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19/6/2013

Alessio Delfino

Kips gallery, New York

Curated by Nicola Davide Angerame

Kips Gallery has the pleasure of announcing the inauguration, on June 20, 2013, from 6 to 8 pm, of Alessio Delfino’s third personal show in New York. The Italian artist and photographer will present some giant-sized works from his new photographic series entitled “Rêves”.

Alessio Delfino (1976) is a photographer who continues to garner success on the Italian and international scene thanks also to important exhibitions of his works in international collections (one of which, the VAF Stiftung, is now exhibited at the MART in Rovereto which includes some of his works), and in international exhibitions, including the 54th Biennale of Venice, where he was invited to the Italy Pavilion.

In 2013, Alessio Delfino will hold a series of prestigious international personal exhibitions. Important art galleries in Paris, Brussels, New York and Berlin will exhibit his two latest series of works: Tarots and Rêves.

Delfino’s works will also be exhibited at the second most important art fair in Korea, Art Fair Busan, that will open on June 4, 2013.

Delfino creates photography that exalts the female body as a key image for a broader debate of reality, dreams, human perception and the possibilities of the photographic medium.

After having presented Metamorphoseis and Tarots, Delfino will exhibit a new series in New York, at the Kips Gallery, in Manhattan’s prestigious Chelsea gallery district.

Presentation of the exhibition and profile of Alessio Delfino.

A highly esteemed photographer in Italy and on the international scene, Alessio Delfino (Savona, 1976) presents a new photographic series in New York entitled “Rêves”.

Delfino thus continues his experimentation of photography that is capable of describing the multiform identities of the female body without subjecting it to thematization as an “erotic object” but instead using it as a metaphor or symbol of ethic-aesthetic (as in the Metamorphoseis series), esoteric (like in the Tarots series) or formal and psychological discussions (as in this last series entitled Rêves).

Delfino creates scenes in which the “dancing” bodies of the models are used as metaphors of the mental processes involved in dreams and in memories. The artist thus obtains compositions that are the result of an organic fusion of different yet homogeneous instants. This series of works dialogues with the noble fathers of sequential photography, such as Eadweard Muybridge, but also with the cubo-futurism painting of Picasso and Balla and Duchamp’s “Nude descending a staircase”.

Another aspect that makes this work so distinctive is that each photographic image is a “unique composition”, similar to what occurs in painting.

As stated by the artist with regard to his latest series of works: “Dreams sometimes create in us the most remote desires, they are the synthesis of an emotional path, the key to improving our understanding of ourselves. The boundary between dreams and desires is often blurred, merging into a dance that is frequently incomprehensible but also irresistible at the same time”.

As written by the critic and curator, Nicola Davide Angerame, in the introduction of the catalogue for the New York exhibition: “The photography expressed by Alessio Delfino in Rêves dives into a blend of different moments in time and space, using the body as a viaticum, as a guiding image that leads him into a multidimensionality in which it is possible to demolish the rigidness of reality in order to carry out the alchemical undertaking of synthesizing not reality but its conditions of possibility: those “pure forms a priori of sensitivity” that the German philosopher Immanuel Kant describes as the conditions of the possibility of perception. Space and time”.

As stated by the philosopher Alessandro Bertinetto: "With his Rêves, Delfino leads us into a world in which the natural forms evoked by the great German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel open toward the universe. In fact, they open themselves into the human universe, and the female one in particular. Bodies bloom like flowers, tangle like ivy, and fit together like the legs of fascinating arachnids. Silent and auratic examples of a fantastic and mythical morphology, Delfino’s works yearn to continue the work of a natura naturans that never stops to create new forms and to surprise us".

ALESSIO DELFINO - BRIEF PROFILE

Born in Savona (Italy) on March 5, 1976. He lives in Albisola and works in Savona and Milan. He approached photography at a very young age, acquiring experience in the dark room, through chemistry studies and by associating with artists. With them he created his first works, which would develop into various photographic series starting with the first personal exhibition in Genoa that launched him into the Italian scene and that would lead to a prolific international career, today supported by the most recent personal shows in New York, Paris, Brussels and Berlin.

His works are exhibited in art galleries, museums and public spaces in Italy and abroad.

