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WEDIA
(FRANCE)Wedia’s work is the quest for the purest of shapes. It’s capturing the essence of emotions, the spirit of movements.
“If I make myself open and candid enough, I can touch the smallest common denominator. I can touch humanity.”
The sexed shapes Wedia calls Female and Male-Tadpoles self-isolate themselves or blend into one; they attract or resist to one another; they complete each other without ever opposing.
On large canvases, she uses raw materials: handcrafted paper as a base, Indian ink to draw the lines, dry pastels for the color treatment and wood framings.
The “Pure” exhibition created by Wedia for the Gora Gallery is in line with this artistic journey of hers. Here, she explores the tantric version of love. Wedia chose an extremely thin, almost translucent type of paper from Nepal, with onion inclusions, held between two plates of transparent pvc. The blend of ancestral arts and craft and modern technology echoes Wedia’s creativity and sheds light on the delicacy and meaning of her work.
With true subtlety, Wedia makes sensations-filled paintings. Universal, instinctive, organic paintings.
WEINMAN
(U.S.A.)Michael Weinman’s photography includes over 30 years of work encompassing many years of evolving style and content. As an anthropology student, his early work consisted mostly of black and white cultural portraiture. More recently, he has developed his own approach to nature photography. Emphasizing botanical, wildlife and bird photography; he has created a body of work creating his own vibrant pallette of color influenced greatly by the post-impressionist artists giving his photographic images a unique, almost painterly quality.
For his upcoming Montreal show, he has created a series of wildlife portraits celebrating the inherent beauty of the shapes, the color, the textures and composition of wildlife while distilling his own unique hybrid of the realism of photographic content with the expressionism of the graphic arts.
