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Medulla Art Gallery is pleased to invite you to

"EDEN" BY STUART HAHN

OPENING RECEPTION:

Date: Thursday 27th July 2023

Time: 7pm - 9pm

Venue: Medulla Art Gallery

Address: #37 Fitt Street, Woodbrook, Port of Spain.

For more information please contact:

Telephone: +1(868)680-1041, +1(868)622-1196

Email: medullaartgallery@gmail.com

Artist’s Talk: Thursday 10th August, 2023 at 7pm-9pm

Exhibition continues until: Tuesday 29th August, 2023

FREE ADMISSION - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Gallery hours: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm

ABOUT THE SHOW:

The story of Eden has intrigued me since childhood and this exhibition is one of the results of that, undertaken with the greatest reverence to the countless great artists who have indulged in the very same obsession over time immemorial. Philosophically I’ve come away from it with more questions than answers, especially about the god it features, the strange and disturbing notion and concept of Original Sin, what really is this thing called evil… etc etc. How closely it resembles so many other creation stories, and how it also differs from them. The cherubim obviously impressed me, though I could not bring myself to depict them as the monstrous physically deformed creatures described elsewhere.. The sad, blood-soaked story of the first murder, for me, needs much more explanation than its given. The choice of the snake as the embodiment of evil, handmade of Satan… why? Poor womankind, the bringer of the species, its very womb, so demonized… how come, why? This exhibition is the edited version of these ruminations, perhaps there will be another to complete the process, if time allows. There are also two drawings here from another ongoing series, Dante’s Divine Comedy, of the pathetic plight of Paulo and Francesca, also, hopefully, another exhibition.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Stuart Hahn was born in Nevis in 1949 and was educated in Barbados and Trinidad to A level. He began his artistic career in commercial-advertising art before leaving that discipline to become a full time fine artist in his homeland, Trinidad. His exhibition career began in 1984 in Port of Spain, since then he has exhibited internationally, to the present day. He has illustrated local folklore and universal myths and legends, predominantly Greek and Judeo-Christian. His influences have been the Pre-Raphaelites, Symbolists, Art Nouveau, and early 20th century book illustration, the great Alf Codallo and the beauty of the people and landscape of his island home.

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Richard Mark Rawlins in conversation with fellow Artist and Educator Adele Todd, at the Artist's Talk and closing of his latest exhibition "Finding Black". Thursday 12th November 2015, which took place at Medulla Gallery in Woodbrook.

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From the military to architecture to chocolate, it’s certainly been a unique and unpredictable journey for Cocobel creator Isabel Brash. This sensory designer and chocolatier invited us in to the Medulla Art Gallery on Fitt Street in Woodbrook, where her 2 year old daughter was being entertained by her all female team. There, she shared with us how she was bewitched by the cocoa jumbie, her ability to build memory in to chocolate and her larger, long term plan to use chocolates and her brand as the voice of contemporary Caribbean art. Enjoy! SPEAKING TRINI THROUGH CHOCOLATE Our Chat with Isabel Brash of Cocobel designerisland.com (story link in bio) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrTf4GIApeG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=d9imt8w0jbn0

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Medulla Art Gallery is pleased to invite you to (S)HOW FEATURING: JAIME LEE LOY, ALICIA MILNE, NIKOLAI NOEL, TAMARA TAM-CRUICKSHANK, LUIS VASQUEZ LA ROCHE Opening reception: Wednesday 17th June 2015

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~Galleryyuhself~  View the ttff/20 new media works at Medulla Art Gallery today, Tuesday 15th September, 10am - 6pm. New Media comprises avant garde and experimental film and video works from artists and filmmakers in the Caribbean and diaspora. Swipe through for a look at nine of nineteen new media works, and check out our page for more! The physical iteration of the new media works, curated by Melanie Archer, is available for viewing in person, giving viewers the chance to better engage with the works. All health and social distancing protocols will be in effect, with only five attendees at a time being allowed into the viewing space. Please wear masks as directed.

