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20/1/2005

Paolo Consorti

Galerie sphn, Berlin

Inferno

Italy at its best - Hell, Paradise & Orgies – Overwhelming colours in impressive scenes. Apocalyptic and paradisical landscapes. Nudes in absurd orgies spread out across the length of the canvas. The italian artist Paolo Consorti (*1964) blends his foto paintings out of this panoply of unusual single images in his first solo exhibition in Germany.

Figures in white and red space suits appear consistently throughout as if straight out of Woody Allen’s film “What you ever wanted to know about Sex”. At first they seem to be supernumeraries in an S & M film, but at second glance one realizes that these suits seem more like a protective skin. They might be clones at the end of a particular era, presenting for example what may threaten the individual. Sexuality in this hurly burly world seems to be the last meaningful act of society. Alien landscapes, rotting fragments of technology, and cloned people are intermingled within a scene that Breughel foresaw, but Consorti solidified.

What at first glance seems to represent the artist’s a borderless fantasy, reveals to be painting of the highest standard. His art, unconditionally coeval – and most importantly italian - is owed to the painting tradition. Its theme: Man in an existential delirium of daily life. Consorti is concerned with a conduction of painting of modern means. The artist does not paint much himself; instead he directs his picturesque worlds like a music conductor: friends stand as models whom he photographs in the same manner as he would a balled up tissue that he later transforms into a mountain. Consorti melts all elements, be they real or models, together into a final composition. Lastly, a coat of varnish is painted on top of the canvas.

Gallery opening in presence of the artist on Friday, 1-21-05 at 19:00
With an introduction by Brigitte Werneburg

Galerie sphn
Koppenplatz 6
D-10115 Berlin
Opening hours are Thursday through Saturday 12:00-18:00

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