COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE
Contact: Anders Knutsson, Curateur tél. 718-622-3432 courriel: a.knutsson@att.net
Leon Nicholas Kalas Tél. 718-797-3943 courriel : Greco.kalas89@gmail.com
Sa Majesté le Roi Mohammed VI du Maroc
(Portraits à l’huile sur canevas)
Date : Vendredi, le 9 juillet, 2010
Avec réception de 6 à 8 PM
Lieu : TOWN AND COUNTRY 352 GALLERY
352 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11217
Une journée d’exposition d’art antérieure gratuite.
Direction : Le train F à la station Bergen Street. Marcher 2 coins de rue
jusqu’à l’avenue Atlantic.
En auto : Traverser le Pont de Brooklyn jusqu’à l’avenue Atlantic - virage à gauche.
Au mois de mai 2009 Leon Nicholas Kalas, artiste visuel de Brooklyn, a été invité par l’association Bouregreg de la ville de Dale au Maroc, pour participer à la collection d’art international à Rabat au Maroc.
La visite de ce fameux beau pays, et son expérience qu’il a eu avec ce peuple chaleureux, amiable et très hospitalier du Maroc, a donné une impression marquée à monsieur Kalas. Mais, peut-être, particulièrement, à cause du règne démocratique du roi du pays, qui a inspiré monsieur Kalas a créé cette série de portraits de sa Majesté Mohammed VI, Roi du Maroc, le Prince Héritier, et la Famille Royale. Ces portraits à l’huile sur canevas, pour la première fois, ont été exposés à une exposition antérieure.
Ces peintures contemporaines sont le centre de travail cohésif qui démontrent clairement le genre de style de Leon Nicholas Kalas en portrait. Son travail se rapproche, de plus près, du style contemporain calme, et réductif d’Alex Katz et David Hockney, que l’expression plus émotionnelle de Lucian Freud, et dès les premiers temps du super réalisme de Chuck Close.
Leon Nicholas Kalas est un peintre figuratif qui a fait ses études en portrait, et l’anatomie humaine à l’Académie des Beaux Arts de New York, la Société d’étudiants d’Arts de New York, et l’Institut de Mode Technologique «( FIT) Fashion Institute of Technology. Son travail a été exposé, amplement, dans les galeries de New York et Maryland. En juin 2005, une de ses peintures, a été exposée au Musée Métropolitain des Beaux Arts de New York. Ses peintures ont été collectionnées à travers les Etats-Unis, l’Europe, le Maroc, le Canada, et les Caraïbes. Ses peintures, son aussi exposées à la bibliothèque du Congrès, et la bibliothèque du Président Clinton (Little Rock AK) Des articles, a propos de son art, ont été publiés dans des revues d’Arts de NY, la revue des Beaux Arts de Brooklyn, la revue Bohème à Paris, France, ainsi que de nombreux journaux, tels que les Nouvelles de Caraïbes, « The Brooklyn Eagle » et le « Brooklyn Courier ». Monsieur Kalas a participé dans des camps pour les arts, les échanges culturels au Maroc et en Roumarie.
Il vit et travail, présentement, à Brooklyn New York.
Il a peint d’important portraits, tel que, Sidney Poitier, Tony Curtis, le designer Valentino Caravani, et le sénateur des Etats-Unis, Roland Boris.
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Press release: Re: His Majesty Mohammed VI King of Morocco...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Anders Knutsson, Curator Te: 718-622-3432 e-mail: a.knutsson@att.net
Leon Nicholas Kalas Te: 718-797-3943 e-mail Greco.kalas89@gmail.com
His Majesty Mohammed VI King of Morocco
(Portraits in oil on canvas)
Date: Friday July 09, 2010 From 6:00 to 8:00 P.M.
Place: TOWN AND COUNTRY 352 GALLERY
352 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11217
One day preview free art exhibit
Direction: F train to Bergen Street Station. Walk 2 blocks to Atlantic Avenue
By car: Cross Brooklyn Bridge, go straight ahead to Atlantic Ave. Make left.
In May 2009, Brooklyn visual artist Leon Nicholas Kalas was invited by Bouregreg Association of the City of Dale in Morocco, to participate in the International Collective Art Exhibition in Rabat, Morocco.
The visit to this stunningly beautiful country and his experience of the warm, friendly and very hospitable people of Morocco made a deep impression on Mr. Kalas. But it was perhaps mostly the King’s democratic rule of the country that inspired Mr. Kalas to create this series of portraits of His Majesty Mohammed VI King of Morocco, the Crown Prince, and the Royal Family. These portraits, executed in oil on canvas, are now shown for the first time in a preview exhibit.
