Joie Lassiter Gallery
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dal 5/7/2007 al 30/8/2007

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5/7/2007

Caio Fonseca

Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte

His new works on paper are evocative, with ambiguous, colored shapes which float across the surfaces and resist identification, as if pulled directly from the unconscious. They also refuse to settle down spatially; unnamable, but richly associative, they pulse between figure and ground.


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New Works on Paper

Joie Lassiter Gallery is honored to present a new body of works on paper by Caio Fonseca. This exhibit opens Friday, July 6th and will be on view through the end of August. Fonseca's work is evocative: ambiguous, colored shapes "float" across the surfaces of his works on paper. Karen Wilkins explains his style best in her Art in America Article, "[the shapes] resist identification, as if pulled directly from the unconscious. They also refuse to settle down spatially; unnamable, but richly associative, they pulse between figure and ground, now appearing nearly submerged by creamy expanses of paint, now breaking free to hover in fictive space."

Subtlety is one of Fonseca's gifts. The keen observer can see subtle changes in Fonseca's work over the years, but there are no radical shifts. Sometimes the forms seem to be the protagonist, sometimes the space. Many viewers see something musical in his art. While Fonseca is an excellent pianist he resists too literal a connection with music. He does not intend for his forms to look like musical notes, or staves, or even grand pianos. But the secret life of music creeps into his paintings. Dissonance and harmony have a relationship to each other and inform the geography of his works. In music, what is not heard is akin to spatial emptiness. All elements in Fonseca's work, whether forms, lines, or spaces, are placed--or, in Fonseca's method of working, revealed--in relationship to each other . His art is about the balance of elemental forms.

His works are held in numerous public and private collections in Europe and the United States. His work has been exhibited at the Paul Kasmin Gallery (New York), Ben Brown Fine Arts (London, UK), and the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (Valencia, Spain) to name a few.

Opening july 6, 2007

Joie Lassiter Gallery
1440 South Tryon Street, Charlotte USA
Hours: Tuesday-Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday 11am - 4pm, and Monday by appointment
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