Health & Wellness
Florence University of the Arts
Fine Arts Final Exhibit May 2|29, 2018
FLORENCE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS
GIOVANNI ROSSIELLO
Gallery Exhibition and Curating EL Instructor
Health & Wellness MAY 2 | 29, 2018 GANZO via dei Macci, 85/r Firenze
The Florence University of the Arts student exhibition “Teaching Traditions: Health & Wellness and Non-Hotel Lodging Trends in the Hospitality Industry”, that will take place at Ganzo from May 2 to May 29, 2018 focuses on the combination of tradition and wellness. Eating healthily, art therapy, local food and wine, nature and contemplations of daily life turn out to be the center of attention nowadays. These concepts have acquired relevance in the lifestyles of many people and are the concepts that define the artwork of the students: paintings, sculptures and drawings. Understanding tradition as something that is not static, but as something that connects the past to the present and allows the new generations to build an innovative future, is the lens through which this compilation arises. The topic of the tradition has become essential for innovation and a way of remembering the values that will shape the future, creating new experiences and stimulating the creativity of groups of people. This new and exciting way of living, eating, and traveling that has emerged has become a way of preserving traditional cultures and natural resources, whilst at the same time stimulates local entrepreneurship and allows communities to share their customs and traditions with each other, bringing about the possibility of creating new art expressions together.
La mostra organizzata dagli studenti della Florence University of the Arts dal titolo "Teaching traditions: Health & Wellness and Non-Hotel lodging trends in the Hospitality Industry", che si svolgerà a Ganzo dal 2 al 29 maggio 2018, si concentra sul connubio tra tradizione e benessere: mangiare sano, arte terapia, enogastronomia locale, natura e contemplazioni della vita quotidiana, che risultano essere al centro dell'attenzione al giorno d'oggi. Questi concetti sono diventati fondamentali per contraddistinguere lo stile di vita e sono alla base delle opere d'arte realizzate dagli studenti: dipinti, sculture e disegni. Capire la tradizione come qualcosa che non è statico, ma che collega il passato al presente e permette alle nuove generazioni di costruire un futuro innovativo, sono gli obiettivi attraverso i quali nasce questa nuova mostra collettiva. Il tema della tradizione è diventato in fondo la chiave per l'innovazione: un modo per ricordare i valori che plasmeranno il futuro, creando nuove esperienze e stimolando la creatività. Questo nuovo ed entusiasmante modo di vivere, mangiare e viaggiare che è emerso ed è diventato un modo per preservare le culture tradizionali e le risorse naturali allo stesso tempo, stimola l'imprenditorialità locale e permette alle comunità di condividere i propri costumi e tradizioni e provoca la nascita di sempre nuove espressioni artistiche.
MADELINE MARBURGER | SAMANTHA HARDEWIG
Special Project EL Gallery Curating Students
DANIELLE DENARDIS | MARIANA ROCIO GOMEZ MENDOZA | MONTSERRAT SALAZAR JIMENEZ
Gallery Exhibition and Curating EL Students
ASHLEY ZIMMER | KATHRYN BERTRAM | JULIANNA WHALEN | KRYSTAL ROSA | LAUREN RODERIGUES | MONICA SANGUINO | GABRIEL LAVINE | EMILY HINGLE | HANNA LESTER | ALLIE FOX | SYDNEY SHUGARMAN Gallery Exhibition and Curating Students
A D VA N C E D PA I N T I N G SAS School of Art and Sciences
Wellness To be at ease, feel balanced and experience a sense of wellness seems like a fugitive state of connection between mind and body, one that is easily forgotten and becomes the object of deep nostalgia. Some of us project that very state onto a lost primeval natural world, others imagine it as an unreachable paradise. Artists try to recreate this state through a well thought blend of nature and culture. Featuring both the sensitive human skin in its vulnerable smoothness, as well as its analogy with the softness of a flower’s petals, students tried to offer the viewer an ephemeral, though gently impressive, experience of wellbeing in watching a painted work. Soft pastels, nuanced transitions, muted mixtures of high chroma color schemes, tender lights entering alluded architectures, accurate petals, textures and transparencies are able to dialogue with dark values and coiled body positions suggesting rest, intimate thinking and pleasure. Wellness is highly individual, everyone finds her own peaceful wellbeing in different ways, and with different rhythms. Finding out an individual rhythm is the drive behind the series featured in this show: 2, 3, 5 paintings are there to wish the viewer to explore their own time and pace to wellness.
NICOLETTA SALOMON
A D VA N C E D PA I N T I N G
Madison Burger Arden, North Carolina Winthrop University
Untitled 24 x 32 cm Oil on paper In my small figure series, I explored composition created by the human figure and used simple shapes to suggest a space as well as complement the figures' body language. I completed five small figurative works. Through the figures' posture, the selection of colors and the simple shapes, I aimed to convey a feeling of softness and wellness. I used line and pale complementary colors to emphasize and echo the figure. A feeling of comfort and warmth is therefore achieved, as well as intimacy.
