Monday, June 30, 2014

PICTURE THIS: Upper East Side Summer Art Festival at Waterfall Mansion by Kateshin Gallery

There is even art on the ceiling
Summer Art Festiveal 2014
Summer Art Festiveal 2014
The scene at the Waterfall Mansion for Summer Art Festival 2014
Garon and Virgine Sommet at the Waterfall Mansion for Summer Art Festival 2014
Superstar Designer Karim Rashid (Center) photo from Alessandro Berni
Kate Shin (Left) and superstar Designer Karim Rashid (Center) with a guest
AF coined “the gritty bosom” for the Lower East Side and now we ended up last June 12th at “the exquisitely exfoliated cleavage” of the Upper East Side for Summer Art Festival 2014 held at the $65 million Waterfall Gallery and Mansion. All floors were filled with established and emerging artists that showed technical prowess in line with artistic might. It was a night of champagne and elegance as the stellar power of art made the mansion shine like a diamond. Every floor was a majestic installation of great art staged in a luxurious interior and the very epitome of the art zenith called the Blue Chip bracket. This is the more refined and adult version of the New York Art Scene where the supernovas of the art world congregate to celebrate the best of the best. It will always be the allure of this said world that keeps people dreaming of million dollar gavel auction prices and the prestige of belonging to a secret impenetrable circle. But those of us who gained enough credit by being in the actual trenches and have paid our dues as pilgrims in the Valhalla of art, well it is a privilege to brush our shoulders with the haves because close proximity to fortune feeds the fantasy in hopes of becoming a reality.

Summer Art Festival (SAF) 2014 / June 12 – August 1, 2014
KATESHIN gallery at the Waterfall Mansion. 170 East 80th Street. New York City, NY
(212) 988-0472. Gallery Admission is by appointment only

Text by: Oscar A. Laluyan
Photography by: Olya Turcihin
Serious wheeling and dealing at the Summer Art Festival 2014
Serious wheeling and dealing at the Summer Art Festival 2014
Co-Curator Alessandro Berni at the Summer Arts Festival 2014
Co-Curator Alessandro Berni at the Summer Arts Festival 2014
Another superstar designer Antonio Pio Saracino (right) photo from Alessandro Berni
Another superstar designer Antonio Pio Saracino (right) 
The scene at the Waterfall Mansion for Summer Art Festival 2014
The scene at the Waterfall Mansion for Summer Art Festival 2014
The stairwell at the Waterfall Mansion during Summer Art Festival 2014
The stairwell at the Waterfall Mansion during Summer Art Festival 2014
It is a celebration so drink up ladies!
Celia and Helene Faussart (Les Nubiens)
Spiderman gets into the art event
Spiderman gets into the art event
Wearable Art abounds at the Upper East Side show
Wearable Art abounds at the Upper East Side show
The Upper East Side art scene for Summer Art Festival 2014
The Upper East Side art scene for Summer Art Festival 2014

Arte Fuse - Call For Bushwick "The Extensions of the Human Being"

The Extensions of the Human Being

by  on 06/06/2014

Vida Sabbaghi guest Curator Queens Museum
Vida Sabbaghi guest Curator Queens Museum
Jeremiah Johnson
Jeremiah Johnson
The international art contest Call for Bushwick 2014 has closed its doors this past Sunday after a thrilling three days exhibition. In its second edition the five jurors of Call for Bushwick (Michela BondardoHolly CrawfordJill ConnerAlison Pierz, andVida Sabbaghi) selected 25 artists from a pool of more than 500 applicants. The winners represented the four corners of the world while most of them are proudly established in Brooklyn. The artists developed an idea offered by writer and art curator Alessandro Berni, namely, “Understanding Media: The Extensions of the Human Being”. The interpretations couldn’t be more diverse. Celebrated photographer Len Bernstein contributed with a vintage silver gelatin print taken in 1983 during the “March on Washington for Jobs, Peace, & Freedom”. The piece features two ascending columns of people merging from crisp black into sheer white and vice versa in a remarkably peaceful flux. Mr. Bernstein, which works are in the public collections of The Library of Congress and the Museum of the City of New York between many others, made time to attend at the opening and explain his views on Aesthetic Realism.
Call for Bushwick 2014
Call for Bushwick 2014
Sui Park work activated by an Art Lover
Sui Park’s work 
Award-winner filmmaker Juan Carlos Zaldivar however, explored the human search for identity throughout his short film “Shift” which was screened at Cannes Film Festival 2013 under the Cannes Court Metrage Section. Made out of an ensemble of over 10,000 photographs taken over a year and a half, the film reflects upon physical, psychological, and cultural transformations using a vividly saturated pallet and an enchanting sound of remarkable precision.
Sui Park, a Korean rising star with exhibitions in Seoul (Korea) and Chelsea (New York City), answered roundly with “Cell”, literally a physical extension. The artist invited the public to wear his installation and feel the embracing sensation of being extended beyond the conventional boundaries of their bodies.
During the show the public had the opportunity to talk directly with creators such as Alette Simmons-JimenezVirginie Sommet, or Timur York in the presence of their own artworks, and even get to discuss them with jurors of the contest such as Michela Bondardo, top cultural strategic planner, who spent Sunday’s exhibition closing sharing her wise counsel with artists and collectors.

Article by Alejandro Pardo
Elizabeth Tolson
Elizabeth Tolson’s chastity dress
Call for Bushwick 2014 Panoramic View
Call for Bushwick 2014
Artist Anna Lemnitzer
Artist Anna Lemnitzer
Sui park work Just Sold
Sui park work Just Sold
Call for Bushwick 2014 Panoramic View
Call for Bushwick 2014
Call for Bushwick 2014 Panoramic View
Call for Bushwick 2014 
Call for Bushwick 2014 Panoramic View
Call for Bushwick 2014 
Alette Simmons-Jimenez
Alette Simmons-Jimenez
Call for Bushwick 2014
Call for Bushwick 2014
Call for Bushwick 2014
Call for Bushwick 2014
Alessandro Berni Michela Bondardo
Alessandro Berni Michela Bondardo
Call for Bushwick 2014 Panoramic View 10
Call for Bushwick 2014 Panoramic View 10
Call for Bushwick 2014 Panoramic View
Call for Bushwick 2014 Panoramic View
Call for Bushwick 2014 Panoramic View
Call for Bushwick 2014 Panoramic View
Artist Lysette Urus
Artist Lysette Urus

Alejandro PardoAlejandro Pardo (2 Posts)Originally from Spain, Alejandro earned a BA in Philosophy and a MA in Pragmatic Linguistics from University Complutense of Madrid. After graduating, Alejandro worked in public and media relations, branding, and online marketing for European advertising and PR firms. He eventually came to New York and got an MA in Corporate Communication from Baruch College (CUNY) in Manhattan where the art world devoured him.