New Work - ALEX CALINESCU

Full Circle Contemporary Art Consultancy - at Delfina

For One Night Only – 25th September 2007 – 6-9pm


2007 - r118112 – no 1

For one night only, an exclusive opportunity to view work by Alex Calinescu at Delfina, 50 Bermondsey Street, London SE1.

Live music performed by the acclaimed band, ‘Ben’s Brother’

This exhibition marks a significant period in Calinescu’s work, one year on from her time as invited artist in residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, in Bethany, Connecticut (4 April – 30th June 2006). Work will include large scale canvases, uncompromising in their intensity and physicality, alongside the intimacy of the smaller canvases and carved panels. In addition, there will be a series of blind embossed etchings, editioned with the master printmaker Kip Gresham at the Print Studio, Cambridge.

A further selection of works will be exhibited in the Delfina restaurant until 31st October.



For further information and to receive and invitation to the Private View on 25th September please contact Laura Biddlecombe 020 7403 7738 info@fullcircleac.co.uk www.fullcircleac.co.uk


INTO 2007



Fermynwoods Contemporary Art



Fermynwoods Contemporary Art Ltd,

The Water Tower, Brigstock, Kettering, England, NN14 3JA.

Tel: +44(0)1536 373469

Email: gallery@fermynwoods.co.uk

www.fermynwoods.co.uk



INTO 2007

NEW PAINTINGS AND PRINTS – FERMYNWOODS CONTEMPORARY ART

19 APRIL-3 JUNE 2007



Established in 1998, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art is set in a beautiful rural location in Northamptonshire. Alex’s solo exhibition will include paintings made since her return from her residency at the Albers Foundation.

Alex will also be releasing new prints made especially for the exhibition, working with Kip Gresham at The Print Studio, Cambridge.

Open Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sun 2-6pm

Private View - Saturday 22nd April 2-6pm

For further information, please contact Rosalind Stoddart


Fermynwoods Contemporary Art



Fermynwoods Contemporary Art Ltd,

The Water Tower, Brigstock, Kettering, England, NN14 3JA.

Tel: +44(0)1536 373469

Email: gallery@fermynwoods.co.uk

www.fermynwoods.co.uk





88 DAYS – THE ALBERS ETCHINGS

The 88 blind embossed etchings were made during Alex Calinescu’s residency at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation April 4th to June 30th 2006

Alex Calinescu and Kip Gresham (www.theprintstudio.co.uk) have now completed the editioning of 88 days.

88 days will be published as a boxed set of 88 blind embossed etchings in an edition of 15 at £10,000

A book, also entitled 88 days, will be published later in the year and a signed copy of this will be included with each boxed set.

For further information please contact Alex Calinescu on 07958 472217 or by email to mail@alexcalinescu.com



CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

We are delighted to announce that

Coutts Private Bank

AIG Banque

Lawrence Graham

and Mittal Steel

have all purchased works by Alex Calinescu in 2007.


THE LONDON STUDIO

Jan 2007

Studio visits can be arranged by emailing mail@alexcalinescu.com or by calling 07958 472217


THE POLLOCK - KRASNER FOUNDATION

We are delighted to announce that the Pollock – Krasner Foundation have awarded Alex Calinescu a grant of $15,000.

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation was established in 1985 to assist individual working artists of merit through the generosity of Lee Krasner (1908-1984), a leading abstract expressionist painter and widow of Jackson Pollock.

www.pkf.org


LONDON EXHIBITION 2006



The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Residency 2006 – New Work
Sarah Mysercough Fine Art, Mayfair, London – October 2006

A2006 - 9082 - no 2   charcoal and acrylic on canvas   228 x 208cm


A2006 - 75DB carved - no 1
18.1cm x 14.6cm
carved painted pane

A small selection of work from Alex’s time at the Albers Foundation was exhibited in London during October 2006.

A2006 – DBBookwork – no 1

11.7cm x 46.9cm (open) x 11.7cm x 9.4cm folded (4 folds)

Taking down the large drawing

Work leaving the studio for New York

 

June 2006

 

 

RETURN TO LONDON FROM THE JOSEF AND ANNI ALBERS RESIDENCY

Alex has now returned from her residency at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. The three months have flown by and it has been an extraordinary experience and an incredibly productive time.

June 2006

 

There have been many very long days, resulting in a new body of work. Aside from the large scale drawing (seen above), there are ten 82” x 90” canvases, two 66” x 74”, two 41” x 50, a range of smaller canvases, ink drawings on paper, paintings and drawings on panel, charcoal drawings, folding books, lino cuts and, of course, the series of 88 etchings.

 

 

 

 

 

Cleaning the plates

 

ETCHINGS: "88 days"

 

The series of 88 blind-embossed lift-ground etchings, one made on each day of Alex's residency, is being published by the artist and will be available as a boxed set later in the year. Printed on white Moulin du Gué , waterleaf, 270gsm, by Kip Gresham and Alex Calinescu at The Print Studio, Cambridge. For further information please email your details to mail@alexcalinescu.com.

