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Massimo Audiello is pleased to present the first New York show of Chiara Minchio. The exhibition will be on view Thursday, March 6 through Saturday, April 26, 2008. Opening reception is Thursday, March 6, from 6 - 8 pm.
"In her first solo exhibition in the US at Massimo Audiello, Chiara Minchio shows paintings that are exclusively done with oil on canvas. The artist works mainly at daylight and uses highly-pigmented oil paint and Venetian turpentine for the benefit of luminance and depth of the colors. Also the title of the exhibition which delineates the connotation of the color red refers to a possible richness of associations that this purist approach could make accessible.
What constitutes the contained character of Chiara Minchio's paintings is her insistence on a potential subversive capacity and power of an aesthetic of elegance or style. Therefore she also uses a recourse to biographies and oeuvres from figures of the pre-feminist modernity like Romaine Brooks, Virginia Woolf or Eileen Gray. The consistent beauty of an art deco curtain, of an androgynous pose or of a dress style as an effigy of an attitude towards life, as an idiosyncratic reflection of it, is in opposition to a canonized, masculine and linear history of art that can be approached with subtle gesture. Often there only remain shadows, washed-out gestures, restrained comments in which appears an emotion of temporality and that which could outlast it; something that reminds one of Tarkovsky's movies, and what he called nostalgia. What can these triangles and stripes mean to us, how can they invent a subjective singularity and not only function as mannerisms of a presence that look for and express the gaps in the restlessness of modernity?
There are paintings and there is a wish that there could be something that is between conceptualization and self-referentiality; that ornamental and decorative abstraction could open our thoughts and ideas to a personal experience of ourselves, exceeding their history and tradition, more involved in a subjective exchange with the world of this artist, that is having a relationship with her paintings that lies between conflict and love."
- by Alexander Wolff
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