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- Earth and Sensuality
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ONE-MAN SHOW OF
MONICA ARELLANO ONGPIN
- At the
Circolo Artistico
- Corso Italia
108 - Arezzo
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July 27 to August 4, 2002
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From the
CORRIERE DI AREZZO
Thursday July 25, 2002
"Earth and Sensuality" - Monica's pictures
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Anghiari - (pf) Monica Arellano-Ongpin will be showing some of her
pictorial works at the Circolo Artistico of Arezzo, on the Corso
Italia N.108, from the 27 July till the 4 August.
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"Earth and Sensuality" is the title of this one-man show, which
suggests the thread that unites landscapes, portraits and
still-lifes of this cosmopolitan artist, born in Chile, who has
lived in the Philippines, New York and half a dozen world cities,
but now firmly planted in an old country house between Anghiari and
Arezzo.
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The show includes oils, drawings and drypoint etchings.
by Paolo Fontana |
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From the
CORRIERE DI AREZZO
Monday 29 July 2002
Exhibit of works by Monica Arellano
At the Circolo Artistico "Earth and Sensuality"
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Arezzo - (ab.) At the gallery of the Circolo Artistico, on the Corso
Italia n.108, Monica Arellano-Ongpin presents the exhibition "Earth
and Sensuality".
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The artist, whose background is in the humanities, has for some time
cultivated her interest and passion for the pictorial language,
attending important art schools in New York, London and France.
Residing now in Arezzo, she lives in a rustic country house on the
hills between the Tiber and the Arno valleys.
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The gallery is full of faces and figures, placed in different ways,
finely composed, and often off centre which, paradoxically, gives
them greater emphasis against the anonimity of the rest of the
painting. The artist presents and offers emotional experiences, with
perfect technique, like the controlled inventions of her landscapes,
and uses realistic representation, taken from life, to celebrate
life, to give it a meaning both concrete and profoundly intimate.
Arellano presents about 50 works, the majority of them oils of
dazzling forms and colours, landscapes and female nudes caressed by
lights that play with the skin, and that are yet respectful of the
balance of serenity and luminosity in the research of understanding
the spirit through the flesh. The drawings are quick lines
indicative of an extreme formal elegance.
by Arnaldo Berbegia |
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