Dean Borghi Fine Art, is pleased to announce our new exhibition Purple Noon, a solo exhibition featuring painter Olivia Kaiser.  

Purple Noon is a solo exhibition featuring artist Olivia Kaiser, exhibiting her recent works on canvas. Much of the movements in Kaiser’s works envoke elements of feelings and ideas that the artist is trying to get across.When talking about her work Kaiser goes to say, “There are all these ideas, narrations, never exchanged words and fictional struggles that I have in mind when I think about my paragons in painting. I think about the lionized artists of the past and today with who I compete, who I envy, who I want to overcome; a process that is violent and dramatic in itself. In order to advance my artistic performance, I perhaps work a little like the "talented Mr. Ripley". I imitate, I fake, I improvise, I commit symbolic murders but eventually I produce something new, that saturates with all it's ambiguities into the canvas and continues it's both tender and passionate struggle."

She goes on to say, "Purple Noon" alludes to the range of colors used in my current cycle of paintings as well as to a film by René Clement (1960) with the same name. In this first adaption of Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley the American Tom Ripley (Alain Delon) is hired by Philippe Greenleaf's (Maurice Ronet) father to lure his son, a wealthy "bon vivant" that enjoys life in Italy, back to the States. After getting involved with Greenleaf, his girlfriend Marge and their profligate lives, Tom eventually decides to murder Greenleaf and to take over his wealth and love .