Liliana D’Ambrosio Zoom on the Daily
April 13 - May 7
Zoom on the Daily opens April 13, 2022 at TAG Gallery, 5458 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036. TAG is open 1pm-7pm, Wed-Sun
Presentation
by Salvatore La Vecchia
I find myself enriched by those who make me see in a completely different way what I see every day.
Paul Valery, Bad Thoughts
Liliana’s art is a caress for the soul. After just a glance, with the same affection immediately felt by the viewer, there is sort of empathetic reciprocity with the artist and her works. Which imposes itself under the mysterious push of a gentle force felt hovering in this evocative space.
A caress that unravels over fifteen pieces, like a soft thread. From the almost weightless Maternity 1, rendered with glazes of acrylic, mastered with great expertise. To the visible sharpness of The Complexity of Global Warming - which does not lack smoothness either thanks to a harmonious composition of abstract shapes. Almost as if wanting to show a glimmer of beauty and hope in a world that seems to be willingly and gradually disintegrating.
Music is key to the reading of the entire exhibition. It is an enveloping work, like a warm embrace, with its sinuous chromatic waves. Winding tones, cold colors, high tones contrast with the low, deeptones of the warm colors, like music.
A caress for the soul. But whose soul? It is the soul of the viewer and of the artist herself. But, above all, a mysterious soul, perceivable only by a refined affinity for art. An invisible yet present soul, made visible by its own absence.
The theme of the exhibition, Zoom on the Daily, considers the definition of zoom: a photographic process, which from a wide shot tightens on a detail, on an object, bringing it to the foreground. Zooming on the daily life brings to the foreground the narcissism of oneself caused by the flood of the disposable and interchangeable. The universal experience of chasing after objects made by an increasingly globalizing market that aims at merchandising everything. Including our values, thus stripping them down to their trade value, depriving everything of its soul.
The artist understands that the absent soul is only a soul that has a transcended to another dimension: and there she captures it to bring it back, through art, into the human dimension by representing its absence.
The artist wishes for us not to ignore this torment of Liliana's intuition, pictured in the shattering of Thoughts. An emerging, dispersing,and resurfacing from the depth of a black void. The artist wishes for us not to ignore the gestation - or better Maternity - of pieces such as Spring, Blue Scarf, Décolleté. Works that are representative of that absence-presence. Especially Décolleté, a paradigm, as it inevitably calls to mind Van Gogh's famous shoes. Gogh’s heavy shoes, like those worn by a farmer, discarded after a day of hard work without being abandoned. And lightweight shoes, Liliana’s, almost evanescent, evoking the gracefulness of the soul that wore them.
Zoom on Daily represents life tormented by wars, by the unequal distribution of resources that produces shameful pockets of poverty in a world claiming to be civilized. Torment by the intensification of natural disasters due to the unstoppable global warming. A body of work that cannot help but expose another great absence, one found in the DNA of the United States, home to the Italian artist. Right to Happiness is an evocation of the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776. A piece that relates itself to Dante Autore della Divina Commedia, a sort of attribution of the "right to poetry" paired with the "right to happiness,". It is underlined as an inseparable union. The same union found in the works of Liliana D'Ambrosio between civil commitment, represented in We are here, and love for poetry.
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