The project, designed specifically for the gallery of Palermo, includes new large paintings, a sculptural work in polyurethane foam and a series of landscapes seen from "bird's eye" realized for the first time on paper. These new works comprise an innovative project of great artistic quality and visual power. The exhibition, curated by the critic Lorenzo Bruni, will be open until May 25th, from Thursday to Saturday.
The title "Lost Highway" refers to David Lynchs film of 1997, that anticipated many issues that were presented at the ontological level later about the relationship between physical and mental identity. The association with this film is also due to Lynch's predilection to portray the surreal aspects in everyday life, an attitude that William Marc Zanghi has always tried to bring out in his landscapes.
The artistic investigation of William Marc Zanghi is in fact characterized by the ability to combine reality with imagination, in order to create surreal landscapes (forests, rivers and marshes, but also beaches, acid and metaphysical islands, inhabited by animals, enigmatic characters and unusual creatures) that are placed on the boundary between a strong dimension of dream and an obsession with the realistic details, in idyllic visions and disturbing atmospheres. These scenes between the everyday and the unexpected are characterized by a range of altered colors and gloss paints which enhance the hallucinatory state, where he combine his aspects - mental and physical - all aimed at expressing the complexity of the human soul.
"Lost Highway" is a turning point in the artistic development of William Marc Zanghi. Dots of color that pile up or monstrous heads that come out in place of flowers are the elements that in recent years the artist has used to stop the plot of the figuration that himself has staged.
In the new production, the artist exalts some of the styling elements which have disoriented the viewer inside of his earlier pictures, and he specifically queries himself about the origin of these elements. The new works, in fact, have characters like strange creatures with human features, bizarre anthropomorphic heads that inexplicably are in territories on the verge between land and water. What strongly emerges is the need - primarily of the artist - to explain the nature (organic-inorganic) and the origin (autochthonous-allochthonous) of these heads. In this sense, then, these elements appear - in a more innovative dimension between allegory and presentation - as artefacts that the artist finds in the territory of his own painting, and he wants to clarify their origin. Thus - as a researcher, as a compiler of maps - he needs to observe, collect, analyze and present these formal elements "emerging" in his work.
In the new paintings, forests and houses give way to the representation of new islands that, in this case however, do not evoke a place of exile, but a place bubbling with new energy. The formal challenge to represent territories of land and water, has led the artist to use for the first time the paper as new support. The anthropomorphic sculptures in improbable colors - that have nothing to do with the theme of the grotesque - deal with the idea of self-irony that may have the objects produced / used by man and observed by other men. This is confirmed by the choice of the artist of presenting them not as installation or three-dimensional painting, but as artifacts or museum objects in showcases or on metal pedestals, which remind us of the "display" of the sixties. Thus, these heads - that look at us or that can be looked upon by us - raise the question in which context or place can they be put, or from which strange world they emerged.
In this context, Zanghi's new production reveals a profound critique of pictorial dimension understood as pure decoration, and just this approach gives a new meaning to his work. The artworks on show at RizzutoArte Gallery, for both the new issues and the variety of painting mediums used, allow a complete re-reading and relocation of the artist.
William Marc Zanghi - Lost Highway
solo show curated by Lorenzo Bruni
RizzutoArte Gallery
Palermo, 30 Monte Cuccio Street - ITALY
Opening : Thursday, April 18th, 2013 - 7.00 p.m.
18 April - 25 May, 2013
Open from Thursday to Saturday, 3.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.
Free admission.
For more information:
Eva Oliveri +39 348.3622577; evaoliveri@rizzutoarte.com
Tiziana Pantaleo +39 091 526843; tizianapantaleo@rizzutoarte.com
www.rizzutoarte.com
tiziana pantaleo
RizzutoArte Gallery
30 Monte Cuccio Street
Palermo Italy
+39091526843
Source:
William Marc Zanghi - LOST HIGHWAY, solo show curated by Lorenzo Bruni
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