Guillermo Srodek-Hart, Animalia #3, 2004, Archival inkjet print, 30x40 in. Image courtesy of Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts

MIAMI, FL.- Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Silvia Rivas: Tiny Events and Guillermo Srodek-Hart: Animalia on view during the November Wynwood Art District second Saturday gallery walk.
Tiny Events by Silvia Rivas concentrates on group portraiture and those moments in time. For Rivas the portrait is the resource to portray and present singularity, isolation, and to show the individual in its current condition. The sitter is captured in his/her present, in one singular action that extends indefinitely in time. Over a dissociated scene, different elements appear raining, sometimes subtle and fragile items like bubbles or flowers, sometimes geometric holes, showing the gap between the beings and their surroundings. One such group of individuals found in Tiny Events are the young faces of people from Buenos Aires ’ poor suburbs, with their neutral expressions of either sadness, strength or open to interpretation.
In the project room Animalia by Guillermo Srodek-Hart will be on view. The Animalia project is a fantasy world, which holds as a central theme the interactions between animals and humans. The photographs have a common compositional reference, which is that all of them have the animal in the foreground while the human figure remains in the background. The animal in the foreground gazes at the viewer, and turns a recognizable scene inside out. The photographs depict the strange and eerie connection between humans and other animals. Some years later, the artist came back to this project, investigating our relationship to the natural world, but took on a different perspective: Guillermo Srodek-Hart decided to put himself in the picture, and switched from still to moving image. In the 8 minute video exhibited, Srodek-Hart recorded a sleepover with Jackson , a 2-year-old goat. “I was the alien in his world, and was not sure about his reaction to my presence. I tried to direct my actions towards reaching a state of conciliation between both of us,” states the artist. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=21920