Barthelemy Toguo has a certain way of portraying his art. A manner of patterns, repetitions, water spreads, and abrupt changes of color. Sharp reds in almost every painting. His installation took me a while to understand its phallic symbolism.
Mitchell-Iness & Nash:
Enoc Perez impressed me in his representations of architectural designs. It is rare to see an artist who emphasizes in buildings. I couldn't really understand what he was portraying until I read his statement. The paintings do seem futuristic and nostalgic, definitely a place in which human kind dreams to live in. Not up until looking close, I was able to notice the texture that Perez uses. With the light, the painting seemed to have some metallic color that was able to shine away. It looked like it added stars and points of interest depending on how it was seen.
Aperture Gallery:
Out of all the galleries that I visited, Aperture Gallery was the one that impressed me the most. I have been to other photography exhibitions but nothing like Nature of Artifice. Every landscape picture spoke something different about the land, the way it has changed, what would be liked and accepted, a view further into the future. The variation in color was mind boggling. The details on the digital prints had an effect of high definition television. Frank van der Salm's prints had an appearance as if to where floating in different colored stars, or similar to an arcade pin ball table. It felt like a made up city, surreal, hard to believe that actual cities look like that at night. Only from high in the mountains one can appreciate what is below.
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