MAC Maja Arte Contemporanea invites the viewers to explore the latest diptychs by artist Georgina Spengler in the exhibition titled "Thalassa | Ouranos."The show features ten works, all diptychs, (oil and charcoal on wood) that start off from a color stain, which is then pressed onto another wood panel thus creating the diptych. Critic Claudio Zambianchi says: "The preparatory process serves to free the imagination, which can now project onto the stain a world which is both aerial and abyssal, made of sky and deep waters, of Ouranos and of Thalassa; and if the celestial part is filled with fantastically shaped clouds, in the aquatic part of the paintings appear gorgons and creatures from the deep, creatures that are more related to mythology than to zoology."Georgina Spengler was born in Athens, Greece in 1959, where she spent her early childhood. Her family first moved to the United States when she was eight and then to Holland, when she was a teenager. There, amidst Rembrandt, Ruisdael, and Vermeer began her interest in painting and she frequented the Vrije Academie of The Hague, taking figure drawing and painting classes. After finishing school, and with a very romantic vision of painting and art, she set off for Paris where she spent one year and attended the course of Cesar at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Seeking a more structured approach to painting she then went to study at the Boston University School of Fine Arts. She eventually completed her academic studies at the Corcoran Gallery and School of Art in Washington D.C. She has exhibited continuously over the past 30 years in various group and solo shows, often collaborating with other artists. Spengler's paintings have often dealt with poetry — she made a series of paintings dealing with the imagery of John Keats' final voyage towards Rome in 1820. It was exhibited in the Keats and Shelley Museum in Rome. She also founded, together with a group of artists, 'Casa con Vista'— a circuit of 15 private houses in Rome, each hosting one artist who then created a specific installation for the house. The installations in the houses, all within walking distance of each other, were then open to the public.The exhibition is on view through June 30, 2018 at MAC Maja Arte Contemporanea, Via di Monserrato, 30, 00186 Roma, Italy.For details visit: http://www.majartecontemporanea.comClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin
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