Alessio Defino "Metamorphoseis"

Kips Gallery

poster for Alessio Defino "Metamorphoseis"

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The grandeur of Alessio Delfino’s Metamorphoseis – a synthesis of photography and video in the purest sense – comes from a perspective on fashion fused with an acute awareness of both fine art and history. In addition to his technical and formal virtuosity as a photographer, Delfino has applied a unique conceptual perspective to creating a monument work of art through mixing media. To transcend the commonplace affects of craft, allure, and academic style, the project would require the artist to move into an uncertain aesthetic territory. Yet Delfino was committed to taking the risk. In doing so, he discovered a method by which he could go beyond mediumistic categories and thus realize his visionary project.

Metamorphoseis is a work of art that deserves serious attention, not only on the level of being a spectacle (which, in a sense, it is), but also on two other irreconcilable issues, namely connoisseurship and representation. It has been mentioned that Delfino’s recent project – first shown at the Castello di Rivara in Italy (June 2009) and currently at Kips Gallery in West Chelsea – moves beyond the repetitive and mundane aspects of political art and reaches deeply inside issues of beauty and identity that relate to women through an historical and mythological consciousness. There are different versions of Delfino’s Metamorphoseis, involving both static (photography) and kinetic (video) presence. The photographic versions are printed on metallic paper and measure 170 centimeters high by 60 centimeters wide, in other words, life-size. The video version is a look in which the photographs are modulated so as to appear as if they were fading in and out of one another in a serialized pattern.

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Schedule

from January 07, 2010 to January 30, 2010

Artist(s)

Alessio Defino

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