Corriere della Sera 28/XI/2011
November 2011
November 2011
LIFE IN THE STUDIO
Staff Gonzalo Orquín
by Lorenzo Canova and Francesco Paolo Del Re
OPENING: November 27, 2011, 11:00 am Breakfast
LOCATION: Studio Andrea Gobbi - Rome, 33 Via dei Lucanians / a
PERIOD: From November 27 to December 31, 2011
HOURS: Tuesday to Friday from 10.00 to 13.00 by appointment
INFO: Tel / Fax 06.44340151 - www.andreagobbi.com - www.gonzalo-orquin.com
It nourishes and fascinating precious fruits of the long stay in Rome in Spanish artist Gonzalo Orquín (Seville, 1982). The latest research results are presented in the artist's solo exhibition "Life in the studio," opening event of the new exhibition season of Studio Andrea Gobbi in Rome, in Via dei Lucanians 33 / a. The exhibition, curated by Lorenzo Canova and Francesco Paolo Del Re, opens Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 11:00 am with a breakfast in the presence of the artist and is open to the public from November 28 to December 31. To accompany the exhibition, a catalog with an introduction by Thomas Sharman and critical texts by Lorenzo Canova and Francesco Paolo Del Re
The polyphony of life swirling in the age-old monuments of Rome, the stage is observed, in his fascinating complexity, from the home-studio, magnifying glass, which filters the daily splendor of beauty and youth, by passing them through a devout love for history of art. Five years after "Roman Espejo" 2006, Gonzalo Orquín back to exhibit in Rome at the home gallery of Andrea Gobbi, resuming the thread of a conversation never stopped painting intimate, with two series of works made in the last year, distinct choices for the execution and industry issues.
On the one hand the "pictures of meditation", fruit of a long month. These are paintings in which the protagonists are figures absorbed in the circle of everyday life without heroism: men and women portrayed in the bourgeois interiors with thoughtful touches, room for quiet and rest, but also the secrets and regrets. A man plays after love. A young woman combing her hair long hair, with a wave of sensuality collection. China has a child on a computer. Two figures are praying. The characters are bugged by the artist in their private voyeur, unaware of the eyes watching them.
The second series of work is characterized by a painting cooler, fast and spontaneous, responding to a need for immediacy and allows the artist to find a contact in the act of painting. It's still lifes contemporary games artist, divertissement. Trivial objects, newspapers, are illuminated by a light metaphysics: a forgotten pair of latex gloves after use, a yellow polo shirts, a box of macaroons, shoes, bottles of detergent, a cup, a dog curled up, and an orchid of books in front of a window, clothespins in a basket, the back of a frame.
Following the example of painters who in past centuries chose Rome as a vital step in learning the emotional and artistic, Gonzalo Orquín moved from Seville to the Eternal City in 2004 and his biographical profile of colorful faceted and professional contradictions. Cosmopolitan artist (he has exhibited in Spain, Paris, Berlin, and among the many Italian exhibitions, participated in the Michetti Prize and was selected for award Fabbri 2011, with presentation of the works competing at Arte Fiera in Bologna), shy yet fashionable , Orquín is one of the new official portrait Caput Mundi beginning of this millennium and with the uncomfortable painter invited to exhibit in 2007 in the scandalous exhibition "Von Gloeden to Pierre et Gilles," advocated by Vittorio Sgarbi, among much controversy, held in Florence after never having opened its doors in Milan for the outright hostility of Mayor Letizia Moratti.
INFORMATION:
Press office: Francis Paul Of The King - Cell 320.0823405 / 392.8918793 - mostracrocevia@gmail.com
Andrea Gobbi Studio - Tel / Fax 06.44340151 - www.andreagobbi.com
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