Serena Scapagnini “Synapses”
Studio Vendome
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Studio Vendome and Beez and Honey present Serena Scapagnini’s most recent work that focuses on neurons. These neurons flow like the tributaries of a river connecting through synapses forming the shapes of our thoughts.
Synapses is a project dedicated to the mind and It has been developed in collaboration with the Higley Lab - Program in Cellular Neuroscience of the Yale School of Medicine. The exhibition includes several works that will be presented for the first time in New York City. Among those, ‘Now’ was prompted by and includes an original in vivo video, shown during Art Basel Miami Beach at the Miami Cultural Arts Center in 2015.
Other mixed media works on paper define an interior landscape inspired by fluorescent neuroimaging. The paint which is dense and stratified on one part of the picture plane grows into etheric forms rarefying and dissolving into the white paper. The dendritic branches are treated through different media which allow the images to dissolve and the layers of color to surrender to the white face of the paper.
The paper has become an essential component of Serena Scapagnini’s current paintings because of its transparency and delicacy in response to the smallest chromatic operation. The support is specifically prepared in an acid solution in order to facilitate the image’s rarefaction. Through the variation of density, she unrolls hyperboles of increasing white. The process is intelligently meditative and contemplative, as are the images themselves. Brain activity is observed starting from the electrical and biochemical signaling within the neurons’ dendritic arbors that form our thoughts. Going beyond them, her work suggests the experience of the mind and inner self as an instrument of transcendence.
Serena Scapagnini was born in 1983 in Rome, Italy. She graduated in Semiotics and History of Religion at La Sapienza University, Rome and she began her art education in Paris (Paris VIII) and then New York, where she studied at the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been shown and collected in United States, India, Sweden, Hungary, Italy. She lives and works in Rome.
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Schedule
from July 12, 2016 to December 08, 2016
Opening Reception on 2016-07-12 from 18:00 to 20:00