The original work of two Italian artists CUFU and STORDEUR will be on display at Agora Gallery, NYC. The exhibitions open on December 23, 2014 and continue until January 15, 2015. The opening reception takes place on the evening of January 8, at 6-8pm.
Entrance is free and all art lovers are encouraged to attend, enjoy and meet some of the artists whose works make up this delightful show.
Exhibition Dates: December 23, 2014 – January 15, 2015
Reception: Thursday January 8, 2015, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11-6
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, Chelsea, New York
Event URL:
CUFU - http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/CUFU.aspx
STORDEUR - http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/STORDEUR.aspx
About CUFU
Artist CUFU attacks each painting with wide, sweeping strokes, employing brushes, spatulas, and her own hands to create large, abstract paintings. Each piece begins with a predetermined color palette, from which the artist never deviates. After this first session, CUFU lets the painting sit, returning days later to discover what is missing. Once finished, the colors invariably smash into each other, corralled by choppy brushstrokes that texturize each piece with tangible energy. The result is a rapturous clash of colors that harmonize despite their best intentions.
CUFU's art is inspired by the likes of Fontana, Mondrian, Kandinsky, and Gerhard Richter: abstract painters who valued emotive work over traditional, representational styles. She believes that we carry colors within ourselves, and that our emotional experiences are catalogued within us and can be shared. This is the raw data, and it is the viewers who are tasked with discovering the points of contact with their own lives. Memories are private, intensely personal things, but our emotions, which we attach to these events, are universal. Ultimately, CUFU is able to communicate in a language that is felt rather than heard.
About STORDEUR
In STORDEUR's work, distinctive approaches to color, texture, materials and composition all come into play in works that feel timeless yet thoroughly modern. His paintings take elements from classical architecture and recast them in graphically powerful settings. The artist says that he paints on wood because he likes the "hard and smooth support" that it supplies to the gold leaf and acrylic paints he uses. That hardness and smoothness also find expression in the clear lines of his images, and in his precise sense of detail. When that quality is combined with the contrasting effects of the media he uses, the result is an almost surreal physicality that intriguingly mixes the rough and the smooth.
His use of light and color is equally strong. Whether painting a night scene or an architectural detail, STORDEUR balances light and shadow in a way that gives each work a vivid feeling of space and air. "Drawing has always been a refuge in difficult times," he notes, and his paintings offer a compelling and haunting refuge for the viewer as well.
About Agora Gallery
Agora Gallery is a contemporary fine art gallery located in the heart of Chelsea's fine art district in New York. Established in 1984, Agora Gallery specializes in connecting art dealers and collectors with national and international artists. The art gallery's expert consultants are available to assist corporate and private clients in procuring original artwork to meet their organization's specific needs and budget requirements. With a strong online presence and popular online gallery, ARTmine, coupled with the spacious and elegant physical gallery space, the work of our talented artists, who work in diverse media and styles, can receive the attention it deserves. Over the years Agora Gallery has sponsored and catered to special events aimed at fostering social awareness and promoting the use of art to help those in need.
