands
Erica Muller, Italy
Hazel Copcutt, the United Kingdom
Ketevan Gvinepadze, Georgia
Lidia Kokaya, Georgia
Maria Seltsova, Russia
Paul Lorenz, the United States
Rosie McLay, the United Kingdom
Have you ever had a thought about how many people in the world are ashamed of their bodies? How many of them think that their bodies are not enough beautiful, flexible? There is too much hair, too much fat, too many wrinkles or freckles? We have the mass media obsession that we can't show nipples, especially if you are a woman and even nipples are covered with a t-shirt. There is the obsession to be fit, slim, acceptable by others.
But aren't we just a part of Mother Nature? Each of these bodies is unique, exceptional, one and only in this world. Why should we be like someone said us to be? When it is not possible from the very beginning, by default.
CU46 Project gives space for artists working with the topics of the body, removing the stereotype of body objectification through the paradigm of the art practice. Each of them has her/his reason to do it. You will see the story of each of them depicted in the series of their art pieces.
Artists presented:
Daniel Venture, the United States
Daniëlle Hooijmans, the Netherlands
Erica Muller, Italy
Hazel Copcutt, the United Kingdom
Ketevan Gvinepadze, Georgia
Lidia Kokaya, Georgia
Maria Seltsova, Russia
Paul Lorenz, the United States
Rosie McLay, the United Kingdom
Maria Seltsova, Russia
For the artist to employ her own body as an artistic tool is a form of healing her past memories. Her art despite the intricate abstraction of colors is a confessional art, where the artist deposits part of her history, her body and energy. Maria keeps doing several researches towards the different artistic manifestations that involve corporeality, feminism and forgiveness.
Using self-exploration and her body as a tool and going deeper inside her shadow Seltsova apply the power of constructive aggression to fight and then to accept her dark side. Layer by layer she removes the tension of understanding this darkness and balances herself in all forms through artistic action of self-pleasure and painting. All the energy comes from body goes on the canvas. Black and white refers to the symbolism of Yin and Yang which according to Tao is not only the meaning of dualism and fight of two opposite forces but two halves that together complete wholeness. As we can say about body and soul.
At the picture: Balance, 2020, video-photo-painting performance project "Love Yourself", episode #3, captured by Tonya Polskaya
At the picture: Balance, 2020, video-photo-painting performance project "Love Yourself", episode #3, captured by Tonya Polskaya
Lidia Kokaya, Georgia
The paintings created with Kokaya's female body on canvas are meant to awaken the sexual energy of the body in a de-sexualized way. Sexual energy is all about creation and empowerment of the individual. She lays on the blank canvas and sets intentions in a meditative state for her next piece. Once she feels aligned with her vessel she picks out whatever colors feel right to her emotional state in that moment. Kokaya squeezes the acrylics on the canvas and starts to create movement and develop a connection with each color and her body.
"Human Ecdysis" series
"The series focuses on the idea of shedding the old and manifesting the new. A lot of the explanation for this series and the process itself is epistemology and sociology based, to create an interconnection between philosophy, art and body. We live in a society where we are influenced by behavior modification empires like social networks and media. We are constantly told how to look and how to act which throws us off our own path of individual truth and unique beauty of each individual. We are all made different physically but are all made the same.
We are all one with the world that has created us but now it is up to us to create it and that requires a lot of awareness of self and honestly. {..} My big goal with this series is to create a workshop where I can teach humans my method and can ask them questions and provide a safe space to actively listen as well as create. This shift begins within."
Lidia Kokaya
We are all one with the world that has created us but now it is up to us to create it and that requires a lot of awareness of self and honestly. {..} My big goal with this series is to create a workshop where I can teach humans my method and can ask them questions and provide a safe space to actively listen as well as create. This shift begins within."
Lidia Kokaya
Daniel Venture, the United States
We live in an era of self-censorship, where the most shared interaction is the "like" and the frank interchange of ideas is quickly disappearing. Venture aims to challenge this by expressing views that will cause people to openly discuss a subject that most keep well hidden from others.
His work highlights an obsession with the unusual, the carnal, and the passionate wonders in his head, creating drama that exposes the gap between our internal dialogues and the manifested ones. The layering of images has become Venture's visual vocabulary and emotional language. These layers of pigments converge in the edges or disperse in the center and open a door to the curious eye to enter his creation. Daniel's intention is to create a vehicle for the observer to be shocked, challenged, and to experience a new dimension of possibilities.
