Dreamscapes

Onishi Gallery is pleased to announce on December 6, 2011 DREAMSCAPES an international exhibition curated by Stefania Carrozzini. featured by ten artists including five artists from Italy and five artists from Finland, USA and Singapore.
“The big adventure of art is the ability to see beyond what is known, beyond the limits of reality. Artists have always worked in that area which belongs to dreams and the imagination.
The creative process advances by association, it is made of the same stuff as dreams.
Unhooked from our daytime life we are free to recreate ourselves. Symbols of individual adventure, dreams appear to us as the truest and most secret expression of ourselves. When we dream we are all artists, even though unconsciously, of extraordinary tales, of chaineddramas, unconfessable desires, totally free from schemes and moral judgment. The world of dreams is overflowing with symbols and is structured as a language, it communicates much more about our life than our daytime consciousness lets on. Similar to dreams also art is necessary to the biological and mental harmony of the individual. Both serve to absolve a vital function: the hunger for freedom and poetry. Creative language thus gathers the demand for representation of codes and symbols, until it transforms the energy of unconscious pulsations, even conflicting, into a need for truth. The dream is like preparatory rough work, an approximate sketch, a project of the future conscious activity. Such a mental activity may be assimilated to the creative process. The unconscious is known to be the big tank from which to get ideas and like dreams also art feeds on symbols. Dreamscapes are free spaces where the dreamer is always the main character. In this space, time and the rules of gravity do not exist; the rules are overturned, absurd. The prospects are at times deceptive, or too real; the outlines of ethereal things, subtle, suspended, at the limit of what is visible. It is with this awareness that we are perhaps ready to meet art.