Paolo Consorti
dal 9/11/2006 al 11/12/2006
Segnalato da
9/11/2006
Paolo Consorti
Herrmann & Wagner, Berlin
Between Hell and Heaven. By combining painting and photography Consorti merges our outer reality (photo) with our inner reality (painting) and thus creates the hyper-real space of our psychic and emotional consciousness.
Between Hell and Heaven. Photo painting, video
Paolo Consorti stages our fantasies and dreams of today. The borders of
reality and illusion dissolve like sugar in a glass of water. This feat
is achieved by a trick: by combining painting and photography to form a
hyper-real image.
It is not quite clear what we are seeing. It is rather disturbing and
puts us into an interim state, somewhere between hell and heaven.
Science fiction, baroque or SM worlds exist with equal rights besides
real persons whose gestures are the ultra-heat treated essence of
Christian iconography. Known meets unknown, designed in form and colour
to let us easily consume the events shown on canvas which are later all
the more difficult to digest.
By combining painting and photography Paolo Consorti merges our outer
reality (photo) with our inner reality (painting) and thus creates the
hyper-real space of our psychic and emotional consciousness. Inspired by
Dante's Divine Comedy and the transition of man into the realm of hell
as described in chapter three, Consorti tries to re-postulate those
interim states of our existence. Therefore, the artist doesn't see a
difference between baroque and Hollywood, since all picture material
serves only to update essential questions.
The second exhibition at Herrmann & Wagner shows a cross-section of new
works. Their shrill colours and subjects are intoxicating. They are also
disturbing, because they are always at the border. The pictures are
supported by a video work translating Consorti's approach into film.
Vernissage: Friday, November 10, 2006, 7 p.m.
Herrmann & Wagner
Koppenplatz 6 - Berlin