GIUSEPPE LINARDI
Giuseppe Linardi was born in Buenos Aires in 1971 and graduated from the Academy of Fine Art in Florence. Now based in Follonica, his artistic career spans over two contrasting phases- at first devoted to hyperrealism, Linardi’s technique has now developed into a more spontaneous style. The new paintings evolve through elaborate methods of paint dripping, enriched with unusual colours and resins. Linardi is a versatile artist, also known for his installation and sculptural work. Giuseppe Linardi’s Decoded exhibition for Hay Hill Gallery is an unusual visual experience, providing the pieces of the puzzle for us to put together ourselves. A matrix of optical sensations, a magnified magic-eye picture, bit-maps, zoetropes, a network of zeros and ones, tessellating rotating planes, dots and dashes, digitally grown gardens, interactive screens, in the blink of an eye, shutter speed, pixilation, remote access, programming, advanced mathematics, leaves, stalks, branches, intersecting, digital traces, communication, satellite tracking, encrypted code, data driven, manipulation of pigment, virtual realities, prismic swarms, DNA, everything has its own pattern , all is connected, formula, atoms dissipating, unlocking and deciphering the universe, cells.
‘We must not be caged in certain logic; I used to make images as real as possible, but now they have become dismembered, fragmented. Those paintings that were so perfect have exploded and shattered into a thousand brushstrokes; they require deeper reading skills to discover the subject, revealed slowly as in a game of Chinese boxes. The viewer is mesmerized by the decoding of signs, reminded of the chaos of the contemporary world.’
Untitled 1 Oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm
Untitled 2 Oil on canvas 80 x 70 cm
Untitled 3 Oil on canvas, 100 x 120 cm
Untitled 4 Oil on canvas, 150 x 200 cm
Untitled 5 Oil on canvas 130 x 130 cm
Untitled 6 Oil on canvas 150 x 130 cm
Alien Mixed media on canvas 100 x 100 cm
Battle Mixed media on canvas, 100 x 120 cm
Bosco Mixed media on board, 150 x 200 cm
Carnosi Flowers Mixed media on canvas 90 x 90 cm
Night Floral Mixed media on canvas 200 x 200 cm
Web Botticelli ‘Spring’ (Diptych) Mixed media on canvas, 150 x 200 cm
Web Botticelli ‘Venere’ Mixed media on canvas, 100 x 150 cm
Web Caravaggio Mixed media on canvas, 150 x 200 cm
Web Leonardo ‘Mona Lisa’ Mixed media on canvas 120 x 90 cm
Web Raffaello 'Deposition' Mixed media on canvas 120 x 120 cm
Web Titian 'Sacred Love Profane Love' Mixed media on board, 119 x 280 cm
Web Titian 'Annunciation' (Diptych) Mixed media on canvas, 200 x 300 cm
Chinese Girl Oil on canvas 120 x 150 cm
Red Tree Oil on canvas 230 x 200 cm
Zebra Oil on canvas 200 x 175 cm
1700HP Oil on canvas 200 x 300 cm
Marilyn I Oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm
Marilyn II Oil on canvas 150 x 120 cm
Marilyn III Oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm
Inside Out Oil on canvas 140 x 120 cm
Birch Family Oil on canvas 130 x 180 cm
Mona Lisa Oil on canvas 140 x 100 cm
LNDN Traffic Oil on canvas 130 x 150 cm
Savannah Oil on canvas 150 x 200 cm
Forest Dream Oil on canvas 150 x 150 cm
Contradiction Oil on canvas 130 x 200 cm
The Lake Oil on canvas 90 x 100 cm
Obsession Oil on canvas 150 x 200 cm
Passion Oil on canvas 150 x 200 cm
Gino Oil on canvas 200 x 200 cm
Butterfly Flowers Mirror, aluminium, edition of 9 60 x 60 x 60 cm
Giraffe Steel, edition of 9 90 x 63 x 25 cm
Mickey Move Resin, aluminium, edition of 30 90 x 65 x 45 cm
Fashion Victim Steel, edition of 9 100 x 22 x 13 cm
Selected Exhibitions 2014 2011
2010
2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003
Il Ritratto-Punti di Vista, I Salotti di Piazza Alberica, Carrara, Italy Untitled, Blu Corner, Carrara, Italy D – JUNGLE, Pinacoteca Civica Follonica (GR), Italy Tartarughe Ninja, Palazzo Grifoni San Miniato (PI), Italy Arte Accessibile Milano, Eventiquattro Space, Milan Re-Natural, Container Gallery Sassuolo (MO), Italy New, Idearte Gallery, Ferrara, Italy De-codificazione 2010, Galleria Nicola Ricci, Carrara The Skull, La Contemporanea Studio Art Gallery, Torino, Italy Derrida Goes To The Supermarket, Galleria San Lorenzo, Milan Decodificazioni, Galleria Nicola Ricci, Pietrasanta (LU) Decodificazioni, Church of Suffrage, Carrara Image decoding, Foundry Leopolda Follonica (GR) Anna, Jack e io, Galleria Nicola Ricci Pietrasanta (LU) Scene, Emme Art Gallery Carate Brianza (MI) Mutamenti, Galleria Ferrari, Ferrara
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