Darien Artist to Exhibit in Monaco

From The Dilenschneider Group:

MONACO - Jan Dilenschneider, who has had three successful solo exhibitions of her work at the Galerie Pierre-Alain Challier in the historic Le Marais district in Paris, and whose work was featured this Spring at the Art Paris Art Fair at the Grand Palais, will show 14 new works at the European Art Fair in Monaco opening on July 19.

Her show is entitled, The Fourth Dimension. She is the only living American artist exhibiting at this Fair.

Describing her Fourth Dimension, Dilenschneider said, “Everyone knows the second and third dimension. The Fourth Dimension is the emotion that calls the viewer to PARTICIPATE in the work of art. I think it is the highest level to strive for to positively effect the emotions of the viewer.”

Dilenschneider works to capture the emotion the observer feels when looking at a painting. She believes that expressionism and impressionism are the two most important art movements of the last two centuries.

“Impressionism changed the way we evaluate art because of the invention of the camera, “she said. “Art was seeking to show the impression of a scene. Emotion, not realism, was key to the artist’s eventual success. Without it the freedom, departure from realism and convention could not have happened and that led to abstract Expressionism,” she added. Dilenschneider said she sees in her work one style “informing and influencing” the other.

Dilenschneider’s work was inspired by the rapidly changing landscape near her home on Long Island Sound in Darien, Connecticut. Her juxtaposition of bold colors, gesture, freedom and strong movement across a canvass reflect a mixing of impressionism and expressionism.

Critic Bertrand St Vincent of Le Figaro, reviewing Dilenschneider’s most recent show in Paris wrote:

“Dilenschneider expresses her artistic sensibility unhampered by the trends and tyrannies of the art market. She wields her brush with wild passion and tremulous elation, bringing trees, flowers, grass and reeds to calm, majestic life…Color is like a bird in her works, bringing enchantment wherever it lands”.

Going forward, Dilenschneider has planned a further exhibition of theFourth Dimension starting on October 7 at the Sill House Gallery in Old Lyme, Connecticut where she will explore the impact of global warming on familiar landscapes that are rapidly transforming nature due to extreme temperatures that are leading to serious climate change.

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