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21.06 - 31.07.2010
I like your work: Paolo Giardi
On Couche Ensemble, 2010
-Paolo Giardi, On Couche Ensemble, 2010, aquarelle et encre sur papier 400 g., 70x100 cm, cadre
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-Paolo Giardi, On Couche Ensemble, 2010, watercolour and black ink on acid free 400gsm watercolour paper, 70x100 cm, frame
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Paolo Giardi
And Tomorrow Is Already Yesterday, or How the Heart Skips a Beat
Statement
Location: Paris
Themes: Expectation, relationships, sexuality, disillusion. The human nature.
Love seems quite a major theme in movies, literature, music, but not so much in art. Or not anymore. Somehow death is still a big subject. Nature and the self. Sometimes religion. Art is the crucial subject
in art.
‘Please don’t say we’re done
When I’m not finished’
The XX – Heart Skipped A Beat
Synopsis: The new series of watercolours entitled ‘And Tomorrow is Already Yesterday, or How the Heart Skips a Beat’ are conceived as random frames from a romantic Photostory. In sketching and re-sketching the preparatory collages, Giardi keeps adding different and contrasting elements to his narrative, following the method of composition or writing in Proust’s brouillons. The final execution, a montage of images, techniques and styles borrowed from vintage magazines, graphic design, literature and comic strips, presents us with a “circle of love”, a world of signs that must be deciphered, that is, interpreted.
‘The beloved’s lies are the hieroglyphics of love.
The interpreter of love’s signs is necessarily the interpreter of lies.’
Gilles Deleuze – Proust & Signs
ADDITIONAL WORKS
2010
Watercolour and oil paint on acid free 400gsm watercolour paper
100x70cm
How Do You Handle a Hungry Man?
2010
Watercolour and oil paint on acid free 400gsm watercolour paper
100x70cm
2010
Watercolour, black ink and oil paint on acid free 400gsm watercolour paper
100x70cm
2010
Watercolour and black ink on acid free 400gsm watercolour paper
100x70cm
2010
Black ink on acid free 400gsm watercolour paper
70x100cm
BIOGRAPHIE DE L’ARTISTE | ARTIST’ BIOGRAPHY
Paolo Giardi exploite de nombreuses disciplines au service de l’ art du montage. Il en résulte une fascinante exploration du langage de la citation, de l’allusion et de l’adaptation. Usant d’association, il tente simultanément de manipuler, de déplacer des images préexistantes, hors de leur contexte original, brouillant ainsi l’expérience de la mémoire et de la perception. Ses personnages, comme dans une pièce de Beckett, semblent toujours égarés dans une scène dont ils ne font pas partie.
Giardi n’a jamais été exclusivement un artiste peintre; son expérience est aussi celle d’un concepteur de vitrines,d’un illustrateur, ou d’un graveur. Toutes ces strates sont clairement visibles dans son oeuvre.
Le sens du déplacement, généré par une combinaison de langages différents et pourtant vaguement familiers, d’imagerie reconnaissable, et d’autres éléments plus graphiques et abstraits, évoque la nature d’une mémoire oubliée et lointaine. Ce qui se trouve devant nos yeux devient hiéroglyphe à déchiffrer; une telle imagerie pourra à la fois amuser ou effrayer le spectateur.
Paolo Giardi vit et travaille à Londres. Parmi ses récentes expositions: La collection de Monsieur X, ou les avantages d’être un collectionneur, avec Less is More Projects, Chic Dessin Art Fair, Paris, 2010; Wish You Were Here, avec Less is More Projects, Slick 2009, Paris, 2009, (catalogue); Salon, Whitecross Gallery, London, 2009 et 2008; This is About You, Whitecross Gallery, London, 2007; Why Can’t I Be You, Whitecross Gallery, London, 2006, solo show; Party People, Edo City, Rome, 2004, solo show.
Paolo Giardi works across a variety of disciplines producing art that explores the tecnique of the montage. This has led to a fascination with, and exploration of, the languages of citation, allusion and adaptation. Through the exercise of association, he simultaneously attemps to manipulate and transport existing images out of their original context, blurring the experiences of memory and perception. His characters, like in a Beckett play, seems always absorbed by a stage they do not belong to.
Giardi has never been an artist who paints exclusevely; his background is also that of a window dresser, an illustrator, a retail designer, a print maker, and all these layers are clearly visible in his work. The sense of displacement, generated by a combination of different and yet vaguely familiar idioms, recognisable imagery and more graphic and abstract elements, evokes the nature of a forgotten or distant memory. What lays before our eyes becomes a hieroglyph to be decifered. Such imagery could be at once amusing or alarming to the viewer.
Paolo Giardi is an artist based in London. Recent exhibitions include La collection de Monsieur X, ou les avantages d’être un collectionneur, avec Less is More Projects, Chic Dessin Art Fair, Paris, 2010; Wish You Were Here, avec Less is More Projects, Slick 2009, Paris, 2009, (catalogue); Salon, Whitecross Gallery, London, 2009 and 2008; This is About You, Whitecross Gallery, London, 2007; Why Can’t I Be You, Whitecross Gallery, London, 2006, solo show; Party People, Edo City, Rome, 2004, solo show.
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