{"id":4208,"date":"2014-01-14T21:32:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T20:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=4208"},"modified":"2014-01-14T21:32:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T20:32:48","slug":"sebastian-black-remembering-of-giorgio-morandi-and-the-great-gatsby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/01\/14\/sebastian-black-remembering-of-giorgio-morandi-and-the-great-gatsby\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastian Black, remembering of Giorgio Morandi and The Great Gatsby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4208 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/01\/14\/sebastian-black-remembering-of-giorgio-morandi-and-the-great-gatsby\/13-sbla029\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/13-SBLA029.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Sebastian Black, Unique Newark left : Edible Manhattan, 2013, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches Courtesy the artist and C L E A R I N G, Brooklyn, Brussels. photo credits : mark-woods.com\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4219\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4219'>\n\t\t\t\tSebastian Black, Unique Newark\nleft : Edible Manhattan, 2013, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches\nCourtesy the artist and C L E A R I N G, Brooklyn, Brussels.\nphoto credits : mark-woods.com\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/01\/14\/sebastian-black-remembering-of-giorgio-morandi-and-the-great-gatsby\/sony-dsc\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"99\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC7491_DxO_Mark-Woods_20131204_CLEARING_Black.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Sebastian Black, Unique Newark Journal Fetish, 2013, leather, foam, mannequin, 65 x 14 x 8 inches Sebastian Black and India Donaldson Courtesy the artists and C L E A R I N G, Brooklyn, Brussels. photo credits : mark-woods.com\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4209\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4209'>\n\t\t\t\tSebastian Black, Unique Newark\nJournal Fetish, 2013, leather, foam, mannequin, 65 x 14 x 8 inches\nSebastian Black and India Donaldson\nCourtesy the artists and C L E A R I N G, Brooklyn, Brussels.\nphoto credits : mark-woods.com\n Sebastian Black, Unique Newark\nJournal Fetish, 2013, leather, foam, mannequin, 65 x 14 x 8 inches\nSebastian Black and India Donaldson\nCourtesy the artists and C L E A R I N G, Brooklyn, Brussels.\nphoto credits : mark-woods.com\n \n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/01\/14\/sebastian-black-remembering-of-giorgio-morandi-and-the-great-gatsby\/08-sbla028\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/08-SBLA028.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Sebastian Black, Unique Newark Chess sickness, 2013, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches Courtesy the artist and C L E A R I N G, Brooklyn, Brussels. photo credits : mark-woods.com\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4218\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4218'>\n\t\t\t\tSebastian Black, Unique Newark\nChess sickness, 2013, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches\nCourtesy the artist and C L E A R I N G, Brooklyn, Brussels. \nphoto credits : mark-woods.com\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/01\/14\/sebastian-black-remembering-of-giorgio-morandi-and-the-great-gatsby\/sony-dsc-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"106\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC7571_DxO_Mark-Woods_20131204_CLEARING_Black.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Sebastian Black, Unique Newark Parable of the wearable, 2013, silk, hanger Sebastian Black and India Donaldson Courtesy the artists and C L E A R I N G, Brooklyn, Brussels. photo credits : mark-woods.com\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4210\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4210'>\n\t\t\t\tSebastian Black, Unique Newark\nParable of the wearable, 2013, silk, hanger\nSebastian Black and India Donaldson\nCourtesy the artists and C L E A R I N G, Brooklyn, Brussels. \nphoto credits : mark-woods.com\n \n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/01\/14\/sebastian-black-remembering-of-giorgio-morandi-and-the-great-gatsby\/sony-dsc-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"101\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC7623_DxO_Mark-Woods_20131204_CLEARING_Black.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/01\/14\/sebastian-black-remembering-of-giorgio-morandi-and-the-great-gatsby\/sony-dsc-5\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"119\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/10bDSC7601_DxO_Mark-Woods_20131204_CLEARING_Black_low-res.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Sebastian Black, Unique Newark Period (Partition) 1, 2013, spray paint on aluminum, 6 x 10 feet Courtesy the artist and C L E A R I N G, Brooklyn, Brussels. photo credits : mark-woods.com\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4220\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4220'>\n\t\t\t\tSebastian Black, Unique Newark\nPeriod (Partition) 1, 2013, spray paint on aluminum, 6 x 10 feet\nCourtesy the artist and C L E A R I N G, Brooklyn, Brussels. \nphoto credits : mark-woods.com\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/01\/14\/sebastian-black-remembering-of-giorgio-morandi-and-the-great-gatsby\/04-sbla027\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/04-SBLA027.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4217\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4217'>\n\t\t\t\tSebastian Black, Unique Newark\nMotif Lite, 2013, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches\nCourtesy the artist and C L E A R I N G, Brooklyn, Brussels. \nphoto credits : mark-woods.com\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/01\/14\/sebastian-black-remembering-of-giorgio-morandi-and-the-great-gatsby\/sony-dsc-4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC7654_DxO_Mark-Woods_20131204_CLEARING_Black.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/01\/14\/sebastian-black-remembering-of-giorgio-morandi-and-the-great-gatsby\/sbla025\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SBLA025.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4221\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4221'>\n\t\t\t\tSebastian Black, Unique Newark\nPink blink, 2013, oil on canvas, 36 x 27 inches\nCourtesy the artist and C L E A R I N G, Brooklyn, Brussels.\nphoto credits : mark-woods.com\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of the first impression of Sebastian Black&#8217;s paintings is their Morandian coyness. Although some of them turn out to be rather colorful, this aspect is never overwhelming as much as the silent shapes that form the subject. It comes with no surprise that the Italian modernist master serves here as a parallel to Black who investigates with a contemporary and urban twist the lesson of past avangarde movements such as Constructivism and Suprematism. And like Morandi painted the same set of cups and jars with nearly invisible changes over and over again, the young American artist re-thinks the template of his earlier Puppy paintings in what appears to become a study on shape, color, layers and eventually, human body as the hand clearly visible at the bottom right in \u201cPink Blink\u201d indicates. The association between the canine and the feminine is further investigated through garments, made in collaboration with India Donaldson at the centre of the exhibition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-l-e-a-r-i-n-g.com\/unique-newark-sebastian-black-clearing-gallery-press-release\" target=\"_blank\">Unique Newarks<\/a>, on the point of intersection, also in this case, between the form and a effective kind of story telling (in two parts&#8230; )<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; One of the first impression of Sebastian Black&#8217;s paintings is their Morandian coyness. Although some of them turn out to be rather colorful, this aspect is never overwhelming as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1561],"class_list":["post-4208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-senza-categoria","tag-sebastian-black"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}