ALCHEMIC BODY | FIRE . AIR . WATER . EARTH
Laura Haber Gallery, Buenos Aires
From April 21 to May 29, 2017

ALCHEMIC BODY | FIRE . AIR . WATER . EARTH, International photography, painting, installation, video-art and performance art festival, opens its curtains on April 21, 2017 until May 29, 2017 in Buenos Aires at Laura Haber Gallery, exhibiting the selected artworks of emerging and relevant artists coming from 28 nations.

The exhibition is organized and curated by Arch. Luca Curci (director of It’s LIQUID Group).

The event ALCHEMIC BODY | FIRE . AIR . WATER . EARTH starts with the performance of the Italian artist Giordano Boetti Raganelli and has been a great success with an huge presence of audience and artists involved.

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Michal Jan Borucki, Polish engineer and artist, presents his back and white pencil on paper’s works “Atelier” and “Strict Look“. He is a multidisciplinary person, he is an architect, painter, cartoonist and graphic designer by passion. In his work he is looking for the boundary between universally understood aesthetics and commonly established imperfection. His surreal visions are mostly commentary on the reality that surrounds people and the frailty of human nature.

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Jerome Chia-Horng Lin, artist from Taiwan, shows the video art work: “The Path of Water“, a 3D animation, that consists of many metaphors within a variety of moving images. So according to the artist’s concept “There is no solid storyline. The theme actually reflects my mental responses towards the world, conveying my value system throughout years of experiences. This work somehow implied that water has its own will, deciding where to flow regardless of any obstacle it may encounter. It will detour or penetrate in order to reach its destination… The second half of the animation is talking about the interaction of water with life forms where a dancer is performing in this composition.”

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The artist Alessandra Sequeira, born in Costa Rica, exhibits her acrylic ink on Stratford paper’s work: “DIT“. In her works she proposes roots of empathy. “She dreamt that life is made of lines of intention. Sometimes we are ink, sometimes we are roots or branches, but always entangled.. Life is an intertwined natural phenomenon, as in her artwork, raw silk, rice paper. Stratford paper and canvas are the holders of this encounter. “

Elisabeth Ajtay, American artist, proposes her video art “My Neocortex“, a short video using the light of the moon in combination with the alphabet that is created with the moonlight. According to the artist concept: “I write with the moon as agent of my communication, phrases that address emotional states at the chore of our being.”

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The multi-discipline artist Gilead Limor, coming from UK, presents the photo works “A Look at Ourselves“, “Fleeting Moment” and “Immolation on Club Row“. Since 2012, Gilead has been creating photographic nude art, both individual and group tableaux, with groups of up to 20 volunteers, and he has organised and staged numerous art-installation shoot days in various locations across the UK. He is currently halfway through his project A Look at Ourselves, which he plans to complete in the summer of 2017, with an exhibition in September.

Milos Sejn, artist from Czech Republic, exhibits the two experimental videos “Grass, 1967“, an hallucinatory view of the grass swaying in the wind, and “Body of the Night, 2001“, an infrared record of contact my body with nightly water. The camera is hung on a tree branch, bowing over the surface of the pond.

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Tamiko Tominaga, coming from Japan, attends the event at Laura Haber Gallery presenting his paitings on canvas: “Chrystal Body“, “Rainbow Light from Center“, “Fascination 5” and “Wings with Fire and Water“.

The England artist Louise Lawlor presents the video art “The Voice of the Synthetic Human 2“, that is a digital projection created using Blender 3 modelling software. According the concept of the artist: “The voice is made up of our physical presence that isn’t defined by language but as being heard, present and received in orientation to the other bodies…Breaking down the voice in different ways places the tentacle as the exploratory force that are then dropped, destroyed, chained up and melted down by the intensity of the environment.”

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Teppo Korte, artist from The Netherlands, shows his mixed media work “Get Out Phantom“, a particular work made by resin, prints, spray paint, LED-lights. He is enthusiastic about nightlife and landscapes in a city with lighted windows, bars, neon-lights, cinemas and traffic. Lights and shadows. He thinks that “In full light everything is visible, but in the shadows you can hide. This happens simultaneously in the night in a city. The romance and the danger at the same view. Korte tries to discover our relationship with artificial lights and darkness. “

The French artist Alain Galet shows his photo works “Fuite 29” and “Fuite 58“. This series of photo and digital painting is a paradigm for the contemporary world. The man with his body and his physical sensations are the main concept of his photo works, settled in an “desert” environment. Alain uses an unique technique of the digital photography, painting and photo are linked by a “new concept of realism”.

