MARTIN WEINSTEIN
EXHIBITION: 14 SEPTEMBER - 24 NOVEMBER, 2024 CASTELLO 925 FONDAMENTA SAN GIUSEPPE • SESTIERE CASTELLO, 780 • 30122 VENEZIA IT • + 39 342 947 5913
ESSAY: LUCA CALDIRONI MARTIN WEINSTEIN : DENTRO | FUORI
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n questo scritto vorrei, volutamente, procedere per margini e quindi affrancarmi da un certo vincolo di proprietà del pensiero.
Utilizzerò, al riguardo, alcune associazioni, nel tentativo di costruire un tessuto che si sostituisca all’individuo in quanto singolo, ma che prediliga aspetti e passaggi generativi.
Ritengo che questo modo di procedere sia particolarmente adatto all’arte che si rappresenta nelle opere di Martin Weinstein.
La visibilità del suo operare si inscrive nel desiderio di invisibilità del suo artefice, spazi e tempi si sfuocano l’un nell’altro e, così facendo, ci ‘tengono’ e ci ‘con-tengono’.
Nelle opere di Martin respiriamo atmosfere e luoghi in cui si deposita il tempo, e come dice Rilke … ‘Io imparo a vedere. Non so perché tutto penetra in me più profondo e non rimane là dove, prima, sempre aveva fine e svaniva. Ho un luogo interno che non conoscevo. Ora tutto va a finire là.’
...E Martin ci aiuta a vedere, quasi ci forza a raggiungere quel luogo, un luogo in cui, per un attimo esserci.
Fin dal mio primo incontro con l’artista, ho provato quello spaesamento, quel senso di inquietudine così ben descritto da Bloch quando ci/si interroga … ‘Quando riusciamo ad avvicinarci a noi stessi? A letto, in viaggio, a casa, dove tante cose al ritorno ci sembrano migliori? Ognuno conosce il sentimento di avere dimenticato qualcosa nella sua vita cosciente, qualcosa che è rimasta a mezza strada e non è venuto alla luce. Ecco perché spesso sembra tanto importante ciò che si voleva dire proprio ora e che ci è sfuggito. Quando si lascia una camera in cui si é vissuto a lungo, ci si guarda intorno stranamente, prima di andarsene. Anche qui é rimasto qualcosa, che non si é afferrato. Lo si porta comunque con sé per ricominciare altrove.’ continuò
LUCA CALDIRONI
Un altrove sempre mobile, dove, come negli insegnamenti di Eraclito, ‘tutto scorre’ e proprio per questo ‘il fiume in cui entriamo’ e quindi anche il luogo, ‘non è mai lo stesso’.
Nelle opere dell’artista c’è un mondo visibile che è completo e parziale al tempo stesso. Si tratta di distanze e di tempi che si incontrano e si accoppiano nel momento dell’intreccio con lo sguardo di colui o colei che guarda. Si inscrivono in un tempo più vicino a Kairòs che a Kronos.
Si tratta del tempo dell’intuizione e della creatività, di quella discontinuità necessaria che fa da soglia alla ‘caesura’ di un cambiamento. Ed è in questo tempo che le luci, le ‘scapes’ delle ombre e dei colori si animano come fantasmi di presenze che rendono visibile l’invisibile. Sono immagini che ci interrogano, familiari e non familiari al tempo stesso, ‘perturbanti’ (‘Unheimlich’), come Freud le definiva.
Palinsesti emozionali dialogano, si compenetrano, e mettono in ogni istante in pericolo la ‘forma’
Una volta che si è ‘iniziati’ dai lavori di Martin Weinstein entrano in gioco dialettiche in cui si polarizzano posizioni non più riducibili ai concetti di ‘interno’ od ‘esterno’, ma che rappresentano una visione in cui le geometrie non possono essere ridotte a semplici reciprocità.
