Vittorio Matino


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L'Italo Americano  Vittorio Matino Exhibits at Tagore Gallery in Beverly Hills  November 13, 2008

Gallerist Sundaram Tagore says, "Vittorio Matino has a brilliant understanding of color. His trips to the US and Paris in the mid-1970s deepened his knowledge of Color Field School, and he, in turn, extended its language. His work is a unique contribution, and his career is long and deep, spanning half a century."

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Hong Kong Tatler  Showtime: Hot Import  May 2008

"...His [Sundaram Tagore] galleries located in New York and Los Angeles, focus on 'a global community of artists, and particularly, on those artists who are engaged in cross-cultural dialogues between East and West.' He asserts, 'We were passionate about thinking globally long before it became fashionable.' So the only mystery is, why has it taken Tagore so long to hit Hong Kong?"

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The Hong Kong Trader  HK a New Palette for US Galleries  February 6th, 2008

"When it came to choosing where to open his first overseas gallery, Sundaram Tagore, operator of the eponymous US-based gallery, knew it had to be Hong Kong. His experience over the years travelling to the city, which he used as his Asia business base, convinced him that it was the ideal place for his new venture."

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The Standard  Gallery Boss Looks at Going Global  May 25th, 2007

"As one of the first galleries to create a global dialogue through art, Tagore looks for global artists who have traveled and lived in cultures other than thier own. Thier artwork which combines a diversity of cultural colors and painting techniques, talks to viewers as if in dialogue."

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Art Info  Vittorio Matino at NY's Sundaram Tagore  April 13, 2007

"Matino ... paints within the western abstract tradition, using color and the physical act of painting with a spirituality akin to the aesthetics of Eastern civilization."

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Art Daily.org  Trans-Chromatics - Vittorio Matino at Sundaram Tagore  APRIL 10, 2007

"For the past decade, Matino has explored the color tradition of India, while continuing to develop a capacity for transforming the limits of our perception off color."

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Khaleej Times  Dubia Needs to Identify the Right Thinkers of Culture  March 9th, 2007

"Dubai is at the crossroads of the east and west, and it is taking charge as one of the great centres of commerce, tourism, and art"

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News India Times/Desi Talk  Group Exhibition Reveals Confluence of East and West  Friday, June 30, 2006

"Bhavsar, Qadri, and Revri, are symbolic of the journeys of the artists of our times. Geographically, they have traveled out the country of their birth; artisically out of the influence of the Modernism of Matisse and Picasso, the Abstractionism of Mondrian, the Lyric Abstractionism of Pollock."

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