Marisa Favretto
dal 30/10/2008 al 19/12/2008
Segnalato da
30/10/2008
Marisa Favretto
Upstairs Berlin Gallery, Berlin
Mood shift. In her new works Favretto frames the strong separation of the world of animals from the world of humans. The painted distance between observer and observed, man and animal, clarifies the impossibility of ever encountering each other on equal terms. The human turns into a voyeur, the animal to a synonym for one's own barriers and therefore becomes even more an object of desire.
Upstairs berlin is pleased to present the second solo exhibition of Alaska-born artist Marisa Favretto (*1974) titled mood shift. In her new works Favretto frames the strong separation of the world of animals from the world of humans. The painted distance between observer and observed, man and animal, clarifies the impossibility of ever encountering each other on equal terms. The human turns into a voyeur, the animal to a synonym for one’s own barriers and therefore becomes even more an object of desire.
Whereas Marisa Favretto placed a focus on mirror-effects and depth in her earlier works, her new works centre on light. Spotlights point out birds pecking on the ground, a wolf is not yet certain of fully leaving the protective darkness and a group of large-format paintings shows the same gathering of animals illuminated by different lighting conditions.
Since the overcoming of monochrome backgrounds, driven ad absurdum in the Romantic age, painters have been seeking an atmospherically perfect light to change mood or, as the title says, mood shift. Marisa Favretto uses her distinctive light techniques to allow an insight into a world which would otherwise stay in the dark. But she only allows the viewing of certain sections, focussed on what needs to be emphasized. The constellations of power between human and animal remain ambiguous and the observer is fascinated, but keeps a shy distance from these free-living animals, which continue their existence unhindered.
In 2008 Marisa Favretto has been awarded the Guasch Coranty Prize.
Opening, Friday, October 31, 2008, 6 to 8 pm, 1st floor
Upstairs Berlin Gallery
Zimmerstrasse 90/91, staircase A - Berlin
Open from Tuesday until Saturday from 11 am to 6 pm.
Free admission