Jazz great Charles Mingus was born on April 22, 1922, in Nogales, Arizona, and grew up in Los Angeles. The renowned bassist performed with such legends as Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker, and earned acclaim for his work as a bandleader and recording artist. After struggling with depression, Mingus made a successful comeback in the 1970s. He died in Cuernavaca, Mexico, on January 5, 1979. (From Biography.com)
Until next time.
Ignacio
©2016 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera
BY LINDSEY NESMITH
Ignacio Alperin’s exhibition “A Visual Jazz Affair” is showing at The von Liebig Center through June 3. Synesthesia, the neurological phenomenon where the activation of one of the five senses stimulates another, could be considered to be a quirk of human evolution. Being able to smell laughter is an odd talent, but is also nothing
to get worked up about if you happen to be the one person out of 2,000 who experience it.
If you’re an artist however, synesthesia can be a wonderful gift, particularly if you have an affinity for music and the ability to visualize it.
Argentinean artist Ignacio Alperin, whose exhibition “A Visual Jazz Affair” is showing at The von Liebig Center through Friday, June 3, is so blessed: He “sees” music as he hears it. His work is often compared to that of Kandinsky, who he learned also experienced sound-to-color synesthesia.
Works by Ignacio Alperin on display at The von Liebig Art Center through June 3 include….
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Ignacio
©2016 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera
Stay in May 2016 (Art Naples World Festival 2016) has come to an end.
Since my arrival in Naples two weeks ago, as a guest of the Naples Art Association and the Festival, I was constantly surprised by the talent, the care, and the commitment of everyone involved. From the volunteers to the organizers, everyone´s involvement in every single detail results in a magnificent cultural event.
There are many people involved. Most I have met although I don´t know all their names. In the personal recognition to Trey Farmer (President and CEO of the Festival) and Maestro William Noll (the great Artistic Director), I wish to congratulate and thank everyone whom with their work, financial support, and public support of every event, managed to make of this year´s festival such a pleasure. I know Trey and Maestro Noll are already thinking about 2017 and in how to make this great cultural show an even bigger event.
In my particular case I want to thank the Naples Art Association for their support and gracious invitation. To the NAA Board members, to Aimee Schlehr (the Executive Director), Maureen, Phyllis, Amy, Rossana, Don, Chelsea, Lynn, Kenny, Alex (I am sorry if I forget someone´s name) and every single smiling and generous volunteer. And a very special thanks to Jack O´Brien, curator of the NAA and of my exhibition. Thank you Jack for thinking of me, for working so hard to get this exhibition up and running, and for your constant support and generosity. Few people know that this exhibition was almost 6 months in the (long distance) making and that without Jack´s patience and wonderful ideas about putting together a solid event, this would not have happened. So, once again, thank you Jack!
Even though the STAY IN MAY FESTIVAL 2016 has ended, in our case the IGNACIO ALPERIN: A VISUAL JAZZ AFFAIR exhibition continues.
That is why we hope to see you at the Watson Gallery (Naples) until June 3rd. Come in and say hello. You may find something different and new to see. And just maybe, you may even fall in love with one of my original art pieces and be tempted to make Naples its new home.
In the meantime, I leave you with a little glimpse of some of the performances, and the artists, who made the gallery come alive during this past week as part of the Festival´s Two O´Clock Series. They include Maestro William Noll, Russia´s Nadir Khashimov (violin) and Pilipp Kopachevsky (piano), the Belarussian State Chamber Orchestra conducted by Maestro Evgeny Bushkov, Moldova´s Milana Strezeva (piano), Costa Rica´s Daniela Navarro (piano), American Lyric Soprano Nancy Peery Marriott, and all the young soloists and ensembles who graced us with their talent during the final Mother´s Day concert. To all of them, a wonderful standing ovation!
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Ignacio
©2016 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera
This is a late concert. Late because, being on tour, it is not always easy to get through all the work. So this is a special type of concert.
There is music involved, and very good music (at least when they allow the great musicians to play) and there are loughs, and slapstick, and made up jokes along the way, and a live camera with a live audience that was not ready or prepared to see what actually happened. It is also short (almost 8 minutes or so) because it is late on a Sunday and you probably don´t want to spend 2 hours listening or watching right now.
But it is still cool, it is a snippet of a Golden era of television, it is a bit of great music, and it is a lot of fun.
So here they are. Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis during the Colgate Comedy hour in November 1950 doing their very own, very live, and very ad-lib version of a true classic: “Singing in the Rain”.
