Summer Calling – Group show

SUMMER CALLING
Summer Group Exhibition

featuring:
Kukula, Brandt Peters, Kathie Olivas, Natascia Raffio

From June 27th to July 20th 2014
Dal 27 Giugno al 20 Luglio 2014

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It’s been a very successful year for DCG, during which we proudly staged some beautiful shows, always promoting preminent social issues and investigating several cultural perspectives. Dorothy Circus Gallery is now happy to present its “Summer Calling” group show, featuring brand new artworks by the North-American artists Kathie Olivas and Brandt Peters, along with the Israeli artist Kukula and the Italian artist Natascia Raffio.
Looking for a renovated serene state of being, seeking to be touched by the summer breeze…
Sun, sea, parasols, beaches…. together with the right dose of light heartedness typical of the Summer season inspire these 4 artists in the making of colorful brand new paintings and sculptures.
Kukula’s femme fatales, easily sexy with their gloomy gaze, their tattooed bodies, all dressed up in silky baby-doll, are modeling in languid poses, surrounded by symbolic items emerging from a lunar landscape. Kukula’s artworks are faithful to the Pop Aesthetics, as well as to the art of classical portraying, but with a personal middle east twist.
Kukula, presently living in California, exhibits in the most renowned galleries worldwide, as well as in Italy with D.C.G, since 2009.
The Californian art couple Kathie Olivas and Brandt Peters’s fiberglass and oils on canvas, with their unique style, outline endearing rascals as young adults in a idealized world, with masks and lollipops that show the weird contrast between their naiveness and the air of mystery of their playground.
Kathie Olivas and Brandt Peters, represented by in the main North-American galleries, have been also featured in many influential institutional exhibitions, such as “Monsters and Misfits”, the Japanese “Folk Art Museum” and Dorothy Circus Gallery’s “Pop Surrealism,” which was held at Museo di Palazzo Collicola in Spoleto.
Natascia Raffio’s Indian ink drawings bring us back to the graceful and sensual “grafitismo”of Liberty style, inspired by the artist’s heritage of Aubrey Beardsley’s lesson.
A long awaited debut for our young italian artist, already well known by international collectors for her sugary sculptures.
The “Summer Calling” group show, with 20 original brand new works created specifically for Dorothy Circus Gallery, will make you turn away from everyday’s phone rings, and will befriend you in this amazing and exciting upcoming summer adventure.

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Dopo un anno ricco di soddisfazioni per il successo delle mostre che abbiamo avuto il piacere e l’onore di ospitare, affrontando sia importanti temi sociali che aspetti culturali d’altri mondi, la Dorothy Circus Gallery è ora lieta di presentare la collettiva “Summer Calling” in cui saranno esposte le opere degli statunitensi Kathie Olivas e Brandt Peters, l’israeliana Kukula e l’italiana Natascia Raffio.
Sole, mare, ombrellini, spiagge… e quella dose di spensieratezza portata dal vento d’estate, ispirano le tele e le sculture protagoniste del summer group show.
Le femmes fatales di Kukula dagli sguardi malinconici, ipertatuate e vestite di setosi babydoll, sempre velatamente erotiche, si lasciano ritrarre in pose languide, contornate da oggetti simbolici emersi da paesaggi lunari, pose tipiche della ritrattistica classica, contaminate dalla cultura europea e mediorientale, ma soprattutto dall’estetica pop.
Kukula che attualmente vive in California, ha collaborato con le più rinomate gallerie del settore e, a partire dal 2009, espone in Italia con la Dorothy Circus Gallery.
Gli oli e le sculture in vetroresina di Kathie Olivas e Brandt Peters, la coppia californiana dallo stile inconfondibile, con i loro dolci monelli raffigurati come piccoli adulti in una terra idealizzata, in cui la propria ingenuità, sottolineata da maschere e lollipops, fa da contraltare alle misteriose lande in cui i bambini si ritrovano a giocare.
Kathie Olivas e Brandt Peters, esposti dalle più famose gallerie degli Stati Uniti, hanno inoltre partecipato ad importanti mostre istituzionali come Monsters & Misfits, il Folk Art Museum in Giappone e la mostra Pop Surrealism tenutasi presso il museo di Palazzo Collicola in Italia. Natascia Raffio e le sue chine ci riportano alla grazia e al grafitismo sinuoso del Liberty di Aubrey Beardsley.
Attesissimo l’esordio di questa giovane artista italiana, che già ha conquistato i collezionisti di tutto il mondo con le sue zuccherose sculture.
Con le 20 opere inedite, create appositamente per la Dorothy Circus Gallery, i 4 artisti selezionati ci distolgono dallo squillo di un telefono insistente e ci accompagnano alle porte della nuova avventura estiva…