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 Gianni Cacciarini The Model 1999 Tempera on canvas  Marco Klee Fallani Plastic Bottle 2001 Oil on canvas |
March 13 - May 1, 2005 UPPER GALLERY Vision, Memory and History: Contemporary Still Life Painting in Italy Gianni Cacciarini Marco Klee Fallani Wednesday, March 30, 4:30 pmThis exhibition presents the works of Florentine painters Gianni Cacciarini and Marco Klee Fallani. Working within the time-honored traditions of still life painting as a genre, these artists embody the subtle fusion of modern sensibility with the technical legacy of Italy's distinguished historical past. Although both of these painters stand outside the official orbit of a quasi-national school of "historical" painting that emerged in Italy in the 1980s, their work similarly speaks of the tension between the modern and the traditional that characterizes the best of contemporary Italian realism. Cacciarini creates a personal universe in which copies of antique statues coexist with obsolete technology and classic cinematic references. His studio in Florence has been described as a cluttered space in which objects dwell like "words in a dictionary waiting to be used." (Carlo Sisi). Invoking both the technical perfection of 17th century painting and the so-called metaphysical vision of early 20th century Italian modernism, these images are marked by a consistent but strangely remote sense of the real. In Fallani's presentation of discreet objects, the ordinary is rendered inaccessible by a veil that invokes both the physicality of paint and the instability of memory. Contrived arrangements of mundane things are seen through murky surfaces that have been compared to aging fresco painting. Like Cacciarini, he undermines the ease of recognition often promised by the strict rendering of precise things, offering instead an experience informed by individual sensibility and personal vision. Gianni Cacciarini (born 1941) grew up in Florence and is a trained architect as well as a painter and engraver. A student of the well known Italian portraitist Pietro Annigoni, he has had numerous solo and group shows in Italy and throughout Europe. Cacciarini lives in Tuscany, where he divides his time between Florence and the Maremma. Marco Klee Fallani (born 1965) was educated in the United States and Italy. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence and has an MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts. His paintings and sculpture have been exhibited in Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States. Fallani currently resides in Italy where he teaches painting at Syracuse University in Florence. |
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