David Genovesi
painter-sculptor / USA-Italy
My interests, as an artist , are in the exploration of ancient primitive symbols, basic universal forms, archetypal images and sound before music.
My first concerns are:
- to bring out the hidden universality of basic forms
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- to seek an intution of the absolute and the unconditional
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- to pursue and convey a higher level of perception and develop an increasingly pure refinement of feeling
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- to be beyond subject matter but not abstract
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- to speak a universal language
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- to believe in inspiration, intuition and coincedence, and at all levels celebrate life.
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Within the framework of these self-imposed criteria lies an infinite variety of choices. These choices are about proportion, line, form, space, texture and color, and recently I have added sound.
A major consideration in my work has been the harmonic order based on the proportion used by the artists, architects and mystics of ancient and classical systems:
the Golden Section or the Divine Proportion.
The Egyptains used it for their pyramids and sacred structures, the Greeks and Romans for their temples and churches, the Rennaissance painters and later academies all employed this dynamic principle in their works. These fundamental laws or constants, were an attempt to bring order out of chaos by using this "built-in" logic.
Another consideration is the free calligraphic line as the symbol of natual flow and process, communication, spiritual illumination, and the movement between levels of consciousness.
Kandinsky, Klee. Modrian, Pollack, Brancusi, Rothko, and Reinhardt each saw in the free gesture an embodiment of a correspondence between this and another reality.
In my work, a duality of contradictory forces are always at play:
harmony
proportionally pre-determined, left-hemisphere, thoughtful, linear division of space on the surface, as the anchoring device,
and chaos
unthought randomness of free movement, right-hemisphere, spatial, intuitive, relational, as the catalyst.
This interaction of the one with the other, is the method I use to intice the observer to suspend, at least momentarily, the need to "understand" in the world and succumb to this interelational dialogue without words.
This built-in mechanism of creating right-brain / left brain mind shifting in my work is of primary importance, without which the discourse is only one-sided.
I am after a resonance in a finished work, an atmospheric architectural interplay with the space, instead of a containment within the confines of the piece. When the work is completed the interaction can then begin in the mind of the viewer and in the space in which it will be placed.
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Artwork information and Pricing:
The Four Seasons Series is constructed of wood which has been shaped, sculpted and incised. Acrylic, oil, alkyd, and automotive paints were used. The glaze-like effect of the finish was achieved by brushing many thin coats of transparent color over color, with the final coat being a protective clear finish. The wooden "fins" sit on a triangular base and are easily disassembled for shipping. No hardware is visible.
This series also includes the four original framed studies on paper.
Price : € 30,000 euro |
Artist Biography :
David Genovesi was born in Manchester, Ct, USA in 1944.
He attended Hartford Art School majoring in art history,
Istituto dei Belle Arti in Rome, Italy, where he studied sculpture and classical design,
and the Academy of Art in San Francisco, California where he studied design and painting.
He now lives and works in Rome, Italy
Genovesi's artistic experiences encompass a large variety of disciplines, but he is a sculptor and approaches any project, in any media, from the point of view of a sculptor.
This approach led him to participate in projects of architectual design for solar buildings, product design, graphic design, creativity classes for children and personal exhibitions of installation/performance.
He created Thursday Productions in Petaluma, California, an artisan laboratory for the design and manufacture of new scupltural forms in wood.
He founded and managed the Ideal Form Gallery in Vernon, Ct., where he personally curated exhibitions of experimental art and performance and explored new ways to present art to the public.
His multimedia performance work "Vibrations" has been presented with great success in various public sites.
He is now the Director of ARTROM Gallery, Rome, Italy.
He has held numerous personal and collective exhibitions in the United States and Europe. His works are in private collections in Boston, New York, Miami and Los Angeles, as well as Paris, Berlin, Rome and Milan.
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