Avital Cnaani "Strangler Fig" - Fumitaka Kudo "LIving Fossils" May 31, 2010

Please join us at HSF by Montrasioarte for the opening of the twin shows featuring artists in residence, Avital Cnaani (sculpture, Israel) and Fumitaka Kudo (drawing, Japan).
Curated by Raffaele Bedarida and Teresa Meucci, the show presents works achieved
by the two artists during their stay in New York (March – June 2010).

Opening reception:
June 3rd, 6.00-9.00 pm

By appointment:
June 4 – 24, 2010

HSF by Montrasioarte
128W 121st street
Subway 2, 3 to 116th street
www.harlemstudiony.org
646 542 9986

Avital Cnaani
STRANGLER FIG

Avital Cnaani explores a territory between body and geography through works that merge the boundaries of drawing and sculpture.
Geographic and anatomic sites are evoked such as caves, mountains, hair or ears, through metonymic and ambiguous allusions.
At HSF, she presents a series of drawings and three site-specific sculptures.
Her drawings are deeply plastic, tectonic. The fragile sculptures feel like spatial drawings
which link the architectural container of the exhibition-space's walls and ceilings to the
contained space where you are standing and the air that you are breathing. Their link is the bodily space of sensation stimulated through the use of a diversity of materials and textures.

Fumitaka Kudo
LIVING FOSSILS
When fish fossils found on mountains were believed to be,evidence for the Biblical Flood, Leonardo da Vinci proposed that they were actually remains of organisms that had lived before mountains were raised. A theory very close to that of modern paleontology.
During the last three months at HSF, Fumitaka Kudo drew a series of small and large scale works on paper with the painstakingly technique of Leonardo's drawings. But his studies are visualizing with scientific precision large, impossible creatures, which could have,only swum in the depths of Flood's waters. The intricate web of signs that compose the fish's epidermis is the product of a repetitive gesture and constitute a diagram of manual fatigue. The little, inexpressive eye is the only opening through this crust.

ABOUT US
Ideated in 2007 by Ruggero Montrasio, HSF by Montrasioarte is a privately funded, non-profit Residency Program for international artists directed by Francesca Montrasio and curated by Raffaele Bedarida.
The Studio Harlem Fellowship is designed to encourage the creative, intellectual and personal growth of emerging visual artists. We invite two or three young artists every three months, providing them with housing and studio in a townhouse in the district of Harlem. Every residency ends with a group exhibition, displaying works and projects accomplished by each artist during his/her stay in New York In addition to this, a complete show of the artists in residence will be held at the end of the first 3 years, displaying a selection from the artists in residence invited