Louis Fratino: Nudissima
Antoine Levi, Paris
October 17 – December 5, 2019
Louis Fratino, 11 pm, 2019. Photo courtesy of Aurélien Mole and Antoine Levi.
Antoine Levi presents Nudissima, a solo exhibition of new sculpture by Louis Fratino. These works were produced during Fratino’s residency in Albissola, Italy, at Studio Ernan Design. Curator Luca Bochicchio, PhD, writes:
Fratino's ceramics highlight and develop even more his passion for a kind of narration where snapshots of life chain up, like everyday life dramaturgy tableaux, suspended moments in the flux of reality. Within this thread, assembled in relief with overlaid pictures, we find the artist's affective world, the poetic and erotica of his paintings, where the attention to the real life situates between the ethnographic transcription of the lived moment (in the underground, in is flat, in the street or at the beach) and a sort of mute suspension, almost sacral, half-way amid De Chirico's The Enigma of the Hour and the shredding of Mâyâ's veil in Eugenio Montale poetic oeuvre. The Italian modern Primitives have been the main spokespersons of Fratino's research, around a dialogue that has elaborated on a terrain of Modern mediations and influences (Carrà, Morandi, Sironi, Martini, Fontana) and Postmodern (Clemente, Paladino), as a kind of contemporary hyper-modernism deliberately putting aside the scholarly quote so to reflect – with the same more or less bygone models – on the the cognitive process of shape and language.
For more information on Nudissima at Antoine Levi, click here.