Caio Fonseca
dal 5/7/2007 al 30/8/2007
Segnalato da
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.
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
Free admission