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Next exhibitions in 2013
« Collective exhibition»
Galerie Lamoureux Ritzenhoff April (30-May22)
Solo « Genesis »
Gora Gallery, Montréal (May o7 -25 )
« INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY MASTERS VII »
Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art, Las Vegas, USA (May 11 -June 22)
« WINDOW TO ART »
Gallery Brenart International, Bruxelles, Belgium (May 30 -June29)
« INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION »
Museum Beffroi, Brugue, Belgium (July 17-23)
« ART EXHIBITION »
Amsterdam Whitney Gallery – New York, USA (July 13 - August 13)
Thematic exhibition « Language no show »
L’espace Contemporain Art Gallery of Montréal (August 21 - September 01)
« INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION »
Gallery la Pigna UCAI, Rome, Italy (October 03-13)
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SALON DU SNBA 2012
Le Carrousel du Louvre, Paris (France)
December 13-16, 2012
Official Canadian Delegation
Preface by Mr. Kim Butler
Minister Plenipotentiary of the Canadian Embassy
On behalf of the Government of Canada, I am pleased to sponsor the Canadian delegation for the 2012 edition of the Société Nationale des Beaux-arts (SNBA). I thank the SNBA for making it possible in the several past decades for artists, creators, sculptors and managers of cultural affairs to convene at the Carrousel du Louvre, a much inspiring venue, and for inviting foreign delegations to this event.
Our artists take great pride in being selected to join the Canadian delegation. This opportunity is the ultimate outcome of several years’ dedication and effort in their artistic creations and communities. It highlights the diversity of our Canadian artists and the many aspects of their talent. This is also a unique opportunity to forge bonds with artists from all over France and beyond, to draw creative inspiration from this experience and to create future collaborations.
The traces of our common history converge into a rich heritage. Our memories, our imaginations and our thoughts are intertwined with cross-references. The sharing of cultural knowledge and experience fostered by the SNBA strengthens these strong links that unite us and establishes an international space for the arts.
I would like to express my warm thanks to the SNBA for its vision, and I hope that you take great pleasure in discovering our Canadian diversity and talents.
Lastly, I would like to congratulate all the members of the Canadian delegation, for I know how hard they have worked to be part of such an outstanding 2012 edition.
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Amsterdam Whitney Gallery
Our noteworthy Curatorial Review Committee was most impressed by your superb GEM ART where you integrate precious GEM STONES into your oeuvre which resonates with an expressive visual narrative as you reveal the invisible within the visible. The spiritual artistic journey that you portray in your stellar oeuvre was quite impressive. The vibrant visual intensity of "JOUR & SOIR" generated a profound sense of symbolism while reflecting an eternal universal message. We salute you on your expressive "COUCHER DU SOLEIL" which reverberates with a dynamic textural sense and powerful visceral shapes. We were enthralled by the emotive quality of "PAYSAGE DU JASPE VERT" which conveys your fine talent and exciting visual metaphor. "UNIVERS DE L'AGATE" radiates your unique artistic vision of capturing the impalpable as your seize the essence of the emotional and physical experience. Our Committee salutes you on your oeuvre with its important visual narrative and its emotional link to the human and artistic experience. We were so pleased with your marvelous art and the positive energy of your stellar compositions. We would be delighted to showcase your art in an exciting 2013 Exhibition.
Ruthie Tucker - executive director-curator, October 2012, Amsterdam Whitney Gallery
511 West, 25th Street, Chelsea, NY 10001 (USA)
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Critique
GEM ART®, by Nikolina Okuka, is a new artistic movement that has gained a foothold on the international scene since it was created in the summer of 2012. The work of the artist is founded on the research and study of semi-precious stones and crystals. The artistic imprint of GEM ART® is unique in its kind. The artist’s work involves far more than merely gluing earthly elements onto artistic compositions, because it relates to our very history as a human species dwelling on this Earth.
HeleneCaroline Fournier, critique - october 2012, Art Total Multimedia
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“The stone, containing all the secrets of life, there for thousands of years, is the origin of matter.”
In the beginning, there was only water, nothing else.
Fossils bear witness to life as it was when time was unlike today:
slow, precise, accurate, quiet, but above all measured.
From the espousal of water and earth, stones were born.
From these stones will emerge opportunities to sculpt time and impart fluid shapes.
And so in the mud lay magnificent minerals.
Hidden away in the marl, clay and soil lay stones, trivial for diamond dealers, yet sublime for peasants.
Sapphire, ruby and emerald on the one hand, limestone, iron, silica, sandstone and sand on the other.
But all are alike, loaded with magnetism:
burnt by the sun, cracked and melted by lightning, polished by the surf, shined by the entropy of winds harsh and brief,
soft and long, the fate of stones remains less the lot of palaces or chief princes than that of ruts in fields or potholes in roads.
Stones of nature versus stones of culture.
The poetry of stones is rough, uncut; it ignores the artifice of men, the volition of artists, builders, craftsmen or emperors.
The time of the stones is of another time.
Les Formes du temps
Théorie du sauternes
Michel Onfray
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« Painting is an art,
and the art in its whole is not a vain objets creation which get lost in the void,
but a power which has a goal and must serve to the evolution and to the refinement
of the human soul.»
Vassili Kandinsky
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