Tony Calzetta

 April 14th - May 5th, 2012

"Untitled #863" 2011, 22 x 30 inches, charcoal on paper

  

RECEPTION:

 
April 14th, 2012  

4:00 - 9:00 p.m. (rsvp requested)

217 Avenue Road, Toronto, Ontario M5R 2J3  

T: (1) 416-537-4699

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Over the past 35 years Tony Calzetta has developed a distinctive visual language of bold, simplified forms where colour, texture and lines jump into a third dimension and dance to life to create works that challenge the viewer’s imagination.
As Kate Regan wrote in her essay Tony Calzetta: Line Dancing, “it was Paul Klee who wrote of taking a line for a walk to see where it would go. In the same spirit, Calzetta invites his lines to spin, zoom, fly, gesticulate and toddle.”
This important exhibition of major works, Calzetta’s first in five years, is a new collection of large scale canvasses and drawings.
Tony Calzetta received his B.F.A. from the University of Windsor and his M.F.A. from York University. He works mainly on canvas and paper and at times in sculpture and printmaking. He has published three major livres d’artiste, Acts of Kindness and of Love in collaboration with writer John Metcalf, and more recently How God Talks in His Sleep and Other Fabulous Fictions and Peculiar Practices with writer Leon Rooke. In addition to commissioned works he is represented in public, corporate and private collections in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. In 2011, his paintings exhibited at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Toronto were part of the Padiglione Italia at the 54 th International Venice Biennale. He was elected as a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) in 2004.
Tony Calzetta says: “My work is about drawing. The drawing is about images that are composed of shapes and forms constantly evolving from a highly personal visual vocabulary which started with subconscious doodling and automatic drawing and later from more conscious visual influences. My work can be viewed as “abstract funnies” or “surreal cartoons” which fit somewhere between high art and popular culture. My interest is with image as image and I believe in letting the viewer interpret and create his or her own narrative.”

EXHIBITION: February 11th - March 11th, 2012

De Luca Fine Art | Gallery

presents

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GIOVANNI CERRI

L P o r t r a i t s

Leonard Cohen 2011, Oil on Canvas, Cm 50 x 50

Bob Dylan 2011, Oil on Canvas, Cm 50 x 50

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OPENING RECEPTION

on Saturday, February 11, from 4 - 7 p.m.

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Giovanni Cerri (Milano, 1969) began his activity as a painter in 1987 and since then has had numerous exhibitions in Italia and abroad. His personal shows are as follows: 1995 – Galleria Cortina – Milan; 2000 – Galleria Artistudio/Magrorocca – Milan; 2002 – Galleria Monogramma – Rome; Cortina Arte – Milan; 2006 – Galleria Blanchaert – Milan; 2007 – Galleria Palmieri – Busto Arsizio; 2008 – Spazio Tadini – Milan, ComoArte – Como, Avanguardia Antiquaria - Milan; 2009 – Galleria Gli Eroici Furori – Milan, Museo d’Arte Moderna di Gazoldo degli Ippoliti (MN), Ex Chiesa di San Pietro in Atrio – Como, Orenda Art International - Paris;  De Luca Fine Art | Gallery – Toronto, Galleria Cappelletti – Milan, Galerie Kuhn & Partner – Berlin; 2011 – Spazio Arte - Milan, Avanguardia Antiquaria – Milan, Galleria Berga – Vicenza.

   

Among the group shows in which he has participated: 1998 - "Milano-Berlino" / Metropoli a confronto – Galerie Verein – Berlin; 2002 – "Arte per tempi nuovi" – Galerie Die Ecke – Augsburg (Germany); 2006 – Premio Michetti – Francavilla al Mare (CH); 2008 – "I Cerri. Giancarlo e Giovanni. La pittura di generazione in generazione" – Museo della Permanente – Milan, "Maestri di Brera" – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Shanghai; 2010 – Le Meduse – Fabbrica del Vapore – Milan, "Riprogettare l’Archeologia" – Triennale di Milano; 2012 - "Le Meduse, mare nero" – Gallery at Avalon Island – Orlando, Florida U.S.A.

   

In 2011, he exhibited at the  54th Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Italia, curated by Vittorio Sgarbi.

 

This is Giovanni Cerri’s second exhibition in Toronto at De Luca Fine Art | Gallery . In 2010 he had his first personal exhibition entitled "Hurricane of Light", presenting a cycle of works on the theme of the city, the main subject of his work. This exhibition, entitled "LPortraits", is a series of portraits of the most famous faces of pop rock from the United States and Canada. Cerri, remaining faithful to his pictorial language, has interpreted famous "icons": from Bob Dylan to Patti Smith, from Neil Young to Leonard Cohen, from The Ramones to Aerosmith. A gallery of faces where the artist tries to also communicate the expressive "atmosphere" of these musicians, and trying to translate the spirit of their music in to images.

 

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue in the same format of the LPs with texts by Alberto Figliolia and Bruno Milone.

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  This exhibition runs from February 11th - March 11th, 2012 at  
De Luca Fine Art | Gallery located at 217 Avenue Road, Toronto.

Join us at the opening reception on  
Saturday, February 11th, from 4 - 7 p.m.  

 

Don’t miss it ! We look forward to seeing you !

R.S.V.P. to invite@delucafineart.com   

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Please contact us if you would like to receive a full price list of the works for this exhibition. Don't forget to inquire about our additional services, consultation, and art rental programs that are available.  

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André Krigar Paints on Location in Yorkville

 André Krigar finds inspiration on the northern edge of downtown, the premier area of upscale Yorkville. It stretches along Bloor between Yonge Street and Avenue Road, — André Krigar sets up between the two smaller streets north of and parallel to Bloor, Cumberland Avenue and Yorkville Avenue — André captures luxury shops, shoppers as well as pedestrians as they stop for a glance at the strong impressionistic influence in his paintings. 

