A Saucerful of Secrets. Siro Cugusi solo exhibition, May 17- July 31. Agencia de Trànsitos Culturales, Galeria ATC, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.
A Saurceful of Secrets, solo exhibition
A Saucerful of Secrets. Siro Cugusi solo exhibition, May 17- July 31. Agencia de Trànsitos Culturales, Galeria ATC, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.
Siro Cugusi - Aleph - Galleria Annarumma
Art a Part Of Culture - Magazine
Siro Cugusi - ALEPH - Galleria Annarumma
Siro Cugusi - ALEPH - Galleria Annarumma
La casa è grande come il mondo. Tuttavia, a forza di percorrere cortili con una cisterna e polverosi corridoi di pietra grigia, raggiunsi la strada e vidi il tempio delle Fiaccole e il mare. Non compresi, finché una visione notturna vi rivelò che anche i mari e i templi sono infiniti. Tutto esiste molte volte, infinite volte…Forse fui io a creare le stelle e il sole e questa enorme casa, ma non me ne ricordo.
La casa di Asterione – Jorge Luis Borges
Aleph è una serie di dipinti realizzati con olio su tela, che esplora il tema del paesaggio, creando una rete di spazi occupati dalla giustapposizione del familiare e dell’indefinibile, della narrativa e dell’astratto: un flusso inondante di immagini e pensieri interconnessi, con ogni opera legata alla successiva da una struttura talvolta astratta, talvolata figurativa, in cui si accoppiano in modo sorprendente e quasi paradossale con trame e colori, sposando materia e luce.Il lavoro di Siro Cugusi offre un luogo di introspezione meditativa, uno spazio dove contemplare bellezza e mistero, fantasie erotiche e piaceri innocenti, ricordi e pensieri.
Attraverso dipinti caratterizzati da figure che non corrispondono più ai nomi che abbiamo dato loro e che non rispettano la narrativa tradizionale, Siro crea un linguaggio autonomo e personale sconosciuto, pieno di significati arcaici e metaforici. Questo linguaggio non è presentato come immagini chiare, ma come spesso ci si presentano i ricordi, come in un sogno: velato, senza logica e incompleto. I corpi umani, la flora, la fauna e il mondo minerale coesistono insieme, non in uno spazio razionale ma dove le leggi della natura sono capovolte: un santuario interiore per gli esseri umani e mitici, un luogo di fascino di mistero e delizie sublimi.
Gli spazi indeterminati dei suoi mondi fittizi e psicologici pullulano di corpi e oggetti ibridi, come se il suo occhio fosse il principale testimone di una scena agitata, interpretata da figure misteriose che si uniscono in una confusione di prospettive sconcertanti. Siro riduce le figure alla loro essenza e quindi aggiunge e adotta forme biomorfe e surreali, ma libera ulteriormente quelle forme attraverso il processo della pittura stessa enfatizzando il colore più lirico e il contenuto personale. Trasforma, passato e presente, in nuove realtà, astratte e controllate. Invece di un rendering esatto, allo spettatore vengono presentati suggerimenti di oggetti reali che sono sottoposti all’interpretazione personale dell’artista delle loro forme e significati.
Siro dice dei suoi dipinti “Quando comincio un dipinto, non ho un’immagine specifica nella mia mente. Ogni immagine deve evolvere da una logica pittorica o visiva: deve emergere come se fosse inevitabile. I dipinti hanno la struttura della narrativa, ma una struttura che rimane sconosciuta, come se fosse una costruzione il cui risultato è il frutto di un enigma, di forme e figure incombenti e sbiadite“.
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Publication of Alpenglühen - 100 years of Ettore Sottsass Jr.
Publication - Alpengluhen - 100 years of Ettore Sottsass Jr
Alpengluhen - 100 years of Ettore Sottsass Jr publication.
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Opening: 1st of June 2018
Galleria Annarumma, Napoli.
