Carole Feuerman: My Stories. His series of “Swimmers on the ground”. Humans, too human. Caught with an elusive emotion on their visage. Ready to reveal a rich and unknown inner world. Picked up by a simple glance. A revelation that remains there: in an infinite second. In an eternal snapshot of reality. A reality portrayed, at once, in its many facets.
Rediscovering Carole Feuerman
Above all we have the opportunity (during the Art Biennale 2022) to rediscover Carole Feuerman. The artist returns to Venice (three years after her last exhibition) with “My Stories”. Certainly, an exhibition event focused on the themes dear to her. For example, on the human body. However, with its original double reading. The instant and eternity. These two elements find an unexpected coherence in the expressive work of the artist. Carole A. Feuerman has marked, after all, the history of hyper-realist sculpture in the last fifty years.
My Stories
Carole Feuerman: My Stories wants to be, therefore, a summa of this important narration “…which originates from childhood until the most recent encounters. During which the artist captures, in a single pose, the essence of the person”.
The fascinating path of the exposition is also revealed through the dialogue with the exhibition space of the Chapel of the Church of the Pietà; in Venice. Otherwise known as the “Church of Vivaldi”, because the great Maestro worked and composed there. If, in fact, the works of Carole A. Feuerman’s art “…they find their ideal context in museum exhibitions or in public open-air spaces, with My Stories, we wanted to look for a place with strong connotations. So as to recreate a new fruition that draws nourishment from the play of light and dark, linked to sacred architecture”.
“Through my sculptures I convey my feelings about life and art. It is far easier for me to express my emotions through sculpture than through words. I portray the inner life of each image I create to capture the passion and sensuality of my subject. In this way, my work speaks to the viewer, evoking both an emotional and an intellectual response”
Hyper-realism
Carole A. Feuerman has been active in the field of hyper-realism since the movement’s inception. And she is among those artists credited to polarizing critical attention around the movement in the late 1970s. Known for her iconic works depicting female swimmers and dancers, she is the only woman to create realistic sculptures that can be placed in outdoor spaces and to sculpt in this style.
Fragments of ourselves
The curators describe it this way: “…the continuous search, whether autobiographical or the story of a single encounter, is the secret obsession that Carole A. Feuerman pours into her work. And the hyperrealist sculpture becomes its emblem. The fragments of ourselves, which we believe we find in the perfect portrait of others, confirm the need to rethink on the illusory power of this reflection. Even in the perfect and meticulous adherence to the reality of the individual portrayed, the artist implies a part of himself in each work. So as to bring out universal feelings closely related to optimism, strength and integrity. And it is precisely this esoteric value of Feuerman’s works that makes that precise moment last for eternity”.
Works shown around the world
The public works of Carole A. Feuerman are exhibited all over the world. From Central Park and SoHo in New York, to Avenue George V in Paris; from Harbor City in Hong Kong, to Milan, Rome and New Bond Street, Canary Wharf, in London. There are his works at Knokke Heist in Belgium, the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, the State Hermitage Museum in Petersburg, the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, Palazzo Strozzi in Florence and the Palazzo Reale in Milan.
Lectures, conferences and workshops
Carole A. Feuerman has taught, lectured, and given workshops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Solomon Guggenheim Museum, Columbia University, and Grounds for Sculpture. In 2011, she founded the Carole A. Feuerman Sculpture Foundation. Her work is owned by thirty-one museums. As well as in the collections of the City of Peekskill, New York, Sunnyvale, California, former President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton, the Frederic R. Weisman Art Foundation, Dr. Henry Kissinger, the Mikhail Gorbachev Art Foundation, Steven A. Cohen, Alexandre Grendene Bartelle, and the Malcolm Forbes Magazine Collection.
Awards received by Carole A. Feuerman include Best in Show at the Third Beijing International Art Biennial (China), the 2001 Lorenzo il Magnifico Prize for the International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence, the Prize of Honor in 2002 for the Ausstellungszentrum Heft in Huttenberg (Austria), and the Medici Prize awarded by the City of Florence.
The exhibition is by Paolo De Grandis and Carlotta Scarpa. Organized by Bel-Air Fine Art Contemporary Art Galleries; which since 2017 has been promoting internationally the work of Carole A. Feuerman through exhibitions, talks, meetings and traveling projects.
Produced in collaboration with PDG Arte Communications.
My Stories is held at the Cappella della Chiesa della Pietà (in Venice) in parallel with the 59. International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, from April 20 to November 27, 2022.
Carole A. Feuerman website: link
The exhibition in Venice: link
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