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Ida Ivanka Kubler


https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-market-the-violet-touch-a-solo-show-by-ida-ivanka-kubler-opening-event-tickets-32036710664

The Violet Touch
A solo show by artist Ida Ivanka Kubler Who:  Ida Ivanka Kubler (artist) What:  ART MARKET: The Violet Touch (solo show) Where:  Chinatown Soup, 16 Orchard Street, NY 10002 When:  Tues, April 25 th – Tues, May 2 nd , 12pm – 7pm,
(Closed on Monday, the 1
 st 
May) 
​Opening night reception:  Tues, April 25 th , 6pm-9pm Website: www.IdaWorkBox.com
​
 (please register at website – free)


The Birth of an Idea XV (in progress)
Media: Silk Cocoons (left by the butterflies) and Old Holland New Masters Acrylics on Canvas Size: 79x39 inch Year: 2017 studio New York

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Detail 2 from The Letter IV
Media: Silk Cocoons fibers hand unspun (cocoons left by the butterflies) and Old Holland New Masters Acrylics on Canvas Size: 48x40 inch Year: 2017 studio 

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Detail 1 from The Letter IV
Media: Silk Cocoons fibers hand unspun (cocoons left by the butterflies) and Old Holland New Masters Acrylics on Canvas Size: 48x40 inch Year: 2017 studio 

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 The Violet Touch

A solo show by artist Ida Ivanka Kubler Who:  Ida Ivanka Kubler (artist) What:  ART MARKET: The Violet Touch (solo show) Where:  Chinatown Soup, 16 Orchard Street, NY 10002 When:  Tues, April 25 th – Tues, May 2 nd , 12pm – 7pm, (Closed on Monday, the 1 st May) Opening night reception:  Tues, April 25 th , 6pm-9pm Website: www.IdaWorkBox.com (please register at website – free)

About the Show Critically-acclaimed, award-winning, artist Ida Ivanka Kubler will present a solo art exhibition at Chinatown Soup, in Chinatown, New York.   Her artwork is emotionally charged, so much so, that rather than just being seen her art must be experienced live.  Visitors can expect to feel touched and enlightened as they experience various artworks, including art from “The Birth of An Idea” series, “Paninaro”, “The Letter,” and “Erotic Fertilities” series.

Only one (out of a hundred pieces) of “The Birth of An Idea Series”, will be featured.
For this
artwork Ida assembles recycled cocoons, left behind by caterpillars on their way to maturing into butterflies, into majestic geometric patterns. Because they are arranged flowerlike, sitting on the surface of the canvas, Ida refers to them as “half-objects”, asa they are three dimensional in nature. This art will be placed within a side-specific wall installation: a baroque castle constructed out of tape on the wall. The “Paninaro” series is comprised of erotic, blurred photographs of the artist with a partner, with drawings on top.  “The drawings derive from an old chapel in Tramin in Italy, a place I visited years ago,” remembers Kubler.

 “A golden curtain will hide this series, so they will become
visible to the curious visitor.” “The Letter” series are sculptured atmospheric scribbles. They represent chaotic messages or letters on canvas, a metaphor of mixed thoughts, feelings and the beauty of it.  At the same time gives an impression of different roads, a large universe with planets in it, waves of an ocean, something endless, or the today’s uprooting in a physical and direct sense. The media is hand- extracted silk cocoon fibers. The color is again strong in presence: Deep Violet is magnifying and it is the deepest color in the World. It stays for mystery and delicate love feelings. Some suggest is as deep as death, or as deep as love.

For “Erotic Fertilites”, viewers can expect to see an erotic drawing in a Golden Old Baroque frame. It will be the first artwork from the new series named Erotic Fertilities. This series is about emotion, love, touch, excitement, naughtiness, seduction and youthfulness. About the Artist Ida Ivanka Kubler, a Bulgarian-born artist who has exhibited internationally (Germany, France Bulgaria, Norway, London, New York City), currently has her artist studio in Manhattan, New York.  Kubler is known for her critically-acclaimed

“The Birth of An Idea Series” art, in which
she assembles leftover cocoons in beautiful geometric patterns, resulting in an effect that is therapeutic, emotionally charged, and highly dynamic.  Ida Ivanka Kubler has secured her name among the best in the art scene in the United Kingdom.  Known for her wild, process driven shaping of silk fibers that she intuits rather than directs, sensualities pervade Kubler’s practice and set it apart. Contact Ida Ivanka Kubler Ida Ivanka Kubler welcomes interviews.  Feel free to contact her anytime. email:  ida.workbox@yahoo.com Phone:  917-402-6964 website:  www.IdaWorkBox.com

Interview with artist Ida Ivanka Kubler

1.Tell me about your upcoming art show?  What can visitors expect to see? A sampling of my art will be shown that represents a few of my different series:  

The Letter, The
Birth of An Idea, Erotic Fertilities, and The Paninaro. For The Letter, which visitors will be encouraged to touch three, square violet canvases that will be hung on the left side of the gallery. “I describe The Letter series as sculptured atmospheric scribbles.
They represent chaotic
messages, or letters, on canvas. The Series is a metaphor of mixed thoughts and feelings and their synthesis—the beauty they create. Simultaneously, The Letter creates an impression of different roads, a large universe with planets in it, waves of an ocean, something endless, or the today’s uprooting in a physical and direct sense. The media consists of hand-extracted silk cocoon fibers. The color is strong in presence: Deep Violet is magnifying and it is the deepest color in the World. It stands for mystery and delicate love feelings. Some suggest that it’s as deep as death, or as deep as love.” Only one (out of 100 pieces) of the Birth of an Idea Series will be on display.  

