December 9 – January 13, 2006
FRANTS GALERY SPACE
81 Wooster St, New York, NY 10012 USA
The critic who must introduce the work of the modern “Sterligovites” – followers of the painter Vladimir Vasilevich Sterligov – cannot help but feel a certain amount of confusion: it is difficult to find another group of artists so different from each other and yet so united by their «root system», by a deep, secret closeness. Continue reading “THE STERLIGOV GROUP”
December 1, 2005-January 15, 2006
FRANTS GALERY SPACE
81 Wooster St, New York, NY 10012 USA
Exhibition by Aron Zinshtein
May 4 – 28, 2005
BERLINER KUNSTPROJEKT GALLERY
Bülowstraße 52, 10783 Berlin, Germany
“Sarcophagus, Ghanaian Style, or The funeral of a Dreamer”
Curated by ANNA FRANTS
Among hosts of inevitable events stored for every one living, none is so mystifying in its essence than the phenonmenon of death. Most cultures have religious and philosphic systems, rituals, and certain principles of social order that facilitate the living to accept the death of their neighbors. For Ghanaians, death is by no means a mournful event, but a logical completion of one’s life’s journey. The funeral is a feast in honor of a well-lived life and the coffin plays a special symbolic role in cermeonies. Continue reading “SACROFAGUS, GHANIAN STYLE, OR THE FUNERAL OF A DREAMER”
2005
THE KYOSEI-NO-SATO KUROKAWA INN GALLERY
1546-1 Kurogawa, Asakura City, Fukuoka, Japan