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November Issue 2005
HoFP Gallery in Columbia, SC, Features Works by Marcelo Novo
HoFP Gallery in Columbia, SC, is presenting the exhibit, Flow, featuring works by Marcelo Novo. The exhibition was organized by Wim Roefs, Director of if ART, International Fine Art Services in Columbia, SC, and will be on view from Nov. 3 - 26, 2005.
Buenos Aires native Marcelo Novo (b. 1963) in 1992 moved from Argentina to Columbia, where he lives. He has been in dozens of exhibitions across the country and abroad, including at New York City's Cinque Gallery, the Deland Museum of Art in Deland, FL, and Buenos Aires' Centro Cultural Recoleta. Novo's 10-year retrospective was at the Sumter (SC) Gallery of Art in 2003. In 2004-2005, Novo developed with choreographer Miriam Barbosa the ballet Catharsis, performed by the University of South Carolina Dance Company. Novo was the curator for Accessibility 2005: Transplanted, an installation art project in Sumter, featuring six Latin American artists living in the United States.
Novo will present new paintings from the last two years.
Much of Novo's work is autobiographical. His laughing men remind him of Al Jolson, one of his father's favorites, and of Carlos Gardel, the early-20th century tango singer who ís still a pop phenomenon in Novo's native Argentina. His figures - large hands are those of his grandmother. "I can still remember the feel of her hands holding me," says Novo.
Flowers resembling vaginas and sensual couples reflect his own sexuality, Novo says. "I am a very sexual person and that shows in my work sometimes." And the water and the pipes it flows through could be about healing and health issues, Novo thinks. His mother became ill and his father died a few years back, which might have triggered such concerns. The water is also about Catharsis, a ballet Novo developed earlier this year. "I am basically influenced by anything I see and experience. Everything is recorded and could come out when I am painting."
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