Enjoy.
Until next time.
Ignacio
©2016 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera
Thanks to the gracious invitation by the CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, I will be painting live during one of their many events and inaugurations on May 11th, 2016.
For those who don´t know this beautiful and exciting modern American Museum, here is a little introduction:
Alice Walton, the daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, spearheaded the Walton Family Foundation’s involvement in developing Crystal Bridges. The museum’s glass-and-wood design by architect Moshe Safdie and engineer Buro Happold features a series of pavilions nestled around two creek-fed ponds. The complex includes 217,000 square feet (20,200 m2) of galleries, several meeting and classroom spaces, a library, a sculpture garden, a gift shop designed by architect Marlon Blackwell, a restaurant and coffee bar.
Don Bacigalupi was appointed director of the museum in August 2009. In early May 2011, the museum announced three endowments by the Walton Family Foundation totaling $800 million. These endowments were established for operating expenses, acquisitions and capital improvements.
Notable works include a Charles Willson Peale portrait of George Washington as well as paintings by George Bellows, Jasper Cropsey, Asher Durand, Thomas Eakins, Marsden Hartley, Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Charles Bird King, John LaFarge, Stuart Davis, Romare Bearden, Norman Rockwell, Mary McCleary, Agnes Pelton, Walton Ford, Chuck Close, Jasper Johns, Alfred Maurer, Jackson Pollock and Tom Wesselman.
Event date: May 11th, 2016
Event time: 7 to 9 PM
Link: www.crystalbridges.com
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Ignacio
©2016 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera
The day after the grand opening of IGNACIO ALPERIN: A VISUAL JAZZ AFFAIR at the Watson Gallery, Naples on Thursday, April 28th, I had the great opportunity of witnessing a wonderful Tchaikovsky Violin & Piano Concerto at the Moorings Presbyterian Church, in which the orchestra comprised of the Byelorussian Chamber Orchestra plus members of the Festival Orchestra, conducted alternatively by Maestro Evgeny Bushkov, conductor of the Byelorussia Chamber Orchestra, & Maestro William Noll, Artistic Director of the Festival, provided us with an evening of the great Tchaivkovsky.
Soloists were two young Russian virtuosos. Nadir Khashimov on violin, and Philipp Kopachevsky on piano.
Nadir Khashimov is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and has studied under
Pamela Frank and Shmuel Ashkenasi, as well as Vakhon Khashimov, Sergiu Schwartsz, and Patricio Cobos. He has appeared as soloist with orchestras throughout the world, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Russia, the Moscow Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Czech Republic Orchestra, and many others.
Meanwhile, Philipp Kopachevsky is a soloist of the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic and is a prize winner at international competitions. He regularly appears in recital in Great Britain, Germany, the USA, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Greece, Poland and Spain, as well as throughout Russia.
I had never seen either one before, so it was to my welcoming surprise when I was emotionally transported by these two brilliant young musicians.
The experience was even more emotionally involved when I found out that the next day (Saturday April 30th) they would be playing as a duet at the Watson Gallery, surrounded by my own paintings, a selection of works by Prokofiev and Beethoven.
Seeing these two virtuosos in action in front of my paintings was a very personal experience for me. My art is musical in nature and spirit, and seeing my works accompanied by such a different, yet perfectly accommodating, musical company was like a roller coaster ride of feelings and emotions.
I am also very grateful to Maestro William Noll for his kind and appreciative presentation of my work to the public, as well as the remarks made by Philipp after the concert. To them and to all the people who said very kind things about my work at the post-concert cocktail, I thank from the bottom of my heart.
I recorded bits and pieces of this wonderful concert so, at the very least, I could share with you the spirit of this delightful day. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Until next time!
Ignacio
©2016 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera
These are the paintings that make up the complete exhibition.
And here are some photos from the grand opening of the exhibition at the Watson Gallery, Naples on Thursday, April 28, where we had close to 300 guests in attendance.
Until next time!
Ignacio
©2016 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera
This is a series of short posts presenting the artworks in “IGNACIO ALPERIN: A VISUAL JAZZ AFFAIR”, exhibition at the Watson Gallery, Naples and sponsored by the Naples Art Association together with Art Naples World Festival 2016 (Stay in May 2016). From April 28th until June 3rd, 2016.
Until next time!
Ignacio
©2016 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera
IGNACIO ALPERIN: THE ART OF THINKING OUT LOUD / EL ARTE DE PENSAR EN VOZ ALTA 