Victor Macarol - silver prints at Goldsmiths Gallery in Lambertville, NJVictor Macarol's vintage silver gelatine prints are currently on display at Goldsmiths Gallery located at 26 North Union Street in Lambertville, New Jersey. "Macarol's images are memorable," says Roger Thompson, the Gallery's Director. "They contain remarkable levels of emotional intensity: from tranquil, almost pastoral, to the very dramatic and thought-provoking." "My images are gently humorous, often ambiguous, vignettes on the foibles of humans and other living creatures who are desperately fighting for survival in an impersonal world," explains Macarol. Macarol, who participated this Spring in the exhibition "Life of the City" at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, completed his postgraduate studies at The Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Macarol's one-man exhibitions have also been featured at the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton, Galerie du Photographe in Paris, France, and at Galerie Zur Stockeregg in Zurich, Switzerland. Honors and Awards have come to Victor Macarol in plenty. Among them are several Fellowship Awards and The New Jersey State Council on the Arts' Distinguished Artist Award "...In recognition of [his] exceptional artistic merit and fine contribution he has made to improve the quality of the cultural life of the State of New Jersey." His works are represented in a number of international private art collections and in art collections of the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton, Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, and Kunsthaus in Zurich, Switzerland. Goldsmiths Gallery is located at 26 North Union Street in Lambertville, New Jersey. It is open Wednesday through Sunday, 10-6 P.M. For further information and driving directions please call: 609-397-4590. * Media Release _____________________________________________________________ "...For this exhibit [at Goldsmiths Gallery] Mr. Macarol has [chosen] to present an impressive exhibit of street photography...He enjoys capturing "fleeting moments" and "ever escaping relationships. Mr. Macarol's work has appeared in numerous shows in the United States and in Europe."
Daniel Shearer _____________________________________________________________ "...Mr. Macarol is an artistic Renaissance man. He trained as a concert pianist but since childhood, also pursued the visual arts, including drawing, graphic arts and photography. [His] favorite author is humorist James Thurber, and merriment plays an important role in his work. In a photo of two boys with a basketball, the ball becomes a third head, a sort of visual pun. In another work, a stone statue in the park appears to be throwing crumbs to a lone pigeon passing by."
Wendy Heisler _____________________________________________________________ "...Victor Macarol is unquestionably one-of-a-kind. The artist mixes ingredients in his photographic studies the way a chemist mixes elements, taking them to the stage where they cannot be separated out. Remarkably, the viewers are left to draw their own conclusions about what the artist has captured for them. Essentially, the message has been the same: This is our world. I give it to you unadorned. The photo "Dog and Cat" trumpets that message as eloquently as any. A pugnacious - or is it tender - boxer is guarding - or is it bullying - a kitten. They are part of a city landscape - or are they alienated from it? The questions are at least as interesting, one suspects, as the answers!"
Sally Friedman _____________________________________________________________ "...Human subjects are consciously absent from these images; even in the exceptions, dogs are present or implied. A sign posted on the park fence in Paris, behind an embracing couple, says (in French) that dogs are prohibited, even if they're on leashes. Here are dogs, cats and pigeons in situations that imply, but don't insist on absent humans. Art Historian, Professor Abraham Davidson of Temple University mentioned in a longer statement Mr. Macarol's "Fascinating pairings of subjects...[that] often skirt between jest and drama."
Estelle Sinclaire _____________________________________________________________ "...One of TIME OFF's most talked about covers in recent months featured Victor Macarol's image of the crossed legs and boots of a man sleeping on a New York City street...Mr. Macarol has been praised by viewers of his American and European exhibitions for his sharp sense of timing in capturing moments with flawless composition and, above all, for his visual wit and gentle humor."
Richard D. Smith _____________________________________________________________
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