Carole Feuerman In Venice at Giardino Della Marinaressa In the Context of the Venice Biennale
After four nail-biting weeks of shipping delays, customs clearance problems, passports and visa paperwork for each traveling sculpture, Carole is on the move again: this time, back to Venice for a solo show at the Giardino Della Marinaressa, by the Venice Biennale.
'Bibi on the Ball" , Life-Size, 2017
After four nail-biting weeks of shipping delays, customs clearance problems, passports and visa paperwork for each traveling sculpture (see: Italian Customs Getting Lean and Mean with Golden Mean), Carole is on the move again: this time, back to Venice for a solo show at the Giardino Della Marinaressa, during the Venice Biennale and five collateral exhibitions simultaneously.
The Venice Biennale is an international show with annual foot traffic running in the 500K that artists, nations - heck, the world - would bend over backwards to be associated with. Bucket list, check!
If you want to hobnob with the artworld's elite, be sure to go to her opening receptions in Giardino Della Marinaressa on Friday and Saturday, May 11th and 12th at 5:00 PM. The show is free and will be there through December 5, 2017.
Feuerman has, not one, not two, but four other solo shows to see going on simultaneously in Venice, in case you are a big fan. These shows were made possible by Global Art Affairs Foundation, European Cultural Centre, Bel Air Fine Art, & Venissa Hotel.
Your first stop can be the island of Burano, just twenty minutes north of Venice. It is there that you will find homes of every color. If you want to buy a home in Burano, the city know for fine lace, do stay and dine at Venissa. They will host a reception for Carole this coming Tuesday, May 9th in honor of her solo exhibition at the Venissa Hotel. Water taxi service can be arranged, courtesy of Venissa. The island of Burano is just twenty minutes by water taxi from San Marco.
You may want to head over to The San Clemente Palace , and visit the luxurious 5-star hotel, San Clemente Palace Kempinski, on its own private island in Venice.
Carole shows with Bel Air Fine Art. They have a gorgeous gallery in Venice plus fourteen other galleries around the world. She is having a solo show with them in Venice. Another must see stop while in Venice is Palazzo Mora and Palazzo Bembo. Both palazzo's will each have a special Feuerman swimmer exhibitions during their shows called Personal Structures, Open Borders.
On the island of Burano, just twenty minutes north of Venice, Venissa will host a reception for Carole this coming Tuesday, May 9th in honor of her solo exhibition at the Venissa Hotel. Water taxi service can be arranged, courtesy of Venissa. The island of Burano is just twenty minutes by water taxi from San Marco.
Capri, Life-Size with Opalescent Crystals, Oil Painted Resin, 2017
One of Carole's favorite places in Italy is the Island of Capri. This is a must-see destination when going to Italy. Feuerman likes it so much that she made a special sculpture and named it "Capri". This sculpture has iridescent crystals on her cap that change color as you walk around it.
Feuerman With "Monumental Serena", one of her most iconic sculptures, will be installed in Capri under the great clock in the piazza. Liquid Art Systems Gallery, with locations in Capri, AnaCapri, and Positano will also exhibit many of her pieces in their galleries.
When you leave Italy, voyagers can head to the great glamour island of Greece: Mykonos, and enjoy more of her hyperrealistic swimmers at Rarity Gallery.
The Goddess, Life-Size, Patinated Resin, 2016 in Mykonos
After Capri, the crowd goes to Art Basel in Switzerland. Just twenty minutes from Basel in Switzerland, fellow globetrotters can check out Carole's erotic sculptures at Art St. Urban Foundation, an extraordinary sculpture park, and art museum renovated from a men’s psychiatric hospital. Carole’s earlier pieces are on permanent view since her show four years ago called Real, irreal, surreal, curated by Peter Frank. Visits can be arranged by contacting Mr. Gertrud Aeshelmann, director of the museum.
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Lace Panties, Patinated Resin, Life-Size, 2011
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Feuerman and Her Swimmers are the Ultimate Globetrotters - Hong Kong! South Korea! Germany! Italy! Florida! New York! Louisiana! California!
Monumental Quan, 2015, on display at Harbour City, Hong Kong
Feuerman’s very busy calendar for 2016 and 2017 follows on the coattails of very successful 2015 season, where Feuerman’s painted bronzes filled the landmark National Hotel in South Beach during Art Basel Week. Described in The Observer’s “Winners and, um, Not Winners, of Art Basel Miami Beach 2015”, Feuerman’s Solo Exhibition, featuring the iconic Survival of Serena and The Golden Mean, was touted as being on the Bucket List of shows not to miss during the week. Rubbing elbows with celebrities, reporters, collectors, and gallerists, Feuerman’s work could also be seen at the art behemoth that is Art Miami, providing a hyperreal focal point amongst much of the conceptual work featured. If you happen to be in Palm Beach Florida, a must stop would be Gallery Biba on Worth Avenue.
After Feuerman’s showings at the star studded Art Basel and Art Miami Fairs, and after the crowds and tourists that had flocked to Miami left the “Magic City”, Feuerman’s work made the move to her next solo show at Markowicz Fine Art, in the Miami Design District. The opening was fun filled with a Meet and Greet with Feuerman signing books and a special edition print as she celebrated at the opening. The show will be up through the end of the month. Debuting were her newest works, The Dancer and Dancing Hoop, along with her newest painted bronzes.
