Seattle: deslumbrante 'Anillo' del 'Bayreuth americano'
Por Sebastián Spreng

EL NUEVO HERALD, 1-IX-2005
http://archivowagner.info/sebastianspreng/ring_seattle.html



Además, de Sebastián Spreng podemos ver por Internet sus trabajos a propósito
del "Anillo": ¡Enhorabuena amigo!



http://friesengallery.com/artists/artist_detail.php?id=34

Sebastian Spreng: Ring Landscape: Themes and Variations
Oil paintings
August 4 - 27, 2005
Continuing through September...

Pictured: FOREST MURMURS, oil on canvas, 16" W x 16" H, $2,900

Sebastian Spreng is widely known for his intense colorfield landscapes. The
Argentinian-born Spreng brings together his professional and aesthetic worlds
of art and music with his exhibition, Ring Landscape: Themes & Variations,
inspired by Wagner’s Ring cycle. This will be the artist’s third solo
exhibition at Friesen Gallery in Seattle. A resident of Florida for the last
twenty years, Spreng will attend a reception at Friesen Gallery's expanded
space (1200 Second Avenue) on Thursday, August 11, from 7:00 to 10:00 P.M..

"The timing of my exhibition to coincide with The Ring is no accident; it has
been a challenge and a dream come true," explains Spreng. "Opera, and
especially The Ring, has been my muse and this body of work is specifically
about Wagner's masterwork. My paintings are landscapes, but they are about love
as it takes on greed, power, law, freedom and self-sacrifice. The Ring might be
about gods and heroes, about myth and psychology combined as Thomas Mann
defined, but even they need the landscapes of our imaginations.”

Spreng has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions in galleries and museums
of Argentina, Canada, Italy, Germany, Japan, Panama, Venezuela, and around the
United States. He also writes music criticism and about the classic musical
world for newspapers and magazines.

Sebastian Spreng's minimal dream landscapes emanate a clear, but rich tonality.
By setting vast distances between the viewer and the viewed object (such as a
stand of trees), Spreng sets up a tension between the image within and the
overall painting as a whole. To contain and focus this relationship, he
distills his works as gem-like monochromes welling from a soft black
background. Richly layered and glazed, Spreng achieves an unusual intensity of
color.
http://www.friesengallery.com/exhibit/s_index.html