Marco Boggio Sella "Virtual America" and "New Painting from L'Atelier Rouge"
John Connelly Presents
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For his latest project Marco Boggio Sella has conceived of two new exhibitions, "Virtual America" and "New Painting from L'Atelier Rouge", to be presenting simultaneously as the artist's third and fourth consecutive solo shows in New York. By presenting two solo shows at the same time Boggio Sella highlights the relative nature of the creative process while drawing attention to the serial relationship within his own bodies of work. Shown together as two interlacing but autonomous presentations, Boggio Sella's project creates a non-dialogue that has become the artist's trademark in exploring the nature of creativity. The result is a complex stratification of disconnected surprises rather than any logical consequentiality.
In “Virtual America”, Marco Boggio Sella recollects cultural clichés and personal experiences to illuminate what holds together the contradictions assumable under the concept of America. The largest piece in the show is a collection of images printed on Dura-Lar, a synthetic material commonly used for its characteristic transparency. Stacks of 30 sheets (5×10 feet in size) some printed some not, are secured to the wall of the gallery by leaning 14 feet-long,182 pound metal beams. Stacking Dura-Lar sheets result in a mirroring quality that conveys to the printed images a particularly immaterial feel.
Boggio Sella's other exhibition on view is from "L'Atelier Rouge", an ongoing series of works inspired by Matisse's eponymous painting, where Boggio Sella reinterprets familiar images from art history, decoration, the history of photography, and uncopyrighted images used by designers and advertisers. A new group of six large paintings from this series are inspired by documentary photographs of the 1920's and are painted on a surface that is textured by a layer of pasta creating a secondary shadow image over the first.
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Schedule
from October 30, 2009 to December 12, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-10-30 from 18:00 to 20:00