RODOLPHO PARIGI

Over the last year, the artist conceived the works presentedin the show through the connections they establish with eachother. Although volumetry is widely used in the paintings,the shapes that compose the elements represented have acertain malleability, as if they were metamorphosing. Thus, thepaintings share similarities, whether thematic or formal, whichshown together, highlight the artist’s poetic journey and thedevelopments of his pictorial investigations.

In Parigi’s words: ‘I draw and paint figures aiming totransfigure bodies and pre-established ideas, confusion of genresand the exploration of boundaries between real or simulatedimages. Bodies are fused and remodeled to transform the canvasor paper surfaces, where containments and expansions arenegotiated within the physical limits of the support.’

The exhibition includes references to artists and movements inart history, especially Surrealism, which celebrates its centenarythis year. The ambiguity of the forms and their exuberant colouring give the compositions a dreamlike and absurd aspect, which isclose to the proposals of the artistic avant-garde. Parigi pointsout that the development of the works was a kind of dive intohis own subconscious: ‘My work emerges from the conflictbetween reality and fiction. Through drawings, paintings, andperformances I explore a universe of self-imagined fiction,inhabited by hybrid or androgynous figures of strange beauty,forms that inhabit the surface like living bodies that could evenbreathe or move.’

Courtesy Galeria Nara Roesler