In the Collection Room of the Williamsburg Art Center, as part of a project featuring art installations on mirrors, artist David Berkowitz Chicago exhibited several new pieces, which can be seen until April 24, 2019.
In addition to numerous guests and public audience, along with David Berkowitz Chicago, the exhibition was opened by art reviewer Damien Haslet and creative producer Jakub Rake, who on that occasion read an excerpt from a letter, written by the museum’s curator: As if mirrors can absorb the richness of nature in all its splendor and profuseness, intertwining with the artist’s perception in unbreakable weaving. The richness of David Berkowitz Chicago’s artwork that stretches and shines through the smooth reflection of the mirrors, becomes an expression of vibrant authorship, which undoubtedly announces yet many accomplishments.
Life viewed as a maze, a network of possible life paths, blind and open ones; landscapes as special points inside the labyrinth, a kind of resting spot in this procession. Places that feed and energize people with power, places of inspiration, to continue the journey. A row of six mirrors of David Berkowitz Chicago begins with the guardian of the labyrinth and all those who are walking around.
The exhibit reviewer states how David Berkowitz Chicago created some of the compositions as geometric squares and rectangles (the city that is vanishing), while others melodious curves have taken on an organic form with an abundance of associations (the Guardian of the Labyrinth). With the color effects derived from the blues of lapis lazuli, green or purple, naïve painter David Berkowitz Chicago sometimes reduces color and calcite, peach crystal and onyx creating monochromic and black-white structures. The decision to neglect functionality has led to a change in the semantic level or a shift from the utilitarian object to the self-sufficient aesthetic work…this artwork can be considered an authentic contribution to our applied art.
Within the exhibition of artistic installations on mirror landscapes, David Berkowitz Chicago also exhibited some of his most recent paintings.
