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Laura Fantini,
an Italian in New York
The Object Image
Gallery (91 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY), in
the young and up-coming neighborhood of Park Slope in New York
City, showcased from December 3- 20, 2004 an exhibition entitled
“Holiday Art Show”.
 For the occasion, new artists of the gallery
were introduced: Laura Fantini (the only Italian artist present
with her hyper-realistic artworks in pastels and colored pencils
and some floral sketches), Patricia Melvin, Kate Sjursen, David
Vigon, P.K. Williams. This is what has been written about Laura
Fantini, young Italian artist who exhibits in Bologna and New
York and who already has showcased her work at the Papp Gallery
in Soho in 2001: “Laura Fantini strives for the total
recovery of the image and she appears to assert that objectivity
is the real protagonist of art while its operator is valuable
for its technical abilities. Some results, I must say, showcase
a certain balance and highlight a style that speaks clearly of
sensibility and creative spirit. The scrupulous respect for the
truth doesn’t affect nor freeze the freedom of the artist…(Elio
Succi)”.
At the
exhibition were also works by the following artists: Michael
Calabrese, Ruben Corzo, Thomas Hagen, Erica Harris, Tom Keogh,
Stephanie Lainoff, Gareth McRae, Jonas Mlenak, Tina Olsen, Greg
Paquette, Stan Peterson, Charles Robertson, Nick Thabit, Robert
Weiss, Ken Weiss, Janet Yake.
Due to its
success, the exhibition was extended through January.
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