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8/10/2014

Fulvio de Pellegrin - Roberto Kusterle

Zodiac Gallery, Omaha

The Moving Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new photography by Roberto Kusterle and Fulvio de Pellegrin. This show marks the return of both Italian artists to the Omaha gallery scene. Presented concurrently at Modern Arts Midtown opening the following night on September 5th is the exhibition Roberto Kusterle: Stone Marks with Fulvio De Pellegrin, featuring nineteen photographs of Roberto from another recent series by the prolific photographer and selected works from Fulvio .

Kusterle’s elegant, visually arresting black-and-white images come from his 2013 series, The Marks of the Metembiosi. They highlight startling transformations, perhaps even transmigrations, between human and animal species. Nude torsos may sport bird headdresses, fawns snuggling on a shoulder, or ram skulls growing out of their backs. Skin is layered with tattoo-like patterns or cut away to expose similarities among the branching human arterial system and such external natural phenomena as bird nests or feather patterns. The exact meaning of the mergers and hybridizations Kusterle creates are entirely enigmatic, at once beautiful and haunting.

De Pellegrin’s color photographs are also born of a dramatic sensibility, created by incorporating images of animals as surrogates for humans in a variety of quirky tableaux. The subtle ironies of contemporary political, religious and social life are animated through his clever juxtapositions of human and animal nature. He fashions photographic fables, made most believable by the inclusion of mounted specimens from museums and private collections that, cinematically lit and carefully arranged in telling situations, appear to perfectly embody human emotions and reactions. Though the images are inherently narrative, de Pellegrin approaches each composition as a unique resolution from an imaginative, ever-changing array of concepts.

Roberto Kusterle was born in 1948 in Gorizia in northeastern Italy, where he lives and works. A self-taught image maker, he has concentrated on photographic expression for more than twenty years, as well as recent forays into short film. His photographs can be seen in over 20 publications, including several new monographs available at the gallery. He has shown extensively in Italy, Slovenia and Germany. In 2012, he was awarded the FVG Photography Prize, bestowed by the Center for Research and Preservation of Photography in Spilimbergo, Italy, for innovation in Italian photography. This is the artist’s second exhibition at the Moving Gallery.

Fulvio de Pellegrin was born in Italy in 1967, and now lives in Germany.
He received in 1996 the Price of Best Art Photographer AFIP in Italy, later started
to collaborate for Portfolios review with Photography Magazines like Gente di Fotografia in Italy and La Fotografia in Barcelona and exhibiting in Festivals of Photography till the 2008.

Largely self-taught, he built influential associations with Italian and Spanish
masters of photography and cinema, most notably with modernist Federico Vender.
De Pellegrin has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Galerie Argo in Trento, Italy, and the Naturhistorisches Museum in Karlsruhe,Germany and has shown frequently in Europe.
His photographs from the Sicilian catacombs, HOMINES (1993) and staged animal tableaux were shown in separate 2010-11 exhibitions at the Moving Gallery; de Pellegrin was also guest curator of the gallery’s recent Paolo Dolzan and Master Yu Jihan project.

Opening 9 october

Zodiac Gallery
1042 Howard Street in the Old Market Passageway Omaha
every day 11am-6pm
admission free

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