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Madison Burger Untitled 24 x 32 cm Oil on paper
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Untitled 24 x 32 cm Oil on paper
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Madison Burger Untitled 24 x 32 cm Oil on paper
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Untitled 24 x 32 cm Oil on paper
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Madison Burger Untitled 40 x 44 cm Oil on canvas
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Monica Sanguino Waterloo Iowa University of Northern Iowa
Blooming 36x54 cm Oil on canvas The blooming of the flowers is a sign of growth and acceptance towards wellness. These flowers are loose and carefree while also maintaining order and calmness. The start of a seed growing into something bright and colourful gives off a feeling of comfort. Flowers also represent the state of wellbeing while emphasising a positive mental state.
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Crystal Huereca-Retana Topeka, Kansas Washburn University Clinical Psychology & Fine Arts
Back of a Woman 50 x 65 Oil on Canvas My current work is inspired by the human figure and the variations seen amongst them. No two bodies are the same in skin tone or form. Capturing the contrasting qualities seen throughout different figures is my goal. Showing the different undertones of the skin, the reflection of light off the skin, and the difference in roundness or sharpness of a figure compared to another is my focus. These differences shown in each body emphasize that wellness can vary from person to person. Physical appearances can show “health� in an array of forms. Capturing this diversity and showing that wellness has many sides, also has been a driving matter in my paintings.
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Shadows 50 x 65 Oil on Canvas
I N T E R M E D I AT E PA I N T I N G | I N T E R M E D I AT E D R A W I N G SAS School of Art and Sciences
Balance is considered an essential feature of wellness. Though they appear static, balance and wellbeing are dynamic and continual processes of adjustments and actions taken to optimize the equilibrium between both synergistic and contradictory elements or forces. To be well, and to paint or draw well, requires movement and change in response to the immediate reality in a way that is flexible and creative, yet grounded in a deep intelligence and capacity to orient toward this harmony, the ground of well-being. Students in the Intermediate Drawing and Painting courses have been studying the human form from masters and the live model and cycling through losing and finding the line, and struggling to see shapes instead of labeling features, and often being thrown off-balance in the process of developing their skills and breaking old habits, while through readings, discussions, and exposure to the artistic traditions around figurative art, acknowledging and exploring not just their consciousness, but also their supra-rational ways of knowing in order to be better able to tune-into their deep natural intelligences to achieve a dynamic balance between knowing and experiencing, losing and finding, responding and receiving. We connect our being with our making, the capacity to be well with our capacity to create both in life and in art. These drawing, painting, and mixed media works are an outgrowth of students’ ongoing investigation across the semester, in which they reference the body, and their own bodies, to touch on themes of the dynamic, ever-in-action process of finding, losing touch with, and seeking to re-learn and reclaim a capacity for not just well-being, but joy-being.
ANDI NUFER
I N T E R M E D I AT E PA I N T I N G
Allison Hoey Santa Monica, California University of New Hampshire
Untitled Oil on paper 47 x 33 cm
My personal experience with tourism has led me to consider health and wellness in a broader sense, emphasizing spiritual and emotional wellbeing. Through figural representation and warm colors, this work explores the quietness and serenity I have searched for during my time abroad.
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Ashley Zimmer Sioux Falls, South Dakota University of South Dakota
People v. Places Pencil on paper 35 x33 cm This work was of course inspired by the theme of the student show at GANZO. The theme included the idea of wellness through travel, which is attached to many hearts of us study abroad students. In this piece I wanted to depict the importance of travel—not for the destinations—but for the people you meet along the way. The introduction of water color as a medium and postcards as a platform were not only convenient for my traveling spirit, but also played into the content of the piece quite well.
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Hiyasmine Gaskins Jersey City, New Jersey New Jersey City University
The Growth Whitin Charchoal and gouache on paper 50 x 70 cm Growing means being consistent. You cannot rush trying to find yourself. Embrace your present, past, and future self. Love who you are, as you are.
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Saul Quintero
SAS School of Art and Sciences
Guadalajara, Mexico Baylor University
Brief Conceptions Ink on paper 17 x 23 cm Brief Conceptions is an in-utero illustration of my mind during brief moments of thought, mostly full of developing fetal marks and uncoordinated lines and vaguely identifiable shapes that imply meaning but simply hold onto discrete identity. An overall figure seems to softly emerge from the linear disarray, but truly at what expense? What do we lose when we choose to steer from a receptive confusion for some shoegazed irredeemable truth? In a world ceaselessly famished for air, self-bound by a digital logic, I choose to drift, to allow myself to be like the sound of traffic on a busy street: purposeless and natural. That is what fundamentally connects us to each other, not common ground but the lack of ground whatsoever
I N T E R M E D I AT E C E R A M I C S SAS School of Art and Sciences
The projects presented by the students Stella Davis and Angela Caldarone reflect different aspects of wellness and how it can intersect in our lives, both from a tactile point of view and from a psychological point of view. In fact, wellness affects all aspects of our daily life, even the most mundane, and through the stimulation of our five senses, wellness becomes part of our second reality. Caldarone’s project stimulates our emotional sphere by inspiring a sense of peace and wellbeing through the depiction of a safe place where no one can harm you and you are sheltered from danger. The subjects cleverly portrayed by Caldarone suggest this interpretation of wellness from every angle and it is not pure chance that this represents her safe space - the subjects are in fact her pets, and what can make us feel better than affection? The work of Stella Davis also reflects a sort of peace that is instead sought through the windows that open into our inner selves that can act as a gap and as a point of liberation from anguish and fear. The interesting appearance is precisely the architectural structure of our soul of which we are the bosses and on which we must work just to be well. This fact is cleverly portrayed in the positioning of the head, and the possibility of governing the soul is represented by the action of the hands.