LUCA CALDIRONI VENEZIA, 09.08,2024
detail: VENICE, SUNSET OVER DUSK, INSIDE OVER OUTSIDE, 2023
acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets | 11.5 x 17 x 2.5 inches
ESSAY:
STATEMENT: MARTIN WEINSTEIN
Ihave been drawing and painting in the piazzas and canals of Venice since I was a child. The city is for me a place of incredible, immediate vividness. At the same time, it is full of memories of the family and friends I have been here with and even with the apparitions of my former selves.
When I committed myself to the discipline of painting in the presence of my subjects, I felt that I couldn’t simply paint the world the way it appears to me, glorious though it is, as a single reality. Eventually I came to realize that this duality was not a dilemma but was in fact my subject matter. A different kind of resolution could come from layering different ways
of imagining reality rather than reconciling them. I gradually developed my present method of painting on layers of transparent acrylic sheet. These sheets enable me to juxtapose elements of visual material either in discrete layers or more intuitively so that passages float upward toward the surface, influencing successive layers of paint. The layers are painted on different days, months or even years so that the paintings become an investigation of time and memory as well as a diary of acts of perception.
For the past seven years I have brought this method of layering to my paintings of Venice, revisiting rooms and vistas to make palimpsests in which I seek to inscribe my feelings for this place.
ARTIST
PIAZZA SAN MARCO , 1964, pen and ink on paper
DENTRO | FUORI
VENICE, CLOUDY AFTERNOONS, OUTSIDE OVER INSIDE , 2023
acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets | 11.5 x 17 x 2.5 inches
VENICE, EVENINGS, INSIDE OVER OUTSIDE, ONE YEAR OVER ANOTHER, 2023
acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets | 11.5 x 14 x 2.5 inches
TOWARD THE LIDO, ONE EVENING OVER ANOTHER, INSIDE OVER OUTSIDE, 2023
acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets | 11.5 x 17 x 2.5 inches
VENICE, MORNING TRAFFIC, OUTSIDE OVER INSIDE, 2023
acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets | 11.5 x 17 x 2.5 inches
VENICE, SUNSET OVER DUSK, INSIDE OVER OUTSIDE, 2023
acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets | 11.5 x 17 x 2.5 inches
VENICE, AFTERNOON TRAFFIC, INSIDE OVER OUTSIDE, 2023
acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets | 11.5 x 14 x 2.5 inches
VENICE, MISTY AFTERNOONS, INSIDE OVER OUTSIDE, 2023
acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets | 11.5 x 14 x 2.5 inches
VENICE, MISTY MORNINGS, OUTSIDE OVER INSIDE, 2023
acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets | 11.5 x 14 x 2.5 inches
VENICE, ONE SUNSET OVER ANOTHER, INSIDE OVER OUTSIDE, 2023
acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets | 11.5 x 17 x 2.5 inches
TOWARD THE LIDO, MORNING, INSIDE OVER OUTSIDE, 2023
acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets | 11.5 x 14 x 2.5 inches
VENICE, MORNINGS, INSIDE OVER OUTSIDE, 2023
acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets | 11.5 x 14 x 2.5 inches
VENICE, ONE SUNRISE OVER ANOTHER, INSIDE OVER OUTSIDE, 2023
acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets | 11.5 x 17 x 2.5 inches
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
MARTIN WEINSTEIN:
DENTRO | FUORI
Castello 925, Venice, Italy
LOOKING THROUGH TIMES
Cross Contemporary Art Projects
New York City, NY
MOMENT TO MOMENT
Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT
2023
INSIDE/OUTSIDE
Castello 925, Venezia, Italia
