Exhibitions, Italy, Verbania, Omegna, 11 June 2011
Lakeside Art Gallery of Verbania is proud to present the solo show Dissolvenze by Valentino Albini, curated by Gaspare Luigi Marcone.
Vernissage in the presence of the artist Saturday 11 June 2011 from 6 through to 9 P.M.
In the 1980s and ’90s Valentino Albini (1959) worked as a professional photographer in the fields of fashion, design and advertising. At the same time he was already working on a strand of artistic research that focussed on a collage technique and evolved over the years as he adopted extremely personal technical and formal solutions.
The body of works on show in the exhibition Dissolvenze highlights this innovative approach and the maturation of a long and considered development. Albini successfully applies the “dissolvenza” or “fade” typical of the photographic and cinematographic idioms on a conceptual and material level using chemical “solvents” on paper. Selecting pages from commercial magazines, a material with which he is familiar from his photographic background, he decomposes the images, mixing their intrinsic colours through the use of chemical substances. The artists neither adds nor subtracts, but rather dilutes and remixes the colour of the support. It is a process of attraction and distancing, of the deconstruction of that world of advertising, fashion and appearance that is at the same time the mental and physical point of departure for his creative practice.
Using this method, the series entitled Croma is composed of works resolved as “symphonies” of colour. In his Impronte Albini instead generates “impressions” on paper after having soaked the magazine images with solvents, creating a personal kind of monotype. In this case we see the emergence of the idea of “duality” and residual “traces”, of the polarity between negative and positive, between the appropriation of and a distancing from the commodified and consumerist universe of the contemporary.
Gallery opening hours:
Tuesday – Friday 15.30 – 19.30
Saturday 10.30 – 12.30 / 15.30 – 19.30
Sundays and mornings by appointment
LAKESIDE Art Gallery
Via A. Tacchini, 26
28922 VERBANIA (VB)
Tel: +39 0323.556252
Cell: +39 347.6008131
www.lakeside.vb.it
info@lakeside.vb.it
Vernissage in the presence of the artist Saturday 11 June 2011 from 6 through to 9 P.M.
In the 1980s and ’90s Valentino Albini (1959) worked as a professional photographer in the fields of fashion, design and advertising. At the same time he was already working on a strand of artistic research that focussed on a collage technique and evolved over the years as he adopted extremely personal technical and formal solutions.
The body of works on show in the exhibition Dissolvenze highlights this innovative approach and the maturation of a long and considered development. Albini successfully applies the “dissolvenza” or “fade” typical of the photographic and cinematographic idioms on a conceptual and material level using chemical “solvents” on paper. Selecting pages from commercial magazines, a material with which he is familiar from his photographic background, he decomposes the images, mixing their intrinsic colours through the use of chemical substances. The artists neither adds nor subtracts, but rather dilutes and remixes the colour of the support. It is a process of attraction and distancing, of the deconstruction of that world of advertising, fashion and appearance that is at the same time the mental and physical point of departure for his creative practice.
Using this method, the series entitled Croma is composed of works resolved as “symphonies” of colour. In his Impronte Albini instead generates “impressions” on paper after having soaked the magazine images with solvents, creating a personal kind of monotype. In this case we see the emergence of the idea of “duality” and residual “traces”, of the polarity between negative and positive, between the appropriation of and a distancing from the commodified and consumerist universe of the contemporary.
Gallery opening hours:
Tuesday – Friday 15.30 – 19.30
Saturday 10.30 – 12.30 / 15.30 – 19.30
Sundays and mornings by appointment
LAKESIDE Art Gallery
Via A. Tacchini, 26
28922 VERBANIA (VB)
Tel: +39 0323.556252
Cell: +39 347.6008131
www.lakeside.vb.it
info@lakeside.vb.it
Comments 0
Say something