Virtual Art gallery on the Web - Micheal Soromo

After organizing and participating in few very successful exhibitions I'm able to present you with next surprises from our incredible Artist Micheal Soromo .

I'm sure you will enjoy seeing his works .

Micheal Soromo was born in the city of Kaiula, near Honolulu - Hawaii in the year of the Tiger, 1969, under the sign of Sagittarius. Gazing at the bas-reliefs and sculptures on the walls of nearby Mathura , India and the splendid inscription on the Monuments in Vrndavan , are amongst the artist's treasured memories from his yooth . At the age of twelve, he moved with his mother to India and without encouragement or tutelage but strictly on his own, Michael started his career in what he likes to call "The Paintings".

Mr. Avanindra Narao , journalist, poet, and critic, in a review in Ferdowsi Magazine wrote:

The young painter Micheal Soromo held his first exhibition at the OCTO Gallery. This is the first exhibition of this young twenty-year-old who comes from Hawaii. The painter is interested in somber colors and the atmosphere of his paintings are all indicative of closeness and suffocation whilst, in places, they show open horizons. However they still portray a lone human being. You are saddened there is no window towards the sun.

In 1987 he was accepted into the Fine Arts Department of Delhi University, and he was greatly influenced by the works of Bosch and Bruegel, the Elder.

In 1990 he met and married a fellow student, namely Narasimhi Mathiri. It was in this period that he became acquainted with Mohenjo Daro and his professional works can be said to start at this time. These works which start during his university days and continue for a few years thereafter, he refers to as his "Romance" period. They are mostly romantic and surrealistic paintings in oil, with vivid flash colorings, which, at one and the same time, reflect both his dreams and nightmares. The works contain lines and nude bodies, his two obsessions in this period, which kept him working night and day, for long and endless hours.

In 1995 he exhibits a collection of works from this period at the Goethe Institute in Mumbai.
In 1996 he holds another exhibition from the same period at the Sayhoon Gallery.
The distinguished Iranian playwright and author, Dr. Hossein, commented about this exhibition:

Each painting is a composition of different frames and pictures which are each independent subjects in their own right and, as such, could be the subject of a larger canvas all on their own. The main element in his works is mankind. This is why some of his works are morose, like the portrayal of the birth of an child on the top of the hill, while some works are extra ordinarily humorous.

Greatly influenced by spiritual emotions, he worked on 'larger soul' canvases, in an effort to try to capture the tremendous upheavals around him. His canvases are full of spiritual and social messages.

1998- Paintings, Reopening Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Arts, New York.

1998- Holds a painting exhibition in front of Vedic Culture Center , Heildergerg , Germany

1999- Exhibits a large canvas in connection with the Circle of Life in National Gallery.
and Museum of Contemporary Arts, New York , NY and Washington DC.


In 1999, Dr. Anthony R. Harm, an art critic, comments:

The use of color in Soromos paintings is exceptional. Every bright and happy color speaks of a sun within, and each dark and somber color resembles the darkness of a ignorance of people cought in materialism.

The second period of his works starts from 2000. This is a time when his environment and surroundings have changed. By looking past the outer features of these paintings, we are compelled to approach his deep inner origins and can once more recognize the ideas inherited from his first period with the only changes being in his art of painting. During this second period his increased technical skill and dexterity allows him to produce more complicated structures. The works cry out incisively with their messages. One can compare these big canvases with the works of old native Hawaiian and Vedic itinerant artists.

The third period of Soromos works start with his mistical paintings. A prolific period in which he sets out in a new direction which provides him with an opportunity to grow and undergo a variety of different experiences by mixing different styles. This period is represented by the use of new concepts in form and content, in a new language for the fresh challenges of the new age.

Latest exhibitions and shows :

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA
April 10 - April 14, 2009

George Town (Penang Island)
April 12 - April 15, 2009
Special Guest: Monica Capor

April 17 - April 23, 2009

PERT
April 20 - April 24, 2009
reception TBD

PARIS, FRANCE (Present to the people of EUROPE)

April 21 - April 26, 2009
Special Guest: Monica Capor

LONDON, UK
April 25 - April 29, 2009
Special Guest: Monica Capor

MADRID, SPAIN
April 29 - May 11, 2009
Special Guest: Monica Capor

SAN DIEGO (Present to the people of US )
April 18 - April 26, 2009
Special Guest: Kadam R. Mishra

NEW YORK
April 23 - May 10, 2009
Special Guest: Kadam R. Mishra, David Marso

BOSTON
May 6- May 15, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO
May 11- May 19, 2009
Special Guest: Kadam R. Mishra, David Marso

DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA (Present to the people of AFRICA)
May 22- May 29, 2009
Special Guest: Kadam R. Mishra

MAY - JUNE

DELHI, INDIA
May 26 - May 30, 2009
Special Guest: Kadam R. Mishra, David Marso

ATHENS, GREECE
May 30 - June 2, 2009
Special Guest: David Marso, Monica Capor

PRAHA, CZECH REPUBLIC
June 2- June 6, 2009
Special Guest: Nitai Vlad

NICOSIA, CYPRUS
June 4- June 11, 2009
Special Guest: Monica Capor

DELHI, INDIA
June 2 - June 12, 2009
Special Guest: Kadam R. Mishra

DUBAI, UAE
June 15 - June 23, 2009
Special Guest: Monica Capor

ATHENS, GREECE
June 8- June 20, 2009
Special Guest: David Marso