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IGNACIO ALPERIN : Curatorial Statement by Alfredo Ratinoff *

CURATORIAL STATEMENT *

Ignacio Alperin

Our beloved Ella Fitzgerald once said: “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

When I first met Ignacio Alperin, I was intrigued by the fact that the composition and color treatment in his work, facets that are so visual, are influenced by other senses – that is, the sound and emotional intensity he derives from a variety of musical genres, including Jazz, Soul, Motown, the American songbook, Tango, and the Classics, which fascinated me even more.

Therefore, in my task to adequately capture the artist’s work in words, it is insufficient to use only visual terms. A discussion of contour lines, color, positive and negative space, and abstraction only tells part of the story. To begin to characterize Alperin’s work more fully, it is perhaps more necessary to augment the visual portrayal with musical and emotional metaphors to express his aims and ideals with such passion and free spirit, such as tempo, syncopation, and pitch. The capacity to create multisensory experiences is a gift in the spirit of the true artist who believes in the eternal search for the perfect alchemy of shape, color, and line along with volume, speed, and emotion, and is evidenced by these images that combine the landscapes of sound and sight into captivating works of richness and depth.

The meaning of “symbolist tradition” in art has been used to express a view in which the artist creates works that evoke as well as describe. To quote one of the great masters of this school, Wassily Kandinsky: “The relationships in art are not necessarily ones of outward form but are founded on inner sympathy of meaning.” The works of Ignacio Alperin are an exemplary exponent of that view, eliciting the power, joy, and freedom an eternal traveler attains when he seeks to materialize his dreams and to express his views without doubts or fear.

Alfredo Ratinoff – Curator

* Alfredo Ratinoff (2018): Curator  & Artist. Former Faculty Member, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC , USA – Senior Curator at Embassy of Argentina, Washington DC and Inter American Development Bank Gallery, Washington DC, USA

*ALFREDO RATINOFF – BIOGRAPHY

Alfredo Ratinoff was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he trained in ceramics with his master Teodolina Garcia Cabo starting at the age of eleven. He then studied at the National School of Ceramics and also studied drawing and painting at the National Art Academy.
Alfredo specialized for many years in large scale installations of tile and mosaic murals and his works are in many private collections all over the United States and have been exhibited at the Museum of the Americas at the Organization of American States, The N.A.S.A Headquarters in Washington D.C, The AT&T Headquarters in Oakton ,VA, Barnes & Noble Corporation in Rockville, MD and New York, N.Y, Strathmore Hall Art Center, Bethesda, MD, The Target Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA and the South Florida Art Center in Miami Beach, FL. He also has the distinction to be in the permanent collection at the Embassy of Argentina in the office of the ambassador.
In 2004 Alfredo created a stained glass piece for the mausoleum of the renowned Cuban singer Celia Cruz in Bronx, N.Y commissioned by Hispanic TV host Cristina Saralegui. Most recently, Alfredo was selected to be the artist in residence for the AARP Foundation during the 2007 Women’s Vision Summit in Tucson, Arizona where he created one-of-a-kind pieces that were presented to corporate donors at the event.
Alfredo Ratinoff was for more than 20 years a faculty member for the ceramics department at the Resident Associates Program at The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. He was selected by the Education office from the Embassy of Italy to work in the 2004 summer program at Georgetown University teaching mosaic workshops sponsored by a grant from the National Endowment of Humanities in Washington D.C.
In 2007 Alfredo was invited by the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland as a faculty member to teach ceramics at the Multi-Disciplinary Summer Institute for Maryland School Teachers. In 2008, as the current artist-in-residence for Lee Arts Center in Arlington, Virginia, he designed mosaic columns for the center’s Butterfly Garden for Arlington County residents. During fall 2008, he completed his installation of “Zodiac Art”, an interactive piece involving mosaics, the twelve signs of the zodiac, and kaleidoscopes, at the mansion at Strathmore Music Center in North Bethesda, Maryland. He serves also as a curator for the art committee at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington D.C. Alfredo currently resides in Philadelphia where he also has his private studio.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Chief Curator Mr. Alfredo Ratinoff, Mr. Gerardo Díaz Bartolomé, then Head of Political Affairs at the Embassy of Argentina in the USA, and Ignacio Alperin

Ignacio Alperin is an international artist based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He grew up in Australia and has lived in several countries around the globe.
The selection of works in his exhibitions are compellingly influenced by his synesthesia (”gift” he shares with Kandinsky).
His art is full of ideas, movement and visual interpretations of musical compositions -from Jazz, Soul, Motown and the American songbook, to Tango and the Classics-.
The end result is a visual idiom that borrows from the inventive and spontaneous methods of jazz musicians. This is so much so that his style has been often described as a visual kind of jazz, or “Visual Jazz”.
We find in his paintings a marked rhythmic musicality and improvisational counterpoints, which are always based on a well thought-out idea.
While his robust use of an extended palette extracts unthought-of shades and gradations that have become a signature and a characteristic of his bold and powerful style.

