Simo Neri
POMEGRANATE (SOLD)
Limited Edition Prints available. Commissions also available.
Moving Lines I
50" x 36", on sintra board
Highline NYC
various sizes, limited edition prints available for commission
Roma II
limited edition print available in various formats
Photo Curtains:
Tracks 98" x 30" 5 strips on canvas
Infinite 98" x 30" 5 strips
Wet & Dry 105" x 54" 9 strips
(Simo's courtyard after a rain)
SHOW: back and side wall:
Pomegranate (sold), Broken Arrow, Indian Spring Panel. Side wall: Fallen Petals, Water Sky, and on the brick wall, photo curtain - Fresh.
Pivoine
limited edition, sizes available by commission
Roma I
various sizes, limited edition prints
Cerisi
limited edition prints, sizes available for commission
Orange Bark
32" x 36" on sintra board
Water Sky
24" x 43" photograph on sintra
Frontier
limited edition prints, sizes available for commission
Low Tide
various sizes, limited edition prints.
Entres des lignes !!
limited edition prints available in various formats.
Segmento di...
limited edition prints available in various formats
Artist Statement
SIMO NERI "The Sum of the Parts"
Jun 08, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
June 6, 2005
Contact: Camilla Calhoun 845 838 1177
Artist, and photographer Simo Neri opens in Beacon with "The Sum of the Parts" - June 25th through August 1.
Simo Neri, born in Rome, currently living in Paris, comes to Beacon where her rhythmic, sequential photography will be presented, cascading from the ceilings and walls, at the Kiesendahl+Calhoun Contemporary Art gallery. Artist Reception will be held Saturday June 25th, 5-7pm. Exhibit runs through August 1st.
Deconstructing and sequentially re-assembling elements from nature, Simo Neri's work gives a fresh, arresting perspective to things familiar. Her pieces, assemblages of individual frames from rolls of 35 mm film, hang vertically in strips that are mounted on canvas, or horizontally on panels mounted on aluminum. At first glance the images may appear as abstract patterns of color and texture, but up close the observer discovers that each composition represents fragments of, for example, flowers, sky, bark, fire, pomegranate, butchered meat, water reeds, or cascading parts of waterfalls. One sees the effects of the waterfall, but never the waterfall itself. The sum of the parts is in effect only some of the parts.
Through her visual decomposition, Simo Neri becomes a serial life-giver to things we might otherwise ignore. Her work draws us in to meditate on the essence of the object she is revealing to us in parts. By combining the stillness of close-up photography with the sequencing of cinema, the artist effectively reveals the elusive mutability of nature.
Critic and architectural historian Richard Ingersoll writes in April of '05 that: "Unlike David Hockney's photomosaics of the 1980s, which were assembled from Polaroid photographic fragments into perspectival scenes, Simo Neri's mosaics are decidedly abstract, and force the imagination to reconstruct the idea of the whole from archetypes linked to personal experience."
Neri's work can be viewed at www.simoneri.com
The artist will be in Beacon for her opening reception at the Kiesendahl+Calhoun gallery on June 25th , between 5