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carmelo blandino
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With his latest collection of paintings, “The Flowering of Consciousness,” Blandino reaches beyond his familiar assemblages of blossoms and discovers entire new worlds to contemplate in the solitary flower. A reflection of Blandino’s practice of meditation, the “flowering” to which the exhibition’s title refers isn’t simply the blooming of a new blossom but a more universal notion, that of the act of becoming, of moving from a state of obliviousness to one of awareness.
Paradoxically collecting the potency of their individual personalities together, these new flowers of Blandino’s possess the space of not just their canvases but the gallery itself, transforming it into a garden of delights, an array of independent universes to be admired and explored on their own and as one.
Carmelo Blandino was born to Sicilian parents in Tübingen, Germany, and grew up in the culturally charged city of Montreal, Quebec. He studied art and design at the local colleges and began a successful career as a freelance illustrator, working with architects, designers, and advertising agencies. In 2002 Blandino shifted his focus and indulged in the world of fine art. Today, his paintings are widely known for their immediacy and lascivious expressions of colour, movement, and shape. His work is exhibited in New York, Palm Beach, Naples, Stockholm, Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto and his beloved Montreal. He has conducted summer workshops at Von Liebig Art Center of Naples, Florida, and taught drawing for many years at Dawson College in Montreal before transplanting himself to Naples, Florida where he lives today. … Read More
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Exhibitions
2013
Art Basel Miami/ Wynwood Walls
Gallery Sono/ Connecticut
JLD Design Showroom / Café Des Artistes
Hall-Barnett Gallery/ New Orleans
2012 Solo show/The flowering of consciousness / Galeire de Bellefeuille Montreal
Group Show/ Arcadia Fine Arts / Four Seasons hotel New York City
En Masse group show, / Galerie Pangee
2011 En MAsse/ Primary flight/ Wynwood walls/ Art Basel Miami
Fountain Art Fair, / Miami Art Basel
Toronto International Art Fair / TIAF
2010 Solo show/The Earth Laughs In Flowers/ Couture Gallery / Stockholm
Solo show/The Earth Laughs In Flowers/ Galerie De Bellefeuille/ Montreal
29th Founders Show / Von Leibeig art center / Naples Florida
Art 2010, Group show Galerie De Bellefeuille
2009 Art 2009, Group show Galerie De Bellefeuille
Breathe, Group show, , Judith Liegeois showroom
Nature 2009, Group show, Galerie De Bellefeuille
Wallace Gallery, Fall Show
Third on Canvas, The Von Liebig Center, Naples
Naples Museum of Art, Have a Seat II
2008 Art 2008, Group show Galerie De Bellefeuille
Art show, Judith Liegeois showroom
Naples Museum Studio Tour
Palm Beach Art Fair
Solo show / Memoria, Galerie De Bellefeuille
Faculty Biennial, Von Liebig Art Center
Solo show, Sanctus- Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver
Chicago Art Fair
Toronto Art Fair ( TIAF)
2007 Group show, Art 2007, Galerie De Bellefeuille
Toronto International Art Fair
Palm Beach Art Fair, Galerie De Bellefeuille
Solo show,Vivo- Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto
Small works- Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver
Solo show- Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver
Solo show- Galerie De Bellefeuile, Montréal
2006 Small works- Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver
Solo show- Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver
Solo show- Galerie De Bellefeuile, Montréal
2005 Figura - Galerie De Bellefeuille
Group Show Galerie De Bellefeuille
Group II Show Galerie De Bellefeuille
Solo show at Galerie de Bellefeuille - Landscapes and Florals
Art Chicago - Chaicago Art Fair
Art For Life - Casey House Foundation
Toronto International Art Fair
2004 The Painted Gift - Hubert Gallery in New York
Small Works - Bau-Xi Gallery in Toronto
Small Works - Bau-Xi Gallery in Vancouver
Art For Life - Casey House Foundation
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montréal
Circa 700 - Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto
2003 Pausa - Bau-IX Gallery in Toronto
Galerie De Bellefeuille. Montréal
2002 Galerie Simon Blais, Montréal
Bau-IX Gallery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montréal
New Canadian Painting Royal Bank of Canada, Place Ville-Marie, Montréal
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