An odd, but nice gentleman walked into the gallery yesterday, had a look around then walked up to me and asked what I think art is. I thought for a second then answered the question, but my response left me feeling dissatisfied and got me thinking - how DO I define art? A word which in many ways is quite indefinable... In the elevator leading to my apartment, one element of what I think art is struck me. Art above all things possess 'soul' and encourages us to imagine, feel and wonder. It's different to science and mathematics although I do feel the 2 disciplines are intimately linked. Where as science and math use invention to create definitive answers, art uses invention to create additional questions. It's a dance between the art object and it's observer. Good art has spirit, it convinces us to pay attention to it and to explore it's identity, almost in the same way that nature does.

Immanuel Kant assumed that the cognition involved in judging fine art is similar to the cognition involved in judging natural beauty... The effect is an associated 'expansion' of the concept beyond its determinate bounds. The art object is not merely an object, but one which will set the imagination and understanding into a harmony, creating a kind of self-sustaining and self-contained feeling of pleasure and wonder.

Art comes in many shapes and disciplines but I think that it is this element of it sets it apart. I just recently saw a piece by George Horner ' Art is a Verb ' and I think it's not only a wonderful piece, but a great definition for art itself. [caption id="attachment_13907" align="aligncenter" width="511"] Art is Verb - George Horner[/caption]

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"There is a great movement underway, an attempt to cure painting of the explanationitis virus that has spread like a leaden blanket over our culture. Painting is painting and can happen in a million ways. What lends intensity to each piece is the feeling with which it is made and not the genre to which it might get apportioned." Lucio Pozzi Our sentiments exactly Lucio!! [caption id="attachment_13827" align="aligncenter" width="399"] Lucio Pozzi[/caption]

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TWFINEART recently teamed with local artist Gert Geyer when asked by architect Tobias Benz to create a cutting edge artwork for a new residential development in Brisbane. It is a monster (1.5 stories high) and was created using local flora as inspiration. While we can't reveal images of the piece, we can say that we visited the factory today and witnessed how the state of the art piece is being produced. Technology is amazing. Now we have  the opportunity to create one off works like this in sensational detail without the exorbitant prices of the past. Rather than choose off the shelf designs, architects and developers now have the opportunity to commission real work by real artists in a one off manner that gives their design a true signature, and even more importantly brings beautiful art into our streets and dwellings. A little sneak peek at some behind the scenes images: [caption id="attachment_13630" align="aligncenter" width="700"] First Continuous Cut[/caption] [caption id="attachment_13631" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Polishing the sections before treatment[/caption] [caption id="attachment_13632" align="aligncenter" width="700"] A beautiful pile of aluminum confetti piled up from the vacuums.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_13633" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Gert Geyer standing in between her creation.[/caption]

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We are thrilled to be opening the Chris Trueman exhibition A L C H E M Y next Thursday October 23rd at the TWFineArt Gallery. Chris was just today declared one of the top 8 LA artists to watch by Fabrik Contemporary Art & Design Magazine. Trueman's fresh approach to painting lifts and pulls from art history, creating hybridized splices that fuse the history of painting together to create compositions that push the medium into the 21st Century.

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The Codex Coner is one of the most beautiful surviving architectural manuals from the Renaissance. Created around 1510, the illustrated manual was complied in Rome and documents historical and contemporary Roman architecture by the likes of Bramante (1444--1514), Raphael (1483--1520), and Michelangelo (1475--1564). The scope of it's contents and information are unmatched and can be attributed to draftsman & Florentine carpenter: Bernardo della Volpaia (c.1475--1521). The manual was discovered by Michael Goldberg during his time in Italy and influenced a major body of his work from the late 1970's until the mid-late 1980's. 'Codex Coner Piede Vicentino' by Michael Goldberg 1980 [pictured below left] references the fundamental structures of Roman architecture, the divisional lines appearing as abstracted columns supporting the uneven weight of the pink colorfield. The technique Goldberg used to create these works on handmade paper was particularly fresh. Matt medium was applied to the paper with water to create a wet surface that Goldberg would draw into with lecturers chalk - a material that the artist would find an affinity with and subsequently use in paintings for the remainder of his career. Renowned collectors Herb and Dorothy Vogel found particular interest in this work and acquired several drawings for their collection. 'Codex Coner Piede Vicentino' was donated to  Yale University as a part of the Vogel's 50 x 50 - 50 Works for 50 States, after Dorothy's passing in 2012. We are thrilled to work with the Goldberg Estate to include 2 of these amazing and historically important works in our limited edition print collection. Visit our SHOP to see the available work, or enquire with the gallery about sales of the original works.

   

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