FILIPPO SCIASCIA & ROBERTO CODA ZABETTA: RECENT WORKS
runs from 2 – 19 December at Valentine Willie Fine Art
Presented by Valentine Willie Fine Art, the exhibition showcases recent works by Italian artists Filippo Sciascia and Roberto Coda Zabetta.
Indonesia-based Italian artist, Filippo Sciascia, explores the power of light in representation, through an artistic dialogue with Caravaggio’s stunning masterpieces.
In his series of works, Filippo continues his explorations of the different approaches, techniques and strategies of representation. For Filippo, painting is a medium used to explore his complex ideas about the problem of image identification and creation, and it’s also his further attempt to identify issues of “how the eyes see” the world.
In many of Filippo’s solo projects, the complex relations between images recorded by camera, then edited to be short movie, showed on a TV screen, and painting, are presented simultaneously. Therefore, this implies the presence of implosion in the Baudrillardian sense: an agglomeration of message-images that appear all together overlaps one another, until the boundaries between the real and virtual eventually vanish – the dissolution of differences between the real and its representation. Pivotal in this whole process, is the continual presence of light.
It is light as it is captured, represented and conceptualized in paintings, which brings Filippo to deal with Caravaggio’s works. This show is a presentation of Filippo’s newest attempt in pursuing light through a set of complex procedures and strategies based on his artistic dialogue with Caravaggio’s works. Through the clever manipulation of light, and an artistic dialogue that involves exploration and alteration, Filippo creatively “re-presents” Caravaggio’s stunning masterpieces.
By depicting facial expressions, Roberto’s paintings reveal the profoundest truth about human beings that can be hidden behind a mask. A basic tenet of these images is their dislocation – from surroundings, from temporality, three-dimensional form and colour.
Zabetta has adopted the face as his vehicle into the mind: heads have provided his theme since he emerged on to the Italian art scene in 1997. They dominated his one-man show of paintings at Palazzo Venezia in Rome in 2004 and, after moving to London in 2005, last year he exhibited twelve ceramic heads and five large-format ink drawings as an installation.
Largely derived from his involvement with the palliative care of cancer patients at the Royal Marsden Hospital in South Kensington, the drawings infused the graphic language of medical records of a diseased eye with the salving notation of charts surveying the order of the cosmos and nature.
This directness reveals the influence of a number of artists – Philip Guston, Arnulf Rainer, Francis Bacon. Zabetta was also assistant to the Italian conceptualist and pop artist, Aldo Mondino, for four years towards the end of Mondino’s life when this inveterate traveller was combining in his work ideas gathered in India, Palestine, Morocco.
FILIPPO SCIASCIA & ROBERTO CODA ZABETTA: RECENT WORKS
runs from 2 – 19 December 2009
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