NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original workof Alexander Ossipov (TOTUR) in Heaven and Earth. The exhibition opens April 5, 2018 and runs through April 25, 2018 once an commencement reception upon Thursday, April 5 from 6-8 pm. Any art devotee who enjoys thought-provoking artworks and meeting capable and fascinating artists is encouraged to attend.
Alexander Ossipov (TOTUR) creates dense and detailed oil paintings combining myth and memory, earthly and divine. The artist distorts and stylizes his subjects, paring them all along to geometric forms and blocks of color. Allegorical figures and animals are fractured and reassembled in shallow compositions, the pigmented planes and facets flattened onto the describe plane.
In Ossipov’s The Abduction of Europe, a nude female figure and a bull’s head share a cosmic space. Without a horizon, the two float in an uncomfortable space, the floundering, twisted body reaching in vain for the animal. The Trinity. Guests features three figures that allude to the holy trinity. Dressed in abstracted and heavily patterned robes once Byzantine halos of roomy radiating from their heads, the three holy figures agree to upon the announce of stained glass. Finally, Ossipov’s The Two Moons depicts an allegorical horned figure contiguously an secret anthropomorphic shape, each patterned following stripes of earthy color. In the background, two turquoise and brick red orbs slice across a black ground, creating a prudence of dueling opposition.
Exhibition Dates: April 5 - April 25, 2018
Reception: Thursday April 5, 2018 6-8 PM
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11:00am – 6:00pm
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th Street, other York, NY
Event URL: https://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Alexander_Ossipov_(TOTUR).aspx
Featured Artists:
Miguel A. Chavez | Ali Cockburn | Ana Dvila | Barbara Demsar | Marianne Durach | Manuel Jimnez Palma | Olivia Kapoor | Sergey Klychkov | Alexander Ossipov (TOTUR) | Matus Prochaczka (WEKOWORKS) | Stefano Sanna | Gordana Tomic | Gerlinde Amei Wllmer | Donald Woodman
About the Exhibition
Heaven and Earth
Heaven and Earth is a work exhibition featuring 14 artists’ explorations of the beauty within both the sublime and the everyday. Encompassing a variety of styles and media that push the boundaries of both established and contemporary convention, this exhibition invites the viewer to deem how each artist’s vision encapsulates the world we sentient in and what lies beyond.
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