SEEING THROUGH TIMES
Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY
2022
Vedute PALINSESTI
Castello 780, Venezia, Italia
MOMENT TO MOMENT
Pearl Fincher Art Museum, Spring, TX
2021
MOMENT TO MOMENT
South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, SD
2020
MOMENT TO MOMENT
Hardin Center for Cultural Arts, Gadsden, AL
2019
MOMENT TO MOMENT
The Parthenon Museum, Nashville, TN
BEYOND A DAY
Lichtundfire Gallery, New York, NY
2018
PLATONIA
Goddard Center for Visual Arts, Ardmore, OK
2017
PLATONIA
Peggy Notebaert Museum of the Academy of Science, Chicago, IL
PLATONIA
Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL
2016
PLATONIA
MSW STUDIO, New York, NY
MARTIN WEINSTEIN: PAINTINGS
Westfield Athenaeum, Westfield, MA
2012
MARTIN WEINSTEIN: PAINTINGS
Franklin Riehlman Fine Art, New York, NY
2010
THE PORTRAIT IN NATURE
MacNider Art Museum, Mason City, IA
THE PORTRAIT IN NATURE
Idaho Falls Arts Council, Idaho Falls, ID
THE TERESA PAINTINGS
Visual Arts Center, Washington Pavillion, Sioux Falls, SD
ILLUSION AND CERTAINTY
Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta, GA
MARTIN WEINSTEIN: PAINTINGS
Franklin Riehlman Fine Art, New York, NY
2008
KENOTEN
Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
STRATA
AFP Galleries, New York, NY
ILLUSION AND CERTAINTY
Hillstrom Museum of Art, Saint Peter, MN
SUBJECTIVE PORTRAITS
SUNY Utica, Edith Barrett Fine Art Gallery, Utica, NY
2007
SUBJECTIVE PORTRAITS
Krasl Art Center, MI
SUBJECTIVE PORTRAITS
The Parkersburg Art Center, PARKERSBURG, WV
2006
ILLUSION AND CERTAINTY
Waterworks Visual Art Center, Salisbury, NC
ILLUSION AND CERTAINTY
Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
TIME LANDSCAPES
4 Star Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
MARTIN WEINSTEIN
TEW Galleries, Atlanta, GA
MARTIN WEINSTEIN : DENTRO | FUORI
2005
ILLUSION AND CERTAINTY
Jacqueline Casey Hudgens Center For The Arts, Duluth, GA
ILLUSION AND CERTAINTY
Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX
ILLUSION AND CERTAINTY
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
2004
ILLUSION AND CERTAINTY
The Anderson Fine Arts Center, Anderson, IN
ILLUSION AND CERTAINTY
The Parthenon, Nashville, TN
2003
ILLUSION AND CERTAINTY
The Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL
ILLUSION AND CERTAINTY
Elliott Museum, Hutchinson Island, Stuart, FL
1996
MARTIN WEINSTEIN: PAINTINGS
MyungSook Lee Gallery, New York, NY
1994
MARTIN WEINSTEIN PAINTINGS (1989-1994): MUTABLE PERCEPTION
List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
I FORESTI
curated by Jen Dragon
Castello 925, Venice, Italy
2023
THE MAGICAL GARDEN SHOW
Lichtundfire, New York, NY
IN IT FOR THE LONG HAUL
curated by Robert Curcio
Lichtundfire, New York, NY
LEMON SKY
Lichtundfire, New York, NY
REFRACTURE - VISUAL REALIGHNMENT
Lichtundfire, New York, NY
2022
FOREST BATHING
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY
FLORA AND FAUNA
Lichtundfire, New York, NY
2021
LANDX
Red Fox Contemporary Art, Pound Ridge, NY
IN FULL BOOM
Lichtundfire, NY
IN CONVERSATION
Kathryn Markel Fine Art, New York, NY
PRESENCE
Lichtundfire, New York, NY
2020
PENDULUM OF TIME
Lichtundfire Gallery, New York, NY
2019
REMEMBER WHEN IT WINTER WAS
Lichtundfire Gallery, New York, NY
EDGE OF ABSTRACTION
Lichtundfire Gallery, New York, NY
WATER WORKS
Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
2018
PATTERN, POWER, CHAOS AND QUIET
Housatonic Museum of Art. Bridgeport, CT
LUXURIOUS GROWTH
Lichtundfire Gallery, New York, NY
SENSE OF ICE
Lichtundfire Gallery, New York, NY
2017
COUNTERPOINTS TO THE NARRATIVE: Sparky Campanella, Mark Sharp, and Martin Weinstein
