SOLO SHOW UNTITLED SPACE TRIBECA NEW YORK
“The Flame” Fresco
October 19, 2024 | Happening in Central Park
“Caviar Ink” - Exhibition
October 24—27, 2024 | The Untitled Space, Tribeca, NY
“This October, I declare my love to New York City. Through a surprised fresco in Central Park called “The Flame”, we are extending the Olympic Games in France while celebrating the 400 years anniversary of New York City. I thought of this work as an explosion of joy, a way of paying homage to the Franco-American friendship through a symbol of light initiated in 1886 with the Statue of Liberty.”
On October 19, 2024, the artist will unveil a giant ten-by-five-meter fresco in the heart of New York's Central Park. This happening will be followed by an exhibition at the Untitled Space Gallery in Tribeca from October 24 to 27, 2024. The exhibition will include the painting “The Flame” and will feature a dozen paintings created by the artist since her arrival in New York in 2023.
“The art of painting is a dream-catcher, a web stretched to trap the invisible, and I am its tireless spider.”
A multidisciplinary artist, Gwendoline Finaz de Villaine's pictorial work is influenced by her musical stage experience, Surrealism and Asian Art. Passionate about the relationship between East and West, she has been developing since 2019 a personal pointillist technique, combining small circles with a mineral and organic universe, that she named “Caviar ink”. It has become her pictorial signature. The artist connects to her unconscious to deploy these spidery motifs on canvas, in the manner of Yakuza tattoos. This Caviar Ink technique is mixed with mysterious symbols (swimmers, dancers, doves) that question the mystical connections between the visible and the invisible.
The exhibition at the Untitled Space Gallery proposes a variety of formats and works. Large black and white canvases pay homage to the eternal femininity. Pastel works, vibrant and musical, radiate a festive, cosmic joy. Caviar Ink also highlights a series of small drawings made during the artist's stay in Long Island. These paintings testify to the influence of Surrealist practices in Gwendoline’s work. Each painting is an open window on the artist's unconscious, a journey into the meanders of the imaginary, between the real and the fantastic. In contemplating them, the viewer is invited to lose himself in a maze of symbols and hidden meanings.
The link with urban environment is essential to the painter's approach. From monumental frescoes performances in Paris, in Venice, to New York Central Park, Gwendoline Finaz de Villaine's art is off the beaten track, generous and committed.
“The only thing I'm convinced of is that Art shouldn't be confined to galleries and salons. Painting isn't there to look pretty and sit quietly in a corner. Art has to take the streets by storm.”
This is the goal of this double event that will be held in New York from October 19 to 27, 2024.
“Caviar Ink” Exhibition
October 24 to 27, 2024
Galerie Untitled Space 45 Lispenard St # 1W, New York
10am-6pm
