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The Fusion Art of Shalom Tomas Neuman
- Place: Veletržní Palace (Contacts)
- Date: 19.08.2011 - 25.09.2011
- Type: Exhibition
Fusion artist Shalom Tomas Neuman returns to the city of his birth for a series of solo exhibitions focusing on his multidisciplinary/multisensory artwork. These exhibitions, which will include special guest artists from other countries, will take place from August through November, 2011. The six art spaces exhibiting Shalom’s artwork in Prague are: National Gallery in Prague - Veletžní palác, American Center, Galerie La Femme, Franz Kafka Museum, TINA B Contemporary Art Festival and NOVITO artitic pottery (please see attached schedule of events for further details).
The largest of these exhibitions will be the solo show TALKING AT YOU - PROMLOUVÁNÍ at the National Gallery - Veletžní palác and features more than 50 artworks from his Amerika series. The exhibit will run from 19.8. - 18.9. 2011. The opening night August 18th will host a special guest composer/musician Jean Voguet. The collaborative performance within the exhibit will be on 8. 9. 2011, 17:30 with writers from the Unbearables (New York) and PEN club Prague.
The title of this series of artworks is a nod to Amerika, the early unfinished novel by Franz Kafka. This series of faces, described by international art critic and lecturer Robert Morgan as “...less portraits than archetypes - composites of much of the weirdness that the artist
encounters in human beings who hang-out around the vicinity of his studio in Brooklyn...” are created from modeling paste, acrylic paint and found objects surrounded by little plastic figures. There is the added dimension of sound in this series as each piece has either a set of sound chips or mp3 players with motion detectors that when activated, give each “Amerikan” a
voice of his or her own.
“... As an artist I want to bridge the existing barriers between all disciplines such as painting, sculpture, light, sound, performance theatre, video and digital art. I want to make these individual genres indecipherable from one another by fusing them into a new genre of multidisciplinary and multisensory art that has endless creative possibilities...”
Shalom Tomas Neuman was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He is the last surviving male of
a large Jewish family, most of whom perished in Nazi Germany’s Holocaust. His family escaped from Prague towards the end of the war and emigrated to Haifa, Israel where he spent his childhood. The family emigrated to the U.S. when he was 12 and he has lived ever since, currently residing in New York City. Shalom received dual BFAs and MFAs in painting and sculpture from Carnegie-Mellon University. He won the Damrosch Scholarship to study at the Fountainebleu in France where he received The Beaux Arts painting prize. He did his post graduate fellowship in painting and sculpture at Indiana University. Shalom has dual residences and studios in both New York and Prague and divides his time between the two.
He has taught at The Cooper Union, Parsons School of Design and has been a visiting lecturer at The School of Visual Arts and Yale. He currently teaches at Pratt Institute of Technology. He exhibits in the United States, South America, Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
www.shalom-art.com
The largest of these exhibitions will be the solo show TALKING AT YOU - PROMLOUVÁNÍ at the National Gallery - Veletžní palác and features more than 50 artworks from his Amerika series. The exhibit will run from 19.8. - 18.9. 2011. The opening night August 18th will host a special guest composer/musician Jean Voguet. The collaborative performance within the exhibit will be on 8. 9. 2011, 17:30 with writers from the Unbearables (New York) and PEN club Prague.
The title of this series of artworks is a nod to Amerika, the early unfinished novel by Franz Kafka. This series of faces, described by international art critic and lecturer Robert Morgan as “...less portraits than archetypes - composites of much of the weirdness that the artist
encounters in human beings who hang-out around the vicinity of his studio in Brooklyn...” are created from modeling paste, acrylic paint and found objects surrounded by little plastic figures. There is the added dimension of sound in this series as each piece has either a set of sound chips or mp3 players with motion detectors that when activated, give each “Amerikan” a
voice of his or her own.
“... As an artist I want to bridge the existing barriers between all disciplines such as painting, sculpture, light, sound, performance theatre, video and digital art. I want to make these individual genres indecipherable from one another by fusing them into a new genre of multidisciplinary and multisensory art that has endless creative possibilities...”
Shalom Tomas Neuman was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He is the last surviving male of
a large Jewish family, most of whom perished in Nazi Germany’s Holocaust. His family escaped from Prague towards the end of the war and emigrated to Haifa, Israel where he spent his childhood. The family emigrated to the U.S. when he was 12 and he has lived ever since, currently residing in New York City. Shalom received dual BFAs and MFAs in painting and sculpture from Carnegie-Mellon University. He won the Damrosch Scholarship to study at the Fountainebleu in France where he received The Beaux Arts painting prize. He did his post graduate fellowship in painting and sculpture at Indiana University. Shalom has dual residences and studios in both New York and Prague and divides his time between the two.
He has taught at The Cooper Union, Parsons School of Design and has been a visiting lecturer at The School of Visual Arts and Yale. He currently teaches at Pratt Institute of Technology. He exhibits in the United States, South America, Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
www.shalom-art.com