This series is
constructed using leftover cocoons that are laid out in geometric patterns.  It’s color is bright yellow and pink, and with tint color on the back. This artwork will be placed within a side- specific wall installation: a baroque castle constructed out of tape on the wall. An erotic drawing in a Golden Old Baroque frame part of the Erotic Fertilities series. It will be the first artwork from the new series named Erotic Fertilities. This series is about emotion, love, touch, excitement, naughtiness, seduction and youthfulness.

Golden Baroque Cocoons installation, atmospheric The Paninaro series exhibit consists of erotic blurred photographs of me with a partner, with drawings on top. The drawings derive from an old chapel in Tramin in Italy, which I visited years ago. A golden curtain will hide this series, so that it will become visible only to the curious visitors. A canvas stating: " Art Market" and under it on the floor like on a market lots of cocoons artworks (abstract pieces) and artworks from The Thing series (nude figures walking in the nothingness)

2. You plan to show one of your "Birth of An Idea" series pieces at the art show. How did this series come about?

Yes, only one piece. The Birth of an Idea series is comprised of silk cocoons left behind by the butterflies.  Until the age of seven, I lived with my grandparents on their farm in Bulgaria. It was here that I first discovered silk cocoons at age five.  My grandparents were involved in the process of sericulture (the production of silk and the rearing of silkworms for this purpose). Initially, I was painting faces on the cocoons and making them alive.  Later on, I would find abandoned red bricks, pulverize them, mix them with water, and use the red-orange liquid residue to paint the cocoons. “At the beginning, I painted faces on the cocoons.

 I remember spending hours doing this on the
farm.  It was a way for me to occupy my time.”  Kubler says.  “My grandparents had animals on the farm—donkeys, goats, rabbits.  I was the last animal on the farm,” Kubler laughs. During my Bachelor studies I've created some cocoons dresses for the theatre and museum. But the Birth of an Idea series the way they are today was born in Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, next door to the Tate Britain in 2010.

How the first Birth of an Idea came about was this:  I was commissioned to produce an abstract artwork, which was inspiring, healing, beautiful and sending positive vibes. The first one I've created was shown in the Chelsea Library and attracted a lot of attention. And it did its duty to inspire people in the library. (And this is what libraries are for: to inspire people with new ideas for their life) This is why I've called the first artwork "The Birth of an Idea"

3.  Is it true you're wearing a cocoon dress?

Yes, a Haute Couture dress, violet dress assembled from cocoons cut in organic forms, handmade sewn with fishing line.  The dress will be for sale after the opening evening.

4.  Anything else we should know about your art?

It is magic, because I come from a different planet! :) Ida Ivanka Kubler welcomes interviews.
Free Registration Link https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-market-the-violet-touch-a-solo-show-by-ida-ivanka-kubler-opening-event-tickets-32036710664

Feel free to contact her anytime. email:  idaivankakubler@gmail.com  website:  www.IdaWorkBox.com


The Letter IV (full image of the artwork)
Media: Silk Cocoons fibers hand unspun (cocoons left by the butterflies) and Old Holland New Masters Acrylics on Canvas Size: 48x40 inch Year: 2017 studio 

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In progress: A Silk Cocoon Dress (will be worn by the artist at the opening event)
Media: Silk Cocoons (left by the butterflies) and
Old Holland New Masters Acrylics on Canvas Size: 8 (US) Year: 2017 studio 

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In progress: A Silk Cocoon Dress (will be worn by the artist at the opening event)
Media: Silk Cocoons (left by the butterflies) and
Old Holland New Masters Acrylics on Canvas Size: 8 (US) Year: 2017 studio 


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In progress: A Silk Cocoon Dress (will be worn by the artist at the opening event)
Media: Silk Cocoons (left by the butterflies) and Old Holland New Masters Acrylics on Canvas
Size: 8 (US) Year: 2017 studio 

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Erotic Fertilities Painting
Media: Oil on Board Size: 18x16 inch Year: 2017 studio 

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You Are Passion IV
Media: Pencil on Paper Size: 15 x 21.3 inch Year: 2015 studio 

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Horizontal, Vertical from Abstract Cocoon Series
Media: Silk Cocoons (left by the butterflies) and Old Holland Oil on Canvas Size: 27.5″ x 19.6″ Year: 2015 studio 

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Horizontal, Vertical from Abstract Cocoon Series
Media: Silk Cocoons (left by the butterflies) and Old Holland Oil on Canvas Size: 27.5″ x 19.6″ Year: 2015 studio 

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Horizontal, Vertical from Abstract Cocoon Series
Media: Silk Cocoons (left by the butterflies) and Old Holland Oil on Canvas Size: 27.5″ x 19.6″ Year: 2015 studio 

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Horizontal, Vertical from Abstract Cocoon Series
Media: Silk Cocoons (left by the butterflies) and Old Holland Oil on Canvas Size: 27.5″ x 19.6″ Year: 2015 studio 

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Horizontal, Vertical from Abstract Cocoon Series
Media: Silk Cocoons (left by the butterflies) and Old Holland Oil on Canvas Size: 27.5″ x 19.6″ Year: 2015 studio 

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Horizontal, Vertical from Abstract Cocoon Series
Media: Silk Cocoons (left by the butterflies) and Old Holland Oil on Canvas Size: 27.5″ x 19.6″ Year: 2015 studio 

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Ida Ivanka Kubler in her New York studio, photo by Mark Reay

Free Registration Link https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-market-the-violet-touch-a-solo-show-by-ida-ivanka-kubler-opening-event-tickets-32036710664
 www.IdaWorkBox.com

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