This year Encounters breaks new ground by bringing together poets and visual artist for close artistic interactions. Poets have given voice to the exhibited canvases creating a plastic dialogue that enables visitors to explore synergies in a multi-sensory experience.
Encounters 2024 Exhibition explores interactions between Visual Art and Poetry. Two art media have collided during diverse artistic encounters to produce Voices of Colours. Poets were inspired by the exhibited canvases. They create a plastic dialogue that enables visitors to explore synergies in a multi-sensory experience.
The experience evokes Vassily Kandinsky’s statement in Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911) that “colour is a power which directly influences the soul”. In this exhibition poetry acts playfully or deeply in counterpoint, as words enhance visual expression and become a symphony of vibrations that resonates deep in our being.
Visitors have an opportunity to be both viewer and listener and to visit intersections between a sight and sound experience. Canvases may speak with a dazzle of colours whereas others convey the artist’s insight.
Edgar Sanchez’s paintings radiate luminosity. Francisco Itriago’s palette evokes latent voices of his past and present. Philomena Harmsworth’s striking colours capture insights from her meditations on change with echoes of life affirming wishes.
Time becomes irrelevant if you gaze on the muted tones used by Maria Eugenia Arria for her Serie Umbrales-Luces. Hannah Davies’ canvases become dreamlike reflections of memories shaping hazy impressions. The stark presence of black ink in Simon Page’s drawings captures emotional reactions to existential challenges. Jonidel Mendoza’s shadowy figures are immaterial yet strangely permanent. Paula Fahy creates a feeling of movement that reflects the vitality of the world.
Voices of Colours is dedicated to show how faithful, honest artistic creations are richly enhanced when fused with the poetic realm.
Miladys Parejo, Curator
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Under the Tree of Knowledge
by Simon Page
Poem by Peter Charles Jackson
"Forbidden Fruit To eat or not to eat? That's the question ..."
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The Glowing Light Patch
by Hannah Davies
Poem by Bob Spencer
"I am not beautiful, Except in my mystery, And my challenge To interpretation.… "
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Agapanthus
by Paula Fahy
Poem by Miguel Génova
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Luz Naranja Verde
by María Eugenia Arria
'Past Colour' Poem by Peter Wellby
Ripe wheat in Brueghel's "Summer" ...
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Jelila
by Philomena Harmsworth
Poem: Jelila by Diana Hills
Come, come to my magic lake…
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El Camino de los Grandes Arboles
by Edgar Sanchez
Poem 'Evocation' by Keith Willson
One day you won't be satisfied
with just looking ...
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Untitled
by Jonidel Mendoza
Poem by Miguel Génova
Miradas inquietantes detras de la cortina gris.…