Oillages it's a self-coined term to describe the juxtaposition of paper-cuts on a surface painted with oil colors.
Marco Piemonte has produced this series ‘Circles’ in which tiny figures are displaced from their original context (usually a celebratory scene of 20th century leisure) and strategically re-positioned within a colourful vortex of dried and brushed paint. This seems to create imaginary events and new adventures as the postures and gestures of the old figures are given new lives, synthesized within vivid, formless contexts by the eyes and minds of an audience ever eager to make sense of whatever they encounter.
On the occasion of the invention of photography it was famously proclaimed that ‘painting is dead’, but here we seem to see painting trying to rejuvenate the corpse of photography. A composite image, made of a chaos of dried paint (as left on a palette at the end of a painter’s day) and an old, found photographic image, repeatedly conspire in a tactile process that goes beyond its constituent elements to become ‘more than the sum of the parts’ which thus transmits a certain, mysterious satisfaction between artist and audience.
This exhibition is now finished in our London Gallery.
Few pieces from this collection are still available on our Gallery in Sicily (see address below) and at our Online Store.
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Viewing by appointment only.
7Coco Gallery Sicily
Montebello 149,
Vittoria, RG 97019
Sicily
UK Mobile number - +44 7941522 623