Joe Gardella "Leitmotif"
Kips Gallery
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Joe Gardella works like time doesn't exist. For him, spending, off and on, 3 or 4 years on a drawing is just fine.
The works presented in this current show were done during a period of two years some 30 years ago.
The drawings where executed on paper and they all present a tectonic central motif of a vertical barreled shape. In some pieces this form is delicately constructed out of thin watercolor washes, in others, infinite strokes of fine dark graphite lines in varying tonal intensity, define the central shape while leaving untouched the white expanse of the paper.
Extremely work intensive, Joe Gardella drawings are the antithesis to today speed crazed world. One might want to ask the question why not trying to obtain approaching results with the help of today formidable technology, favored by so many artists, but then, the mark of the human hand would be lost… and it is precisely what infuses Gardella drawings with real poetry.
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Schedule
from September 03, 2009 to September 19, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-09-10 from 18:00 to 20:00