Oscar Giaconia
06 Oct - 15 Dec 2012
OSCAR GIACONIA
Alea
Curated by Stefano Raimondi
6 October – 15 December 2012
Thomas Brambilla gallery is proud to announce on Saturday 6 October 2012 the opening of Alea, the first gallery show of the Italian artist Oscar Giaconia.
Alea is, with Agon, Mimesis and Ilinx, one of the four types of games defined by Roger Caillois in 1958 in his book Les Jeux et les Hommes: le masque et le vertige (Man, Play and Games).
Specifically, Alea refers to gambles, as dice, when fate plays a primary part, which result is
everything but logic and where all the players have exactly the same level of probability in the beginning.
The artist himself talks about painting as something not run by logic: “Painting is in the sensation, in what goes through you just in a biological and physiological way. Painting is as game, an expense without economy, is practising without expecting a return, is a necessary activity, in a useless way”.
The exhibition will be formed by a series of industrial drawers of the Sixties and by ten amid drawings and oil on canvas.
Oscar Giaconia was born in Milan in 1978. He lives and works in Bergamo.
Alea
Curated by Stefano Raimondi
6 October – 15 December 2012
Thomas Brambilla gallery is proud to announce on Saturday 6 October 2012 the opening of Alea, the first gallery show of the Italian artist Oscar Giaconia.
Alea is, with Agon, Mimesis and Ilinx, one of the four types of games defined by Roger Caillois in 1958 in his book Les Jeux et les Hommes: le masque et le vertige (Man, Play and Games).
Specifically, Alea refers to gambles, as dice, when fate plays a primary part, which result is
everything but logic and where all the players have exactly the same level of probability in the beginning.
The artist himself talks about painting as something not run by logic: “Painting is in the sensation, in what goes through you just in a biological and physiological way. Painting is as game, an expense without economy, is practising without expecting a return, is a necessary activity, in a useless way”.
The exhibition will be formed by a series of industrial drawers of the Sixties and by ten amid drawings and oil on canvas.
Oscar Giaconia was born in Milan in 1978. He lives and works in Bergamo.