Congratulations to the Winners of the 2015 Biennial: Origins in Geometry exhibit
Congratulations to the winners of the 2015 Biennial: Origins in Geometry exhibit. First place and an award of $1500.00 went to Elvira Daeter for her entry, Movement 1. Conan Chadbourne took second place for his work, and Selina Dixon won third. Thank you to all of the artists who participated.
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ELEANOR HEARTNEY
Juror and New York Art Critic, Eleanor Heartney made the following statement about her selections for the awards. Geometric Art encompasses a wide swath of contemporary art and in choosing the top three winners, I wanted to highlight the diversity of approaches artists today are taking to this genre. First place winner Movement 1 by Elvira Daeter is a marvelous example of the formal complexities that have historically informed geometric art. The apparent simplicity of its reductive forms belies a formal complexity, as planes interact illusionistically with each other and the wall behind. The result is a dynamic interweaving of colors and shapes that keeps the eye moving and exploring. Second place winner Journey II by Conan Chadbourne draws our attention to other aspects of the historical tradition of geometry in art. To me, it conjures reminders of nonwestern reliance on geometry in the creation of mandalas and other spiritual emblems. At the same time the web like composition within the circle brings to mind early scientific models of the universe and the atom, reminding us of the interconnections between the micro and macroscopic realms. I awarded third place to Selena Dixon’s Life Panorama because this engaging collage literally brings the “real world” into the idealized world of geometry, creating a map of both personal and social associations that invite viewers to meditate on the order and disorder that attends the ways that life unfolds.
Be sure to watch the interview with Eleanor Heartney.
MADI is a great artistic adventure, and perhaps, the only existing movement which can justify half a century of existance. MADI is more than an avant-garde movement; it has an underlying wave with several and differing offspring. It is the slow-paced growth of a tectonic plate in the history of art. Indeed, since art and environment are perveived as the fusion of two cultural phenomena, the progression and expression of both of these blend in everyday life.
From ” MADI: Concept Overview”, Paris, 2004
ROGER NEYRAT | Artist
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