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I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl. — Björk Acryl on canvas on sale here: https://www.artmajeur.com/en/art-gallery/federica-masini/338173/bjoerk/10052113 My solo exhibition @Aufsturz, Berlin, Oranienburger Straße 67 Pic Gabriele Saffioti 🎨 #art #Björk #Bjork #soloexhibition #artist #music #vulnicura #vinyl #biophilialive #federicamasini #lionsong #iceland #art #medulla #bjorkfan #biophilia #Acryl #canvas #artonsale

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Enjoyed the discussion on the relevance of drawing in today’s art world at the medulla art gallery last evening. It was really nice to hear persons speak so passionately about drawing and creativity. I forgot my sketchbook at home but luckily I had the @paper_53 app on my phone! I used it to do a quick sketch! It was also nice to be surrounded by Ms Wendy Nanan’s figure drawings during the discussion. Really encouraged and inspired me to keep going. The exhibition of her work continues till April 14 #paper53 #drawing #digitalart #sketcheveryday #sketch #create #draw #draweveryday #trinidadianartist #trinidad #trini

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TRINIDAD: Join me this Thursday 12 January for a Book Talk + Signing for @jewishtreasuresofthecaribbean 7-9PM at Medulla Art Gallery 37 Fitt Street Woodbrook. We'll have a limited quantity of books so reserve your signed copy now. RSVP BELOW. www.jewishtreasuresofthecaribbean.com #trinidad #caribbean #trinidadandtobago #artgallery #medullaartgallery #wyattgallery #jewish #synagogue #history #photobook (at Medulla Art Gallery)

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#Architecture #Photography @MedullaArtGallery 2015. #Trinidad (at Medulla Art Gallery)

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My first attempt at human figure drawing last night at the BARE. Twas their 12th session at Medulla art gallery. I must say I thoroughly enjoyed it! Yay!!! #humanfiguredrawing #myfirsttime #scratchy #charcoal

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Eden's Apple - Interpretation and ire in the works of Stuart Hahn

Medulla Art Gallery featured a talk with the Artist Stuart Hahn on Wednesday eight August twenty twenty-three. It started tentatively and ended boisterously with interviewer Natasha Ramnauth steering the conversation into territory raised by a guest about the carnivalesque. That was provoking enough, but there was a much more niggling issue that caught my attention as Mr Hahn spoke about his work.

As an avid admirer of his prolific collections over the decades I was alerted when yet again I heard him mention that he could not show nudity in public. At prior shows he had said those exact words to the audience.

Stuart Hahn - The Fall of Man

In Jamaica,the Laura Facey bronze sculpture Redemption Song is met with all the respect it deserves in a declared homophonic island. No one is deeming the public work indecent or homocentric. I found myself wondering why and how Mr Hahn has been dealing with this no man’s land quite literally for so many decades?

What does Mr Hahn have to be apologizing and hiding for? Is Stuart Hahn a maverick where nudity and male at that is concerned?

The short answer is no.

Stuart Hahn - The Fall of Man

He is preceded by the likes of Boscoe Holder and Hugh Stollmeyer. It is curious, but not fully necessary to know that those names represent men who were homosexual or bisexual. This is to be included only because of the fact that sexual history has been hard fought particularly in ultra religious spaces like Trinidad and Tobago.

Is Mr Hahn exploiting the form by showing explicit sexual acts? No.

In fact Mr Hahn only uses naked imagery in contexts where they are called for.

But instead of being caught up with his exceptional skills as a draftsman of the anatomy it is easy for the media to continue to hound his use of drawing what I can only call the subversive penis. Vaginas and breasts hold neutral ground.

Meanwhile it seems that the erect, semi-erect and inert penis causes great consternation.

We all reel daily as we read and hear of barbarically cruel murders. Yet, the penis in art is being ‘held’ as too unpalatable for sensitive constitutions.

Is there a connection between crime and the male body?

This may be an absurd question, but Mr Hahn’s work and legacy might hinge on the fact that a sense of being out of touch with the body is an important marker for all of us. An automatic fear or distaste to observe classical art in a caribbeanesque context narrows the lens.

Mr Hahn was born in Nevis of a St. Kittitian mother and Trinbagonian father. Of Caucasian heritage in a mostly brown land, a child of colonialism in San Fernando and a gay man in the Caribbean space during Black Power and Oil Money is dizzying enough. It makes one want to tear off one’s skin.

Nudity and the drawing of skin titillates. It is peeling back layers and finding oneself in private territory. Art has lauded nakedness for centuries, so, to now grapple on an island with what it means - is curious to me particularly when a few years ago Trinidad and Tobago was given the dubious honor of being in the top ten of users of porn sites in the world.

Stuart Hahn - The Murder of Abel

Mr Hahn’s Biblical, Classical Literature, Indian Mythology and local Folkloric pieces do far more than occasionally dabble in nudity. By focusing on the trite, everything that his work demonstrates gets shunted to the side. Mr Hahn’s work connects the complex past with the continuously confusing present. He shows great discipline when drawing and rendering the form with prisma color pencils and pen and ink when paint is so much faster - his almost religious penitence in lauding his characters with wings, togas and ropes of hair - yes there is homo eroticism in the work.

