ARENA 1
A project of Santa Monica Art Studios 3026 Airport Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90405 310.397.7449
Gallery Hours: Wed-Sat noon-6pm www.arena1gallery.com
For Immediate Release:
18th October-17th November, 2018
Exhibition Opening:
20th October, from 6pm – 9pm
21st October, from 12pm-5pm
BETWEEN TWO SEAS / LA INTERNATIONAL
An exhibition curated by: Luigia Martelloni
Scherezade Garcia, My Floating World, 2017
ARENA 1 Gallery is pleased to present “Between Two Seas / LA International, opening in conjunction with the 15th Anniversary Santa Monica Art Studios Open Studios weekend October 20th and 21st with an artists’ reception on Saturday, October 20th from 6 to 9 pm.
The exhibition is curated by Los Angeles based, Italian artist Luigia Martelloni and focuses on how artists from more than ten different countries give shape to their heterogenous creative reality. “Their works reflect that all of us, wherever we are, find ourselves suspended between two spaces. We are all immigrants or emigrants in some way. The stories of displaced humans from the current international refugee crisis deserve attention and respect. It is my hope, especially acute after seeing the crisis up
close in my own country of birth, that this exhibition offers proof that art is an instrument of beauty, freedom, interconnection and integration, independent of ethnicities and religions. I believe that artists are a bridge between two seas spanning not only a physical place but an infinite horizon of desire to co-exist without prejudice and to see the world as one.”
The first iteration of this exhibition was mounted at the Museo Area Archeologica Arte Contemporanea in Cisternino, Puglia in Italy from July 7th through September 1st this past summer.
Featuring work by :
Lynn Aldrich (USA) Krista Augius (Lithuania) Luigi Billi (Italy) Janine Brown (USA) Roberto Donatelli
(Italy) David Eddington (England) Scherezade Garcia (Dominican Republic) Jerome Glomaud
Chadefaux (France) John Goetz (Switzerland) Yossi Govrin (Israel) Kio Griffin (Japan/USA)
Rachel Grynberg (USA) Uemon Ikeda (Japan) Deborah Lynn Irmas (USA) Jay Mark Johnson (USA)
Veda B.Kaya (Turkey) Jeremy Kidd (England) David Koenig (Germany) Luigia Martelloni (Italy)
Andy Moses (USA) Jackie Nach (SouthAfrica) Miguel Osuna (Mexico) Claudia Parducci (USA)
Claudia Concha Perea (Colombia) Mei Xian Qiu (China/Indonesia) Osceola Refetoff (Canada) Tanja
Rector (Holland) Doni Silver Simons (USA) Alberto Vannetti (Italy) Alexo Wandael (South Tyrol)
Tania Welz (Germany) Wim Wenders (Germany)