 

 

“The Painter in the City” by

André Krigar

This exhibition runs from

October 5^th to October 28^th

and marks the first exhibition at the

De Luca Fine Art | Gallery new location, at

217 Avenue Road, Toronto.

 

The opening reception is on Wednesday, October 5^th, 2011, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. 

 

Please R.S.V.P. to invite@delucafineart.com

 

With his canvas, brushes and oils André Krigar travels the world to capture urban- scapes and moments of life as he experiences them while portraying them.

For more information regarding this event and/or our services, consultation, and art rental program please contact:

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Press Release: “The Painter in the City” by André Krigar

 

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

De Luca Fine Art | Gallery presents

“The Painter in the City”

André Krigar

Toronto, September 20, 2011 – This exhibition runs from October 5^th to October 28^th, 2011 and marks the first exhibition at the De Luca Fine Art | Gallery new location, at 217 Avenue Road, Toronto.

The opening reception is on Wednesday, October 5^th, 2011, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. 

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With his canvas, brushes and oils André Krigar travels the world to capture urban- scapes and moments of life as he experiences them while portraying them.

From Berlin, Germany André travels to Toronto, Canada for his first time. In this exhibition De Luca Fine Art | Gallery presents a series of works that depict our city through the eyes of this traveller artist.

André Krigar is a contemporary painter, who is very comfortable in allowing the strong impressionistic influence in his paintings. They hide something magic. The longer one looks, the more difficult it becomes to turn away. André beautifully captures or even interprets (which gives it that magic touch of what it could appear “naïve” at first) that exact light, of that exact moment when he was there painting. André’s use of colours and the Monet-like manner of conducting the brush on the canvas create a “real” feeling of being there, “inside the painting”. One can almost smell and hear the subject.

De Luca Fine Art | Gallery, established in 2004, is now located at 217 Avenue Road, in the heart of the Yorkville Designer District steps away from the Designers Walk and is dedicated to representing and introducing Italian and International Artists to Canadian audiences. In collaboration with select Italian Galleries, De Luca Fine Art | Gallery introduces established and emerging Canadian Artists to Europe. De Luca Fine Art | Gallery’s mandate is “representing a bridge” between Cultures.

For more information regarding this event and/or our services, consultation, and art rental program please visit www.delucafineart.com

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Corrado De Luca

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T: (1) 416-537-4699

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This show runs from July 7 to 30, 2011

PRESS RELEASE

1153-A Queen Street West, Unit 203

Toronto, ON M6J 1J4

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De Luca Fine Art | Gallery presents

“Making Mince Meat Out of dArt Magazine ”

A one-man exhibition by Steve Rockwell

Toronto, June 23, 2011 – De Luca Fine Art | Gallery presents Steve Rockwell’s one-man exhibition “Making Mince Meat Out of dArt Magazine”. The show will run from July 7^th to July 30th, 2011.

The opening reception is on Thursday, July 7^th, 2011, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at 1153-A Queen Street West, Unit 203, Toronto. Please R.S.V.P. to invite@delucafineart.com

We eat with our eyes as much as our stomachs. Food and visual art share a profound history throughout the ages. Ten years before launching dArt International Magazine, publisher Steve Rockwell served an actual sandwich as art at the Arnold Gottlieb Gallery in Toronto. Then as now, Steve exhibited collage works along with his food creation. James Chatto, then food critic with Toronto Life Magazine liked the collage works, but also deemed the edible offering a "first-rate sandwich" in his review in the gourmet section of Toronto Life. In this exhibition Steve Rockwell creates a subject for his collages that might be consumed by both eye and stomach. Here at De Luca Fine Art | Gallery, by making an art magazine the subject, Steve Rockwell links reading and eating, delivering a readers and eaters digest, if you will.

Last year the Steve Rockwell Sandwich celebrated its twenty-first birthday in an exhibition at the Fran Hill Gallery. Restaurant owner, Saeed Mohamed of BQM~the Burger Shoppe, went by to view and to sample. The results were positive, and Saeed was inspired to begin working on a new menu selection for his restaurants. Steve Rockwell, De Luca Fine Art | Gallery and BQM~the Burger Shoppe, are pleased to introduce the dArt Burger.

As part of this exhibition De Luca Fine Art | Gallery features for the first time two art short films produced by Steve Rockwell & Ben Marshall and directed by award winning director James Cooper.

The opening reception on July 7^th will be filmed as part of a short documentary about the making and unveiling of the dArt Burger.

De Luca Fine Art | Gallery, established in 2004, is located at 1153-A Queen Street West, in the heart of the Queen West Gallery District in Toronto and is dedicated to representing and introducing Italian and International Artists to Canadian audiences. In collaboration with select Italian Galleries, De Luca Fine Art | Gallery introduces established and emerging Canadian Artists to Europe. De Luca Fine Art | Gallery’s mandate is “representing a bridge” between Cultures.

For more information regarding this event and/or our services, consultation, and art rental program please visit www.delucafineart.com

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For media inquiries please contact:

Corrado De Luca

corrado@delucafineart.com

T: (1) 416-537-4699

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marketing@delucafineart.com

T: (1) 416-537-4699



PHOTO EXHIBITION

VINCENZO PIETROPAOLO

"IN RETROSPECTIVE"

DURATION:
June 16th to July 2nd, 2011

RECEPTION:
June 16th, 2011 6 to 10 p.m.

1153-A Queen Street West,
Unit 203, Toronto

T: (1) 416-537-4699 

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