Transcending Reality & Re-Imaging The Canon: Work By Valentina Battler
/EINPresswire.com/ New York, NY - August 9, 2011 -- Valentina Battler is pleased to present her debut New York Solo Show MUSIC OF SILENCE.The collection on Contemporary Ink Painting combines fifty-two works of Chinese Painting, Contemporary Ink painting, Ink and Pastel Painting and a suite of images 'Transcending Reality' which variously theme a visual interpretation and a poetic response to the Symphonic Dances, the last work completed by the Russian composer, conductor and pianist, Sergei Rachmaninoff. The paintings are accompanied by poems written by the artist.
"The interplay between the visual, composition and music which is themed here was among the formative practice of a host of now well known artists. Battler's suite of images from which these have been selected for exhibition, visually re-interprets Rachmaninoff's composition. The phantasmagoric symbolism of the various images also echoes the dance style of Rachmaninoff's score and captures the composer's intention to choreograph the three movements into a continuous and integrated whole," said Dr. Grant Pooke, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Possessing exceptional technique, Valentina Battler has invoked both the traditions of synaesthesia and the influence of art and craft from China and Japan in a wide-ranging aesthetic, a central aspect of which has been a responsive engagement with both cultural difference and thematic continuity. Despite differences in subject matter, all of Battler's compositions are made on high quality Xuan paper.
Dr. Pooke went on to say, "Valentina Battler's aesthetic explores various registers. In some cases, brush and ink compositions conform to an elegant and dutiful copying of the canon of classical practice. In doing so, she re-instates a tradition defined by continuity and pragmatic assimilation. But in other compositions, there are different imaginative and creative nuances at play. Like an audience listening to an atonal score, or a freeform sequence of jazz notes, we feel and see an unfolding and virtuoso musical improvisation which occasionally changes the home key."
"In order to perceive, understand and create, all that is required is to study, think and do."
For further information about Valentina Battler's work including dates and times, please visit her website at www.valentinabattler.com or email studio@valentinabattler.com.
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"The interplay between the visual, composition and music which is themed here was among the formative practice of a host of now well known artists. Battler's suite of images from which these have been selected for exhibition, visually re-interprets Rachmaninoff's composition. The phantasmagoric symbolism of the various images also echoes the dance style of Rachmaninoff's score and captures the composer's intention to choreograph the three movements into a continuous and integrated whole," said Dr. Grant Pooke, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Possessing exceptional technique, Valentina Battler has invoked both the traditions of synaesthesia and the influence of art and craft from China and Japan in a wide-ranging aesthetic, a central aspect of which has been a responsive engagement with both cultural difference and thematic continuity. Despite differences in subject matter, all of Battler's compositions are made on high quality Xuan paper.
Dr. Pooke went on to say, "Valentina Battler's aesthetic explores various registers. In some cases, brush and ink compositions conform to an elegant and dutiful copying of the canon of classical practice. In doing so, she re-instates a tradition defined by continuity and pragmatic assimilation. But in other compositions, there are different imaginative and creative nuances at play. Like an audience listening to an atonal score, or a freeform sequence of jazz notes, we feel and see an unfolding and virtuoso musical improvisation which occasionally changes the home key."
"In order to perceive, understand and create, all that is required is to study, think and do."
For further information about Valentina Battler's work including dates and times, please visit her website at www.valentinabattler.com or email studio@valentinabattler.com.
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