ART
Angelo Filomino |
Written 30 January |
Monday 16 March, 10:00Galerie Anne de Villepoix, 75003 [map]
The third personal exhibition by
Angelo Filomeno, an Italian artist based in New York, which includes new paintings in embroidered silk as well as a sculptural installation in crystal, metal and wood. Filomeno embroiders a fantastical and macabre world, dotted with timeless emblems. Filomeno's lavish scenes and organic forms are painstakingly 'painted' with a sewing machine and hoop onto the fabric, which is then stretched over linen. Filomeno details these narrative scenes with an appliquéd spray of crystals and semi-precious gemstones, flaunting both his fantastical conceptions and his astonishing craftsmanship. It is through Filomeno's elaborate motifs and rich use of symbolism that a parable of both life and death is created. Skeletons, brushes, and chiselled trees mark haunted landscapes with an extreme refinement. The paintings exhibited show landscapes of an exquisite subtlety moving from silent fairytale (Haunted Land: Almond and Olive Tree) to the grotesque (Haunted Land: Melting Brain with a Cliff).
Filomeno has said himself that he explores the obscure side of the universal psyche. The theories behind Jung's collective unconscious contribute to the subtext in Filomeno's work - the idea that pre-existing self-generating 'forces of nature' influence the human condition on a subconscious level. He pushes the silk to the extreme of its materiality and to the extent of its pictorial ambition to form unexpected narration of the imaginary which is simple and provocative, striking and repulsive.
| What: | Angelo Filomino |
| When: | Monday 16 March, 10:00 |
| Where: | Galerie Anne de Villepoix, 43 rue de Montmorency 75003 [map] |
| Transport: | Rambuteau, Arts et Metiers, Etienne Marcel |
| Cost: | 0EUR |
| Phone: | +33(0)1 42 78 32 24 |
| Email: | info@annedevillepoix.com |
| Web: | www.annedevillepoix.com |
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