NYAB Event - Geppy Pisanelli “Suspended Landscapes”

Geppy Pisanelli “Suspended Landscapes”

Kips Gallery

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Kips Gallery presents the solo exhibit of the Italian Artist Geppy Pisanelli entitled “Suspended Landscapes”. The Artist lives and work in New York since 2007 and “Suspended Landscapes” is his second solo exhibition in New York City. Painting, intended as a means of communication, continues to be the focus of his artistic research. In his last work, we can find all of the artist’s peculiarities, that is, a conceptual content, a complex drawing structure, based on perspective and the theory of shadows, and a luminous painting style created with strong chromatic contrasts.

The artist uses a straightforward language, without any frills, with strong and clear images immediately leading the viewer to wonder about its meaning. The work displayed in this exhibit includes a group of paintings, which at first sight, seem to portray images belonging to reality, but which actually do not reproduce it. After a more attentive look, they recall a conceptual dimension inviting the observer to think over the intrinsic metaphor of the work. For the artist, painted images are a pretext for communicating something else and are the starting point to guide the spectator in another direction.

For example, in the painting entitled The Gold Swing, we can see a swing suspended in a mostly black-colored atmosphere. In collective imagery, the swing refers to the playfulness of childhood. However, in this context lacking any point of reference, its dark and gloomy atmosphere annihilates the initial meaning and rises to the role of metaphor. What does it represent? A sense of emptiness? Uncertainty? Or the only thing to hold on to in the silent darkness? The meaning of his work remains coded. The spectator always has the last word. The different levels of interpretation are therefore created by the spectator.

[Image: Geppy Pisanelli “Suspended Bridge” (2011) Oil on Canvas]