“Metamorphoses I”
Metamorphoses I
(SKU. 2539)
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Date
2014 -
Technique
silk, holographic and acrylic printing -
Dimensions
(H x W) 70 x 60 cm -
Edition
15
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The series of three works that Rodolpho Parigi created exclusively for Carbono Galeria features prints of drawings in magenta acrylic, which are then mounted on a metal plate with holographic adhesive, which is responsible for the incessant reflection of light spectrums on the object. The images, the focus of the work, refer to human anatomy, with its nerves, tensions and joints. However, it is not clear which part of the body they are referring to or whether the features are masculine or feminine, an ambiguity that greatly interests the artist. The drawings are based on the human body, but they are not faithful to it; they are in transformation, in metamorphosis, a reflection of the body of the work.
Biography
Rodolpho Parigi
Rodolpho Parigi is an artist who focuses his research on the body and its anatomy. He mainly produces paintings and drawings, as well as photographs and installations. He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Armando Álvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP) and has participated in important exhibitions and artistic residencies. Highlights include exhibitions at the Tomie Ohtake Institute (São Paulo), Pivô (São Paulo), the Museum of Brazilian Art of the Armando Álvares Penteado Foundation (São Paulo), the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia (Salvador), Rabitthole Space (New York), Paço das Artes (São Paulo) and Casa Modernista (São Paulo), in addition to his residency at the Cité des Arts (Paris). His works are part of important collections such as: Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Itaú Cultural, Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, and Museum of Art of Ribeirão Preto.
The artist is driven by an intense relationship between visuality and art history. His creative process involves pictorial experiments and intersections between research from diverse sources, such as artist and anatomy books, music posters, among others.
The beginning of his work is marked by paintings that occupied architectural spaces, such as walls and facades of buildings, as can be seen in the series "Apropri_Ação". In these works, the artist creates constructions that mix geometries (often directly related to the surface on which they were produced) and elements with organic shapes. In addition to mural paintings, Rodolpho also produces paintings and drawings on canvas, explosive surfaces that seem to go beyond the limits of the plane. In them, the artist explores geometry and the idea of decomposition of elements, relating the shapes to the colors and tones chosen. While black is predominant in the mural works, in the canvases Rodolpho makes use of diverse colors, with industrial tones.
Although studies of bodies already existed in his research, they were rarely explored in his works. In the exhibition "Atraque" (2011), we see these studies gain strength and become the artist's focus. Paintings and drawings are presented that reflect the artist's genuine interest in the transformation of nature, in its appropriation and human creation. Rodolpho creates images in which he intersects figures of different natures: men, plants and dragonflies, sometimes in apparently chaotic compositions, as in "Grace Jones" and "Magenta Bacanal". Furthermore, magenta asserts itself as the most powerful color.
In his most recent works, the artist continues to explore the anatomies and constructions of hybrid figures. In "Atlas", the artist uses drawings of the human body to create collages that create new organisms. In the "Bestiaire" series, Rodolpho goes further and draws ambiguous figures that appear to be based on human anatomy but take on unknown forms. In his own words: "I draw and paint figures with the desire to transfigure bodies and pre-established ideas, to confuse genres and to explore the boundaries between real and simulated images."
It was in this context of metamorphoses, freedom with the body and hybridisms that, in 2013, the character Fancy Violence was embodied. According to Bernardo de Souza: “Fancy Violence is an anti-heroine, a tireless killer in her iconoclastic mission, a destroyer of myths, of fake collectors and their masterpieces... She annihilates painting, geometry and the body of artistic work to give breath to this new being that feeds on pictorial residues, fragments of history and sexual outbursts; by exploding the canvas, she gave three-dimensionality to the monsters previously captured in oil.”
However, when Rodolpho's work seems to take the unrestricted direction of research into anatomical forms, the geometric universe is once again present in works such as "Magenta Abstract Nervoux Pink Flamingos" and "Êxtase de Santa Teresa Nervoux", highlighting that a work is made of flows with non-linear movements and that research also looks at its own history.
The artist has recently had several exhibitions, such as: "Untitled", at the Casa Triângulo gallery (2018); "Live Model - Fancy Violence", Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, Brazil (2017); "El Bestiário", Sketch, Bogotá, Colombia (2014), all solo; "The Cursed Part: A Sketch, SIM Galeria", São Paulo, Brazil (2019); "QueerMuseu", Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2017); "Histories of Sexuality", MASP, São Paulo, Brazil
Representative galleries
Nara Roesler Gallery , Sao Paulo
Destaques da carreira
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Obra "Atlas" | 2013 | Mostra "Febre", Galeria Pivô, São Paulo, SP
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Ocupação "a pipa" | 2013 | Praça Victor Civita, São Paulo, SP
