Almine Rech Shanghai is pleased to present Offset Sunset, Italian artist Gioele Amaro’s first solo show at the gallery. His work was previously shown in the group exhibition Water Always Moves On at the Brussels gallery in 2020.
A master of the art of synthesis, Amaro combines, transforms, and blurs the boundaries to construct a dialogue between traditional mediums (painting, photography, drawing) and new technologies. His work is digitally painted, then printed on canvas. He then meticulously re- works each canvas, applying several layers of varnish. By bringing his own touch to this original technique, Amaro shifts figurative representation into the abstract and captures the essence of the subject from real life.
For this new show, Amaro has painted horizons, or, rather, the spirit of the horizon as seen from a window, an airplane window, or even through a smartphone screen.
Like his previous series DigitalDust, in which he revisited historical masterpieces, Amaro tends to reduce these stolen moments to the simplest particle of their own colors. However, in this series, he does not call on collective memory, but appeals to our subconscious and indi- vidual history. Like screenshots of our emotions, Amaro’s paintings seem to plumb our souls, seeking the memory of a meaningful moment or a magical interval.
Gioele Amaro’s paintings are allegorical representations of passing time. With these vanities 3.0, he chooses to depict a kind of fragility and grace, inviting us on a poetic journey of a very different nature.
With his control of digital painting, Amaro has captured and materialized the emotion of an instant, while defying digital art skeptics. Gioele Amaro is an Italian painter born in 1986. He lives and works in Milan and Paris.
- Milena Oldfield, researcher at Almine Rech
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阿尔敏·莱希上海荣幸呈现乔莱尔·阿马罗(Gioele Amaro)的第一次画廊个展「偏 移的日落」。艺术家先前曾参与阿尔敏·莱希布鲁塞尔2020年举办的群展「水流不息」。
作为一名擅长跨媒介的艺术家，阿马罗在创作过程中将绘画、摄影、素描等传统 媒介与新技术结合，随之转换并模糊其中的边界，建构一场传统媒介与新艺术手法间 的对话。他的作品通过数码工具绘制而成，然后打印在画布上。接着，他仔细地在每 一幅画布上加工，涂上好几层清漆。以原创艺术手法替作品增添个性化风格，阿马罗 将具象艺术表现抽象化，从现实生活中捕捉画中描绘主题的本质。
在这次新展览中，阿马罗描绘了地平线——或更确切地说，是一种从窗户、飞机 舷窗，甚至通过手机屏幕中所看到地平线的浮光掠影。
像他之前的《数码尘埃》(DigitalDust)系列中重温历史名画一样，阿马罗将 这些被他挪来的艺术瞬间，还原至最原始的颜色颗粒。然而，在新系列中，他并没 有要唤起观众集体记忆，而是召唤着我们的潜意识和个人生命经历。就像我们情绪 的截图一样，阿马罗的画作似乎在探测我们的灵魂深处，寻找一段有意义的生命片 刻或某个梦幻瞬间。
乔莱尔·阿马罗的画作可说是对时间流逝充满寓意的呈现。通过这些现代的虚空画 3.0版本，阿马罗描绘了生命中的脆弱和优雅，并邀我们踏上一段截然不同的诗意旅程。
凭借对数字绘画的精准把控，阿马罗捕捉并具体表现了瞬间的情感，也同时挑 战着数字艺术的怀疑者。
乔莱尔·阿马罗是1986年出生于意大利的画家，现在工作生活于米兰和巴黎。
文/米蕾娜·奥德菲尔德(阿尔敏·莱希研究专员)
Image:
Gioele Amaro RedonDawn, 2021
Ink and varnish on canvas
162 x 130 cm
63 3/4 x 51 1/4 in
© Gioele Amaro
Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech
Installation image:
Gioele Amaro, Offset Sunset
Almine Rech Shanghai
February 25 - March 31, 2022
© Gioele Amaro - Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech
Photo: Alessandro Wang
