CURRENT
SOLO EXHIBITION
REALITY + IMAGE: BEYOND THE BRICKS
AUG 27 – OCT 19, 2024
Kim’s brick paintings challenge the viewer’s sense of reality. Although they look incredibly realistic, they are virtual representations based on the artist’s imagination. On sand-covered canvases, Kim employs shading to expertly produce the illusion of bricks, utilizing light and shadow to impart depth and texture. Shadows are essential in his work, defining surfaces, creating divisions, and giving the impression of bricks protruding or receding.Despite often being categorized as hyperrealism, Kim rejects this label. He considers his bricks to be illusions, highlighting their purpose in expressing his artistic vision. His work focuses on themes of repetition and formativity, demonstrating his skill in creating tension and balance through the repeated use of identical shapes.For the artist, the way grains of sand form bricks, and bricks come together to form buildings is similar to how cells come together to form a person, paralleling the individuals coming together to form society. Through his paintings, Kim symbolically expresses the importance of particles and humanity.
UPCOMING
SOLO EXHIBITION
THE FUTURE IS PAST IS PRESENT
OCT 24 – DEC 14, 2024
Guffogg's approach to painting is almost alchemical. Through each stroke, he transforms raw materials into something profound—an enduring expression of thought, memory, and emotion that transcends the limitations of time. Guffogg’s mastery of intertwining time and identity reaches its pinnacle in his At the Still Point of the Turning World series, a title drawn from T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. These works transcend time and space, functioning as visual poetry that seeks to capture the infinite. There are energetic forces in these paintings. When asked how the artist creates this sense of movement and gravity, guiding the viewer into the painting, he said; “It’s hard to explain how I know. There isn’t a thought or thoughts, or my inner voice speaking to me. It is a feeling that goes beyond where words go and I know a painting is done when I can sense it the painting is breathing on its own and will continue to do so after it leaves the studio.”
Artist Update: Shane Guffogg in Venice
APR 18 – NOV 24, 2024
The exhibition rooms of Palazzo Contarini will host the solo exhibition of Shane Guffogg, an American artist who presents to the public his new series of paintings entitled At the Still Point of the Turning World. The 21 paintings created by Shane are born from the dialogue with the poet T.S. Eliot with the aim of telling the story of the human race, its mutability and its continuous living in tension between present and future.
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