Exhibitions, Italy, Napoli, 28 October 2014
Tuesday, 10.28.2014, 19:00, opens "NATURE NARRATOR" personal painting of the GRAF SALVATORE Sound Archives (via Morghen n. C 31 / F, Naples. Info: +39081.5560338, www.fonoteca.net, salvatoregraf74 @ gmail.com, +393464132638), on display every day until 10/11/2014. Admission is free.
That NATURE, if listened to with ear pure and vigilant attention, when viewed through the eyes of a child without the many socio-cultural superstructure, has the ability to strike up a story, somewhere between dream and reality, the story proceeds imaging, which affects immediacy with vivid tones and direct, you can determine immersing himself in the corpus that allestivo SALVATORE GRAF presents his first solo exhibition by the National Sound Archives.
A procedure exhibition consists of about 20 pieces of varying sizes (from 25x35 to 35x50), made of paper and cardboard with a mixed technique, starting from the use of china, graphos, pens and pen, moves and also takes advantage of the compactness chromatic date dall'acrilico and tempera. The result is a theory of small 'gems', that wink to the mosaic - at least for iconographic effect - the illustration, the miniature engraving, a taste of the 'decorative' that, without falling into easy-simplification , instead, keeps intact the delicacy, the atmosphere of the fairy tale, the innocence and the strength of a pictorial syntax that speaks the language of the imagination and suspension, irony and great usability. This does not mean avoiding to move along a path more complex than it may appear at first glance hasty. Graf, in fact, in his work elements of a summons NATURE primitive, ancestral, mythological (earth, fire, water, etc.), risen to vehicle communication, always filtered by the suggestion dream, place your message in locations often at night, the moon , daughters of dreams and imagination. In fact, in the creations of Nature that Graf is ready to play a story is understood almost pantheistically Nature, in which each character is animated, has its own life, and acts in the composition of the scene, even with shades ironic, visionary, paradoxical or social commentary and human, contributing to a kind of alienating effect, in which ancient and modern, reality and imagination mingle perfectly. And these are not the only elements, seemingly distant, to proceed hand in hand in the lexicon of the Neapolitan creative. When about the work of Graf speaks, in fact, a NARRATOR NATURE, it is because the author adopts a dual track of expression: in addition to the pictorial sign, even the word. In addition to the mixed media where it occurs, with effects 'mosaic' texture data, from the route point, the contrasting colors, appears as another hub, the Logos. Graf plays with the word; get to include it in his paintings: titles that are no longer just those, but become short prose excerpts, fragments of narrative that pun, a certain childlike lyricism, a subtle evocative, often tempered by irony, making their points force and special news. So, word and pictorial marry and contribute to the final effect, in a synergy of all natural, where one proves complementary to each other. In this way, "NATURE NARRATOR" proves to be a phrase that most guessed it, a key to the artistic proposal Graf, in which the sea, fish, flowers, earth, sun, water, trees, leaves and stars have all something to tell, and they do it in landscape Vespers, twilight, where the staff is diverse and rich color, nuance between hot and cold, but they are the browns, reds, blacks and blue cobalt or cerulean to arouse the lunar effect and dream, with an attention to detail and the minutiae, in which you put the power of the word that makes invention and fable, no longer mere description or simple comment.
SALVATORE GRAF, born in 1974, graduated from the Art School of Naples and graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. Passionate well of photography, is a 360 ° artist dealing, in addition to painting, also the implementation of objects and ceramic jewelry. He took part with his numerous works in various group exhibitions in Naples and in Campania, including the latest are "Land Art Campi Flegrei" (2013) and in the spaces of Sabina Albano to "Antologhia" and "Gennaro" (both 2014). This is from his first solo record library.
That NATURE, if listened to with ear pure and vigilant attention, when viewed through the eyes of a child without the many socio-cultural superstructure, has the ability to strike up a story, somewhere between dream and reality, the story proceeds imaging, which affects immediacy with vivid tones and direct, you can determine immersing himself in the corpus that allestivo SALVATORE GRAF presents his first solo exhibition by the National Sound Archives.
A procedure exhibition consists of about 20 pieces of varying sizes (from 25x35 to 35x50), made of paper and cardboard with a mixed technique, starting from the use of china, graphos, pens and pen, moves and also takes advantage of the compactness chromatic date dall'acrilico and tempera. The result is a theory of small 'gems', that wink to the mosaic - at least for iconographic effect - the illustration, the miniature engraving, a taste of the 'decorative' that, without falling into easy-simplification , instead, keeps intact the delicacy, the atmosphere of the fairy tale, the innocence and the strength of a pictorial syntax that speaks the language of the imagination and suspension, irony and great usability. This does not mean avoiding to move along a path more complex than it may appear at first glance hasty. Graf, in fact, in his work elements of a summons NATURE primitive, ancestral, mythological (earth, fire, water, etc.), risen to vehicle communication, always filtered by the suggestion dream, place your message in locations often at night, the moon , daughters of dreams and imagination. In fact, in the creations of Nature that Graf is ready to play a story is understood almost pantheistically Nature, in which each character is animated, has its own life, and acts in the composition of the scene, even with shades ironic, visionary, paradoxical or social commentary and human, contributing to a kind of alienating effect, in which ancient and modern, reality and imagination mingle perfectly. And these are not the only elements, seemingly distant, to proceed hand in hand in the lexicon of the Neapolitan creative. When about the work of Graf speaks, in fact, a NARRATOR NATURE, it is because the author adopts a dual track of expression: in addition to the pictorial sign, even the word. In addition to the mixed media where it occurs, with effects 'mosaic' texture data, from the route point, the contrasting colors, appears as another hub, the Logos. Graf plays with the word; get to include it in his paintings: titles that are no longer just those, but become short prose excerpts, fragments of narrative that pun, a certain childlike lyricism, a subtle evocative, often tempered by irony, making their points force and special news. So, word and pictorial marry and contribute to the final effect, in a synergy of all natural, where one proves complementary to each other. In this way, "NATURE NARRATOR" proves to be a phrase that most guessed it, a key to the artistic proposal Graf, in which the sea, fish, flowers, earth, sun, water, trees, leaves and stars have all something to tell, and they do it in landscape Vespers, twilight, where the staff is diverse and rich color, nuance between hot and cold, but they are the browns, reds, blacks and blue cobalt or cerulean to arouse the lunar effect and dream, with an attention to detail and the minutiae, in which you put the power of the word that makes invention and fable, no longer mere description or simple comment.
SALVATORE GRAF, born in 1974, graduated from the Art School of Naples and graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. Passionate well of photography, is a 360 ° artist dealing, in addition to painting, also the implementation of objects and ceramic jewelry. He took part with his numerous works in various group exhibitions in Naples and in Campania, including the latest are "Land Art Campi Flegrei" (2013) and in the spaces of Sabina Albano to "Antologhia" and "Gennaro" (both 2014). This is from his first solo record library.
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