Hot Art

Column by Elise Gegauff

If you haven’t read my column up till now, this is the time to start!


I have always loved Galleria Dix. In fact, it was the gallery that I was visiting when I found a flyer about HIAA hanging on their info board before I became a member.
Anyway, I was taking a walk today and decided to take a look in Galleria Dix because I think they always have interesting exhibitions. I’m very happy I went there today.

I just saw something extreemely colourful when I came in the door, and to my delight it was an exhibition of some of Charles Fazzino’s 3-D Pop Art.
His art is very colourful and can be taken as a bit naïve. His messages are not however, eventhough many of his pictures are also just pure fun. They have a lot of small details and you feel like you discover something new everytime you look at them.
He mainly draws subjects from the U.S.A., and especially New York and Hollywood, but there is even pictures that he have made from Finland there! There was one called ”Helsinki” that was already bought, and a little one called ”Midnight Sun Sauna”.
His art is filled with humour and he is often critizicing the world and especially the U.S.A.
The artworks are for sale of course, and the prices can be anything from 375 Euros up to 4950 Euros.

Just to tell you a littlebit about Charles Fazzino;
He is one of the most popular 3-D aritst in the world today, having sold artwork to celebrities and polititians such as: Michael Jackson, Rosie O’Donnell, Michael Eisner, Hillary Clinton, Paul Mc.Cartney, Morgan Freeman, Tina Turner, Roger Clemens, Julia Roberts and Presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush.
There are over 600 galleries in 25 countries who are exhibiting his work and he has gathered a loyal fanbase over the years, especially in U.S.A., Europe and Asia.

Charles Fazzino graduated from the New York School of Visual Arts. He has over 30 one-man exhibitions and shows annually and he finds the time to create twenty to thirty new pieces of art every year.
Fazzino has also created tributes to Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, The characters of Walt Disney and Looney Toons. Organizations such as The Grammy Awards, National Football League, Japan’s Mt. Fuji Museum and The United States Tennis Association Foundation has also commissioned Fazzino’s work.

If you would like to see this exhibition (and I really recommend it) the adress is:

GALLERIA DIX
Uudenmaankatu 19
00120 Helsinki
Tel.: 09-603661
Info@galleriadix.fi

www.galleriadix.fi

The opening times are:

Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 11-17
Wednesday: 11-18
Saturday and Sunday: 12-16

If you want to take a look at Charles Fazzino’s art before you go to Galleria Dix, you can do so at:
www.fazzino.com

Everybody! Please hurry, the exhibition ends on Sunday the 2nd of september and you don’t want to miss it!

-Elise Gegauff