Maria Hartmann Kastan "Turn, Burst, Hide"
Giacobetti Paul Gallery
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Maria Hartmann Kastan’s work shows a strong visual relationship between paintings, drawings and sculpture. The female figure is at all times the catalyst to these conceptual worlds. These female figures are never seen in “whole” form. Intentionally the figure remains the symbol for growth, and the realization that the whole person can never fully be seen at any one given time. There is a mystery in this human complexity.
Building conceptual worlds around the female figure, with each piece she looks to explore a variety of materials from traditional--oil paint, pencil—to found or everyday objects—toothpicks, nails, pine needles, work gloves, duct tape, ink. Always with a focus on finding the relationship on a physical level—hard, soft, man made or natural—these elements expand that material relationship into a conceptual surround. Her paintings, drawings, and mixed media objects reveal movements with changeable or impermanent elements such as bubbles, water, umbrellas, heat or air.
Maria Hartmann Kastan has a studio at Madarts, Brooklyn, NY. Her work is in many private collections, in the local public collection of Brooklyn College, CUNY as well as internationally in Italy at the MIDAC Contemporary Art Center.
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Schedule
from April 04, 2013 to April 27, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-04-04 from 18:00 to 21:00