The Gallery at The Marmara-Manhattan is pleased to announce
its fall exhibition "Variations on a Theme" by Marcus Abel, Rene Rietmeyer
and Tomoji Ogawa will be on display from MARCUS ABEL was born in New York
and graduated from New York University; he lives and works in Miami and Netherlands.
Sean Scully and Frank Stella were the starting points for his previous work.
When American painter Frank Stella uttered the lines... "What you see is
what you see." critic Deborah Solomon and others have described this statement
as the unofficial slogan of the Minimalist Movement. Marcus Abel recently
opened an exhibition in The Gallery Husstege, The Netherlands and described
his work... "At the end of the day, the artist must walk back to the studio
to make something. The focus of my artistic life is in making and I enjoy
this process above whatever else follows. It seems to me there is, to varying
degrees, an "unsolvable tension" that also exits between the world of art
objects and the world of thoughts and words used to discuss them. It is my
responsibility to get on the dance floor between these worlds and do my best
Tran subjective tango and this is fine with me as long as this dance leads
to a bedroom where I can really have some fun and simply make."
RENE
RIETMEYER was born in The Netherlands. He studied art and psychology in The
Netherlands, at the Academy of Vienna and in the University of Innsbruck
in Austria. He is the founding director of the Summer Academy of Greece and
The European Art Club. He established a second studio in Miami and in year
2000 became a resident of Ireland. His works can be found in the collection
of the Embassy of the Netherlands and Fikushima Hotel in Tokyo, Japan, COLDIG
Collection Rotterdam in The Netherlands, Museum St.Wendel in St.Wendel and
Government Parliament Building in Saarbrucken, Germany, Shizuoka University
in Japan, Real estate WEST Antibes in France, Ormsby & Rhodes in Dublin,
Ireland, Burberry limited in London, England, and Banca Sella in Torino-Miami
Italy. Growing up in the Netherlands, his preoccupation with Dutch artists,
such as Mondrian plays a large role. He says that "It is natural for the
Dutch to seek balance, to quest for harmony, to represent through geometric
elements and this is especially recognizable since the group De Stijl. These
paintings originate from optical impressions, such as the Dutch Landscape,
a narrow strip of land, a large expanse of sky. My Boxes mirror my emotional
and intellectual preoccupation with a region or person. The portrait is the
artistic equivalent of my impressions. Not only does it refer to my own state
of being but also to the person portrayed and naturally, his own artistic
work"
TOMOJI OGAWA was born in Japan. He graduated
from Tama Art University. He lives and works in Japan. His work can be found
in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art Wakayama, Foresta Chokai, Akita,
Shibayama Museum, Chiba. "I am always thinking about the balance of color
when I apply the colors next to one another on the back of my objects. But
the completed object consists of form and color and it is vital for me to
create harmony between the two. This work meant to be viewed in natural light.
The three dimensional works change their form and their looks according to
the point where the viewer is standing. The same applies to the color tones,
which are, naturally also dependent on the amount of light and the angle
at which the daylight hits it. The atmosphere evoked by a work changes according
to how it captures the changes in light and reflects them."
"Variations on a Theme" is the maximal stimulation of the imagination under the natural light of The Gallery Marmara-Manhattan
