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Email PageVolcano
December 21, 2006- January 20, 2007
Reception: December 21, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Risica/Ottaviano
Dillon Gallery
555 W 25th St Risica/Ottaviano Eruption Jet (English) (2006) |
The collaborative team of Jeanne Risica and Ron Ottaviano reveal their mutual fascination with the sudden power, physics and scientific poetry of upheaval captured in this current series of artworks, “Volcano”.
The paintings are a response to scientific diagrams of volcanic processes discovered during long readings at the New York Public Library. Six diagrams in particular became the basis for experiments using digital enlargement. These photo scans revealed novel perspectives and urged reexamination of the perceived content. Eager to compress the mysterious seeming data of the literary segments of accompanying information, translations were done from English, to Chinese and Arabic. Further subjective elaborations on these initial templates, such as the addition of layers of painting along with new drawings, produced a visual language of acrylic on canvas independent of the original diagrams.
Seduced by the visual content in the plain realm of textbooks, Risica and Ottaviano conceptually morphed technical diagrams to pure paint and canvas. While the artworks speak of flow, collapse, power and sudden force elegantly amplified in layered depth and color, they also pose cultural and sociopolitical questions about the universality of scientific knowledge, natural forces, power and upheaval.
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