FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE:
Gallery d’Arte, 547
West 27th Street, Suite518, New York City is pleased to present
Darkness at the Break of Noon: Steven
Cavallo and Shine Shin-Kim. This show will run from April 5-16,
2016 with an opening reception on Thursday, April 7th from 6 to 8 pm.
The show will be accompanied by a performance and features Shine Shin-Kim and
Jiyoon Hong.
The title of this exhibit, Darkness at the Break of
Noon is a line borrowed from the 1965 Bob Dylan song “It’s Alright Ma, I’m
only Bleeding”. It references the Bible passage of “darkness covering the earth”
when Jesus died on the cross, hinting at sin and the last judgment.
Both
artists Steven Cavallo and Shine
Shin-Kim have a common theme about Comfort Women. The term
“comfort women” is a controversial one that refers to the approximately 200,000
women who were used as prostitutes by the Imperial Japanese Army during World
War II. A lot of the young women were forced into sexual slavery throughout
Asia, becoming victims of the largest case of human trafficking in the 20th
century. These two artists make an effort to address the Comfort Woman issue in
a more general way removing it from the personal narrative.
Cavallo
started to research the Comfort Woman issue in 2007 and spent much of his time
interviewing survivors. He portrays a series of human figures that are
composites of tortured women, combined to demonstrate the underlying beauty of
the human figure. Shin-Kim is working on the One Heart Project for “Comfort
Women” to connect people through quilt making with other artistic activities;
ceremonial covers with cultural symbols, music and dance rituals, and other
types of performances that offer release from social trauma.
Cavallo is a
watercolorist based in New York and New Jersey. He received his BA in Media Arts
at School of Visual Art in 1979, and has enjoyed several solo and many group
exhibitions. He also lectures, teaches, and curates throughout the United
States. He currently lives in New Jersey and continues his work on the theme of
comfort women. Shin-Kim is a Korean-born artist based in Korea and the United
States. She studied art education at Chonnam National University in Korea and
began her project One Heart Quilt and One Heart Ritual, in 2013. She continues
to work on it by quilting and performing while collaborating with other
artists.
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