His work highlights an obsession with the unusual, the carnal, and the passionate wonders in his head, creating drama that exposes the gap between our internal dialogues and the manifested ones. The layering of images has become Venture's visual vocabulary and emotional language. These layers of pigments converge in the edges or disperse in the center and open a door to the curious eye to enter his creation. Daniel's intention is to create a vehicle for the observer to be shocked, challenged, and to experience a new dimension of possibilities.
Daniel Venture's visual scenes are the sum of a highly charged collection of erotic imagery, and painting experiences organized in a new space that describes a world beyond the realm of comfortable realities or conventional appropriateness.
Hazel Copcutt, the United Kingdom
Copcutt decided to create a unique collection of analogue and digital collages, to intuitively, by evoking her own desires. She asked the questions of what and how? What would it look like if she transformed the context of the image? How would she from her own eye change the message? Copcutt found that she wanted to explore the divine body in a surrealistically with the vision of a cinematographer and theatre director.
By exerting the night sky and cosmic space Copcutt wants to express the sexual spirit, playfully and without self-judgement.
The aim is to transport you into another dimension, of fantastical unconscious realms. She wants to invite you into a beautiful dreamscape.
By exerting the night sky and cosmic space Copcutt wants to express the sexual spirit, playfully and without self-judgement.
The aim is to transport you into another dimension, of fantastical unconscious realms. She wants to invite you into a beautiful dreamscape.
Rosie McLay, the United Kingdom
Us humans are fascinated with ourselves and our bodies; the vessel which broadcasts who we are to the world and takes us all over it too. But we forget the preciousness of the bone and flesh that build our very being, just like we forget the delicate balance that provides life for all of nature around us. By looking closer at ourselves, can we be reminded of the ebbs and flows of all living things, all made from the same components?
In this series the artist exhibit her works which combine her curiosity for anatomy and form with a series of pieces considering what binds human and nature with a sensitivity, which is always present in her work.
Some of the works are completed with hand applied Dutch Gold Leaf, adding a final poetry to the works to encourage gratitude, pride and celebration to the subject matter.
In this series the artist exhibit her works which combine her curiosity for anatomy and form with a series of pieces considering what binds human and nature with a sensitivity, which is always present in her work.
Some of the works are completed with hand applied Dutch Gold Leaf, adding a final poetry to the works to encourage gratitude, pride and celebration to the subject matter.
Erica Muller, Italy
Erica Muller is a Fetish-BDSM queer photographer who works for fashion and art. Muller inquires about the aesthetics and gender identity. In photography, Muller tries to go beyond the portrait subject (the face usually does not appear) to focus on the shapes of the body, which become almost abstract. The choice of black and white has the same perspective, and in this disorienting effect, the gaze becomes neutral and freed from the cultural paradigms that trap it, turning towards the creation of a new imaginary of reality.
Daniëlle Hooijmans, the Netherlands
Visual artist, educator, and feminist. Through drawing, photographing, and film making Hooijmans is exploring how sexuality is related to identity and gender from a cultural and social perspective. After the tragic loss of the love of her life, she had to get to know herself again. Because of this, she has learned that it is essential to have the feeling of being alive and to be connected with herself and all the beloved people surrounding her. The only way for her to achieve that was to rediscover her sexuality and the different ways of experiencing intimacy. The photos of the 'Sexual Solitude' series are raw and some have a melancholy look to give the work a serious tone but the process is sensual and intimate nevertheless. Sexuality or physical, human experience is not only intended for a select group of people with a piece of special knowledge or interest in human bodies but everyone. It can be a form of spirituality, a source of strength, a way to experience your own essence; and determine the meaning of your life.
Paul Lorenz, the United States
As an interdisciplinary artist (architecture, visual art, sound performance, and music composition), certain thoughts flow from one media to another. As a mature gay man, Paul Lorenz's senses of self and physical presence also flow from one to the other. Lorenz's work explores his body and life through a series of moments in time. He creatively shares his 'self' with his camera, other photographers and collaborates in finished pieces. His work is his autobiography. The work explores geometry, nature, self, and the certainty/uncertainty of life and moment.
Ketevan Gvinepadze, Georgia
"Private Landscape" is an ongoing series of self-portraits, created as a visual game of hiding and revealing, opening to the public what's usually concealed from stranger's eye but at the same time questioning an aesthetical part and using the figure as a surface for building a different form, where the body is not a flesh anymore, but the concept.
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