Fosco
dal 27/5/2008 al 8/9/2008
Segnalato da
27/5/2008
Fosco
Galleria Barbara Mahler, Lugano
On show recent works, using Indian ink and water colours on linen paper. A return to poetics, where the pleasure of art for art's sake with pencils, paint brushes, paper, colour, lines, drawings and silent thoughts, predominates.
Curated by Igor Zanti
The Galleria Barbara Mahler is proud to present a personal exhibition of the artist Fosco at the Galleria Barbara Mahler inside the UBS bank in Lugano.
Recent works, using Indian ink and water colours on linen paper, will be on view.
A return to poetics, where the pleasure of art for art's sake with pencils, paint brushes, paper, colour, lines, drawings and silent thoughts, predominates.
An active witness of the Roman avantgarde artistic scene during the seventies and eighties, Fosco has lived in Lugano since 1989, and here he chose to return to the mute, solitary art of painting, a pause beyond the deafening noise made by the production of media or extra-artistic images. Fosco's painting, albeit in its recovery of simple figurative accents on a formal level, presents a quest into the line and casual, abstract aspects of certain art forms; an alliance between patches of colour and drawing, beyond the historical abstractionism- figuration conflict.
A catalogue will be compiled to mark the exhibition with an introduction by Fabio Sargentini.
The historical and critical texts are by Igor Zanti and Elio Schenini.
Galleria Barbara Mahler
in the UBS bank, Piazzetta della Posta, Lugano
Monday - Friday 9.00 - 16.30, excluding public holidays
free admission