Luciano Bruna Collection

11/10/2021

Palm Springs, you little charming bastard❤️

10/29/2021

Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror
Review: https://www.lucianobruna.com/s/stories/jasperjohnsmindmirror

09/25/2021

Sun & Sea is an opera performance whose ambition and accomplishment is to bring to the -arguably already antiquated opera experience- the feeling of relaxation and calmness of laying on the beach and enjoying a beautiful sunny day. This premise is achieved by setting up 30 tons of sand inside a theater venue, a challenge as refreshing as a concept as a logistic enterprise.

This opera premiered in 2017 with around 24 performers from Lithuania and Italy at the Lithuanian National Gallery of Art. Due to its success, it was translated into English to be presented in the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in Venice Italy in 2019, winning the top award, the Golden Lion for Best National Participation.

Since then, this fantastic and successful opening has ensured the welcoming doors to the main art venues around the world in major cities like Bergen, Zurich, Copenhagen and Rome, to name a few. Now it comes to New York thanks to The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), who has embarked on this challenge to bring to New Yorkers this amazing experience.

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09/10/2021

Today I was lucky enough to receive the invitation to assist at the opening reception of the new exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Art Gallery.

The exhibition, ”McArthur Binion, Modern:Ancient:Brown” is being displayed on the first floor of the premises from September 9 through October 23, 2021 at the New York location in Chelsea.

The space is a marvelous corner building with massive glass walls, an elevator for easier access to the other floors and lots of both natural and warm gallery lights. The crowd assisting the opening was fun and youthful, the space got full of people of all ages and the excitement was very palpable.

The pieces in exhibition on the first floor were a collection of works made in huge canvases of what seems to be photocopies on paper. A beautiful piece of work that puts in consonance both registers of old birth certificates with loud and fun colors in geometric shapes. This mix is repeated several times across the canvas making a pattern out of it. It is a very interesting game of repetition and careful selection of colors.

There was plenty to see since they have a second floor with more pieces and a third and fourth floor where resides another art gallery. While I didn’t ask for details of this second institution, I did enjoy the show that is on display on the upper levels and that was also accessible for the visitors.

Although my words may not make justice to the beauty of all these artworks, these are available to visit and be admired in their magnificence, size and context and I invite you to do so. Maybe you will feel enlightened by one of them and decide to get it for your collection!

Thank you so much to my dear friend for inviting me to be a part of this opening.

Lehmann Maupin is a two story art gallery located in Chelsea at 501 W 24th St. in Manhattan, New York. According to their website -lehmannmaupin.com-, they have a total of five locations worldwide, of which two are in New York, both in Chelsea, and the other three are in Hong Kong, Seoul and the most recent opened in London.

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