SOBRE EL ARTISTA

Ignacio Alperin es un artista internacional basado en Argentina, país que lo vio nacer.
Creció en Australia y ha vivido en varios países alrededor del mundo.
Sus obras se encuentran fuertemente influenciada por su sinestesia (“regalo” que comparte con Kandinsky).
Su arte se nutre en gran parte de las ideas, movimientos e interpretaciones visuales que extrae de composiciones musicales -desde el Jazz, Soul, Motown y el cancionero americano, hasta el Tango y la música clásica-.
El resultado final es el de un lenguaje visual que extrae lecciones de los métodos inventivos y espontáneos de los músicos, y particularmente del jazz. Tal es así, que en numerosos artículos, su estilo ha sido descripto como un manera visual de hacer Jazz, o “Visual Jazz”.

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ALPERIN DIGITAL: UNIQUE AFFORDABLE & ORIGINAL ART

Until next time
Ignacio

 

 

 

 

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SMALL FORMAT – GREAT ART

If you live in the US, this may be a great opportunity to acquire great art. Any question, just contact me.

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Ignacio

 

 

 

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DON’T RUN, DON’T DROWN, DON’T LIE

Sometimes what is obvious in hindsight, does not seem as obvious at the time. One of the major issues we all face time and time again, is a lack of perspective that ends up complicating things rather than making us effective.

This little video touches on 2 simple life lessons that we can do well to keep in mind, always.

You will find that with so little, you will be capable of accomplishing so much.

 

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IT´S TIME TO CHOSE YOUR ART

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BOBBY DONOVAN´S CURATORIAL STATEMENT, WASHINGTON DC (January 2018)

From January to early March, 2018, I had the pleasure of exhibiting some of my work at Century Center in Crystal City, just off Ronald Reagan International Airport.

The XXVII Century Mill turned into a Cultural Center – hyattsownmill.org

Curator of this exhibition was Mr. Bobby Donovan.

Bobby is a respected artist and curator based in Maryland. He was the former Assistant Director of Art Programs at the University of Maryland, current curator of the Art Program at the Federal Court Complex at Greenbelt, has a busy professional career in the artistic arena, and runs hyattsownmill.org, an organization which has provided enriching artistic activities of all sorts (poetry, acting, painting and sculpture) within the Hyattsown to Frederick area of Maryland (just 40 minutes from DC) for many years.

Bobby, and his wife Cyndi, are two lovely, cultured and smart people with a deep commitment to cultural affairs,  and it has been my absolute pleasure to meet them, work with them, and today being able to call them my friends.

Here is Bobby Donovan´s curatorial statement for my exhibition:

 

About this past Exhibition

January 3rd until March 1oth, 2018

Generously invited by respected curator Bobby Donovan (former Assistant Director of Art Programs at the University of Maryland, and current curator of the Art Program at the Federal Court Complex at Greenbelt), the exhibition was comprised of over 20 pieces selected specially to be shown at the Century One Art Space (close to the Center of Town and Ronald Reagan International Airport).

ADDRESS:
Century One Artspace
2450 Crystal Drive
Arlington, VA 22202
Until March 10, 2018
Hasta el 10 de marzo de 2018
Contact/Curator: Mr. Bobby Donovan / Bd@hyattstownmill.org

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Ignacio

 

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IF YOU LIKE ART, THEN HERE IS A VERY UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY

A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR ART LOVERS

It is rather unusual for me to have a large number of small format original paintings in one place at the same time. But this is one of those unusual cases.

I have available right now in the DC area a number of small format pieces, painted on heavy paper, beautifully framed and ready to hang. These paintings were part of last year’s exhibition in Maryland and are right now under Curator Bobby Donovan’s care.

These are beautiful pieces, perfect for that special gift or as a great compliment to an office space or your own home. Being rather exceptionally sized paintings they are on sale at very interesting prices.

If you would like to receive a list of paintings available, prices and more photographs, kindly drop us a line at clombard@ignacioalperin.com or through the form on my website (www.ignacioalperin.com). We can deliver anywhere in the United States.

I will be in Washington for about a week at the end of April and I will be very happy to personally show you what they are all about. It will be very much worth your while to have a second look. It is not very often that paintings like these are available at these prices.

Until next time!

Ignacio

 

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