Berlin Wall Exhibition Mirrored in Italy

KIN Agency for the Arts is presenting special artist participation in the Italian exhibition of the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall in Trieste, Italy.

At the same time as the California exhibition on this same topic, the Trieste art show will focus on the grand themes of freedom, struggle, separation and reunification brought to mind by the historic destruction of this wall.

Contact press@kinagency.com for details.

SEED Project at University of San Diego in October

October 23rd KIN will partner with SEED (Sustainable Environmental Economic Development) at the University of San Diego to curate a fine art auction to fundraise for the renovation of the home of a physically challenged San Diego resident.

KIN artists will include global artists from Italy, England, Germany, Canada, and the United States. All of them are coming together to support the cause of providing sustainable environmental developments for the disabled.

More information? Contact press@kinagency.com

San Diego Jazz Music Guild Gala Fundraiser

October 10th will bring the first fundraiser for the San Diego Jazz Music Guild, a nonprofit that supports local musicians, at Tango Del Rey. KIN has been asked to curate the companion art show with the theme, "What does jazz mean to you?" A group of international artists from Europe and North America has been invited to produce art for this private show.


The works will include sculpture, mixed media, pen & ink drawings, paintings, and decorative arts like the ones listed below:



Contact KIN for more information at press@kinagency.com

KIN exhibit highlights Berlin Wall anniversary

The Berlin Wall not only separated Berlin, it united much of the western world. For decades the wall was a symbol of a Cold War that immobilized and frightened a divided world. And then it fell.


A new exhibition inspired by the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall opens in November at a Ray Street Gallery in San Diego, California, featuring the work of professional artists Jerrell Conner, Oggy Yuradin, and Juan Baladran. The exhibit is endorsed by the German Consul General for Cultural Arts, the Honorable Michael Ott.


In Germany, the City of Berlin is conducting a “year of remembrance” in celebration of those who helped tear it down. In commemoration of this historic event, the KIN exhibition will feature a diverse range of artwork, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, poetry and photographs, all created in response to the fall of the Berlin Wall and what that symbolizes.


The free exhibition will run until 30 November and is open every weekday from 12 noon until 5 pm, and Saturday and Sundays from noon until 7 pm. For more information about the exhibit and KIN, Agency for the Arts, visit the website at http://www.kinagency.com/

Amare il Nido

LOVE NEST
27 marzo - 10 aprile 2009
REVEL scalo d'isola
via Thaon de Revel 3, Milano

inaugurazione e preview venerdì 27 marzo dalle 18.30
performance musicale “tribute to Mina” di Mini Manù

RIDESTATE CON NOI I VOSTRI INTORPIDITI SENSI

La Wannabee Gallery è lieta d’invitarvi all’inaugurazione della sua
nuova sede presso il Revel Scalo d’isola con una mostra interamente
dedicata agli aspetti più insoliti dell’Amore.

In un periodo in cui tutti sembrano essere in crisi, le persone, la
politica, i valori e le tasche, venite a scoprire la nostra
“artistica” visione di questo sentimento.

Allo sbocciare della stagione in cui i sensi si risvegliano, abbiamo
proposto ad un selezionato numero di artisti italiani ed
internazionali di rivelare i lati meno scontati dell’Amore.

a cura di Silvia Pettinicchio e Samir Chala
in collaborazione con Luciano Mancini



SCARICA IL COMUNICATO CON LA LISTA DEGLI ARTISTI

LOVE NEST: An Artistic Evolution

From the time of early man, the primal comfort of a loving home, retreat, or sanctuary removed from the harsh realities of life, has been one of the most noble features of the human condition. Pre-hominid primates lived in loving families and built homes for their support and comfort; they emulated the birds they watched building nests to contain the most precious objects of their love. Attempting to avoid the pressing cares of survival, ancient man created a place of utter protection and safety -- the essence of the love nest. In the Renaissance, the essence of love turned from safety and security to beauty, romance, drama and the poetry of high art. A love nest became the symbol of something sensuous, pleasurable, romantic and secret. The places where lovers escaped their cares and could capture a caress or kiss, was the hallmark of the love nests of old.

Modern day flower children of the ‘60s brought a new freedom to the concept of love and security. Where once a love nest was the sole province of two lovers alone, it was now expanded to include two, three, or as many as would fit into a household or even a commune. Love was a universal concept, and love was to be shared freely with all beings, creatures, and things. In this naïve and carefree era, a love nest became a welcoming place for all those who opened themselves to the experience of caring for others.

Today we have come full circle. Our primordial responses, our deepest instincts, keep us rooted to the notion of having a safe, protective place to become vulnerable to the special torments of our lovers. Only in the deep comfort of our special love nests are our true selves revealed, and the objects of our love – and the manner in which we manifest it – are exposed within the twisting nettles, leaves, and branches that bind us together in a conceptual nest of reciprocal lust, need, admiration, compassion, understanding and unconditional, explosive love.

By Samir Chala

Tania Alcala nominated for SD Art Prize, hosted by Noel-Baza Gallery

“One must not forget that the earth seen from an airplane is more splendid than the earth seen from an automobile… the earth seen from an airplane is something else. I saw there, on the earth, the mingling lines, coming and going, developing and destroying themselves. I saw the simple solutions… I saw the wandering lines… yes I saw the earth as no one has ever seen it, the earth has a splendor that it never has had.” This was written by the American writer, Gertrude Stein in the early nineteen hundreds. But still a century later the sentiment Ms. Stein writes about the wonder that a bird’s eye view can reveal is shared by Tania Alcala a commercial airline pilot and local San Diego painter. For Ms. Alaca, “painting is the ultimate act of freedom, since it allows contradiction, passion, intuition, risk and exhilaration to come into play.” Tania Alcala was born and raised in Mexico City, where she studied oil painting under Juan Hernandez.. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Ottawa University in Phoenix, AZ and a master’s degree in Transformative Arts from John F. Kennedy University in Berkeley, CA. The sense of the ethereal that Alcala discovered in the paintings of artists like Mark Rothko, is what inspired her to become a commercial pilot to seek the freedom that she craved. Alcala’s atmospheric pieces convey her deeply moving experiences from the skies along with her lifelong fascination with color. These abstract, expressionistic works of art have an inner complexity, compellingly and sensuously immersing the viewer in a uniquely personal way. www.taniaalcala.com

Tania Alcala is represented by Noel-Baza Gallery. The gallery is housing the New Contemporaries II section of The San Diego Art Prize exhibitions, which feature both establish and emerging artists working in the San Diego Region. New Contemporaries II focuses on the emerging artist category of the SD Art Prize. This year thirteen artists are included in an eclectic and interesting show at the Noel-Baza Gallery. www.noel-bazafineart.com