Exhibitions, Italy, Treviso, 02 March 2014
Marco Dianese, Bringing Art to the Table
The moment has happened to all of us whether it was in Nonna’s kitchen, or a Bistro on the banks of the Seine in Paris. Faced with a meal so breathtakingly beautiful, so perfect, that guilt rises to the cheeks as you salivate at the thought of its very demise. Your heart winces just a bit as you bite into the culinary masterpiece. Deep down it is evident that the morsel deserves more than this moment of sheer admiration. However, just one more bite, then another, each one a closer step to paradise. Each one a drug, an obsession, a reason to go on in this world! Then the experience is over. The violin plays, the conversation carries on, the work of art is lost forever. Except in our memories; memories that only prove to change the most precise and intended details seen to by the hand of the chef.
Marco Dianese confronts the moment in the continuation in his touring exhibition, The Sweet Choices of Life. The show kicked off earlier this year at Casier di Treviso’s Spazio Juliet, and will be appearing in Manhattan in December. The series approaches socio-cultural issues of the modern day palette, such as food addiction and drug sub-culture. Dianese goes beyond a confrontation actually. The artist ceases the moment and crystalizes all of its details in cocoon of preservation. The intent of the series is to share the concept of a preserved beauty. Dianese aspires to capture all compiled segments of the calculated preparation process in sharp, detailed shots rendered by a Cannon Eos 18-55mm. The result delivers a colorful spectrum of desserts from the classic Venetian Bussolai to England’s iconic Trifle.
It is evident that Dianese starts conceptualizing these edible works of art through a long process of detail. At times he plays with recipes up to fifty times before finding satisfaction with an outcome. The artist consciously assigns social connotation with specific sweets. As if each dessert represents a different side of the artist’s ego. At the root of his Flan lives the spark of an 80’s punk rocker, while the Venetian specialties flaunt personality traits of a reserved grandeur inspired in part by Coco Chanel. The focus on class, the artist remarks, is directly linked to Venice’s emergence as a new aristocratic society, c’era una volta… (once upon a time.)
The Venetian-Manhattanite grew up in household of chefs. He then shared his kitchen-born talent with the Institute of Culinary Art adding ingredients of nurture and discipline to his gastronomical oeuvre. In The Sweet Choices of Life Dianese breathes as much vigor into his graphic work as he does his culinary experiments. More than meets the sugar glazed eye when properly examining this body of work which features an array of international recipes, graphic design, and high resolution digital photography.
Marco Dianese’s The Sweet Choices of Life is on view Dec. 22, 2013 – Feb. 10th, 2014 at Bread, 20 Spring Street, Nolita NYC. Curator Rosanna Boraso.
Marie V. G. Palladino, Fine Art Consultant, Nov. 28, 2013
The moment has happened to all of us whether it was in Nonna’s kitchen, or a Bistro on the banks of the Seine in Paris. Faced with a meal so breathtakingly beautiful, so perfect, that guilt rises to the cheeks as you salivate at the thought of its very demise. Your heart winces just a bit as you bite into the culinary masterpiece. Deep down it is evident that the morsel deserves more than this moment of sheer admiration. However, just one more bite, then another, each one a closer step to paradise. Each one a drug, an obsession, a reason to go on in this world! Then the experience is over. The violin plays, the conversation carries on, the work of art is lost forever. Except in our memories; memories that only prove to change the most precise and intended details seen to by the hand of the chef.
Marco Dianese confronts the moment in the continuation in his touring exhibition, The Sweet Choices of Life. The show kicked off earlier this year at Casier di Treviso’s Spazio Juliet, and will be appearing in Manhattan in December. The series approaches socio-cultural issues of the modern day palette, such as food addiction and drug sub-culture. Dianese goes beyond a confrontation actually. The artist ceases the moment and crystalizes all of its details in cocoon of preservation. The intent of the series is to share the concept of a preserved beauty. Dianese aspires to capture all compiled segments of the calculated preparation process in sharp, detailed shots rendered by a Cannon Eos 18-55mm. The result delivers a colorful spectrum of desserts from the classic Venetian Bussolai to England’s iconic Trifle.
It is evident that Dianese starts conceptualizing these edible works of art through a long process of detail. At times he plays with recipes up to fifty times before finding satisfaction with an outcome. The artist consciously assigns social connotation with specific sweets. As if each dessert represents a different side of the artist’s ego. At the root of his Flan lives the spark of an 80’s punk rocker, while the Venetian specialties flaunt personality traits of a reserved grandeur inspired in part by Coco Chanel. The focus on class, the artist remarks, is directly linked to Venice’s emergence as a new aristocratic society, c’era una volta… (once upon a time.)
The Venetian-Manhattanite grew up in household of chefs. He then shared his kitchen-born talent with the Institute of Culinary Art adding ingredients of nurture and discipline to his gastronomical oeuvre. In The Sweet Choices of Life Dianese breathes as much vigor into his graphic work as he does his culinary experiments. More than meets the sugar glazed eye when properly examining this body of work which features an array of international recipes, graphic design, and high resolution digital photography.
Marco Dianese’s The Sweet Choices of Life is on view Dec. 22, 2013 – Feb. 10th, 2014 at Bread, 20 Spring Street, Nolita NYC. Curator Rosanna Boraso.
Marie V. G. Palladino, Fine Art Consultant, Nov. 28, 2013
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