Wednesday, March 18, 2009
SOMERVILLE WATERFALL ART EXHIBITION - April 2-26, 2009
The Nave Gallery
Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church
155 Powderhouse Blvd
Somerville, MA 02144
www.navegallery.org info@navegallery.org
Press contact: Susan Berstler
'waterfall'
Exhibit dates: 2-26 April 2009
Opening reception & artists talk, 2 April 2009
Free and open to the public.
High res images available upon request.
ABOUT THE SHOW
(Somerville, MA) Waterfall is an international collaboration between three
artists, Pirjo Heino (Finland), Karmela Berg (Israel), and Ellen Schön
(USA) who first met through the Transcultural Tile Exchange project in
2004. As the 2009 Transcultural Exchanges International Opportunities in
the Arts Conference takes place in Boston this April, these three artists
are reuniting at the Nave Gallery to create an exhibit and performance that
uses “water” as a metaphor for life.
Water is viewed by the trio as both transformative and healing, as well as
a tangible resource which needs to be protected. Components of Waterfall
include:
• Three floor-to-ceiling silk panels, representing the artists’
different conceptions of waterfalls
• An interactive installation/ performance of upside down empty cups in
the form of a water droplet, evoking water as the source of life, whose
absence we cannot endure
• A film by Karmela Berg, with sculptor, Avi Sperber, and artist and
therapist, Aliza Gilboa, documenting their environmental art that focuses
on the scarcity of water resource in Israel
The title, Waterfall conveys both the idea of abundant water AND water at
risk. The final component of the exhibition refers to this risk as artists
globally were asked to donate a image of their interpretation of water.
Prints will be sold for $35 and all proceeds will be donated to WaterAid,
an international non-governmental organization whose mission is to overcome
poverty by enabling the world’s poorest people to gain access to safe
water, sanitation and hygiene education.
http://wwwwateraid.org/usa/default.asp
Photos are still being received but as of this date, over 70 artists from
15 countries have contributed their artwork of water.
Waterfall will then travel to Art Gallery Ripustus in Hämeenlinna, Finland
from June 2-28, 2009 and later to Tel Aviv, Israel (venue TBA). Waterfall
is part of the TransCultural Exchange's world-wide Project entitled Here,
There and Everywhere: Anticipating the Art of the Future. The TCEs project
is designed to encourage artists to work collaboratively, culminating in a
series of international exhibitions, a catalog, and a panel discussion at
the International Opportunities in the Arts conference in April 2009.
http://www.transculturalexchange.org/conference_2009/overview.htm
More info & directions:
http://www.navegallery.org/nave/2009/waterfall.html
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Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church
155 Powderhouse Blvd
Somerville, MA 02144
www.navegallery.org info@navegallery.org
Press contact: Susan Berstler
'waterfall'
Exhibit dates: 2-26 April 2009
Opening reception & artists talk, 2 April 2009
Free and open to the public.
High res images available upon request.
ABOUT THE SHOW
(Somerville, MA) Waterfall is an international collaboration between three
artists, Pirjo Heino (Finland), Karmela Berg (Israel), and Ellen Schön
(USA) who first met through the Transcultural Tile Exchange project in
2004. As the 2009 Transcultural Exchanges International Opportunities in
the Arts Conference takes place in Boston this April, these three artists
are reuniting at the Nave Gallery to create an exhibit and performance that
uses “water” as a metaphor for life.
Water is viewed by the trio as both transformative and healing, as well as
a tangible resource which needs to be protected. Components of Waterfall
include:
• Three floor-to-ceiling silk panels, representing the artists’
different conceptions of waterfalls
• An interactive installation/ performance of upside down empty cups in
the form of a water droplet, evoking water as the source of life, whose
absence we cannot endure
• A film by Karmela Berg, with sculptor, Avi Sperber, and artist and
therapist, Aliza Gilboa, documenting their environmental art that focuses
on the scarcity of water resource in Israel
The title, Waterfall conveys both the idea of abundant water AND water at
risk. The final component of the exhibition refers to this risk as artists
globally were asked to donate a image of their interpretation of water.
Prints will be sold for $35 and all proceeds will be donated to WaterAid,
an international non-governmental organization whose mission is to overcome
poverty by enabling the world’s poorest people to gain access to safe
water, sanitation and hygiene education.
http://wwwwateraid.org/usa/default.asp
Photos are still being received but as of this date, over 70 artists from
15 countries have contributed their artwork of water.
Waterfall will then travel to Art Gallery Ripustus in Hämeenlinna, Finland
from June 2-28, 2009 and later to Tel Aviv, Israel (venue TBA). Waterfall
is part of the TransCultural Exchange's world-wide Project entitled Here,
There and Everywhere: Anticipating the Art of the Future. The TCEs project
is designed to encourage artists to work collaboratively, culminating in a
series of international exhibitions, a catalog, and a panel discussion at
the International Opportunities in the Arts conference in April 2009.
http://www.transculturalexchange.org/conference_2009/overview.htm
More info & directions:
http://www.navegallery.org/nave/2009/waterfall.html
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