Lichtundfire Gallery, New York, NY
Resonance and Memory: THE ESSENCE OF LANDSCAPE
Brick City Gallery, Springfield, MO
Resonance and Memory: THE ESSENCE OF LANDSCAPE
The Irving Arts Center, Irving, TX
Resonance and Memory: THE ESSENCE OF LANDSCAPE
University of Southern Maine, Gorham Campus Art Gallery, Gorham, ME
THE STATE OF NEW YORK PAINTING
Kingsborough Art Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Resonance and Memory: THE ESSENCE OF LANDSCAPE
The Biedenharn Museum & Gardens, Monroe, LA
Resonance and Memory: THE ESSENCE OF LANDSCAPE
Michelson Museum of Art, Marshall, TX
2015
Resonance and Memory: THE ESSENCE OF LANDSCAPE
Fort Smith Regional Art Museum, Forth Smith, TX
2014
Resonance and Memory: THE ESSENCE OF LANDSCAPE
Elga Wimmer PPC, New York, NY
THE LANDSCAPE REVISITED:
Martin Weinstein, Jonathan Beer, Sandra Gottlieb
Charles B. Goddard Center for Visual and Performing Arts, Ardmore, OK
THE LANDSCAPE REVISITED: Martin Weinstein, Jonathan Beer, Sandra Gottlieb
Edith Barrett Fine Art Gallery, Utica College, Utica, NY
MARTIN WEINSTEIN : DENTRO | FUORI
MARTIN WEINSTEIN AND REBECA PITTMAN
Oxford Performing Arts Center, Oxford, AL
2013
THE LANDSCAPE REVISITED:
Martin Weinstein, Jonathan Beer, Sandra Gottlieb
Rosemont College, Lawrence Gallery, Rosemont, PA
MARTIN WEINSTEIN AND REBECA PITTMAN
Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY
THE LANDSCAPE REVISITED:
Martin Weinstein, Jonathan Beer
Ferst Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA
2010
SIXTH ANNUAL BAMART SILENT AUCTION
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
2009
ILLUSIONS:
Linda Cross, Brian Peterson, Martin Weinstein, Deborah Zlotsky
Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
VACATION VENUES
Franklin 54 Gallery + Projects, New York, NY
2008
184th ANNUAL: AN INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ART
National Academy Museum, New York, NY
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2007
MALE/FEMALE: THE NEW REALISM
Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2004
SKIES & SCAPES
DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2003
ARTISTS SELECT ARTISTS
The Century Association, New York, NY
2002
TRAVEL
Gallery 100, Saratoga Springs, NY
2001
ARTISTS CHOOSE ARTISTS
Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY
2000
The Figure: ANOTHER SIDE OF MODERNISM
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New York, NY
1999
TWELVE DUETS
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
Ensemble dans la Vie et dans l’Art: ART CONTEMPORAIN INTERNATIONAL
l’Institute Polonais de Paris, Paris, France
1998
THE CONCEPTUALIZED LANDSCAPE:
Elisa Amoroso, Howard Watler, Martin Weinstein
Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY
PERSONAL VISIONS IN PAINT:
Katie DeGroot Martin Weinstein Kate Leavitt
Saratoga Arts Council, Saratoga, NY
The Mind’s Eye: CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE PAINTING
The Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY
1997
INTIMATE UNIVERSE (REVISITED)
Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY
RECOLLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS
MyungSook Lee Gallery, New York, NY
1995
THE SMALL PAINTING
O’Hara Gallery, New York, NY
1994
Songs of the Earth: TWENTY-TWO AMERICAN PAINTERS OF THE LANDSCAPE
AHI Gallery, New York, NY
TO ENCHANT (BLUE)
Cynthia McCallister Gallery, Bixler Gallery, New York, NY
ISN’T IT ROMANTIC
Art Initiatives at On Crosby St. New York, NY
1993
AMICI DI TWORKI
Galleria Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland
A MOMENT BECOMES ETERNITY
Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, NJ
