Ithaca. Openning night.

21st of November 2013. The private view is ready to start, to help the enjoyment we served Spanish wine, manchego cheese and other Spanish nibbles. 

After all the excitement, I can say it was an amazing feeling seeing how everyone liked the view and thought the printings were great.  

The exhibition will be on displayed until the 12th of December, as the public seems to enjoy it. So come and visit it, but if you don't have time check my website or the pages in this blog to see the artwork . 

Stay safe! 

     

Ithaca, Old new memories - Solo Exhibition

Dear All,

I am very excited to show you this:

You might remember 13The Gallery as the place where I did the Affordable Art Fair (which they still doing every weekend so try to go to Islington and see the work or young artists, you never know when o where you will found an artwork to fall in love with) however in this post I don't want to tell you about another Art Fair I want to announce the openning of a solo exhibition in London: Ithaca, Old new memories.

Ithaca has found a nice destination and we will stay at 13 for a year as a gallery agreement, so I hope I will be telling you about more exhibitions very soon.

Stay Safe,

C.

Happy Birthday!

Born in Zurich, Switzerland on 8 November 1884, Rorschach grew up in Schaffhausen and was known to his friends as Klecks, or "inkblot" for his love of klecksography, the making of inkblot "pictures". 

He is one of my biggest artistic references next to Salvador Dalí or David Batchelor. 

The way he use the art of spotty sizes to connect it with psychology it was one of the main points why I took his work into study while I was looking for my artistic language. 

Do you know who I'm talking about? 

Not yet?

Google Doodle

Hermann Rorschach! 

I have talk about it on the facebook page but thank you to google to remind me it was his birthday, that has made me look again to his essays. I know he wasn't an artists but sometimes references are more of a theory than something esthetic. 

Stay Safe, 

C. 

Come into my brain

Hello all, 

After a short holidays on Prague, I went to visit a famous Spaniard who is now a Berliner... Salvador Dalí!

In this permanent exhibition we can see his first lithographic work "Don Quixote", his etching technique, with "Tristan and Isolde" and Dante's Cycle "Divine Comedy". And also my favorite part of it "Alice in Wonderland" where he draw his own visions of the book, with a dreamy Alice and a blurry rabbit. 

 
 

As part of the exhibition you can see some of his films, and one called Destiny, a colaboration with Walt Disney resulting a cartoon film about a lady looking for his lover and becoming different paintings, I would recommend this museum to everyone with a small interest in art and of course to any passionate about Dalí. 

Doing mine his own words "go into his mind" and enjoy Berlin!!

For any extra info about it check the museum website.  http://www.daliberlin.de/en

13 The Gallery. Affordable Art Fair

After taking the artworks on a trip to Islington and hang them on the walls of 13 The Gallery, maybe new formats will come for Ithaca.

Thanks to the first Cuban Gallery in Europe!

C.

New Serie. Childhood Memories

Hello All,

After a lot of thoughts I'm starting a new serie of works based on childhood memories. Ithaca has been a nice project and a nice journey into my own mind. Of course I will still working on it, Ithaca and it a hundred miles journey has just began but sometimes it's good to have new projects, because essential is invisible to the eye...

The Little Prince's Star - Mixed Media. 30x21cm

Stay Safe!

C.

Affordable Art Fair

Join us for the monthly Affordable Art Fair in 13 The Gallery, next Saturday and Sunday in Islington! 

Hope to see you there. 

Stay Safe, 

C.

Pinner News

I can't think in a better way to start October than being on the news! (probably there are much more better ways like sunbathing in a lost paradise with clear water... but let's face it! We are in London now).

Photo by: GREG TOWNSEN

http://www.calameo.com/read/001561094f05bca02b418

Free and monthly magazine, Pinner News supports the community and write about events and views of it. They give 10 per cent of their profit back to community through donations to local groups and worthy causes. You can have a look to them in the link:

http://www.pinnernews.co.uk

Thanks Kubera Wealth and Pinner News.

C.

ps. Greg is also a photographer, visit his website to see his works. http://www.gdtphotography.co.uk/

Souvenirs

The forgotten part of my artwork. 

Souvenirs is a serie of transfers in fabric based of my journeys or memories, some of them are very personal and show pictures of my family, some others still being personal but show landscape or things that called my attention at that time. 

