Hiromart is pleased to invite you to the upcoming show "New Work by Zdravko Toic with Collaborative Work from the series Dangerous Whisper by Seyhan Musaoglu (sound), Luigi Terruso (poetry), Zdravko Toic (images), Albert Weaver (video)".
This is Zdravko Toic's second show at Hiromart Gallery. The show contains his new works of abstract paper collage as well as collaborative works with other artists who are known as New York based artists.
Artist Statement
"What is it about the beauty of the perilous that invites discussion? I hand-wrote these poems for the Dangerous Whisper series while meditating on an old friendship and the two artistic and personal journeys that have occurred over the past 26 years. Friendships, like artistic collaborations, are mysterious things. Under the spotlight something might disappear. Who are you now? Listen closely. Where was I then? Look at the ground below us. Is it not here now? Roads lead in every possible direction including straight up into the darkness. What grows between the fibers of things may inexplicably become the heart of the matter. Words and paint can form a bridge. Is it unsafe? I don't know. I have crumpled up a painting and left a trail of breadcrumbs. Come follow me into the dangerous whisper."
Luigi Terruso
September 29 2011, South Kent, Connecticut
"Recent works are part of a series titled "Dangerous Whisper" that deals with an urgent need to have an eye at the tip of my brush. Expressing feelings and emotional memories through a language beyond speech, the written word, or logic itself, it is impossible to escape the finality of time. Facing such an irreversible existence, we are left with the choice of struggling with time, or accepting the inevitable, enjoying the incoherent nature of life as it is lived."
Zdravko Toic
October 3 2011, New York
The Dangerous Whisper series by Zdravko Toic is also accompanied by a new sound work by by Seyhan Musaoglu. The sound composition is comprised of software that reads and interprets the pixel data of images to create dense, electronic tones. Seyhan Musaoglu utilizes this software reading the meta-data of images to create layered, unique sound composition which will be realized as a sound installation in the gallery together with the collage images.
This current project about germs, Albert Weaver deals with the thought about the paranoia with germs and about how we are not suppose to touch or expose ourselves to anything with germs because of the fear of getting sick, catching a disease, or possible even developing something inexplicable that would damage our health. These thoughts encompass anything that are considered to be unclean or contaminated in some way which range from elevator buttons, subway seats, to drinking water. Most of these thoughts rely on unsubstantiated facts and rumors. But what about the unrecognized or unacknowledged possibility, but somehow deny it's existence. His current video focuses on the beach directly in front of San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant in Southern California and subtly touches upon this paranoia of germs and what we can be exposed to, but not realize it. The 6 minute video loop is the duration of the recent Earthquake in Japan.
About the Artist
ZDRAVKO TOIC (Croatian/American)
Zdravko Toic, moved to the United States from the former Yugoslavia (now Croatia) as an adolescent and spent a large part of his formative years in New York City. Toic has concentrated on art related travels, visiting museums and archeological sites in Western Europe, Japan the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. He exhibited in New York City, Miami and Washington D.C., as well as abroad. His selected exhibitions include a solo show at the Connecticut- Washington Art Association Gallery and the show titled "New York: New Generation" at Palazzo della Penna, the Contemporary Art Museum in Perugia, Italy. In addition, Toic has collaborated with choreographer Vladimir Anguelov from the Loudoun Ballet company using painting in stage set design. Their piece entitled "Emergency Ballets" debuted at the American University Experimental Theater then continued on to the French Embassy in Washington D.C. and shows in Virginia, Geneva, Austria. Most recently, his work was exhibited in the group show at fordPROJECT, NYC in Summer 2011.
Education
American University, Washington DC- 1996, MIT, Masters of Fine Arts in Painting Vermont Studio Center, VT -1992/93, Artist colony for painters, sculptors and writers College of Staten Island, S.I., NY - 1988, BS in Arts with honors Private Study 1984-88 Milton Resnick and Patricia Passlof
LUIGI TERRUSO (American)
Luigi Terruso is a noted contemporary painter and poet based in New York City and Connecticut. Born in Brooklyn in 1964, he began his painting career as a student and apprentice of the abstract expressionists Milton Resnick and Patricia Passla Receiving his MFA in 1994 from the Yale School of Art, he has exhibited at the National Academy Museum, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and throughout the East Coast and internationally. He has been a visiting artist three times at the American Academy in Rome and twice an artist-in-residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute, among other honors. With 33 group and solo exhibitions to his credit, his work was recently exhibited at the National Academy Museum's 183rd Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art in 2008 as well as the Century Association, where he has been an artist member since 2006. Since 2000, he has hosted at his New York studio twice-yearly workshops for developmentally disabled adults. Additionally, he has teaching experience as an instructor and teaching assistant in Abstract Painting since 1987 at such institution as City University of New York, Yale University, private workshop, etc.
Education
Yale University School of Art, MFA, 1994 City University of New York, Staten Island, NY B.S. with honors, 1987
SEYHAN MUSAOGLU (Turkish)
Born in Paris, France 1983- lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Seyhan Musaoglu is a multi-media artist whose work spans the fields of live performance, sound art, film and video, and 2-D media. Drawing inspiration from diverse sources ranging from science fiction imagery, to fashion, to modern dance choreography, her work investigates the gap between sound production and music composition, contemporary feminist theory, and the history of avant-garde filmmaking. She has been performing widely with collaborations celebrated internationally in genres of sound and experimental noise. She is also an innovative independent curator, and is the founder of the sound, new media & performance festival (SONiK) Pest. Some of the venues her work has been presented at are: The Kitchen (NYC), New York Studio Gallery (NYC), Lit Lounge (NYC), Curta 8 Film Festival (Brazil), and Istanbul's famed venue, Babylon, etc.
Education
Parsons School of Design —Master of Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2009
Brandeis University — Post Baccalaureate Program, Waltham, MA, 2007
Brandeis University — Bachelor of Arts degree with high honors, Major in Studio Art with concentration in Theater Arts, Waltham, MA, 2005
ALBERT WEAVER (American)
Born in Hollywood, California, Albert Weaver lives and works in New York. He studied painting at UC Santa Cruz, New York studio School, and completed his Masters in Painting at American University in Washington DC. His artwork has been exhibited in various group shows since 1992 in the US and Italy. In his paintings and video he often uses a minimal language and revolves in ideas of process, abstraction, combined with ideas of the sublime and landscape.
Education
American University, Masters of Fine Arts, Washington DC, 1999
New York Studio School, Painting and Drawing, New York, NY, 1997
University of California, Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Painting, Santa Cruz, 1992
University of California, Santa Cruz, B.A, Studio Art, 1990
