Dennis Manarchy "Girl w/Blue Glasses" from the show "METAL" opening reception September 7 at Hilton | Asmus Contemporary

DENNIS MANARCHY
VANISHING CULTURES

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Over 10 years in the making, VANISHING CULTURES is an audacious 20,000-mile mission to capture the uncommon beauty and individuality that defines the American people in a way that has never been done before.  The means will be one of the WORLD'S LARGEST FUNCTIONING FILM CAMERAS capable of producing timeless images in microscopic detail not possible in the digital world.  
Dennis Manarchy, renowned as one of the world's top photographers and commercial directors, has built by hand a mammoth-sized prototype camera that stands 35 feet long, 12 feet tall and 8 feet wide.  It is a fully functioning prototype...and it works in spectacular fashion. 
The result will be stadium-sized traveling outdoor exhibitions featuring 24-foot portrait prints in captivating detail, documentaries, educational materials and cultural celebrations....  

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HILTON | ASMUS CONTEMPORARY

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Grand Opening
July 11, 2012
5:00 pm - 10:00 pm

With more than 25 years experience representing an international array of artists, Hilton | Asmus Contemporary is the partnership between veteran art dealer, Arica Hilton, and Sven Asmus, the former Brand Manager for Rolls/Royce Motor Cars Gold Coast in Chicago.  

Located in the River North Art District in Chicago, the gallery specializes in modern and contemporary paintings, limited edition graphics, glass art, sculpture and photography. 
                  
Hilton | Asmus Contemporary is at the corner of Wells and Superior Streets, ensconced between PROSECCO, a fine dining Italian restaurant and the much anticipated wine bar/restaurant THE BOARDING HOUSE (the new restaurant by Master Sommelier Alpana Singh, Check Please, and Matt Fisher and John Ward, partners in Bistronomic.)  
Gallery hours:
Tuesday - Saturday:  noon - 8:00 pm
closed Sunday & Monday
also by appointment
tel: 312.475.1788

DONALD SULTAN with ROBERT CREELEY
"VISUAL POETICS"

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In the tradition of Blake, Morris and "Les Livres des Peintres", "VISUAL POETICS, THE ART OF DONALD SULTAN, 1999, hales from the acclaimed series, Master Contemporary Books. This 17" x 22.5" volume is hand silkscreen printed on museum quality, 300 gram archival Coventry rag paper, Smythe sewn and hand casebound in black Brahma leather, wrapped with a high quality and enduring hide. This limited edition fine art book is in the collection of Museum of Modern Art and along with numerous other museums.  
SCULPTURE COLLECTION

TOMOMI KUNISHIGE

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Japanese born artist, Tomomi Kunishige began learning calligraphy at the age of 6.   When she graduated from high school, she told her parents she wanted to become an artist.  She had acquired her first class teaching license in calligraphy, which was the wish of  her father.  She then made a deal with him..  She asked her father's permission for only three years to prove her worth as an artist.  If at the end of three years she did not sell a painting, she would become a teacher as her father wished.  At the age of 18, Tomomi moved out of her parents house and began painting in the streets of Osaka as a performance artist across the street from Hankyu Department Store.  At the age of 20 she created her first eikanji : truth+真実. 

By this time, she decided it was time to ask the curator of the art gallery at Hankyu Department Store if he would consider an exhibition of her works.  He had seen her often in the streets performing her art and agreed to give her a one woman show.  And the rest became history!  Tomomi's first show was a sell out sensation.  Since then every show has ever had has been sold out, usually before opening night!

The term Eikanji ® is a portmanteau derived from the Japanese words eigo, meaning English, and kanji, which is the term for the ideographic characters used in written Japanese. Moreover, the term is a play on "ee kanji" —a popular phrase in the Kansai dialect meaning literally, "a good feeling."

Eikanji is a form of calligraphic art created by Tomomi Kunishige in which each work is simultaneously comprised of both written English and Japanese, both depicting the same meaning. When viewed from left to right and top to bottom, in the order of the kanji’s strokes, letters of the alphabet can also be seen, spelling out the meaning of the character or phrase in English.

"With a single character, people from different countries and different languages can experience the same word in the same way. It is my hope that in doing so, they may both experience it as a thing of beauty as well."

HILTON | ASMUS CONTEMPORARY is proud to host an exhibition of the Eekanji works of Tomomi Kunishige in Spring of 2013.  

Watch video of Tomomi performing EEKANJI: http://www.eekanji.jp/movie.php