These contemporary portraits are a cohesive body of work that clearly reflects Leon Nicholas Kalas’s style of portraiture. His work relates more to the cool, reductive contemporary style of Alex Katz and David Hockney, than the more emotional expression of a Lucian Freud or super-realism of early Chuck Close.
Leon Nicholas Kalas is a figurative painter who has studied portraiture and human anatomy at the New York Academy of Art, The Art Students League of New York, and FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology). His works has been exhibited extensively in New York and Maryland galleries. In June of 2005, one of his paintings was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. His works has been collected throughout the United States, Europe, Morocco, Canada, and the Caribbean. His work is also in the Library of Congress, and the Clinton Presidential Library (Little Rock, AK). Articles about his art have been published in NYArts Magazine, Brooklyn Fine Arts Magazine, and Boheme Magazine in Paris, France and various newspapers such as Caribbean News, The Brooklyn Eagle and Brooklyn Courier. Mr. Kalas has participated in Art Camps and Cultural Exchanges in Morocco and Romania. He now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Important portraits he has painted are of actors Sidney Pointier and Tony Curtis, Fashion Designer Valentino Garavani, and US Senator, Roland Boris.
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Contact: Anders Knutsson, Curator Te: 718-622-3432 e-mail: a.knutsson@att.net
Leon Nicholas Kalas Te: 718-797-3943 e-mail Greco.kalas89@gmail.com
His Majesty Mohammed VI King of Morocco
(Portraits in oil on canvas)
Date: Friday July 09, 2010 From 6:00 to 8:00 P.M.
Place: TOWN AND COUNTRY 352 GALLERY
352 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11217
One day preview free art exhibit
Direction: F train to Bergen Street Station. Walk 2 blocks to Atlantic Avenue
By car: Cross Brooklyn Bridge, go straight ahead to Atlantic Ave. Make left.
In May 2009, Brooklyn visual artist Leon Nicholas Kalas was invited by Bouregreg Association of the City of Dale in Morocco, to participate in the International Collective Art Exhibition in Rabat, Morocco.
The visit to this stunningly beautiful country and his experience of the warm, friendly and very hospitable people of Morocco made a deep impression on Mr. Kalas. But it was perhaps mostly the King’s democratic rule of the country that inspired Mr. Kalas to create this series of portraits of His Majesty Mohammed VI King of Morocco, the Crown Prince, and the Royal Family. These portraits, executed in oil on canvas, are now shown for the first time in a preview exhibit.
These contemporary portraits are a cohesive body of work that clearly reflects Leon Nicholas Kalas’s style of portraiture. His work relates more to the cool, reductive contemporary style of Alex Katz and David Hockney, than the more emotional expression of a Lucian Freud or super-realism of early Chuck Close.
Leon Nicholas Kalas is a figurative painter who has studied portraiture and human anatomy at the New York Academy of Art, The Art Students League of New York, and FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology). His works has been exhibited extensively in New York and Maryland galleries. In June of 2005, one of his paintings was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. His works has been collected throughout the United States, Europe, Morocco, Canada, and the Caribbean. His work is also in the Library of Congress, and the Clinton Presidential Library (Little Rock, AK). Articles about his art have been published in NYArts Magazine, Brooklyn Fine Arts Magazine, and Boheme Magazine in Paris, France and various newspapers such as Caribbean News, The Brooklyn Eagle and Brooklyn Courier. Mr. Kalas has participated in Art Camps and Cultural Exchanges in Morocco and Romania. He now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Important portraits he has painted are of actors Sidney Pointier and Tony Curtis, Fashion Designer Valentino Garavani, and US Senator, Roland Boris.
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
"His Majesty Mohammed VI King of Morocco"
On Friday, July 09, 2010 from 6-8 P.M there will be a one day preview art exhibit of portraits in oil on canvas of His Majesty Mohammed VI King of Morocco, by Brooklyn visual artist Leon Nicholas Kalas at the TOWN AND COUNTRY 352 GALLERY, at 352 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, New York. For more Information please call: 718-797-3943
Directions: F train to Bergen Street station in Brooklyn, walk 2 blocks to Atlantic Avenue.
Directions: F train to Bergen Street station in Brooklyn, walk 2 blocks to Atlantic Avenue.
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