The exhibition About Love at the CasildART gallery, located at 32 Connaught Street, which opened on
Wednesday, February 18 and will run until Sunday, March 1, features six artists around a single theme: love.
Dr Hassan Aliyu, Anthony Daley, Farnaz Gholami, Roisin Jones, Diana Rosa and also the Franco-British
Alexandra Moskalenko have brought together their works to present them in an eclectic exhibition, allowing them to offer a personal, environmental, spiritual and intellectual vision of love through their many paintings but also their sculpture
Love as an emotion, but not only that
Some paintings thus celebrate love between beings through representations of intimacy, courage,
vulnerability or the joy of shared moments, while others bear witness to the relationship between Man and nature, recalling the fragile balance of ecosystems through the beauty of landscapes, in order to awaken human responsibility to protect the Earth.
Others, meanwhile, depict love as a driving force for knowledge, creativity and fulfillment in an ode to
learning, teaching and the ongoing quest for understanding.
Art and love in a troubled world
By recalling the ephemeral nature of love, the works presented at the About Love exhibition are also means of expression and struggle.
Alexandra Moskalenko immediately accepted the proposal from Sukai Eccleston, the founder and director of the gallery , who had been very interested in her Kiss Series, composed of seven paintings celebrating love for each other and for nature.
This series of paintings, created three years ago, was partly inspired by a photograph by Malian photographer Malik Sidibé, taken in the 1960s and titled “Christmas Night.” It depicts two young people, a man and a woman, dancing. “This photo became very famous because it exudes a kind of carefree, positive energy. This couple dances as if there were nothing else in the world,” explains Alexandra Moskalenko.
She accepted because, she says, “just thinking about something as positive as love and living well together makes you feel good .” Current events, with wars in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, along with the rise of populism everywhere, can be dizzying. “For three years now, every time you turn on the TV, all you see are wars and people being killed, massacred.” Participating in this exhibition is therefore a way of showing that love still exists.
Being able to share her work alongside artists such as Farnaz Gholami, born in Dublin but raised in Tehran,
who is presenting two paintings inspired by recent events in Iran, or Dr. Hassan Aliyu, a British artist of
Nigerian origin, whose works “Wo-Man-Ity v Love” explore the despair of love in a dystopian world, has further motivated Alexandra Moskalenko. “I find it so enriching to work together, to offer diverse yet shared perspectives. It’s a reflection of what my work represents: living together, working together, discovering different perspectives,” emphasizes the Franco-British artist.
Article Credit – French Morning