Editorial Magazine 's review on Siro Cugusi 's exhibition
Siro Cugusi’s Secret Garden
Images courtesy of the artist and Galleri Kant Text by Claire Milbrath
Siro Cugusi’s Secret Garden showcases the painter’s tradmark high-gloss, scribbly, mechanical masterpieces. Secret Garden is a funny exhibition title, said to evoke a meditative place of introspection and innocent pleasure, when in reality the works exhibited bring to mind medieval surgery, crude apparatuses, and sordid Guston flesh-tones. Cugusi’s paintings look like mathematical outlines created by a pre-science mind. The painter is interested in presenting figures not as clear images, but as they would appear in memories—veiled, and incomplete. His mixture of materials (oil paint, enamel, spray paint, wax pastels to name a few) and successive layering create a feeling of imbalance and chaos. Perhaps it is easier to attribute Cugusi’s Secret Garden not to the realm of natural beauty and innocence, but to Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, a mythical place of biomorphic, mysterious forms. See the Sardinian painter’s works at Galleri Kant in Copenhagen until April 15th.
http://the-editorialmagazine.com/siro-cugusis-secret-garden/
http://the-editorialmagazine.com/siro-cugusis-secret-garden/
Secret Garden - Solo exhibition - Galleri Kant
Secret Garden, Siro Cugusi solo exhibition, March 09 - April 15, 2018
Galleri Kant, Copenhagen
Galleri Kant
St. Kongensgade 3, Baghuset
1264 Copenhagen
Denmark
Whet Ya Whistle - Galleri Kant
OPENING FRIDAY 25. AUGUST 17.00 - 19.00
EXHIBITION 25. AUGUST - 23. SEPTEMBER 2017
VISIT WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY 12.00 - 18.00
SATURDAY - SUNDAY 12.00 - 16.00
GALLERI KANT
St. Kongensgade 3, Baghuset
1264 Copenhagen K
Denmark
The San Diego Union Tribune review on Siro Cugusi exhibition
Italian artist Siro Cugusi speaks 'visual language' at Lux
The abstract paintings of Italian artist Siro Cugusi defy a
clear definition. The colors and textures suggest dreamlike, imaginary
scenes with a variety of shapes that seem both real and surreal.
The abstract paintings of Italian artist Siro Cugusi defy a
clear definition. The colors and textures suggest dreamlike, imaginary
scenes with a variety of shapes that seem both real and surreal.
“Siro’s
paintings do not correspond with reality,” agreed Reesey Shaw, the
director of Lux Art Institute. His works “derive from his dreams,
subconscious, fleeting thoughts and abstract ideas. He rejects
traditional narrative painting to demonstrate his own personal
language.”
Cugusi, the current Lux resident artist, uses canvas, wood, pages
from books and varied types of paper as a base. His paintings often have
a combination of oils and other media, including acrylics, spray paint,
enamel, pencils and pastels, applied in multiple layers. The result is
not so much a picture, but a state of thoughts and feelings he calls a
“visual language.”
Generally, art gallery visitors are accustomed
to looking at an abstract painting, and then reading the title to learn
what it represents. Cugusi, however, does not give his works a name.
Each is assigned a letter or a number or both.
“I do not want people to lock in on the name of the
painting,” Cugusi said through a translator. “I do not want them to
think about the concept based on the title. My paintings are a kind of
visual language. People will see the concepts and the colors. They will
see the steps and the layers. They will clearly see the whole process. An exhibit of 12 Cugusi paintings is on view through March
18. Cugusi is living and working in the artist’s pavilion through Feb.
18. Three days a week, visitors can meet him and see him create a large
oil painting for Lux.
The artist refers to himself as a forager of
ideas and feelings, which he collects in notes, photos and sketches of
memories, events and people.
“My art results from all my
experiences everywhere I go,” Cugusi said. “I am in constant search for
inspiration. I collect impressions of my everyday life and absorb what
is around me.” Those thoughts and memories will find a way into his work, sometimes years later. Siro Cugusi
is from Sardinia, an island off Italy. He has studied and exhibited in
cities such as Florence and Paris. He values what he learned in these
places, “but I realized how different and frenetic a big city is,” he
said.
“Sardinia is calm and relaxed. I can connect with nature. It
provides an isolation so that I can do the art I want to do without
contaminating influences.”
Shaw noticed Cugusi’s work during her
many art exploration travels. He seemed a perfect choice to be part of
the 10th anniversary of the artist-in-residence program’s global theme.
