The energy of emotion by Clen Gallery, panoramic view
By Nick Rogers
Art and design is pleasing to the sense of sight and it feeds your eyes like a hat made out of chocolate cake. If you dipped a business man in a lake of chocolate icing, what would you get?
The energy of emotion by Clen Gallery, panoramic view I
Mona Lisa is sucked dry to three tones, she is smoking a cigarette and looking bored with a sign that reads “Fuck You”. Clelia Zolli, owner of the Clen Gallery, tells me that Kevin Berlin’s Gioconda is despondent because everyone is crowding around her ogling at her. That attitude the fashion world is famous for, being beautiful and bored with people looking at them all the time. Its all part of the charm, we know this.
Opening The energy of emotion by Clen Gallery
Kevin Berlin work’s is both figural in this show as well as still life. If the interpreting of Da Vinci’s most famous enigmatic expression as a “Fuck you” is any clue to Berlin’s humor, we can now view the Nutella series with the right spirit. This collection of paintings combines mundane products like Nutella jars with various, but uniformly fun punchlines. A classic green alien with the giant vacant black eyes pokes his head around the corner from behind one of the jars and draws me closer with mirth. The superficiality of advertising is undercut by the artists wit in these works.
Opening The energy of emotion by Clen Gallery
The energy of emotions, is a zapping show. In the same room with Kevin Berlin, castration and slavery is the fantastic topic of Alberto Baccari’s paintings. The artist explains that the eunuchs in his works were all “very powerful people with no balls”, often at the forefront of Turkish politics because of their specialized knowledge and intense loyalty. These giant faces are colored with many hues in a criss-crossing pattern across the skin. The artist tells me that this is in reference to the very colorful manner that these people used to dress. He poses for a photograph, pulling a Marilyn Monroe pose, holding down the imaginary dress while coyly drawing one finger to the lip surely a nod to the subject material at hand. The vibrations of these different feelings are distracted and amplified by the fashion show around the visitor. A selected fashion collection made by Clelia Zolli is moving about the space, draped over the shoulders of a group of models. Her vision of blending a fashion show with a gallery show is something very fresh and unusual, rare to find in the plastered neighborhood of Chelsea. Someone quips “I agree with having beautiful women walking around the room”.
Opening The energy of emotion by Clen Gallery
Wandering into a dreamscape, visitors finds themselves on the beach with some armless angels with heart ventricles sticking out of their heads. With their heads in the sky, patrons can meet the pop art clouds made by Mary Mattingly, and run with the bronze horses of Monica Olea – artists selected by Clelia Zolli during the past edition of Clio Art Fair 2015.
Opening The energy of emotion by Clen Gallery
The show hosted also a selection of works of Francesco Mian. There are symbols from the artist’s nostalgic brain, like a pair of scissors, some thread, knitting needles and a coiled shell from the beach, all referencing a childhood in coastal Italy where his mother made clothing. From all acrylic, to all drawings, to mixed digital and drawing, the works span many medias and recall a youthful exuberance of a poem.
Opening The energy of emotion by Clen Gallery
With ten percent of all sales going to benefit breast cancer research, The Energy of Emotions at Clen Gallery is running from April 16th – April 19th from11AM – 6PM daily at Rogue Space, 508 West 26th St. 9th floor.
Opening The energy of emotion by Clen Gallery
Opening The energy of emotion by Clen Gallery
Clelia Zolli
Alberto Baccari
The energy of emotion at Clen Gallery, panoramic view
(Middle) Clelia Zolli with friends
“Build awareness, test new markets, and connect with new customers, these are the main goals that we follow for our pop-up events,” says Clelia Zolli, founder of the Clen Gallery. “Between an event and another, I stay in touch with our customers, I look for new artists to represent them and I create new clothes for my upcoming fashion collection” she adds with a disarming smile.
Fusing art, design, and fashion by parading models in the context of an art gallery challenges the traditional concept of gallery and exhibition. For the last pop up show held last weekend at Chelsea, Clen Gallery presented 14 artists including works of the twice Biennalist Alfredo Rapetti Mogol, Francisco Uceda, the anthropomorphic creatures of Francesco Mian, Rabarama, Erika Trojer, the irreverent world of Kevin Berlin, works of the duo Paolo Campagnolo and Salvo Biondo, the paper mache of Francesca Carallo, the eunuch sensations of Alberto Baccari, Marisa Notarianni, and Alice Pazzi with a selection of her colorful collages. The exhibition also hosted works by Mary Mattingly and Monica Olea, independent artists discovered by Clelia Zolli during the last Clio Art Fair 2015.
A crowd shot of the opening at Clen Gallery
Opening night at Clen Gallery
The opening was also accompanied by something beneficial: 10% of all sales were donated to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a foundation that fights against breast cancer.
Born four years ago, the Clen Gallery’s project bases its core business on putting together a fashion show in an exhibition space. The result is an event within an event: art that is offered as aesthetic input during défilé fashion and vice versa.
