Angelina Gualdoni
November 24, 2008 by Sam K
Posted in Painting | Tagged Angelina Gualdoni, Baltimore, Chicago, Kavi Gupta, Skowhegan, St. Louis | 22 Comments
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This work seems like the futuristic version of Ulf Puder’s work, whom Kavi Gupta also carries – –
This work is lovely. I find myself to be typically unimpressed with futuristic interior/exteriors as they seem to often lack for me a thread to which I can personally connect other than pure imagination which can sometimes serve more to alienate the viewer than to draw she or he into its distinct and imaginative world. However, Gualdoni’s use of light, her robust color choices, and rhythmic application of paint (or as it appears to have been applied from where I sit on this side of the screen) are both intriguing and lyrical. As each time has its call to arms; its own anthem or song. For me, this work, as well as her piece Rec Center, 2007 just below it on the Kavi Gupta Gallery website seem to maintain a freshness which paintings many times loose from their conception to their final state of abandonment (I would like to see them in person to see if this is an accurate perception) and show her version of the future as resounding with a distinct melody of its own that makes me want to hear more.
What if…David Hockney designed the scenery for Twilight, the opera?
The Nerman Museum in KCK has two of these paintings up right now. The one above and Slating in Suspension which is also on the Kavi Gupta page. The paint is thin and light and the jpegs are a little deceptive. The illusion of light is a lot less powerful in the paintings than they appear to look on screen. That feeling of freshness or spontaneity is still there though. The spilled paint is as energetic as it looks and she has a really quirky macaroni-noodle markmaking that does give the paintings a ‘human touch’ appeal that a lot of the empty, creepy mod-future-retro interior painting doesn’t have.
Julie, I like that likening this sort of painting to a decade- specific anthem. This kind of painting seems to be something that kind of irresistable, that can’t help but inspire others to say ‘I want to do that/there need to be more paintings like that.’
the interiors are intriguing to me in terms of what i imagine to might be the process that creates them. the reactive elements of these paintings: how she employs and encapsulates the color spills, flattens and bends them through drawing, are interesting. it makes some of the surfaces feel perforated or bruised in a way that makes me simultaneously conscious of color as a type of field and then also, its plasticity.
These are admirable, but emotionally they feel very remote. Of course, the kinship is with Weischer and other painters of the spare-yet-potent interior school.
In reproduction, even the application of material feels skillful though not entirely inspired. I could have an entirely different response in front of the works.
emotionally remote. so apparently you’re not feeling the whole teenager/vampire love story angle, huh? cuz i’m imagining the libretto as totally emo…
These interiors give me a real warm fuzzy nostalgic buzz. They remind me of childhood imagination, where hours pass just sitting on the floor, inventing complex plots and dwellings for Barbie.
They have an atmosphere of slow and quiet invention.
I like that ‘slow and quiet invention.’
Because I do also agree with Matt Choberka, the paint-moves being skillful but not inspired. I was thinking that the jpegs might give a sense that Gualdoni’s paint has more Bay Area Painting/Peter Doig vigor than it really does. They don’t. One gets a sense that she’s studied the paint handling but she’s not in it for the paint handling.
Maybe she’s the only one of the current interior/exterior types that has a slightly pre-Raphaelite bent?
Or maybe she’d just sympathize with Allen Ginsberg: “first idea, best idea.”
To pick up on Chris’s TeenVampireEmo angle, is there anything more boring on God’s Green Earth than the recurring vogue for Vampires? Scanning an Anne Rice book that passed for writing when I was 18 is cringe-worthy, HBO’s Trueblood has been dismal, and, though I haven’t yet seen or read anything “Twilight”, chaste sublimation via yet another Vamp saga is not high on my list right now. Just venting (not baring my fangs)…
sorry, OFF TOPIC!, OFF TOPIC!
I can only come up with one contender for more boring than Vampires Return—-Artnews does another issue on the Return of Realism. Hmmm, maybe two great tastes that taste great together? Possibilities?
The whole, in this case, would be worth more than the sum of its parts:
“I’m a realist painter.”
“Oh really, what subjects do you prefer?”
“Vampires.”
“But–”
“Shhhh.”
it could offer a whole new branch of theory to support Pearlstein’s figures…
I liked Trueblood. I have no idea if it’s a bad/lame/cliched show or not because I have terrible taste in TV: Nancy Grace, and My Super Sweet 16 are faves. {side question: is there “good taste” in tv, anyway?}
So I have a question for anyone: If Vampires and Realism are “boring” returns…..what resurgence (in pop culture or art) would you get uber-pumped about? We already have Justin Timberlake’s answer.
I actually think a discussion of taste in terms of tv has become fully justified. Cinema has always been one of my greatest loves as an art form, and yet, in America at least, TV has become much more rich and risky of late. We still have Van Sant, we have Lynch, and Burnett, and Spike Lee, and Linklater in movies. But the long serial format of television has allowed a show like The Wire to work on simultaneous political, social, and moral levels, like a Tolstoy novel, and with a comparable expansive “canvas” (see, I’m getting back on topic….).
I remember Six Feet Under having some moments of genuinely rad invention.
I’m always behind on hip TV. I did try to watch a couple episodes of Mad Men on DVD and couldn’t get in to it. Should I give it another try or is it overrated? I do like 30 Rock and have to one of the most brilliant pieces of performance art I’ve seen all year is the strange creature that David Brooks has turned himself into. For those of you who watched any of your election coverage on PBS. Definitely the most out-there auto-character design since the Cremaster series, seriously.
Mad Man is a must, in my humble estimation.
Just had to come back to this vampire-discussing post because I saw a preview for Let The Right One In and in looks really really good.