D E A R G O D

2015-02-06

Chalo Zurita

“D E A R G O D,” is a mixed media, cross-cultural project, incarnated through photography, painting, music and sculpture, encrypted in short “letters to God.”

Chalo Zurita

Our first expo was held in the heart of Quito, the Equadorian capital, at “Casa De Las Artes La Ronda,” a gallery situated in an 18th century house at the heart of a historical area, considered home to poets, musicians and artists who have made their mark on Ecuadorian history. It was an astounding honor to become part of this artistic torrent as “D E A R G O D,” is a result of the collaboration of an international team of creators on three different continents.

Tatyana Blinova was born in Kazakhstan. She considers herself a nomad photographer and filmmaker who has explored the boundaries of Eastern and Western Europe, Western Asia, North Africa, North and South America. She has created shots on instant film in the United States and Equador, scanned her negatives in France, and given birth to the collaboration.

Tatiana Blinova

Maryl Simpson is a United States based designer, writer and art educator, who has been making her mark in the United States and Italy since 1977. She joined the project with sincere and over-private prose inspired by photo images, written in dedication to God — something in-between prayers and blaming, pregnant with beautiful metaphors and acidic humor.

Mani Vertigo is a Russian artist living and working in the UK, who looks like Bjork and paints like Taz — It takes her less than one hour to produce a finished work. For our expo, Mani did twelve canvases, which the Ecuadorian border patrol tried to keep — but we duked it out and won.

Mani Vertigo

Chalo Zurita is a full-blooded Equadorian graphic artist from Quito. He is a kind of jack-of-all-trades, whose passion spreads from illustrating poetry to creating tattoos, from paintings to graphic arts. Chalo enriched the project with nine striking, disturbing, yet beautiful paintings.

Chalo Zurita

Paul Yegoroff is a composer, an invisible participant in our collaboration. There are musical compositions in G Mazher and E Minor. Paul was born in 1968 in the USSR and performed on the bayan to Soviet Leaders. Presently, he is a voice of a Russian TV-channel in New York, where he lives.

Victor Talay was born in 1953 in Turkey, but at the age of six moved to France. In the 1980’s, raptured by the winds of Turkey’s south Aegean Sea, he was transported by Sunsail in the capacity of a beach bum and by 1999 was ensconced as a DJ back in Europe. Now based in Paris, France, he performs in galleries, clubs and pubs.

Rita Merino Utreras is an Ecuadorian sculptor and restorer of traditional Catholic art. Although she joined us nearly one year after our first expo, she is an accentual part of our creative family, contributing a new 3D incarnation to our collective mind game. She has exhaled color and mythological spirit into carved wood sculptures made in traditional techniques of South American Catholic religious statuary.

The outcome is an unparalleled mixture of seven different visions, unique approaches to the same subject, initially defined by means of photography, then represented in inspiration and interpretation in prose, on canvas, through music and sculpture.

Tatiana Blinova

Mani Vertigo

Tatiana Blinova

Chalo Zurita

Mani Vertigo

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