Dorothy Circus Gallery will open its 2014 schedule with the long-awaited solo exhibition by Ray Caesar titled “The Trouble with Angels”. The exhibition will open on Friday February 14th, 2014, at the Dorothy Circus Gallery in Rome, where it will be on display until April 6th, 2014. Alongside with new artworks in edition of 20, made specifically for the gallery that represents him exclusively for Italy, also 5 brand new unique edition pieces will be displayed, such as the renowned single varnished collected by Madonna and other great collectors.
The 18 works on display, including editions and unique editions, will create a rich overview of the dreamlike, enigmatic and seductive universe of Ray Caesar, who for years amazed us for the richness of his imagination, full of renovated psychic scenarios and technically stunning details. As a skilled tailor, Caesar dresses his angels of seductive harmonies, inspired by the memory of his times and of his personal desire, sewing puzzles and mysterious symbols among defined details of his artworks, so that we are assaulted by new questions and suggestions. What is coming out from the thoughts of the “Etudiante”? What happens the day after yesterday? And why was the lovely creature in the carriage left nearby the sea?
Art opens the doors of our perception, confirming its immense evocative power, which once again is used by Ray Caesar to interpret and fulfill our desires: first of all, the desire to escape and to visualize a possible journey of the mind, which brings us through familiar and reassuring places and, at the same time, deep into the secrets and dark corners of our mind. Ray Caesar’s Time and Space draws us like a magnet; the vibration of technology belongs to us, the rich imagery of quotations, from Watteau to Boldini, does not relive the past, but it makes the past contemporary and present.
The works in the exhibition “The Trouble With Angels” will be published in the third volume of the annual catalog of Dorothy Circus Gallery titled “The Doors of Perception,” coming out on September 2014. The first and the second volumes of Dorothy Circus Gallery’ Trilogy “Once Upon a Time” and “Walk on the Wild Side” featuring the 2011 exhibition by Ray Caesar “Would You Be My Miracle?” are already published.
On February 14th 2014 at 4.30 pm there will be a meeting with the artist, reserved to Press and Collectors. Saturday, February 15th 2014 the exhibition “The Trouble with Angels” will open, simultaneously with Rome, for an institutional showcase at the prestigious Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana in Turin, where it will remain on display for two months.
In the Turin exhibition, there will be exhibited some of the artworks in edition of 20 that will be in the Rome exhibition, too, along with other works from private collections exhibited exclusively in Turin. The Ray Caesar’s unique editions will be on display exclusively in Rome.
During the Ray Caesar exhibition at Dorothy Circus Gallery, which will occupy the whole main “Red Hall”, the Canadian artist Anita Kuntz will exhibit the new series entitled “The Bestiary” in the Gallery’s project space “White Velvet Room,” usually dedicated to a permanent exhibition of Ray Caesar’ art.