“We
particularly look for artists from unusual places using unexpected
materials with unique visions,” she said. “Siro is a painter of unusual
imagination and scale.
“I was intrigued and excited to bring him from a town of 3,000 in Sardinia to do a project with Lux.”
“I am grateful to have the chance to be here, in San Diego,” Cugusi said. “All my experiences here will become a part of me.”
His time at Lux has already given him a fresh outlook. He said he is using colors he hasn’t used in years.
The artist described his personal process of painting in terms of being a father creating a son.
“My
paintings are my sons,” Cugusi said. “To create something means to give
form to something that does not have a form. To give form is to give
life.”
By Catherine Gaugh
The San Diego Union Tribune
Arts Culture
February 5, 2017
Installation view, Siro CugusiSiro Cugusi exhibition at Lux Art Institute Museum pavillion:
In studio: Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 to Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017
Exhibition:
Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 to Saturday, March 18, 2017
Studio
series: Thursday, Feb. 9, 20
Lux
Art Institute
1550
South El Camino Real
Encinitas,
CA
Awkward, Anna Zorina Gallery
Anna Zorina Gallery is pleased to announce Awkward, a group exhibition
curated by Shaun Ellison. The exhibition features eight painters that
are united in the pursuit of denying technical conventions of realism.
Instinct, direct perception and spontaneous feeling guide each artist’s
mark making. This allows for unexpected, and at times, ungraceful
elements to emerge from within their subjective conceptions
of the world. The impulsiveness with which the artists express their
immediate sensations unlocks the potential to portray a perspective that
is intimate and unapologetically awkward.
Siro Cugusi –
“Awkward relates to the original gesture. I believe the original gesture
is the best. It has to do with imprecision, transience, incompleteness
and imperfection. Awkward means uncertainty and truth at the same time.”
John Bradford – “When, early on, I started painting from my
imagination, I gave up the fluid hand that happens when responding to
nature and it was difficult. It felt artificial and, yes, awkward. I
eventually got back the hand but with texture and rigor added. I also
kept the awkward; it felt natural.”
Katherine Bradford - “To
paint in an awkward style means a loose handling of paint and a
forgiving attitude toward surprise mishaps. Somehow these turn out to be
just what we wanted but couldn’t have imagined.”
Shaun Ellison – “Awkward to me means: a vulnerability to the process
and an openness to accidents.” William Hawkins – “You paint as you go.”
Paul Housley – “Being awkward I would use the word difficult. It’s a
place that lies between desire and attainment. But my foolishness is my
own, and belongs to no God, not even the ones of Painting.”
Cristina Lama – “Awkward, in painting, as unifying concept, I think it
alludes to an intuitive way of tackling the work, without complexes and
with an implicit will to get away from any academic restraint, precepts
and dogmas, just responding to fundamentally pictorial guidelines as a
nontransferable language.”
Tim Stoner – “I'm not that interested in logic or any level of self
deconstruction when I am actually making the work, I feel that painting
is a moment, or a series of moments that work when one is unanchored
from the rules of style or language.”
Anna Zorina Gallery
West 23 Street, 533
New York NY 10011 United States
www.annazorinagallery.com
Siro Cugusi solo exhibition at Lux Art Institute Museum pavilion
Siro Cugusi exhibition at Lux Art Institute Museum pavilion:
In studio: Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 to Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017
Exhibition:
Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 to Saturday, March 18, 2017
Studio
series: Thursday, Feb. 9, 20
Lux
Art Institute
1550
South El Camino Real
Encinitas,
CA
Lux Art Institute
Lux
Art institute
Siro
Cugusi: In Studio And On Exhibt
Lux
Art Institute comes to the midpoint of its 10th Anniversary Season with Italian
artist Siro Cugusi. Members and visitors can enjoy Siro’s exhibit in our Artist
Pavilion and meet the artist as he works on a new art piece. Lux gives members
and visitors access to the artists and the art making process.
In
studio: Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 to Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017
Exhibition:
Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 to Saturday, March 18, 2017
Studio
series: Thursday, Feb. 9, 20
Lux
Art Institute
1550
South El Camino Real
Encinitas,
CA
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