The Print Studio, Cambridge, August 2006

 

 

 

 

   

 

June 2006 - 5am

 

 

June 2006

 

JOSEF AND ANNI ALBERS RESIDENCY: click here to view Alex's photo diary


Alex Calinescu was artist in residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, in Bethany, Connecticut from April 4th until July 1st 2006.

The Foundation maintains residence studios for select visiting artists exemplifying the seriousness of purpose that characterised both Anni and Josef Albers.


Located in 75 acres of beautiful woodland, the Albers Residency allows artists the rare opportunity to “work in a concentrated way on one’s art in idyllic conditions at a remove from the art world”.  www.albersfoundation.org.

Alex documented her time at the Albers Foundation on her website (accessed by clicked above). If you would also like to receive email newsletters please send your details to info@alexcalinescu.com.

          June 1st 2006 

          

The lake at the Foundation, June

 

The studio, June

 

Work on board, charcoal and acylic

 

The view from Alex' studio as the sun rises (April)

 

EXHIBITIONS 2006

INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS: HILLSBORO FINE ART, DUBLIN. The exhibition includes work by Calinescu, Beattie, O'Donoghue, Katz, Lupertz , Motherwell, Mundy, Nolan, and Pasmore. May 4th-20th

 

Artonomy Fine Art,

installation shot, 2006

BACK TO BACK, CORNWALL - Artonomy Fine Art (two person show). Alongside new paintings, Alex launched two new series of prints, four embossed and four embossed etchings to coincide with the opening of the exhibition. Reviewed by William Jackson, Galleries Magazine (March 2006), “Up and coming Alex Calinescu, recent winner of an Albers Residency in the USA, shows a new set of her coolly handsome abstract prints alongside recent paintings”.

www.artonomy.co.uk

series 2 - no 2

LIMITED EDITION PRINTS


As already mentioned, Alex has released two new series of prints. The embossed prints are a limited edition of 5 and the embossed etchings a limited edition of 10. View the works here or in the print section of the website.

series 1, no’s 1, 2, 3 and 4
Edition of 5
Embossed print on 300gsm Somerset white
Print: 17.5 x 14cm
Paper: 38 x 28.5cm
2005

unframed: £340.00
framed (to artist’s specification): £450.00

series 2, no’s 1, 2, 3 and 4
Edition of 10
Embossed etching on 300gsm Somerset white
Print: 17.5 x 14cm
Paper: 38 x 28.5cm
2006

unframed: £300.00
framed (to artist’s specification): £410.00

3639, no 1-2004

2006

ARTIST & PRINT, CORNWALL – Artonomy Fine Art. Alex's lithographs were included in a mixed exhibition of artists prints at this new gallery in Truro.


Éigse installation shot,

Ireland 2005

1411 series, Éigse, 2005

2005 REVIEW

A busy year which included:

London - A series of new small work were shown at the Eagle Gallery in London as part of Frosted. www.emmahilleagle.com.

Dublin, Ireland - Hillsboro Fine Art. The exhibition, International Artists, included work by Appel, Auerbach, Calinescu, Katz, Frost, Moore, Motherwell, and Pasmore.

Éigse. Ireland - Her one person exhibition in Carlow, Ireland, as part of the prestigious Carlow Arts Festival Éigse, saw a fantastic response to the work and eleven paintings sold. Nigel Warburton wrote “Her new work, shown here for the first time, is tonally simpler, purer in its repertoire of marks, and more complex in its interrelation of parts than anything that preceded it”.
www.carlowartsfestival.ie

Cornwall - Artonomy Fine Art, Truro. Inaugral exhibition of work by artists including Beattie, Calinescu, Fedden, Hammick, Irvin and Sutton.

Printworks - The Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden , Gloucs. The exhibition included works by Auerbach, Bacon, Beattie, Calinescu, Frink, Hepworth, Hockney, Moore, Nicholson and Pasmore.

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition - Alex’s lithograph,
3639-no 1-2004, was exhibited in the exhibition. Part of a series of five lithographs printed by Paupers Press, London in 2004, and limited to a very small edition of 25, they are available from the studio.

Jerwood Drawing Exhibition - Alex’s large drawing on canvas 2004-3630-no 1 toured in the exhibition throughout the UK. A catalogue of the exhibition is available.
www.jerwood.org

Boxed catalogue with unique

drawing

SPECIAL EDITION CATALOGUE - FOUR PAINTINGS

Published in a limited edition of 500 in November 2005, with text by Nigel Warburton, copies are available (£2.00) by contacting mail@alexcalinescu.com.

The first 20 copies are signed and boxed and include a unique small drawing, click to view. Studio price £100.

  FORTHCOMING

The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest

2007

Northamptonshire, Fermyn Woods Contemporary Art - Alex has a one-person show scheduled for seven weeks during April and May 2007.
www.fermynwoods.co.uk

2007/8


Romania – Alex’s one-person show in the new National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest has been postponed. Once rescheduled, the exhibition will include work from the “From Three Lines” show and new work made specifically for this amazing space.
www.mnac.ro