| Rhea
Marmentini - NYC History |
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El
Dragón de la Calderon. 350 square meter, studio-gallery, designed
and built by Rhea Marmentini, 2005 to 2014. |
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As
the forest burned around El Dragon, she and fellow artists fled the inferno. |
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Collecting
granite in a wheelbarrow after arriving
in NYC. |
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Wheelbarrowing over Brooklyn Bridge. |
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Transforming
the granite. |
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Finishing
name plate. Title: Schist Bird. |
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Artist
Rhea Marmentini, just arrived in NYC, from her artist colony in the mountains
of Valencia, Spain, where she built a stone, mosaic dragon, El
Dragon de la Calderona, a studio for international artists. It was an
eight year culmination, a project to restore the landscape from the ravages
of an ancient quarry on the site of a mountain forest. Tragically one night
after completion, the forest burned around her as she and fellow artists
fled the inferno. Partially destitute, but only in body and not in spirit....she
is rebooting her life in NYC. Her new sculptures are a blend between Constantin
Brancusi and Isamu Naguchi, with undertones of Paul Klee's Cat and Bird.
Made with stones from the granite bed rock of Manhattan from excavations
and newly dug foundations for sky scrapers. From Red Hook, Brooklyn, she
wheel barrows the heavy granite over the Brooklyn Bridge to her studio in
the West Village where she transforms them into her sculptures. Her newest
pieces are on exhibit in NYC. Schist Bird
at the Living
Museum and Rebirth at Magen
Gallery. |
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