On Friday July 17, artists will literally play with their food, adopt new personae through role play and performance and implicate audiences in group play. The evening begins with the ‘Lucullan Feast,’ a gathering of artists around a dining table to present food as interactive sculpture and sensory experience. The cultural history of food has made compelling connections between visual stimulation and appetite linked with the idea that ‘we eat with our eyes before we eat with our mouth.’ The project asks artists to consider the inherently visual qualities of food, and in the process, to implement alternate modes of function and presentation by re-inventing the vessels, containers or utensils associated with their chosen dish. The ‘Lucullan Feast’ is a lavish buffet of ideas, a profusion of playful outcomes, a contempt for limitations and an invitation to taste.

Result of an abstract drawing act, the dark parts are an equivalent of the fluent and frantic rythm of the soul, of the strenght-primitiveness-purity of the life. A sort of spontaneous prose or action painting but not without a sure rational basis that spells the irrational movement of the mind. A rationality established from the lines of contour of the subject that brings to the concrete representation of the phenomenal world. I agree with the attachment of Picasso to the objective world, mostly in a moment of art in which seems that strongholds aren’t there. Baudelaire writes in Written on art, 1862 : “Not only the etching seems done to exalt the individuality of the artist, but could be also difficult for its creator don’t impress on the plate his most hide personality ”. Which better way than etching to show the internal image of myself on the landscape and to comunicate to others my feeling towards the investigated territory? And the feeling I feel in front of the world is a sensation of estrangement, reversal, like often the shot of the work attests.

“Illuminati Nuovi” features a spectacular collection of works by six internationally renowned artists: Slavco Sokolovski, Blagoja Manevski, Santiago Hernandez, Danielle Sauve, Raphael DiLuzio, and Paul Stremple. Pencil on paper inspired by the cosmos, beautiful re-envisionings of the horizon, time-based paintings, the breaking down and pixelation of every-day objects, “Cartographers,” and telescopes that lead to new meaning are a reaction to the times in which we live. Exploring different ideas defining to the Age of Enlightenment - from naturalism and the public sphere to philosophies on spirituality and love - each artist challenges the viewer to adopt a new “enlightenment.”

Faculty of Dramatic Arts - Skopje presents
The World Needs a Hero
Directed by Dimitar Lazarevski

- features 21 acrylic and mixed media artwork inspired by the statue of Egyptian Sphynx that was brought in artist's home town SPLIT by the emperor Diocletian at the turn of the fourth century AD
- Sphynx the Guardian is still standing at the entrance of emperor Palace
- a group exhibition of contemporary Croatian studio artists involved in more traditional media like STONE, CLAY, WOOD,TEXTILES emphasizing the role of traditional handicrafts in modern art expression
- this show is representing a recent overview of CROATIAN VISUAL APPLIED ARTS

program
ALVIN AILEY American Dance Theater
Ailey Citigroup Theatre is located at
405 West 55th street ( at 9th avenue)
New York, NY 10019