NYAB Event - Miquel Salom "Glocal Proposal II, Esperant"

Miquel Salom "Glocal Proposal II, Esperant"

Elga Wimmer PCC

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SOLAR announces that owner/director, Esperanza León, is organizing two solo exhibitions to be presented at Elga Wimmer PCC, New York City. Planned as part of a series called Glocal Proposals, the two shows will be held consecutively at the Chelsea gallery space.

Glocal Proposals bring together artists able to identify sensitively with global as well as local influences and circumstances in their artwork. Their capacity to bridge the poles creates a new mode of expression: glocal. Many, if not most, people nowadays live glocal lives led by globalizing factors like air travel, mobile phones, the Internet. It is the artist’s ability to be authentic to his local social and cultural expression while identifying himself, and being identified with, a global arts representation that is key to a successful work of art.

Your browser may not support display of this image.Glocal Proposal II starts 11 February with Miquel Salom’s recent photographs, a suite titled Esperant [Waiting]. Salom, who is from the Mediterranean island of Mallorca, is an expert manipulator of light and image. The current series captures glowing orbs and colourful spirals that have the power and energy of vortices. Salom’s sensitive manipulation of objects and light has come across in past work, yet it is in this series that the enigma of the image results in an altogether more powerful visual statement. In these photographs, he represents light as we might sense it, as pure colour and energy, but passes beyond to an inner response, transcendental and infinite, that leaves one to meditate on existence, or to use his own words, “centuries…beings and souls, birth, beauty, death…always, always…life.” Miquel Salom began exhibiting in Spain in 1975 and has worked consistently with photography in Europe and the United States where his pieces are in public and private collections. His most recent exhibition at the noted Joan Oliver “Maneu” Galleria d’Art in Mallorca presented photographs from the series Esperant and was accompanied by a 65-page catalogue including a text by renowned Catalan critic, Arnau Puig.