EXPERTS TO GATHER AROUND POP-UP EXHIBIT PROVIDING A UNIQUE VIEW OF CONTEMPORARY ART AND WINE MARKETS
At a special event Saturday January 12, around the ongoing mixed-media exhibit ART ENOLOGY: ARTISTS ON WINE, discover what it takes to become an experienced art collector and wine expert while learning how Harlem has become the latest draw for connoisseurs who stock up on their favorite labels and artists as sound investments. The free talk tackles place between 1pm and 3pm and the event includes wine tastings courtesy of Simone International/Papi and Mouton Noir wines and an artist meet-and-greet.
Jenna Bond-Louden, EBONY.com art adviser and founder of the salon series Lady Bird + Co; Antone Barnes, Co-founder, Modern Class Design and interior designer to celebrity clients and professional athletes; Andre Mack, Founder of Mouton Noir Wines and winner of the 2012 Chaine des Rotisseurs “Best Young Sommelier in America” Award, and Eric White, wine specialist/manager, The Winery, will participate.
The ART ENOLOGY show features pieces by celebrated wine photographer Charles O’Rear; Smithsonian American Art Museum’s 40 under 40: Craft Futures artist Joshua DeMonte, and internationally acclaimed visual artist Shantell Martin visually interpreting wine and wine bottles. Items from more twenty more emerging, mid-career and established visual artists also are on view. Curated by Souleo, whose recent credits include a discussion series at the New York Library and consulting work with Danny Simmons, the exhibit is on view until January 23.
“Wine has been celebrated and stored artistically for centuries for spiritual rituals, religious ceremonies, medicinal purposes and social occasions,” says Souleo. The artists participating in Art Enology have tapped into this linked history and transformed wine bottles into statements that simultaneously advance the aesthetic properties and possibilities of bottles and inspire a new dialogue centered on historical and contemporary concepts.”
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