This Saturday ( June 20th ) Sloan Fine Art in New York will be feature these oil picture of beautiful women wearing headphones and only earpiece .
Jonathan Viner , the artist , call the collection hareem , and the pieces are oils on 12″x12″ instrument panel .
[ Sloan Fine Art , Prints available throughstore.vinerstudio.com ]
JONATHAN VINER : “ HAREM ”
Exhibition : June 20 through July 18 , 2009
receipt : Saturday , June 20th , 4 to 6 post-mortem examination
With “ Harem ” Jonathan Viner touches on a variety of issues including the urge to possess rare specimens and get up them into assemblage , the intense but fleeting tycoon of vernal beauty , and the growing appetence for textile and status in a globalized world . Never one to be too heavy handed , he prompts the viewer to consider these topics with refined niceness .
On its surface , “ Harem ” is a group of ten portrait of young Russian women , each one evidently alone , au naturel , and listening to vintage , gamey fidelity headphones . Upon further thoughtfulness , the close , close up compositions , leash - like earpiece chord , and ambivalent facial expressions give us a sensory faculty that these womanhood are perhaps unwilling captives . But their relaxed carriage , sonant surroundings , and shadowy facial expressions convey an atmosphere of calm and puff . This contradiction in terms is substantiate by the phone themselves , which isolate and tether these harem girls while simultaneously furnish them with enrich , faithfully reproduced sound .
Each work stands alone – a solitary , frigid specimen . But when present together , with their undifferentiated size and similar palette , within the confines of a small space , they convey the feeling of a coveted collection .
A native New Yorker , Jonathan Viner earned his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design . This project will be his third solo exhibition in New York .
run at the same time with “ Harem , ” in the front picture gallery , is “ +2 ” a group show with small works by 66 creative person .
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