Cities of the World

Justin Chan, Fred Couprie, Milanda De Mont, Sylvie D’halluin, Kerstin Kager, Ian Kingsford-Smith, Carla Kleekamp, Fulvio Tornese, Alissa Thor, Serenella Sossi, Marlo Sarmiento, Eva Breitfuss, Moufida Bouamari, laura Chilivani,

14 September – 15 October 2023

15 rue Saint Bernard. 11ème arrondissement – PARIGI

Curator: Gilbert Ciervo

In September 2023, Monteoliveto Gallery is starting a new fantastic adventure, adding to its location in Napoli with the Home Gallery and to its collaboration with Casa Museo Spazio Tadini in Milan, a new amazing all-year long location in Paris! This space will be the one that we used for the FOCUS PARIS projects in the end of 2021 and early 2023, in the heart of the city near the Bastille square. In this original two levels parisian gallery we will organize recurrent events and art exhibitions, with international artists and all types of media.

For the first exhibition, the opening one, we wanted something that would make a statement, something important and of a certain appeal, so we chose a theme that we really appreciate and that fit perfectly in our annual thematic for 2023 (Ecological, Cultural and Artistic Transition): Cities of the World. Our lifelong project is named: Cities of Europe as we are trying to bring our artists, their works and our exhibiting ideas all around the Old Continent but for an exhibition related to this title we wanted to open it to the whole World!

Each artist will present his/her own home or life city (or town, or village…) “talking”, with his/her personal artistic vision, about the culture, the art, the green engagement, of what has been done and of what could/should be done in the future in those cities. A connection between Art and Society !

This will be an exhibition that shows a world made of cities, a big ensemble made of plenty of little ones, already interconnected between them or that would gain from a new connection !

It’s the whole idea that alone we have limited possibilities but together we can make fantastic things and from 14 September to 15 October 2023 we will put this idea in Art in the Ville des Lumières, the City of Lights: Paris !

Cities of the World exhibition is also part of our gallery’s project to create a bridge, a synergy, between all the fantastic and very artistically active regions of the world and focal locations for contemporary art such as: Paris, Milano and other cities in Europe and the World.

Works

Justin Chan

Born in Hong Kong, Justin Chan was High School and University educated in Canada, where he obtained his degree in Visual Arts & Philosophy. He lived & works as a fash-ion/commercial photographer between Paris, London and Tokyo. He was also a part-time lecturer at the HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE OF ART while in Hong Kong. 2010 saw him starting an agent for international photographers & production company for China and the Asian Pacific region while based in Shanghai.

And now, as a member of the IAVA INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF VISUAL ARTISTS in Italy, he concentrates wholeheartedly on his own art/abstract photography. Justin comes from an expansive and technical history of working between many photo-graphic genres worldwide. This experience has led him to master capturing the mundane as something of exception, giving him years of experience on how to work within the constraints of his own imagination.

Justin’s work pertains to a strong and fluent sense of composition capturing the nuances of detail in mood, colour and performance. And with his own special visual language, he now continues to break traditional photographic boundaries, and discovers fresh ideas in expressing his world view.

“We all participate in a collective consciousness around us, which dictates and governs our shared common reality. My photography work itself no longer define a scenery, or an object as we know it. It no longer represents anything at all. It has become a new horizon of artistic impressions. The works allow us alternative ways of seeing everyday objects as mething we have never seen before. In fact, they have provided us the freedom of seeing the usual everyday objects as anything we want to see they as, according to our imagination, our participating power of visualization, & our own individual life experiences…. And in the end, we come to the discovery that these different realities already exist within our collective consciousness, unconsciously.”

He wish that the audiences would come away with an expanded consciousness of the world around each one of us, and the notion that the power of visualization can no doubt change our identities with and the world with-in & with-out. Freedom is the power of self-determination attributed to the free will; the quality of being independent of the domination and imprisonment of an enforced limited reality, thus the power to change our world.

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Fred Couprie

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Milanda De Mont

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Sylvie D’halluin

Havrincourt (Francia)

” Devant ma toile blanche je me laisse guider par mes émotions à travers l’harmonie des couleurs, les idées viennent au fur et à mesure, je peins de façon intuitive.”