個展: Archetype-Hidden Memory — Paintings by Lex Braes
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) 41 E 11st St. 11th Fl., New YorkExhibition: Archetype-Hidden Memory — Paintings by Lex Braes CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) ではLex Braes氏による油彩、また紙の小作品による展覧会 “Archetype-Hidden Memory” を開催しています。CRSでのBraes氏による個展は、2012年に続いて2回目になります。限定されたイメージを繰り返し描くことにより、元のイメージが持つエネルギーとエモーションを損なわずに表現しながら、そのプロセスによってそれを抽象的なパターンに変容させることにより、その下に隠された言語を匂わせつつ作品間の関係性を問うという彼の近年の追求の結果であります。この展覧会は、2019年2月11日から 4月中旬までの開催となります。 All works Courtesy of the Artist, and Galerie Felix Ringel, Düsseldorf. This exhibition was organized by CRS staff member Takeshi Inoue. RUNES Scottish painter Lex Braes starts with a thought and an image, and then reduces that image to a structure of a few lines, maybe five lines or a single endless line, like a Celtic knot. With handmade paint on plaster, linen and here on paper, he mines a motif that he first found in 2009, using organic geometry to discover shapes, creating rhomboids, parallelograms, and abstract forms that suggest and […]
Sufi Dance Class with Lâle Sayoko
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) 41 E 11st St. 11th Fl., New YorkLearn the ancient practice of meditative whirling known as Sufi dance or Sema (Sama in Iranian). You will learn the techniques of whirling, but Sema is not about reproducing a certain form or aesthetic. Rather, the technique serves as a vehicle for inner journeying. Sema means spiritual listening. Together we’ll create a sacred space in which we can safely listen to and share our true selves and experience oneness with the Divine. Each class consists of some explanation of the theory and technique, exercises, practice whirling, and sharing and discussion of what you experienced and felt. Whirling commonly induces dizziness or nausea. Over time, through whirling, we learn to trust ourselves to go off […]