Exhibition Dates
December 6 – 17, 2011

Opening Reception
Tuesday, December 6, 6 - 8 pm



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Dreamscapes

Cura­tor
Ste­fa­nia Carrozzini

Artists
Andrea Agrati / Beat­rice Cor­radi Dell’Acqua / Alessio Elli / Karen Hochman Brown / Yeoun Lee / Emanuele Panz­era / Matti Sirvio / Lis­beth Svens­son / Dal Pozzo D’Annone / Canal Cheong-Jagerroos / Mike Wong Joon Fong

Karen Hochman Brown, Rose Frills in Four, digital art giclée print on canvas, 30 x 30 in., 2011
Karen Hochman Brown, Rose Frills in Four, dig­i­tal art giclée print on can­vas, 30 x 30 in., 2011



Onishi Gallery is pleased to announce DREAMSCAPES, an inter­na­tional exhi­bi­tion fea­tur­ing ten artists curated by Ste­fa­nia Car­rozzini, a Milan based inde­pen­dent cura­tor. Her shows have received wide acclaim in New York, China and as well as in sev­eral cities in Italy.

The big adven­ture of art is the abil­ity to see beyond what is known, beyond the lim­its of real­ity. Artists have always worked in that area which belongs to dreams and the imag­i­na­tion. The cre­ative process advances by asso­ci­a­tion, it is made of the same stuff as dreams. Unhooked from our day­time life we are free to recre­ate our­selves. Sym­bols of indi­vid­ual adven­ture, dreams appear to us as the truest and most secret expres­sion of our­selves. When we dream we are all artists, even though uncon­sciously, of extra­or­di­nary tales, of chained dra­mas, uncon­fess­able desires, totally free from schemes and moral judg­ment. The world of dreams is over­flow­ing with sym­bols and is struc­tured as a lan­guage, it com­mu­ni­cates much more about our life than our day­time con­scious­ness lets on.

Sim­i­lar to dreams also art is nec­es­sary to the bio­log­i­cal and men­tal har­mony of the indi­vid­ual. Both serve to absolve a vital func­tion: the hunger for free­dom and poetry. Cre­ative lan­guage thus gath­ers the demand for rep­re­sen­ta­tion of codes and sym­bols, until it trans­forms the energy of uncon­scious pul­sa­tions, even con­flict­ing, into a need for truth. The dream is like prepara­tory rough work, an approx­i­mate sketch, a project of the future con­scious activ­ity. Such a men­tal activ­ity may be assim­i­lated to the cre­ative process.  The uncon­scious is known to be the big tank from which to get ideas and like dreams also art feeds on symbols.

Dream­scapes are free spaces where the dreamer is always the main char­ac­ter. In this space, time and the rules of grav­ity do not exist; the rules are over­turned, absurd. The prospects are at times decep­tive, or too real; the out­lines of ethe­real things, sub­tle, sus­pended, at the limit of what is vis­i­ble. It is with this aware­ness that we are per­haps ready to meet art.

Ste­fa­nia Carrozzini

A cat­a­logue of the col­lec­tion will be avail­able at the gallery.

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