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Overview at The Inaugural Show at Monkdogz Urban Art in New York

From left to right: Steve Oatway (AU) back: EdMcCormack with black Hat,
Marcus Van Soest, Marina Hadley, galeriste (lady in blue) right side in black:
Bob Hogge Gallerist and inventor of Xfusionism

Hieronder is het stuk tekst waarin de bekende art-critic Ed McCormack mijn werk typeert… Het is een onderdeel van het artikel dat hij schreef naar aanleiding van de Inaugural Show by Monkdogz Urban Art in New York..

Gallery & Studio New York / At Monkdogz Urban Art, Energy Trumps Irony Every Time

Ed McCormack, Managing Editor
Gallery & Studio Magazine

One such discovery (at least to New York gallery-goers, although he’s apparently widely exhibited closer to home) is Marcus van Soest, who hails from the Netherlands and comes on like gangbusters with canvases that seem to combine the painterly panache of late-period Philip Guston, the outrageous plasticity Peter Saul, and the sheer zaniness of the revered 1950s Mad magazine cartoonist Basil Wolverton. In his compacted figurative compositions, van Soest conjures up a kind of monster mash of fragmented faces, body parts, andin the case of one especially visceral canvasslabs of red meat and fried eggs that seem to express the delicious mess of being embroiled in the human stew. The 14th century Milanese painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s paintings of human heads composed of fruits and vegetables also come to mind; however van Soest does all of his predecessors one better by virtue of his eclecticism, giving new meaning, with his bold protoplasmic configurations, to the term “polymorphous perversity.”

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkdogz_Urban_Art
Monkdogz Urban Art is an art gallery in Chelsea, the art district of New York City.

The gallery was founded in 2006 by co-owners Marina Hadley and Bob Hogge. The principal focus of Monkdogz is to discover and showcase contemporary emerging artists from around the world working in the different media of painting, drawing sculpture, photography, video and prints. In its first two years of opening, the gallery exhibited over 170 artists from 35 countries.

In September 2008, Monkdogz exhibited a solo show by French Artist Jean Marc Calvet which will be part of a biographical feature documentary by award winning director and producer Dominic Allancurrently being filmed, titled “Calvet”.

Managing Editor of Gallery & Studio Magazine, Ed McCormack wrote:

“…the artists assembled under the Monkdogz banner make an auspicious debut and suggest a much needed shot in the arm for postmodern, post-movement art.”

Monkdogz Urban Art Inc. also maintains an International Art Network of over 2000 artists. It is a free web network designed for the International arts community, allowing artists from around the world to exhibit their work and link their own websites.

Artists Represented:

Sébastien Aurillon, Esther Barend, Ruth Butler, Jean Marc Calvet, Hans Meertens, Minya, Richard Milo, Lou Patrou, Charles Schindler, Yuichiro Shibata, Marcus van Soest, Mari Yamagiwa,Kathy Ostman-Magnusen

“INAUGURAL SHOW 2006”

Exhibiting artists:
Lou Patrou
Marcus van Soest
Michael Apice
Steve Oatway
Jonna Pedersen
Richard Milo
Valerie Patterson
Sunia Boneham
Bjorn Eriksen
Jim Lawn