Nicus Lucá "StraightPinPaintings"
Esso Gallery
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Jennifer Bacon and Filippo Fossati announce the opening of the gallery’s first solo exhibition by Italian conceptual artist, Nicus Lucá on Thursday, May 8, 2008
"Carol Rama, Aldo Mondino and Alighiero Boetti represent an incursion into the ordinary with the desire of reinventing the world over and over again. The three of them introduced themselves into ambiguous terrain where vision and perception split giving birth to a new and specific poetic thought. Lucá, who has once been Mondino's alumni, made his own their linguistic method but sure enough not their style," Italian critic, Alberto Fiz, states.
Under the influence of these three Torinese predecessors, Lucá deconstructs convention and takes his visual language into a diverse sphere with a broad knowledge of what conceptual art means and can do.
Entitled StraightPinPaintings, the exhibition presents a series of work that recaptures paintings from Caravaggio to Warhol through straight pins. Hundreds of pins pierced behind the canvas extract the quintessential aspect of each painting and produce a three dimensional quality. His radical and almost provocative gesture of pushing the pins forward is, in a way, to push the past behind and fill the gap between the era of the painting referenced and that of the viewer. In his 12-hour video "Punto" the viewer follows the creation of a painting as the pins, one by one, poke through the canvas.
[Image: Nicus Lucá "Lichtenstein" (2008) straight pin and acrylic on canvas and wood, 25" x 25"]
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Schedule
from May 08, 2008 to June 14, 2008
Opening Reception: May 8, 6-8 pm