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Helena Schultheis Edgeler, artist from Croatia presents the experimental video art “Twelve“, dedicated to the artist Ivan Ladislav Galeta, that is exploring the microcosm of human existence and the macrocosm of extrasensory realities. “The Human experience of creating is such that the origin of the material is preceded by a thought supported by emotions, which requires a certain time cycle.”

The Belgium artist An-Valerie Vandromme participates with “Breathing“, an experimental video about the act of Breathing, it combines an ancient craft with a natural act. In this video she is ispired by the Italian artist Giuseppe Penone, who noted that “the act of breathing is already a sculptural act”. Furthermore she presents her series of photo “Ocean Serie #1“, “Ocean Serie #2” and “Ocean Serie #3“. Nature has always been a source of inspiration for An-valerie, she integrates these influences in her art- and design works.

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Genesis Gonzalez, artist from USA, proposes the video art “Light Project“, focused of the relations between light and color that creates an abstract and interactive experience for the audience. In particular this video work is stimiled by her roots, which stem from Latin American cities that are full of vigor, activity and colors, according to the thoughts of artist.

The Belgium artist Yves De Bodt presents a series of works, inspired by “a creation of a new world”: “Matrix“, “Morphogenetic process“, “Silent birth”, “Metaphysical experience” and “Reflection“. According to the idea of the artist “these 5 paintings, can be seen as individual silent witnesses of metaphysical experiences. But by presenting them as one they can be considered as a concept for a new world, build on the following thought experiment. Our body contains billions of cells. There are hundreds of different types of cells and their uses are specific to each type of cell. My theorem is based on a hypothetical particular cell, that transcends all the well-known body cells. I call it the matrix cell.”

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The Sweden artist Amy Oestlund exhibits the photo work “Floating leaf” during the event. She had from early years a great interest in Photography and from the age of 14, she spent a lot of time in the darkroom developing her own Black & White films and making prints. “Most of her images are rather bold – according to her idea – and they are rarely portraying any people and it has become natural for her to end up in the categories landscape and architectural photography.”

Simon Raffy, Frech artist presents the experimental video art “The Essence Of Flow“, produced in collaboration with BioArt Laboratory. This video shows the sensual language of the flows, beyond the hydrodynamic equations. “It is an ambivalent symbol between the ephemeral and the constant, violent or relaxing. The soap films interact with light to create colors. This physical phenomenon allows to see the flow. The Essence of flow opens a window to the hydrodynamic. There is laminar flows, turbulent flows and the boundary condition in front of your eyes. This project is located between the research of a contemplative state and the hydrodynamic technologies. Thisis the constant duality of my work.”

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The video art presented by Asher Main, coming from Grenada, is “The Sea is Our Mother” , in which is displayed a set 4 images with a sea fan projected on a body to represent our integral relationship to the sea.

Luciana Campanale, designer and decorator of fabrics, and Angela Mummolo, industrial model, craftsman, prototype, dressmaker, coming from Italy present their collection “Seven deadly sins” Envy, Gluttony, Greed, Lust, Pride, Sloth, Wrath. These works are realized on cardboard and plaster, in which art and fashion are linked by main concepts of human being.

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ALCHEMIC BODY | FIRE . AIR . WATER . EARTH is an exhibition of contemporary art, an opportunity for international artists to exhibit their works in the blooming Buenos Aires arts scene, destination of curators and collectors from all over the world. The exhibition is focused on the concept of transformation, starting from the alchemical processes, that aim to purify the nature elements: earth, air, water and fire. The alchemists, recognized as the ancestors of modern chemists, worked to discover the way the world is made and to modify its structure. The mysterious practice of alchemy always influenced the art and the artists from all the centuries. Alchemists and artists are fascinated by the concept of transformation and they both work to discover and create new possible worlds.

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Laura Haber Gallery in Buenos Aires is directed by curator Laura Haber and it is one of the most renewed galleries of Argentina.

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