1992
REVIEWING THE FAMILIAR
Fort Edward Art Center, Fort Edward, NY
1989
VISIONARY LANDSCAPES
Art in General, New York, NY
1988
10 DOWNTOWN
La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
SMALL PICTURES
369 Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
1987
MEMORY IMAGES
Art in General, New York, NY
4 ARTISTS FROM NEW YORK
369 Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1988
NATURAL HISTORY
Art in General, New York, NY
MARTIN WEINSTEIN : DENTRO | FUORI
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019
Goodman. Jonathan. “Martin Weinstein at Lichtundfire”. White Hot Magazine, June 2019
2018
Friswell, Richard. “Connecticut’s Housatonic Museum of Art with Eclectic Landscape Exhibition: New Perspectives”, Artes Magazine, March 11, 2018
2015
Hrbacek, Mary. “Elga Wimmer PCC with “Resonance and Memory: The Essense of Landscape,” Artes Magazine, January 7, 2015
2014
Hrbacek, Mary. “Elga Wimmer PCC with “Resonance and Memory: The Essense of Landscape,” NY Art Beat, December 31, 2014
2005
Shull, Chris. “Time Passages,” The Wichita Eagle, Friday October 21, 2005
“WAM Opens Illusion and Certainty,” Wichita Times, River City Review, November/December 2005
“WAM to Feature Paintings of Martin Weinstein,” WestSide Story, Wichita, November 2005
Temple, Georgia. “Second-generation Artist Shows his ‘Layered’ Work,” Midland Reporter-Telegram, Sunday August 1. Cover Arts & Entertainment, Section p. 1F
2004
Bostick, Alan. “The Illusion of Time,” The Tennessean, Sunday, March 7
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY continued
2003
Vine, Richard. Time Framed: Martin Weinstein’s Recent Landscapes, Exhibition catalogue, May 2003-2005, Illusion and Certainty: Martin Weinstein, paintings
Walls, Michael. Martin Weinstein: Seeing Beauty, Conceiving A Response, Exhibition catalogue, May 2003-2005, Illusion and Certainty: Martin Weinstein, paintings
2001
Nahas, Dominque. Moment by Moment: Paintings of Martin Weinstein, Brochure
1997
Henry, Gerrit. “Martin Weinstein at MyungSook Lee”, Art in America, May
1995
Tatransky, Valantin. “Natural History”, Arts Magazine, October
1994
Donahoe, Victoria. “N.Y. Artist Weinstein’s Paintings at College”, The Philadelphia Enquirer, October 10
Hornaday, Ann. “The Industrial Evolution”, The New York Daily News, March 16
Kuryluk, Ewa. Vision and Memory: Martin Weinstein’s Pictorial Complexity, Exhibition catalogue, September 30 - October 30, 1994. Mutable Perception: Martin Weinstein Paintings and Drawings 1989 - 1994
1993
Watkins, Eileen. “Museum Offers
Spectacular Exhibition Focusing on the Flower as Eternal Moment”, The Sunday Star Ledger, July 4
1987
Handy, Ellen. “Memory Images,” Arts Magazine, May.
Kuryluk, Ewa. Time Revisited and Regained, Exhibition catalogue published by The Scottish Arts Council
LECTURES AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS
2017
Visiting Artist, USM Art Galleries Gorham and Portland, Portland, ME
2008
Visiting Artist, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
1994
“Romanticism: Dead or Alive?” Panel discussion, Art Initiatives, New York, NY
1993
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
1985
“Artists in the City”, WNYC Radio, Jenny Dixon interview
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
1990 - 2005
Chairperson, Board of Directors, Art in General, New York, NY
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Galerie Jean Claude Bellier, Paris, France
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Collections Frendel, Brown and Weissman, New York, NY
Paradise and Alberts, New York, NY
Snitow Show Consultants, New York, NY