Exhibition Dates
July 8 – 21, 2010

Opening Reception
Thursday, July 8, 6 -8 pm



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Misa Aihara, Masaki Asakawa, Alberto Bac­cari, Amy Cohen Banker, Elena Bram­billa, Michela Ianese, Gio­vanni Marinelli, Fabio Usvardi

Onishi Gallery is pleased to announce “Fre­quency” a group exhi­bi­tion curated by Ste­fa­nia Car­rozzini, fea­tured by eight artists from Japan, United States and Italy.

The artists devel­oped the idea of Fre­quency look­ing into their own per­sonal expe­ri­ences. Their artis­tic approach is based on the view that a spe­cial fre­quency and spe­cial energy move through all liv­ing things –a life energy that is the cre­ative impe­tus for the uni­verse, for all mat­ter, and for their artis­tic inspi­ra­tion. This energy moves in pul­sat­ing rhythms that take form through shapes, colours, time and space. It is a man­i­fes­ta­tion of phases of growth, the tidal rhythms of breath, the drum­beat of the heart, and the vibra­tory dance of the small­est par­ti­cles inside each cell.

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Seen in terms of fre­quen­cies, the body of art­works of this exhi­bi­tion con­sists of energy com­mu­ni­cated with intensely intro­spec­tive and even spir­i­tual ele­ments in dia­logue with pat­terns of reality.

“To speak about fre­quency and energy in a cre­ative con­text means to mea­sure one­self rel­a­tive to the mys­tery of the birth of ideas and inspi­ra­tion. Fre­quen­cies are invis­i­ble vibra­tions which awaken our senses. Artists are priv­i­leged in that they work on anti­sta­tic energy, in free dif­fu­sion, reveal­ing the need for truth par­tic­u­lar to com­mu­ni­ca­tion and expres­sive think­ing. Some fre­quen­cies then trans­late aes­thet­i­cally, giv­ing light and body to these ener­gies. They expand to trans­mit to oth­ers the ener­getic charge they tem­porar­ily hold. Thoughts have fre­quen­cies, they become things, mat­ter. By means of art and the cre­ative process, we can tune in and rec­og­nize our true nature as evolved sen­si­bil­ity. Art is the fer­tile ground for con­cretely express­ing ultra-sensory per­cep­tions. One could hypoth­e­size a read­ing of the his­tory of art by means of the phys­i­cal and psy­chic forces which pro­duced it; a read­ing not so much tied to sym­bolic mean­ings, to sub­ject, to cul­ture, to time, to lan­guage, rather to the vibra­tions which such works of art trans­mit to the spectator.

To do this our senses should be more con­di­tioned by sen­si­tiv­ity and less by ratio­nal­ity. Fre­quen­cies and ener­gies con­cern­ing the work of art belong to the order of feel­ing. Tun­ing in to this dimen­sion can change the aes­thet­ics of life. It is a mat­ter of see­ing things for the first time, of clean­ing the slate of pre­vi­ous learn­ing. Many artists have ded­i­cated their research to explor­ing ener­gies cir­cu­lat­ing between micro­cosm and macro­cosm. The fact that artists, in order to express them­selves, use new visual codes is of lit­tle impor­tance for aesthetic-energetic communication.

Over time, artists have refined the web of knowl­edge and intu­ition by means of their own psy­chic power to receive and trans­mit force, thus bring­ing to the sur­face the extra­or­di­nary order of the uni­verse: in this sense, art can cure, that is, raise the lev­els of aware­ness. In order to be able to ben­e­fit from its power, it is, how­ever, nec­es­sary to clean our chan­nels of per­cep­tion.” (Ste­fa­nia Carrozzini)

The exhi­bi­tion is com­posed of 20 art­works: pho­tographs and paint­ings. The cat­a­logue is avail­able at the gallery.

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