Paolo Consorti in Amsterdam
Prinsengracht 715 - 23.11.2006
Consorti realizes images that tell contemporary fairy stories. His imagination feed itself on chronicle, contemporary private stories, mind’s projection, fantasies, anxieties, and he proceed from this looking for the fragment of absolute in contemporary world and mind. So he describes, in mysterious scenes, new archetypes, setting up point of contact between a remote and primordial past, and now. Sex, nature, religion, work together in this work and they are as the only reality in our life. Deep spaces in ourselves, that sometimes we can look with irony or as drama, because our society and culture are included between tragedy and irony….
Figures in white and red space suits appear consistently throughout as if straight out of Woody Allen's film “What you ever wanted to know about Sex”. At first they seem to be supernumeraries in an S & M film , but at second glance one realizes that these suits seem more like a protective skin. They might be clones at the end of a particular era, presenting for example what may threaten the individual. Sexuality in this hurly burly world seems to be the last meaningful act of society. Alien landscapes, rotting fragments of technology, and cloned people are intermingled within a scene that Breughel foresaw, but Consorti solidified.
What at first glance seems to represent the artist's a borderless fantasy, revealsto be painting of the highest standard. His art, unconditionally coeval – and most importantly italian - is owed to the painting tradition. Its theme: Man in an existential delirium of daily life. Consorti is concerned with a conduction of painting of modern means. The artist does not paint much himself; instead he directs his picturesque worlds like a music conductor: friends stand as models whom he photographs in the same manner as he would a balled up tissue that he later transforms into a mountain. Consorti melts all elements, be they real or models, together into a final composition. Lastly, a coat of varnish is painted on top of the canvas
17.00hrs - 20.00hrs at Studio Apart, Prinsengracht 715 Amsterdam
