Slice and Dice, MYSTERY, PATRICIA, ISLAND BIRD

 

 Работы Марка Кастелли отличаются от работ многих художников на ту же тему такими морскими  перспективами, композициями и ракурсами парусников, какие возможно увидеть только в том случае, если сам находишься в море и являешься участником гонок. Действительно, гонки парусников была важной частью его жизни в течение почти тридцати лет. Марк Кастелли принимал многократное участие в гонках и изучал различные типы морских судов. Будучи членом экипажа и находять подолгу на борту яхты, он начал замечать абстракции близкого плана огромных площадей парусов и изменение световых нюансов и текстуры воды в зависимости от погоды.  Годы, проведённые на воде, были для него шансом запечатлеть  глазами редкие морские сцены, а также  прочувствовать и захватить большее, чем представлено простому глазу.

 

Putting It In the Bank

 

Becoming the River

 

 

Sorolla's Gib.

 

The Delta.

 

Tidal Hands

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Point +32

 

Cat Bird Seat-Alinghi

 

Rain For Lunch

 

Cutting Teeth-Team Germany, ChinaTeam

 

Let Loose the Hounds

 

.FlightRisk

 

 

 

Coming Through

 

all spreeted out

 

An Exhalation of Larks

 

So Very Italian

 

Post Race Conference

 

The Gatherers

 

Trinity

 

Oliver's Gift.

 

Can You Hear Me Now ?

 

switching hands

 

The Anonymity-Miss Cristy.

 

Time to Haul

 

Island

 

 

GenerallyMillingAbout,

 

Island Bird

 

Dark Horses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rounding Chinaman.

 

The Swell.

 

Lumpy Day

 

 Running Raw-Chester River

 

Got a Handful.

 

 The Roller Coaster at Gravel Run.

 

 An Earned Moment

 

Angel Hair.

 

 Bushel Day.Bushwacker

 

Putting Out Tangier

 

Take in All Lines

 

The Internet

 

 Skinny Water-Hard Bottom Bush Whacker

 

 Road Kill.

 

Stitch Grass

 

 

 

 

Single Seater

 

Forgotten

 

Midsummer's Eve

 

 

 

Pounds of Mean-Church Creek

 

Bushwacker

 

 Voyager

 

Put A lid on It

 

 Simmering

 

 

 

 Putting Out in the Creek-Tangier

 

 

 

Marc Castelli

 

 

 

Marc Castelli grew up in a military family enriched by travel and living in many places. While none of them seem connected to his present fascination with water and boats, his parents did pass down to him their love of history and cultures. This interest continues with Marc’s family and their vacations to Maine, Brittany, Iceland, and Italy reflecting the desire to have more than a casual experience with such places. Their destinations have usually been based on proximity to water.  This reflects his consuming need to talk to those who work on the water and photograph, sketch, draw, and paint them and their boats. These include watermen, lobstermen, their workboats, America’s Cup racers and their yachts, and the extended families that race their log canoes of the
Chesapeake Bay’s Eastern Shore.

 

 

For thirty four years, Marc Castelli has raced and worked from many types of sailboats. Such an in-depth exposure has enabled him to generate a participant's perspective that separates his work from many of those who paint the same subject. When starting out this odyssey as a crew member from the cockpits of inland scows, he started to notice the near abstractions of huge sail areas and the subtleties of light, the textures of water, and the overall power of weather and how it affects everything on the water. Those twelve years gave him the chance to polish his eye for the subject and a hunger to capture more of what it was that he was seeing. His career has seen him painting the racing scows of the Midwest, the old classes of I.O.R. yachts, five America's Cup Regattas from San Diego, CA (1992, 1995), to Auckland, New Zealand 1999, 2000), and the recent venue in Valencia, Spain (2006). His trips were sponsored by several syndicates and their sponsors, S.A.I.C. commissioned him to do several paintings of their sponsored yachts as did the Spanish syndicate, Desafio Espanol-07. His works now hang in the sponsoring yacht clubs from Seattle to Valencia as well as in the private collections of many of the skippers and crew. Dennis Connor and Paul Cayard are among his collectors.

 

 

Marc Castelli has raced various sailboats for 26 years. During that time he has photographed, drawn, and painted the boats he has raced and studied. His images speak of an intimacy that results from such lengthy exposure. Compositions that dwell on parts of boats, imply the boat, or offer views only a participant would see are characteristic of his work.

Of late he has been attracted to the life of the watermen of the Chesapeake. He is a member of the Maryland Waterman's Association, which has gained him access not only to their docks and boats, but also to their concerns, trust and stories. He also races on IMS boats out of Annapolis and on the racing log canoes of the Chesapeake's Eastern Shore.

His artwork speaks to the large masses of sail, boats and their particular shapes, and ultimately, to their abstract potentials. While these painterly concerns are the main thrust of his maturing style, it is his attention to the correctness of detail that keeps his work accessible. He has been featured in Sailing magazine and in many galleries. Through the State Department's Arts in Embassies program he has been in exhibitions in the U.S. Embassy in Brazil and Qatar.

 

Castelli paints in watercolor on paper, working from photographs that he takes himself. This allows him not only to get the proportions and details exactly right, but it allows him to capture action and attitude that painting from life would not permit. Castelli goes out at times in awful weather—cold, wind, rain, even snow—conditions in which no one could paint.  He then photographs the watermen’s work in the full variety of conditions that they work in and takes those pictures back to paint in his home studio.
 
Diane Simison began collecting Castelli’s work in 2004. “Diane quite deliberately built this cohesive collection of Marc’s paintings of Chesapeake watermen because she was captivated by the aesthetic value,” commented CBMM Chief Curator Pete Lesher. “But she was also drawn in by Castelli’s approach and message: going out on the boats with the watermen to capture aspects of their work and the hardships they face. Her chosen location for retirement on Tilghman Island, with its large community of watermen, certainly must have played a role in attracting her to this subject matter.”

http://museumpublicity.com/2010/12/23/cbmm-opens-new-exhibit-january-31-marc-castelli/

Marc Castelli has been photographing and painting the workboats of the Chesapeake for 11 years—the last seven from aboard the skipjacks, log canoes and pungys that still ply the waters. The watercolor used to illustrate this story depicts two laborers aboard the Thomas Clyde—a skipjack owned by Lawrence Murphy of Tilghman Island—working the Hodges oyster bar off Rock Hall. The intense observation evidenced here calls to mind the work of American master Winslow Homer. Yet as much as a focus on nature, Castelli is finely tuned to the maritime culture and the watermen who he says have been socially marginalized.

While it is true that no one making a living on the water will ever be materially rich, it is also true that no African American has ever owned and operated his own skipjack. What connects owner and crew may be, as Castelli describes it, that "deep and profound magic in the light carried by the wind on the water. It insinuates itself in certain people that will respond to water no matter where [or who] they are."

About The Artist

 

 

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