Un‘idea di pittura I
09 Sep - 18 Oct 2014
UN‘IDEA DI PITTURA I
Thomas Braida, Peter Linde Busk, Benedikt Hipp, Walter Smith, Tom Thayer, Ian Tweedy, Duane Zaloudek
9 September 2014 – 18 October 2014
Featuring the work of seven artists from around the world, Un’idea di pittura is a partial anticipation of Monitor’s 2015 exhibition programme. Conceived with a strong figurative focus, the show includes artists of different generations and nationalities. Peter Linde Busk and Ian Tweedy have already been presented at the gallery, while the Americans Duane Zaloudek, Tom Thayer and Walter Smith, together with the Italian Thomas Braida and the German Benedikt Hipp, will all debut at Monitor the coming season.
The artistic research conducted by Thomas Braida (Gorizia 1982) is fuelled by the artist’s observation of daily reality, elaborated by his imagination in a manner that has much in common with the systematic process of translating. Braida transforms everything he touches; reality exceeds itself, becoming ‘real’ to the extreme. The artist works on a broad variety of supports, from canvas to magazine pages and ceramic.
Peter Linde Busk (Cophenagen, 1973) paints portraits of mental states – dark, introspective, verging on the abstract. His work attempts to capture universal feelings such as pride, fear or melancholy, and is permeated with cultivated literary references. By treading the tenuous line that separates abstract from figurative, Busk incorporates hybridised architectural elements with kaleidoscopic patterns steeped in fantastical ambiguity. He is scheduled to be featured at Monitor in a solo show in February next year.
Following his recent show at the gallery in December 2013, Ian Tweedy (Hahn, 1982), will present a new cycle of paintings on small-scale dioramas representing urban war scenes. The delicately painted human figures create a striking, almost sculptural effect within the ravaged landscapes of ruins.
Walter Smith’s (Manchester NH, 1980) paintings juxtapose strange alien figures alongside symbols from consumer society and Hollywood and pop icons, creating parallels that are both destabilising and provocative. These images are structured within the canvas like elements of a landscape. Frequently punctuated by holes bored directly through the canvas, they transform the surface of the work into a social plane that meets the gazes of both artist and viewer, mediating between them and the institutionalism of the space in which the picture hangs. Walter Smith was featured in a solo show at Monitor in New York, in May 2014.
Duane Zaloudek (Texhoma, 1931) boasts a highly sophisticated painting technique made up of fine, almost imperceptible veining applied over a white, chalk-prepared canvas. Lyrical and intense, this artist is little known in Italy despite a career that has spanned over fifty years and will debut at Monitor in April 2015 with a body of work dating from the 1970s to the present.
Tom Thayer’s (Chicago, 1970) work combines different mediums, from complex performance to video, sculpture and painting. Thayer explores the common ground between the exquisitely handcrafted and the technological, concentrating his attentions primarily on images in movement. Thayer has a long-standing interest in Commedia dell’Arte and theatre, which are featured in his paintings in the form of three-dimensional elements, stage wings and marionettes. He will have his Italian debut at Monitor next spring.
Benedikt Hipp (Munich, 1977) paints with rare subtlety, meshing together autobiographical elements with literary suggestions drawn from Europe’s boundless painting tradition. Hipp’s mysterious figures, frequently almost crammed forcefully within architectural frame-window structures, withdraw from their intimate sphere to a solitary, blurred dimension made up of secret details. He will be featured in a solo show at Monitor next autumn.
Thomas Braida, Peter Linde Busk, Benedikt Hipp, Walter Smith, Tom Thayer, Ian Tweedy, Duane Zaloudek
9 September 2014 – 18 October 2014
Featuring the work of seven artists from around the world, Un’idea di pittura is a partial anticipation of Monitor’s 2015 exhibition programme. Conceived with a strong figurative focus, the show includes artists of different generations and nationalities. Peter Linde Busk and Ian Tweedy have already been presented at the gallery, while the Americans Duane Zaloudek, Tom Thayer and Walter Smith, together with the Italian Thomas Braida and the German Benedikt Hipp, will all debut at Monitor the coming season.
The artistic research conducted by Thomas Braida (Gorizia 1982) is fuelled by the artist’s observation of daily reality, elaborated by his imagination in a manner that has much in common with the systematic process of translating. Braida transforms everything he touches; reality exceeds itself, becoming ‘real’ to the extreme. The artist works on a broad variety of supports, from canvas to magazine pages and ceramic.
Peter Linde Busk (Cophenagen, 1973) paints portraits of mental states – dark, introspective, verging on the abstract. His work attempts to capture universal feelings such as pride, fear or melancholy, and is permeated with cultivated literary references. By treading the tenuous line that separates abstract from figurative, Busk incorporates hybridised architectural elements with kaleidoscopic patterns steeped in fantastical ambiguity. He is scheduled to be featured at Monitor in a solo show in February next year.
Following his recent show at the gallery in December 2013, Ian Tweedy (Hahn, 1982), will present a new cycle of paintings on small-scale dioramas representing urban war scenes. The delicately painted human figures create a striking, almost sculptural effect within the ravaged landscapes of ruins.
Walter Smith’s (Manchester NH, 1980) paintings juxtapose strange alien figures alongside symbols from consumer society and Hollywood and pop icons, creating parallels that are both destabilising and provocative. These images are structured within the canvas like elements of a landscape. Frequently punctuated by holes bored directly through the canvas, they transform the surface of the work into a social plane that meets the gazes of both artist and viewer, mediating between them and the institutionalism of the space in which the picture hangs. Walter Smith was featured in a solo show at Monitor in New York, in May 2014.
Duane Zaloudek (Texhoma, 1931) boasts a highly sophisticated painting technique made up of fine, almost imperceptible veining applied over a white, chalk-prepared canvas. Lyrical and intense, this artist is little known in Italy despite a career that has spanned over fifty years and will debut at Monitor in April 2015 with a body of work dating from the 1970s to the present.
Tom Thayer’s (Chicago, 1970) work combines different mediums, from complex performance to video, sculpture and painting. Thayer explores the common ground between the exquisitely handcrafted and the technological, concentrating his attentions primarily on images in movement. Thayer has a long-standing interest in Commedia dell’Arte and theatre, which are featured in his paintings in the form of three-dimensional elements, stage wings and marionettes. He will have his Italian debut at Monitor next spring.
Benedikt Hipp (Munich, 1977) paints with rare subtlety, meshing together autobiographical elements with literary suggestions drawn from Europe’s boundless painting tradition. Hipp’s mysterious figures, frequently almost crammed forcefully within architectural frame-window structures, withdraw from their intimate sphere to a solitary, blurred dimension made up of secret details. He will be featured in a solo show at Monitor next autumn.