IMPULSE ART BY PONTET: May 2015

IMPULSE ART by PONTET

‘Impulse Art’ is a live performance where the rhythm of music inspires artist Daniel Pontet to paint with his feet and hands. It is the type of event that grew out of the Action Painting circles, a movement born in the decade of the 1950s that revolutionized the concept of art. Painters no longer approached their canvas with a set image in mind; it is an interaction between the artist and whatever the material may be before the individual's hands or feet. From this encounter derives an image, a sort of residue -the finished painting- and the canvas becomes just a witness of this moment. In this new redefinition, art is seen as an act rather than a product or an object.

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

ART | MUSIC | FEET & FLESH | experience

WARNING: An Artistic Eruption of Epic Proportions is coming to Downtown Hollywood on May 30^th at Runas/Hemingway’s Lounge (219 N. 21^st Ave—Dixie Highway and Polk). Static Art and Performance Art will meet in an erotic exhibition of pigment, canvas, flesh and sound. The scene is set. The time is now. Join us from 7pm ‘til 10pm (or perhaps much later). The venue for this over-the-top extravaganza is one of Hollywood’s most historic; occupied at various times by the likes of Joseph Young, Al Capone, City Hall and Hemingway’s Lounge.

about daniel pontet

The Award-winning multimedia artist Daniel Pontet has ignited South Florida’s cultural scene with his paintings, caricatures, political cartoons, and illustrations for the past 20 years. Pontet has exhibited his artworks since 1975. He has participated in more than 100 art shows, including numerous workshops, and art performances. With his painting, ‘The Green Miami,’ he brought home first prize in the Miami division of the national ‘2004 Hispanic Mural Program’ sponsored by Heineken. Pontet has also been awarded a variety of national and international prizes and acknowledgements. In 2010, Fusionarte Association named him one of the ‘Top 100 Latinos in Miami.’