Hales is delighted to announce that Kay WalkingStick, Anwar Jalal Shemza and Elda Cerrato are invited to the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Adriano Pedrosa.
Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee/Anglo) b.1935 Syracuse, NY is a celebrated American artist. WalkingStick is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and has over a six-decade career made works which connect to Native American history and the lived experience of Indigenous peoples. Attempting to unify the present with history, her complex works hold tension between representational and abstract imagery. Her paintings represent a knowledge of the earth and its sacred quality.
Anwar Jalal Shemza (b. 1928, Simla, India – d.1985, Stafford, England) was a British Pakistani artist, whose dedicated practice was informed by his migration – synthesising cultural references, from calligraphic forms and carpet patterns to the environments around him: Mughal architecture from Lahore, Pakistan and the rural landscapes of Stafford, England. In his compositions, layered elements are distilled into an intensive exploration of geometric abstraction and pattern, built up mostly using just two simple forms: the square and circle.
Elda Cerrato (b. 1931 Asti, Italy – d. 2023 Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Italian-born Argentine artist. Her extensive oeuvre integrated fundamental connections between art, spirituality, scientific knowledge and politics. Through immersions into the unconscious, drawing on personal and collective memory, she connected to alternative concepts of the cosmos. In symbolic and political work Cerrato sensitively explored the transformative potential of art.
February 1, 2024
