USEUM has partnered with Le Dame Art Gallery operating between London (UK) and Capri (Italy), to bring emerging talent in the areas of painting and illustration to the heart of the Art World in London. Le Dame Art Gallery will be exhibiting in various events the best of USEUM’s thousands of contemporary artists from 100 countries around the world. We are hosting USEUM's first ever gallery event on Tuesday the 6th of October at 6.30pm and the exhibition will be on display for one month on the first floor of the prestigious Meliã White House 5-star hotel in Regent’s Park.
This collection is comprised by the 23 artworks exhibited by USEUM and Le Dame Art Gallery, on the first floor of Meliã White House from the 7th of October to the 7th of November and by many more artworks that were very close to be selected.
Spiral 2015
Oil on canvas · 30 x 30 cm
£600 at the 1st USEUM exhibtion
In ‘Spiral’ Eduardo Rodriguez Calzado wished to capture the movement of energy, of two opposing forces coming together and becoming one. However, despite the tremendous movement surrounding the image, he still wanted to convey a sense of calm and peace in the painting. This becomes particularly eminent towards the centre of the work, which signifies a feeling of coming home. The artist uses fragmentation of general shapes to something more geometric whilst maintaining an organic quality to it.
About the Artist: Eduardo Rodriguez Calzado (1976) only recently started to express himself through his paintings, after having worked in theatre design for many years. Colourful, dreamlike and sometimes kaleidoscopic; his oil paintings seldom fail to amaze and astonish. The subjects in his works are absorbed into the radiating backgrounds of colours and shapes, creating a strong sense of serenity in a supposed abundance of stimuli. The artist works both from clear images in his head, which he then translates onto the canvas, and from feelings that he interprets through colour and form. Since 2010 Rodriguez Calzado has exhibited his art throughout Mexico and the United States on a regular basis.
text by Jesse Voetman