The Hogar Collection
362 Grand Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211
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Gallery Hours: Thursday - Monday 12:00 - 7:00pm and by appointment

Press Release:

Cecilia Biagini

Requests for expansion

October 24 - December 8, 2008

Opening Reception: Friday, October 24, 6-9pm.

The Hogar Collection is pleased to announce, Requests for Expansion, the upcoming exhibition by an amazing emerging forerunner of contemporary abstraction, Cecilia Biagini. In her second solo exhibition at the gallery she will present powerful new abstract paintings, sculpture and photograms that visually and seamlessly traverse between their materials and mediums. Exploring and celebrating color, movement, poetry, minimalism and abstraction her works are like well-practiced improvisational dances that contemplate thoughtful intuition. Embracing it’s place in history and the unknowing of the future, Biagini’s work oscillates in a space where it simultaneously embraces an “intellectual” and “non-intellectual” understanding of the purely abstract. Primarily working with variations of line, her diverse array of work weaves webs of layers that intricately hide and camouflage into each other. Layers upon layers of color and line build, producing an effect that gives an incredible sense of depth and focal perception; similarly to that of a thick and colorful fog.

Cecilia Biagini was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1967 and since 1998 has lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY. She is mainly a self-taught artist who also studied under the direction of Guillermo Kuitca in Buenos Aires. Her artwork has been exhibited Internationally at such venues as: The Hunterdon Museum of Art, NJ, PROA Foundation, Buenos Aires, The Bemis Center, NE, Recoleta Cultural Center, The Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires and the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires among others. . Her career to this date has also included acting with major and acclaimed roles in feature length movies, telelvision and in the most important theater houses in Buenos Aires.

Her work is included in both private and public collections Internationally.

*For more information or images contact the gallery.

Directions:

L Train to Bedford Ave, walk south on Bedford Ave to Grand St. Turn left on Grand St, walk 4 blocks, between Havemeyer and Marcy.

L or G Train to Lorimer St, exit on Metropolitan, walk under BQE towards Manhattan, left on Marcy Ave, 2 blocks turn right on Grand at the corner of Marcy.

JMZ to Marcy Ave, walk 5 blocks north on Marcy, turn left on Grand St.

By car from Manhattan - Drive over the Williamsburg Bridge, 2nd immediate exit at South 5th St, left at light on Havemeyer, right on Grand Street, 4 blocks on right.