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Email PageDanilo Buccella 2007
February 23, 2007- March 31, 2007
Reception: February 23, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Danilo Buccella
Vanina Holasek Gallery
502 W 27th StVANINA HOLASEK GALLERY and Galleria Ca’ di Fra’, Milan are pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by Danilo Buccella on view from February 23rd through March 31st, 2007. This will be Buccella’s first solo exhibition in the United States.
The Sound of Night, titled for the artist’s fascination with darkness, will include a selection of paintings of women set within surreal landscapes realized by atmospheric forests and an unearthly light. These figures have no distinct identity existing rather as metaphoric representations of abstract qualities and thoughts apparent in Buccella’s titles, Never More, The Leaf of Lust, and The Fruit of Dawn. They are the sounds and reflections of a dreamlike state that only exist in one’s unconscious mind.
Buccella’s paintings are characterized by the obscure. His female subjects, painted more like fluid silhouettes, are set against a backdrop of darkness only illuminated by a light source that seems to contradict the physical laws of nature. There seems to be an absence of any other human activity or interaction as each figure is secluded in their own environment. At this moment, it becomes clear that Buccella is more than a painter and these scenes have been carefully produced much like a film director does. Their expressions are somber and their gaze long and concentrated. As they stare at the viewer, one wonders who is really watching who.
Buccella’s production, complete with sounds of thunderstorms, wind and faint whispers spoken by unidentified children creates an additional environment for the viewer, one that can be as troubling and unsettling in its strangeness as the one these women are in. Some of his women seem like they could be sleepwalkers in the night reminiscent of a film still by Tim Burton or a painting by Belgian Surrealist Paul Delvaux (1897-1994) while others seem to induce feelings of fear and desire.
The Leaf of Lust expresses the masterly range of techniques and skill that Buccella is known for. Short brush strokes translate layers of rich tones of blues and greens that with her pose, pale face, and fixed eyes, heighten the emotional mood of the painting. It can be interpreted as a reference to Marcel Duchamp’s (1887-1968) Etant Donné, in which the voyeur strains to see a nude lying supine on a bed of twigs. Is the woman in either of these works even alive?
Danilo Buccella was born in Liestal, Switzerland in 1974 and lives and works in Milan. He studied in Bologna.
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