Combining her passion for Fashion, Art and Design, this last Clelia Zolli’s show confirms its philosophy of showcasing international arts and crafts in a lifestyle context able to wake up the sleepy last week in Chelsea, leaving the visitor seduced by the show that just ended and curious for the next to come.
Guests enjoying the art at the opening
Opening the energy of emotion at Clen Gallery
A guest enjoying the opening
Opening the energy of emotion at Clen Gallery
Opening the energy of emotion at Clen Gallery
Merging the Lines between Fashion Art and Design
Clen Gallery, una nuova pop-up gallery italiana a New York. Immagini dalla mostra proposta da Clelia Zolli a Chelsea, NY
| domenica, 19 aprile 2015
Clen Gallery, New York – Al centro della foto Clelia Zolli
Una nuova pop-up gallery newyorkese ma con dna italiano conferma l’affermarsi di questo concept e ribadisce un interrogativo ormai ricorrente: meglio essere aperti dodici mesi su dodici a Milano o pochi selezioni week-end a Chelsea? Sono sempre più i progetti espositivi che scelgono questa seconda opzione, investendo le proprie energie in eventi organizzati per il pubblico e i collezionisti della grande mela. Clen Gallery è un progetto di Clelia Zolli, italiana d’origine, ma di base a New York, e parte dalla necessità di mettere in dialogo tra loro fashion, design ed arte contemporanea, e di organizzare show in luoghi di prestigio della città, cercando il giusto punto di contatto di volta in volta tra venue e progetto espositivo.
La sede scelta per questo appuntamento è il Rogue Space, al nono piano del Wolf Building, storico palazzo sulla ventiseiesima di Chelsea. Per quest’ultimo appuntamento Clelia Zolli, oltre a presentare una selezionata serie di abiti da lei realizzati, ha scelto di mostrare opere di Alberto Baccari, Alfredo Rapetti Mogol, Alice Pazzi, Erika Trojer, Francesca Carallo, Francesco Mian, Francisco Uceda, Kevin Berlin, Marisa Notarianni, Matt Mattingly, Monica Olea, Paolo Campagnolo, oltre a Salvo Biondo e Rabarama.
Da segnalare soprattutto i dipinti di Kevin Berlin, molto attivo sin dagli anni ottanta e presente nelle collezioni di molte star hollywoodiane, non ultima quella di Leonardo Di Caprio; le stampe 3D e composizioni di cartucce di fucile di Erika Trojer; gli iCandy di Francisco Uceda, autoritratti fotografici in cui l’artista associa declinazioni della personalità all’assunzione di dolci industriali tipici della cultura americana. Il tutto per 4 brevissimi giorni: noi documentiamo con la fotogallery…
– Francesco Lecci
Clen Gallery
Rogue Space
508 W 26th street – New York
http://clengallery.com
A lezione di gusto e nomadismo da Clen Gallery
The Energy of Emotions è la mostra d’arte contemporanea che la galleria nomadica Clen Gallery ha portato al Rogue Space, nel cuore di Chelsea: fashion, arte e design, ma
anche un momento benefico dedicato alla lotta contro il cancro al seno
Clen Gallery, New York – Al centro della foto Clelia Zolli
The Energy of Emotions è la collezione di arte, moda e design che la Clen Gallery, galleria nomadica da sempre in prima linea nel sostenere la grande arte espressiva, ha presentato a New York. Di proprietà della fashion designer Clelia Zolli, per questo evento la Clen Gallery ha scelto di essere ospitata al Rogue Space, nello storico Wolf building, cuore pulsante dell’art district di Chelsea. Le opere esposte portano la firma di quattordici artisti coinvolti, tra pittori, scultori e artigiani noti per la loro unicità.
Impossibile ignorare il grido di dolore proveniente dai proprietari di gallerie d’arte seriamente stressati dai sempre più alti costi di affitto e dal peso fiscale che sono costretti a sostenere per il mantenimento delle proprie attività. Per ovviare al clima di precarietà diffuso, stanno nascendo sempre più progetti che hanno sviluppato il concetto di pop up gallery, ovvero gallerie che organizzano i propri eventi in differenti spazi espositivi, che si spostano durante l’anno di quartiere in quartiere se non addirittura di città in città, senza mai avere una sede fissa. È il caso della Clen gallery, che questo week-end ha fatto capolino a Chelsea con proprio con lo show The Energy of Emotions, una mostra d’arte contemporanea internazionale alla quale è stata aggiunta una selezione di abiti firmati dalla proprietaria della galleria e opere di design.
All’evento, che ha compreso una numerosa presenza di artisti italiani fra cui Alfredo Rapetti Mogol, Francesco Mian, Alberto Baccari, ai quali si sono aggiunti le opere di Kevin Berlin, Mary Mattingly e Monica Olea, non poteva mancare un momento benefico: il 10% di tutte le vendite realizzate attraverso l’opening è stato donato al Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, fondazione di primo piano nella lotta contro il cancro al seno.
Mostre, Arte contemporanea, Pop up gallery, Clelia Zolli, Rogue Space, Chelsea