GIACOMO BERNARDI
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Stella Davis Lexington, Kentucky University of Kentucky
Signed Sincerely 25x15x15 cm My first real source of artistic inspiration in Italy came from the Grotesque imagery that adorns the ceilings of many historic estates. I am especially drawn to the imagery that combines the human form with architectural forms to create fanciful hybrids. Of course the influence of the renowned Florentine architecture is impossible to resist and can be seen in the familiar curvature of my reproduction of a Brunelleschiesque dome. This piece represents the journey to an intimate knowing of an individual personified through the hybrid form of a woman, the dome, and the circular staircase. The merging of these two characters in my narrative, the city and the woman, was meant to encourage the mind to see how coming to know one individual was similar to coming to know an entire city because of the abundance of our human complexities, but that one of the most human things we can do is to always be open to to this journey. My final source of inspiration came when I visited Madrid where I had the privilege of seeing Salvador Dali’s work in person for the first time, which entirely changed the trajectory of this piece, abstracting it in form and concept. The piece evolved from hazy ambiguity to a clear self-portrait, a letter of invitation to the world depicting my complexities, but at the same time reassuring the viewer of my openness.
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Angela Caldarone Boston, Massachusetts
Home Clay Sculpture There is a sense of safety in having a home, in having a place to retreat to, and to recover from life. There are many times in a person's lifetime when a definite home is not available. It is possible, however, to find a home in another person. This piece represents the safety that can be achieved and felt when one is with someone they love. That other person is home. They become your safe place; somewhere to return to. Souls fuse and blend together at night. Trusting another person enough to sleep so closely to them, to be completely vulnerable to them, and to feel so safe next to them, is what it takes to have a home.
FLORENCE SKETCHBOOK SAS School of Art and Sciences
Wellness, art and Florence Drawing in the open air is the best way to explore and discover Florence and its beauty. If the first glimpse remains trapped among the monuments that made it famous in history, it is only when the observer's eye and step are able to escape from the magnificence of the arts and the emblematic places of tourism that unfolds the intimate face of the city, a less flashy space that reveals its human dimension in everyday life.
PARIDE MORETTI
FLORENCE SKETCHBOOK
Hiyasmine Gaskins Jersey City, New Jersey New Jersey City University
Awaken, my inner child Mixed media 50 x 70 cm
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Madison Burger People Watching, Florence Life Tecnique: pencil on paper 5 Pieces 15x20cm To continue off my idea of capturing pleasant everyday moments, I created a series of small drawings of people and less defined places, drawn from life and candid. I did this to capture people honestly and with respect to their daily routine. Acknowledging others and capturing them through drawing allows me to feel connected to my subjects in a way that still life cannot. I find wellness in being attuned to others and looking for beautiful moments which exist around me or in others' lives
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Madison Burger Asheville North Carolina Winthrop University
Little Green and Yellow Watercolor 15x10cm I produced this diptych in watercolor in order to capture moments from Florence which are visually pleasant and refreshing. I chose a subject which could exist anywhere in everyday life in order to give the viewer something to connect to. The color and media choice was meant to complement the subject well and the size of the work is meant to create a sense of intimacy between viewer and subject.
Health & Wellness MAY 2 | 29, 2018 GANZO via dei Macci, 85/r Firenze
MADELINE MARBURGER | SAMANTHA HARDEWIG
Special Project EL Gallery Curating Students
DANIELLE DENARDIS MARIANA ROCIO GOMEZ MENDOZA MONTSERRAT SALAZAR JIMENEZ
Gallery Exhibition and Curating EL Students
ASHLEY ZIMMER KATHRYN BERTRAM JULIANNA WHALEN KRYSTAL ROSA LAUREN RODERIGUES MONICA SANGUINO GABRIEL LAVINE EMILY HINGLE HANNA LESTER ALLIE FOX SYDNEY SHUGARMAN
Gallery Exhibition and Curating Students
GIOVANNI ROSSIELLO
Gallery Exhibition and Curating Instructor
NICOLETTA SALOMON
Advanced Painting
ANDI NUFER
Intermediate Painting Intermediate Drawing
GIACOMO BERNARDI
Intermediate Ceramics
PARIDE MORETTI
Florence Sketchbook Printed May 2018 by FUA Florence University of the Arts Hiyasmine Gaskins Florence Sketchbook, Cover artwork
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS RINGRAZIAMENTI
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