Victor Pesce "Objects and Faces"
Elizabeth Harris Gallery
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In this group of paintings Victor Pesce introduces faces along with his more familiar still-lifes of arranged objects. This exhibition is an intimate journey into the painting world of the artist. There is a beautifully illustrated catalogue that accompanies the exhibition with an essay by Dominique Nahas .
In the essay Mr. Nahas writes, “Pesce in his own way is focused on the realization of complex thought by the simplest expression possible.
All of the artist's works share family resemblances. That is to say that all of Pesce's works have a common element: they are layered visual expressions suffused with ambiguous and contradictory impulses… The strength of the work lies in its very capacity not to symbolize anything but to be itself… The artist doesn't paint objects as such as much as he paints conditions, atmospheres, attitudes, states of mind --- all held, seemingly in a state of suspension… Pesce's paintings are where the anthropological world of man conjoins man's imaginings. Here, the artist plays out the interfacings of the dream and the displacements of memory as inscribed in the materiality of the world… The austerity and isolation of each subject brings vulnerability out into the open.”
Victor Pesce was born in Queens , New York . He lives and works in Sharon , Connecticut .
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from April 20, 2008 to May 28, 2008