This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition '1571 CARAVAGGIO 1610' at HT Contemporary Art Space, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore, 12-30 November 2008.
'Indonesia-based Italian artist, Filippo Sciascia, explores the power of light in representation, through an artistic dialogue with Caravaggio's stunning masterpieces.
'Presented by Valentine Willie Fine Art and titled 1571 CARAVAGGIO 1610, the solo exhibition showcases a new series of works comprising of 13 characteristically monumental oil on canvas paintings.
'In his new series of works, Filippo continues his explorations of the different approaches, techniques and strategies of representation. For Filippo, painting is a medium used to explore his complex ideas about the problem of image identification and creation, and it's also his further attempt to identify issues of "how the eyes see" the world.
'In many of Filippo's solo projects, the complex relations between images recorded by camera, then edited to be short movie, showed on a TV screen, and painting, are presented simultaneously. Therefore, this implies the presence of implosion in the Baudrillardian sense: an agglomeration of message-images that appear all together, overlaps one another, until the boundaries between the real and virtual eventually vanish – the dissolution of differences between the real and its representation. Pivotal in this whole process, is the continual presence of light.
'It is light as it is captured, represented and conceptualized in paintings, which brings Filippo to deal with Caravaggio's works. This show – 1571 CARAVAGGIO 1610 – is a presentation of Filippo's newest attempt in pursuing light through a set of complex procedures and strategies based on his artistic dialogue with Caravaggio's works. Through the clever manipulation of light, and an artistic dialogue that involves exploration and alteration, Filippo creatively "re-presents" Caravaggio's stunning masterpieces.
'"Antique pieces found in the exhibit is courtesy of ANTIQUARO (European Antique Furniture & Art)"' (from VWFA website)
Including artist biography.
'Indonesia-based Italian artist, Filippo Sciascia, explores the power of light in representation, through an artistic dialogue with Caravaggio's stunning masterpieces.
'Presented by Valentine Willie Fine Art and titled 1571 CARAVAGGIO 1610, the solo exhibition showcases a new series of works comprising of 13 characteristically monumental oil on canvas paintings.
'In his new series of works, Filippo continues his explorations of the different approaches, techniques and strategies of representation. For Filippo, painting is a medium used to explore his complex ideas about the problem of image identification and creation, and it's also his further attempt to identify issues of "how the eyes see" the world.
'In many of Filippo's solo projects, the complex relations between images recorded by camera, then edited to be short movie, showed on a TV screen, and painting, are presented simultaneously. Therefore, this implies the presence of implosion in the Baudrillardian sense: an agglomeration of message-images that appear all together, overlaps one another, until the boundaries between the real and virtual eventually vanish – the dissolution of differences between the real and its representation. Pivotal in this whole process, is the continual presence of light.
'It is light as it is captured, represented and conceptualized in paintings, which brings Filippo to deal with Caravaggio's works. This show – 1571 CARAVAGGIO 1610 – is a presentation of Filippo's newest attempt in pursuing light through a set of complex procedures and strategies based on his artistic dialogue with Caravaggio's works. Through the clever manipulation of light, and an artistic dialogue that involves exploration and alteration, Filippo creatively "re-presents" Caravaggio's stunning masterpieces.
'"Antique pieces found in the exhibit is courtesy of ANTIQUARO (European Antique Furniture & Art)"' (from VWFA website)
Including artist biography.
Access level
Onsite
publisher
Location code
MON.SCF2
Language
English
Keyword
Publication/Creation date
2008
No of pages
72
ISBN / ISSN
9789839389289
No of copies
1
Content type
artist monograph,
catalogue
1571 CARAVAGGIO 1610: Filippo Sciascia
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