Minimalism - The Music Within the Patterns On Saturday, June 17th, Anthony Cardella will be giving a lecture and performance on Minimalism. On display for visual reverie will be one post-post-modernist work by International artist Shane Guffogg inspired by T.S. Eliot’s four-part meditation: Four Quartets. Guffogg to talk about his painting series. Minimalism - The Music Within the Patterns - Lecture/Performance Lecture on Minimalism and Post Minimalism Guided listening to works by Philip Glass and John Adams by Anthony Cardella, Shane Guffogg speaks about his series inspired by T.S Eliot's poem, Four Quartets One large painting by Shane Guffogg, At the Still Point of the Turning World - By A Grace of Sense, A White Light, Still and Moving Curated by Victoria Chapman MUSIC PROGRAM Anthony Cardella, piano China Gates - John Adams Evening Song - Philip Glass (from the opera: Satyagraha, the conclusion to Act 3) Limited to 20 SEAT Capacity | Must have a ticket for entry- one event only PURCHASE TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/minimalism-the-music-within-the-patterns-lectureperformance-tickets-646761058737 PIANIST AND LECTURER - ANTHONY CARDELLA Anthony Cardella is a dynamic and compelling, active performer who has performed in esteemed concert halls across the United States and Europe and has won regional and national performance competitions in the United States. A Wisconsin native, Anthony moved to Los Angeles three years ago after completing his undergraduate studies at the Lawrence Conservatory of Music. He has performed, taught, and collaborated in Los Angeles while pursuing further studies at the Thornton School of Music. Anthony is an award-winning performer praised for his virtuosity, exceptionally delicate touch, and colorful playing that connects with his audiences emotionally. Anthony is known for assembling programs that showcase the full extent of his technical abilities and vulnerability at the piano in tandem. He is also actively seeking out music written by living composers to program and showcase in addition to standard Classical repertoire. Anthony holds a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from Lawrence University and Conservatory of Music with honors and a Master of Music in Piano Performance from the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music. He is a Doctoral candidate at USC, teaching at the collegiate level while also doing research in musicology and pedagogy. ARTWORK ON DISPLAY BY POST-POST-MODERNIST PAINTER SHANE GUFFOGG Shane Guffogg was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised on an exotic bird farm in the San Joaquin Valley. His interest in painting began at an early age. By his late teens, he traveled to Europe to see the works of Leonardo d Vinci, Rembrandt, and Caravaggio in person, absorbing their techniques and recognizing them not only as great artists but alchemists. Upon his return from Europe, painting became his full-time obsession as he appropriated artists' styles from the past 500 years to learn and understand not only their techniques but their reasons for translating their world through art. Guffogg received his B.F.A. from Cal Arts in 1986, and during his studies, he interned in New York City. In 1989, Guffogg went to the Soviet Union on an international peace walk, which became the catalyst for the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Guffogg relocated to Los Angeles, where he lived in Venice Beach and worked as a Studio Assistant to Ed Ruscha from 1989 until 1995. During his time in Venice Beach, he was immersed in the visual and verbal history of the LA Cool School. His work began to fuse the light and space movement of southern California with the techniques of Europe’s Old Masters while also exploring acting for two years with the acclaimed acting teacher Sandra Seacat. Sandra’s theories of the interior world of the subconscious and how it manifests in the conscious world became a third element that was added to his language of painting. The human form gave way to sweeping brushstrokes that are an extension of the artist’s physicality but also serve as a visual bridge between the subconscious and consciousness. His work began to fuse the iconography of Ancient, Classical, Renaissance, Modern, and Contemporary cultures and the relationships among the various times and peoples. The resulting works contain their language of signs and symbols through patterning and visual depth. They are the embodiment of human emotions while being informed by the unseen worlds of Quantum Physics. Guffogg is a multi-media disciplinarian, working in oil, watercolor, gouache, and pastel on paper, sculpture in marble and glass. His interest in science has also led him to begin working with Augmented Reality and AI, where the audience can see his imagery not only in our 3-dimensional world but beyond in what Guffogg refers to as the portal into the 4th dimension, otherwise known as a Smartphone. A final element is a sound, which plays an important role in Guffogg’s studio practice. Guffogg has what is known as synesthesia – he hears color. Guffogg is currently working with a pianist in Los Angeles to create a visual alphabet of musical chords that correspond to the colors he uses in his paintings. An AI software program is being developed to read the paintings and transcribe them into musical scores that will be performed. LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS EVENT: https://www.vcprojects.art/the-music-within-the-patterns-cardellaguffogg