Essentials

Essentials
By Caroline Bergonzi
www.carolinebergonzi.com

chashama 266
266 West 37th Street
(between 7th & 8th Ave.)
New York, NY

Tuesday, October 2  - Saturday, October 6, 2012

Opening Reception: 
Tuesday, October 2, 6 - 9 pm
With the artist, and Butoh Dance by Soloist Shiho Tanaka 

Closing Reception 
Saturday, October 6, 1 - 3 pm 
With the artist, and Butoh Dance by Soloist Shiho Tanaka 

Essentials serves as the kickoff to a very busy month for Caroline Bergonzi. Following the exhibition, Bergonzi will launch her book Caroline Bergonzi Creative Odyssey and hold a second solo exhibition in the Lower East Side titled Revelations. This series of events marks an emergence from 15 years of relative silence while Bergonzi has lived in New York. Essentials features work representative of Bergonzi's spirit and vision, with the color red of blood, powerful symbol of energy and life. The works include a triptych painting and metal sculpture both about texture and movement with a strong graphic quality. 

Artist's Bio: 
Caroline Bergonzi grew up under the blue Mediterranean sky in the principality of Monaco. After 17 years in this peaceful and international state, she moved to Paris to acquire the tools, she judged necessary to obtain her freedom. In parallel to the challenges of business school and postgraduate studies in fashion management, she was active and blossomed in such creatively diverse environments as video games (IN VIVO) and Parisian Haute Couture (Christian Lacroix). Some exams and missions later, especially in China and in Italy, she chose New York as her home, for its human masses, its rhythms, and its mosaic of cultures. The brutal reality of this new urban and metal environment encouraged her in a deeper immersion in empiric philosophy, psychology and spirituality. As the angel of the movie "Wings of Desire" she swapped her cerebral perspective for a true experience of being alive, encountering a full gamut of emotions ranging from fear to love, through loneliness, joy, pain, pleasure and inner peace. She recorded them, expressed them, and shared them through her artwork - paintings, sculptures, portraits. 

Caroline Bergonzi spends most of her time at her Creative Laboratory, CREALAB LLC., in Greenwich Village, New York.