It is an interesting technique that I don't show very often, mostly because of the difficulties of its reproduction. I could create a piece with this technique on request as it can be an original detail for someone. So do not hesitate on asking about it. 

 

New project. The Daydream

After months of practice and creation of new artwork, I could see that some of my last series has a common theme: Dreams. Dreams about shapes, dreams about memories, dreams about things that could have been but aren't.

The Daydream is a exhibition idea composed of 3 series of artwork. I would update more pics as soon as I finish with the online editing part and update the website (www.cyntiacerrato.com) but meanwhile, you can have a peak of it: http://cyntiacerrato.blogspot.co.uk/p/the-daydream.html

Stay safe,

C.

Kubera Wealth Exhibition

This week I'm very excited because after some weeks a little bit too much stressful the artwork arrived to the UK, and along with it the first exhibition in London. 

So I am very happy to show you one of the two walls at Kubera Wealth (visit their site here) for their Summer Party

The opening day it's on Thursday this week, so I will update the blog by Friday or Saturday with new pictures of the event. 

Watercolour IV - Night Walk

Night Walk. 2013

(West Cork) 

Kubera Wealth

 

When you reflect on your life's journey, each stage should look like a masterpiece in your personal gallery

This the place where by the beginning of September will be a Summer Party celebrating their anniversary as a business.

They have a gallery space where they would like to show some of my light boxes, so after some time and lots of moments of frustration I can say I'm setting an exhibition in London.

Hope this is the first of more exhibitions to come.

Keep travelling to your Ithaca!

Watercolour III - The Origin

The origin (Quixotic). 2013
(Ciudad Real) 

Watercolour II - Red Bus

Red Bus. 2013

(London)

Watercolour I - Fairy Days

Fairy days. 2013 (West Cork)

Calling for exhibitors: Answered!

"Ithaca. 0mi - Destination unknown" was looking for a place to be shown and after all I am pleased to say that it will take place in Pinner during September.

At the moment, I keep trying to increase the amount of miles of Ithaca as it's a long journey to it, homever the one thousand miles journey begins with the first step, and a long time ago the journey begun so now it is all about keep moving. 

It is not an easy target but surrealist landscapes always find the way.

Stay safe and sound!

km0

As everything in this life this project started a long time ago and it is not until the time goes when we can see the real origin of it. 

Years ago I did a painting project called Lost Places which was all about hidden places in very touristic cities, I have never been worried about connect the painting with the city as that could change the whole idea.

Lost Places was about the joy of look for details that no-one has noticed, sometimes we would be right, some others... well, some others thousands of people have seen them before but still, the joy of discover them makes us feel special.  

Despite, I have been seeing this paintings during my degree, at home, in the portfolio, everywhere... Nevertheless, It was not until now, after I have spend a year far away from them, when I noticed the connection of those figurative landscapes with the abstractive ones that are in my mind now. 

I hope you all find the origin of your ideas. 

C.

Destination: Ithaca

"When you set out on your journey to Ithaca,

pray that the road is long,

full of adventure, full of knowledge. (...)"1

During years an idea has been in my mind, words that became my obsession, a piece of literature that talk about the well-known proverb: Live, Laugh, Love.  Ithaca is about the feeling of the Journey, the worry in the eyes on the one who stay and the happyness on the one who leaves. The adventures to come against the fears of loneliness. Experiences, landscapes, sunrises in unknown cities...

A project under offer waiting for the opportunity to be presented. In future posts I will show the outdraw for the exhibition, references and all you need to know to enjoy "Destination Unknown. An Invisible Exhibition to Ithaca" from the shiny screen where you are reading this.

That is Ithaca.

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1. Constantine P.Cavafy -  Ithaca.

HELLO WORLD!

I am Cyntia Cerrato, after five years studying Arts in Spain, I decided to chase my passion about art and move to London, as this constantly changing city seemed as good as any other to start getting involve in the eclectic world of Arts.

It is harder than we all think telling dreams from one another,so this is a small outline to explain why I am creating this blog, a place where I hope to drop ideas, opinions and future projects on the go… Projects that I am trying to turn into real exhibitions.

So, let’s get started with this artistic online experience!

Hope to read from you soon,

C.