However, homo simply means man. I will not go down the prickly path of Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve. I also will not convince anyone of changing their sensitivities or sensibilities. I write to place Mr Hahn’s work where it needs to be. He is neither a pornographer nor a sensationalist.

That is so clear in societies great love of Derek Walcott's TiJean and his Brothers the children’s book and his innovative approach to the Black Madonna and Child way before it was fashionable to do so. As a white, Caribbean gay man making Art in Trinidad and Tobago and causing debate makes Stuart Hahn’s career an important marker in Art history - one that we all take for granted. We speak fluidly about Impressionism or Abstraction. But what of Stuart Hahn’s drawings? I suggest that as we look at Art in Trinidad and Tobago, we begin to observe what is before our very own eyes:that we respect and honor ours in the same way that we have finally given Pan the attention deserved.

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We’re in love with this piece!😍 #ART: ONE THOUSAND MEs First solo exhibition by Sarah Knights At Medulla Art Gallery. ABOUT THE SHOW: Sarah Knights' ONE THOUSAND MEs is a series of self-portraits that speaks about intersectionality. These paintings invite the viewer to look closer in order to understand the inner essence of the pieces. The past and present based on popular culture, provides a wealth of knowledge and insight into her creations. Knights’ paintings borrow the stiff classical poses from women in the 1900s which is layered with images of women from the present day. She uses mediums such as collage, embroidery, acrylic and found objects to convey her message. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Sarah Knights was born in the small town of Sangre Grande on the 15th of March 1983. In 2008 she graduated with an associate degree in Visual Communications from the John S. Donaldson Technical Institute. With her new appreciation for art and design she later pursued a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts at the University of the West Indies. Her formal training at the UWI helped her to use art as a means of self-expression and healing. After graduating she began working on a body of mixed media paintings, using herself as the main subject to discuss issues of identity with women in modern societies. Her paintings reflect both the present and the past and look at racism, feminism, beauty and religion, influenced by western media and popular culture. - (via Medulla Art Gallery) (at Medulla Art Gallery)

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Medulla Art Gallery is pleased to invite you to (S)HOW FEATURING: JAIME LEE LOY, ALICIA MILNE, NIKOLAI NOEL, TAMARA TAM-CRUICKSHANK, LUIS VASQUEZ LA ROCHE Opening reception: Wednesday 17th June 2015

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Trinidad’s Arts & Culture

Visual Arts

The seven galleries of the National Museum house some of the country’s best artwork, and a number of other fine galleries showcase new work. The Museum (623-5941) has a small representative collection of local art which is on show for most of the year, and a collection of watercolours by the country’s leading 19th-century painter, Michel Jean Cazabon.

The Art Society has an annual show of new work that includes paintings, drawings, and sculpture. The society also organises plein-air painting sessions in picturesque venues, mostly in the dry season of course.

Art exhibitions take place year round, and primarily between Easter and Christmas, at several established galleries and other venues that might include an artist’s home, a restaurant, or the lobby of a corporate headquarters. Popular galleries include: 101 Art Gallery, Fine Art, Horizons, Medulla, Softbox Studios, and Studio 66.

There is a significant art market, and a number of notable local artists. Landscape features very prominently in a lot of local painting, but there’s also abstract and avant-garde work to be seen.

Names to look for: MP Alladin, Sybil Atteck, Ralph and the late Vera Baney, Isaiah Boodhoo, Edward Bowen, Carlisle Chang, Leroy Clarke, Chris Cozier, Ken Crichlow, Jasmine Girvan, Jackie Hinkson, Paul Llanos, Dermot Louison, Che Lovelace, Shastri Maharaj, Wendy Nanan, Lisa O’Connor, Shalini Seereeram, Peter Sheppard, Irénée Shaw, Sundiata, Jasmine Thomas-Girvan, and Noel Vaucrosson, to name but a few; and the late Michel-Jean Cazabon, Pat Bishop, and Boscoe Holder.

http://www.discovertnt.com/articles/Trinidad/Trinidad-Arts-Culture-An-Overview/60/3/19

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Thanks to all who dipped into my PITCH LAKE poetry reading last Thursday at Medulla Art Gallery. Through words and dance we asked questions about poetic form. What is a poem if not image and motion? We swam, we flew.

Photo: Justin Ramcharran

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Thank You Trinidad! Last night was a great success! We had a full house of over 100 people! Thank you Medulla Art Gallery of Trinidad! To purchase a book please visit www.jewishtreasuresofthecaribbean.com #trinidad #jewish #caribbean (at Medulla Art Gallery)