Never one to slow down, Feuerman has forged ahead, with multiple shows for 2016 and 2017. Her sculpture Christina will soon make an appearance at the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, February 11th with Timothy Yarger Fine Art. She also has 2 Solo Shows in 2016, one at the Deland Museum of Art in Florida, on April 15th and the other in New York City at C24 Gallery, May 6th. Feuerman will return to Europe, exhibiting in “Die Welt als Bühne | The World is a Stage”, at Haus Beda in Bitburg, Germany on April, 24th. She will also solidify her position as a permanent fixture at the next Venice Biennale with a solo show in the park on the Grand Canal, called “Dancing on the Water”, courtesy of the Global Arts Foundation and La Biennale Di Venezia, sponsored by Aria Gallery, C24, and Peace River Botanical and Sculpture Garden. Click here.
For anyone visiting NOLA, stop by and say hi to Feuerman’s Kendall Island and Yaima and the Ball brought to you by Sculpture for New Orleans. Perched on pedestals above Poydras Corridor, these two beauties will reside in the Big Easy through the Summer of 2017.
Antonio Budetta of Aria Gallery, in Italy curated, “Sport del Bellessere, Personale di Carole Feuerman”, at The Civic Museum of Palazzo Elti of Gemona del Friuli, Italy up through February 21st, 2016.
Feuerman and her swimmers not only made a statement in the US and Italy in 2015, but also in Asia, with museum exhibitions in Hong Kong, Daejeon and Suwon City in South Korea. While she was in Asia, Feuerman was inducted into the International Sculpture Park Foundation. You can read about Carole’s involvement with the Sculpture Park Union here.
Feuerman Exhibiting Two Monumental Painted Bronzes at Palazzo Mora Nearing the End: The closing of the Venice Biennale
The Palazzo is located directly on the Strada Nuova, in Venice, Cannaregio.
The exhibition can be visited, by free entry, from May 9 until 22 November 2015,
daily 10.00 - 18.00h , Tuesdays closed.
For more information please visit www.palazzomora.org
Every two years, the city of Venice, an island solely linked by canals and bridges, referred to as “The Floating City” becomes inundated with art during the Venice Biennale, a worldly happening that absolutely everyone wants to be seen at, and that every artist wants to be shown at. This year Feuerman is showing two monumental painted bronzes made especially for the event and brought to you by Global Art Affairs.
Be sure to see Carole Feuerman’s Leda and the Swan and DurgaMa before time runs out on November 22nd, also recommended by http://www.slowtraveldiary.com/slow-living/travel-photo-carole-feuerman-venice-biennale/ and http://www.demotix.com/search/media/feuerman
Detail: Leda and the Swan, 2014, Oil on Resin, 42 x 80 x 90 inches.
Leda and the Swan, 2014, Oil on Resin, 42 x 80 x 90 inches.
During the Renaissance, Venice was the center for commerce and art, and propelled the field of art. Carole’s interest in Classicism and creating idealized forms embodies the artistic ideals of the Renaissance. Representing classical and idealized figures combined with a hyper-realistic style creates a genre that any Renaissance artist would find innovative. Furthermore, the inspiration behind many of Carole’s pieces harken back to Greek mythology. For example, Carole’s Leda and the Swan is based on the myth of Zeus and Leda, where Zeus disguises himself as a swan in order to seduce the beautiful Leda, from which Leda bore Helen of Troy. The Leda and the Swan depiction emerged more prominently as a classicizing theme during the Italian Renaissance, even Leonardo Da Vinci depicted the tale. In Carole’s rendering, a reclining Leda donning a vintage women’s swimsuit and cap relaxes her body against the top of an inflatable swan, forming an elegant curve that begins at the swan’s neck and travels to its tail.
DurgaMa, 2015, Oil on Bronze, 101 x 90 x 91 inches.
Conversely, Carole’s DurgaMa derives not from western art but rather explores the tranquility found in eastern traditions. DurgaMa is an ascending beauty that represents the cycles of existence. The lotus reflects a sense of spiritual awakening and rebirth. Similarly, the meditative female Indian that serenely rests atop the flower hang strives to reach contentment and enlightenment. From the stem of the lotus to the top the crown DurgaMa chronicles the soul’s journey from worldly influences and materialization to transcendence and enlightenment. It is a remarkable piece that one should not miss seeing. Over 200,000 people have visited Leda and the Swan and DurgaMa through the summer of 2015. Carole has been exhibiting at the Venice Biennale since 2007 and looks forward to being part of the Venice Biennale in 2017! Be sure to make a visit to Palazzo Mora to see these captivating sculptures in an ideal setting before the Biennale ends on November 22, 2015.
Carole A. Feuerman
Carole A. Feuerman is an American sculptor and author working in Superrealism. She is credited with starting the movement in the late 1970s. She is known for her figurative works of swimmers and dancers. Her work is in the selected collections of thirty-five museums, owned by the City of Peekskill, New York, and the City of Sunnyvale California, Former President Clinton, the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Mr. Steven Cohen, Maluma, Andrea Bocelli, Alexandre Bartelle, and the Forbes Magazine Collection. In 2011, she founded the Carole A. Feuerman Sculpture Foundation. She lives and works in New York.