Lorenzo  Mardaresco, "Icon", 2006 / Bill Culbert, "Mop & Glo", 2007

Please join us for:

LORENZO MARDARESCO: gold icons  &  BILL CULBERT: light sculpture

Opening Reception: Thursday March 1st,  6 – 9 pm
Show runs through April 14th, 2007
Gallery hours: Tues – Sat 12 to 6pm

LINCART
1632 C Market St.
San Francisco, CA  94102
415-503-1981
www.lincart.com

LINCART is thrilled to present solo shows by two internationally renown European artists.

Bill Culbert’s work studies the essential interaction between light and the human eye, frequently utilizing discarded plastic goods as the object of his illumination.  He has been exhibiting internationally for at least five decades, gaining wide recognition in New Zealand and Australia, where he has been commissioned to do numerous public art works that emphasize light as a medium.  Born in 1935 in Port Chalmers, New Zealand, Bill is well known by art aficionados in Europe. This is his first show at a gallery in California.
Charles Linder met Bill and his wife Pip in 1996 at their home near Avignon, while visiting the South of France. A long time fan of Culbert’s, work, Linder finally met the couple through their son, Rae Culbert, whose work he showed several times in the early Nineties. Making the pilgrimage to meet them in their village, Croagnes, had a tremendous impact on Linder. While there, he saw their seamless integration of art making and lifestyle, perfected through decades of practice between rural France and urban London.  Bill’s work brings a contemporary spin to artists’ timeless fascination with the subtle yet compelling interplay of sunlight, reflection and time in the area of Avignon. Linder has been showing Pip Culbert’s art since 1996, and now, after a decade of discussion, we are all thrilled by the opportunity to install Bill’s light sculptures at Lincart.

For this show, Lorenzo Mardaresco will be presenting his glowing, transcendental golden "icons". His background in traditional icon making has inspired him to morph this ancient practice into his own contemporary art form. He and Charles Linder met at Messe Frankfurt in 1996 while participating in an art fair.  They became fast friends and have kept in touch over the years, meeting in Paris on several occasions.  In the past year, Lincart has shown Mr. Mardaresco’s work at several international art fairs, drawing significant attention and sales.  Born in Bucharest in 1961, this is his firstshow in the United States and his first trip to America!