Diego Gravinese
dal 18/10/2000 al 25/11/2000
Segnalato da
18/10/2000
Diego Gravinese
De Chiara Stewart, New York
The artist continues to explore the juxtaposition of pop-imagery with personal photo-album elements, in an increasingly refined and painterly style. The photo-realistic snap-shot imagery is no longer layered with the public imagery appropriated from movies, book illustrations, maps and cartoons as it was in his earlier work.
The artist continues to explore the juxtaposition of pop-imagery with personal photo-album elements, in an increasingly refined and painterly style.
The photo-realistic snap-shot imagery is no longer layered with the public imagery appropriated from movies, book illustrations, maps and cartoons as it was in his earlier work. These elements are now more delegated to separate spaces on the same canvas, only overlapping in the most subtle ways.
This evolution from a layered, collage-like style of painting to a distinct separation of the elements of the canvas has allowed Gravinese a greater narrative freedom in this new body of work. The negotiation of desire and emotion is now crystalline, emphasized rather than obscured by the barrage of media imagery that always coexists.
His atmospheric quality of light and intensity of color remain constant, fostering an intensified sense of reality, while the figures recline in fairy tale-like fields of clover or float on the intense blue body of water. The minimal geometric shapes that dot the surface of the older work are still present, and now seem to serve as a bridge between the figurative and cultural elements of the new paintings. The result is a less abstract, more lyrical body of work.
Diego Gravinese, born in 1971, lives and
works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Gallery hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 11:00--6:00 pm.
De Chiara|Stewart
521 West 26th St.,
New York City 10001,
Tel: 2129676007,
Fax: 2129671604.