Main personal shows:

2013 Berlin – Germany, Paolo Erbetta Arte Contemporanea – Tarots
2013 New York, Chelsea – U.S.A., Kips Gallery – Rêves
2013 Brussels – Belgium, Galerie Nardone – Tarots
2013 Paris – France, Coullaud & Koulinsky – Rêves
2011 New York, Chelsea – U.S.A., Kips Gallery – Tarots
2011 Finale Ligure – Italy, Valente Artecontemporanea – Tarots
2011 Finale Ligure – Italy, Complesso Monumentale Chiostri di Santa Caterina Oratorio de’ Disciplinanti – Tarots
2011 Rome – Italy, Franz Paludetto – Tarots
2011 Milan – Italy, MC2 Gallery – Tarots
2010 Turin – Italy, Galleria Allegretti Contemporanea – Tarots
2010 Nurnberg – Germany, Livio Nardi Galerie – Tarots
2010 New York, Chelsea – U.S.A., Kips Gallery – Metamorphoseis
2009 Foggia – Italy, Galleria Paolo Erbetta Arte Contemporanea – Tarots preview – Femmes d’or
2009 Rivara (TO) – Italy, Castello di Rivara Centro d’Arte Contemporanea – Tarots preview
2008 Rivara (TO) – Italy, Castello di Rivara Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Metamorphoseis (with performance)
2007 Alassio (SV) – Italy, former Anglican Church, City of Alassio, Culture Department, Féminin Inédit (with performance)
2006 Albissola Marina (SV) – Italy, Studio Lucio Fontana – Femmes d’or (with performance)
2006 Arles – France, Espace Gilles Barbero Festival Voies Off – Femmes d’or
2006 Varese – Italy, Spazio Arte Aurora – Femmes, Portraits et Travaux
2005 Aschaffenburg – Germany, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg e.V. Museum – Femmes Naturelles
2004 Genoa – Italy, Studio Ghiglione – Palazzo Doria – Travaux en cours
2002 Genoa – Italy, Studio Ghiglione – Palazzo Doria – Des Femmes 1999-2002

Main collective exhibitions:

2013 Trieste – Italy, Oltre il Sublime
2013 Marseille – France, Galerie du 5eme – “Volupté”
2011 54th Biennale of Venice – Italy Pavilion Liguria Region – Palazzo della Meridiana, Genoa
2011 Rovereto – Italy, MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto – “Percorsi riscoperti dell’arte italiana nella VAF-Stiftung 1947 – 2010″
2010 Milan – Italy, MC2 Gallery – “Natura Anfibia”
2010 Bangkok – Thailand, Silpakorn University – “Frames! Italian style contemporary video art”
2010 Turin – Italy, Allegretti Contemporanea/Franz Paludetto Roma – “Opening Contemporary”
2008-09 Rivara (TO) – Italy, Castello di Rivara Centro d’Arte Contemporanea – “Video Review”
2008 Rivara (TO) – Italy, Castello di Rivara Centro d’Arte Contemporanea – “Esercizi”
2005 Baltimore – U.S.A., World Trade Center – Arteast’s
2003 Albisola Marina (SV) – Italy, July 14, 2003 “La presa del Testa”
2002 Alassio (SV) – Italy, Anglican Church – Dell’Eterno Femminino

Main fair exhibitions:

2013 Busan – Korea, Art Fair Busan – Kips Gallery
2012 Brussels – Belgium, OFF Art Fair – MC2 Gallery
2011 Miami – USA, RedDot – Kips Gallery NY
2011 Milan – Italy, Step09 – MC2 Gallery
2011 Madrid – Spain, Madrid Foto – MC2 Gallery
2011 Chicago – USA, Art Chicago – Kips Gallery NY
2011 New York – USA, Red Dot Art Fair – Chelsea West Gallery
2011 Hong Kong – AHAF – Kips Gallery NY
2010 Milan – Italy, MiArt International Art Fair –Paolo Erbetta Gallery

Works in museums:

MART Trento e Rovereto, VAF Stiftung
Museo d’Arte Italiana Castello di Rivara (TO)

Opening: June 20, 6-8 PM

Kips gallery
511 West 25th Street New York, NY 10001
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11 am–6 pm

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