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9/5/2005

Two exhibitions

Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York

Hiroshi Sugito
Rosilene Luduvico

May 10 through June 18. Opening reception: Tuesday, May 10, from 6 to 8 p.m. Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery is pleased to present both an exhibition of solo works as well as a collaborative work by artists Hiroshi Sugito and Rosilene Luduvico. These two friends, Sugito and Luduvico, share a lyrical sensibility and tenderness towards life, qualities inherent in their work. Both artists use a subdued palette and a light touch to explore the interrelatedness of nature, the universe and ourselves. Sugito’s airy paintings convey a feeling of lost innocence or child-like wonder. His luminous paint handling reveals and simultaneously conceals his intuitive compositions. Differing tinges of pigment flow across his milky surfaces, never completely obscuring the raw canvas underneath. He uses an exaggerated perspective and many transparent layers to depict vast expanses of color and space, perhaps belonging to an immense landscape or dreamscape that has been forgotten. Ludivico's landscapes and figure paintings explore man’s emotional state, reflecting moments of quiet contemplation as well as the harsher elements of experience. Her light, impressionistic scratches of shrubs, leaves and other flora create the fragile world her protagonists explore. Ludivico depicts nature reflective of man's emotional state, fleeting yet full of grandeur. “The transformation of Sugito’s paintings over the past seven years reveals his evolution of basic patterns and details, making new combinations and ellipses. The process resembles that of the self-regeneration of a finite universe in which no part is ever lost and wasted. The finite thus embodied does not imply fixity; like the metaphor of agriculture, to which Sugito once compared his painting, a carefully tended detail finds its proper place within a design, or takes effect in the working, of the organic whole beyond the immediate intention of the artist.” -A World Within and Beyond the Frame: Hiroshi Sugito’s Stereoscopic Figuration by Midori Matsui. “Rosilene Luduvico processes immediate experiences in her paintings, which take form with the help of sketches and photographs. “Things have first to have gone through me before they ring true as paintings,” she explains. During this process, visual contemplation may mingle with vestiges of memories from the distant past, coming from as far back as her childhood in Brazil. On the other hand, the process of looking may produce a link to something that has never been seen, but that consequently takes even stronger hold of our visual imagination…The inner disposition revealed in this painting is in fact telling for Rosilene Luduvico’s painting as a whole: we recognize a sympathetic relation to people, to nature and to things of the world that no technical medium, however sophisticated, can produce.” -The New Düsseldorf School of Painting, from the cataloge of the exhibition at Museum Haus Lange, by Martin Hentschel. Hiroshi Sugito was born in Nagoya, Japan, where he still lives and works. He has exhibited frequently throughout Japan, Europe and the United States and he has been included in such exhibitions as Painting at the Edge of the World at the Walker Art Center, curated by Douglas Fogle, the Eighth International Istanbul Biennial, curated by Dan Cameron and Real World: The Dissolving Space of Experience at Modern Art Oxford. Sugito has recently completed a series of collaborative works with artist Yoshitomo Nara, which were exhibited at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich and at K21 Kunstammlung Nordhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf. This is the artists’ fifth solo show with the gallery. Rosilene Luduvico was born in Espirito Santo, Brasil. She lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany, where she also attended the Academy of Fine Arts. She has exhibited throuout Germany, most recently at the Kuntshalle Düsseldorf and the Museum Hans Lange. This is her first exhibition in New York and the debut of her collaborative work with Sugito.

Image: Hiroshi Sugito, the blue room, 2003, Acrylic, pigment on canvas, 87 x 141 inches

Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery
526 WEST 26TH STREET, ROOM 213, NEW YORK
Gallery hours are from Tuesday - Saturday from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.

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