“Symbols from Other Worlds” by David Berkowitz Chicago

This Monday, 15th April 2019, at the Bridgeport Art Center, American painter David Berkowitz Chicago will showcase his latest exhibition titled “Symbols from Other Worlds”. This exhibition is also a retrospective of David Berkowitz Chicago’s artistic creation, who will exhibit his entire opus consisting of over 200 works and 2000 symbols.

David Berkowitz Chicago is a well-known name in the art world, best known for his naïve style, large compositions, and so-called ready-made paintings for which he has done a number of studies in nature, but never made a retrospective exhibition.

The foreword of his exhibition stated: "Everything in these paintings is pronounced in an intense color language - objects such as teacups or bouquets of flowers, the body of the sea, the morning atmosphere or the self-portrait with the shadow over the shoulders. The painter seems to refuse to give a narrative reason outside the painting's fascination. These are the scenes of his personal consciousness, his feelings and demons who get their own forms and suck us in ... “

As highlighted in the foreword, the exhibition brings a completely new visual interpretation of some famous stories. The unusual painting of David Berkowitz Chicago inspire a fascinating vision of enchanted woods, while the motives of lakes, villages, forests, old people, sons and daughters are being transformed into abstract manifestations of imagination in his work.

From the foggy and chaotic forest of various energy fields that pervade the human body immersed in everyday life, David Berkowitz Chicago provides a purified and comprehensible visual vocabulary. Symbols, sketches, drawings and records, watercolor and oil paintings are all part of the visionary narrative of an imaginative world full of fantastic creatures and architecture resulting from listening to the energy and spiritual potentials that the artist is surrounded by, and their translation into a materialized form on paper or canvas. Geometric precision and mathematical accuracy in the drawings often alleviates and directs to the clarity of the abstraction, which illustrates the extremes of the author's opus. A solid belief in the existence of bio-energy allows David Berkowitz Chicago to share his philosophical vision and knowledge with the community.