Giulia Dall’Olio Suspension
Giulia Dall’Olio Suspension June 15 - July 15, 2018 Opening Reception Friday, June 15th, 6 - 8pm
Massey Klein Gallery 124 Forsyth Street info@masseyklein.com
g 8][56 d, 2018 Oil on canvas 15.75 x 15.75 inches 80 x 90 cm
Throughout her career, Dall’Olio has been inspired and intrigued by Ma, the Eastern concept of space. While there is no Western equivalent, Ma roughly translates to “the space between two structural parts” or the “void”. According to Eastern philosophy, this void does not represent an emptiness or even a lacking, but rather the potential for opportunity. In Dall’Olio’s latest series on view at Massey Klein Gallery, we see her fascination with space progress. No longer focusing on the area between objects, as seen in previous works, the artist concentrates on individual elements, zooming in and using the negative space to balance the composition. In doing so, emptiness becomes substance. The paintings no longer portray the natural world but rather the relationship between form and non form. The interludes that give shape to the whole. At once, we have the sense of both traveling through, and remaining still in space. Atmospheric perspective pushes the foreground while a gentle vignette lends itself to continuous perspective. It is in the artist’s charcoal works that we see her skill as a draftswoman. The artist’s focus on a single tree, branch, or bush draws attention to the poetic qualities of nature. While representative of the physical world, the suspension of the subject and absence of compositional ground cause each form to become abstractions of their natural counterparts. Giulia Dall’Olio (b. 1983, Italy) lives and works in Bologna, Italy. The artist paints mystical utopian landscapes rich with abstraction. Her engraved oil on canvas paintings are dense with layered visual material: murky trees are disrupted by meandering carvings and beautiful washes, as if there’s a gentle rain veiling the composition. The works are polished but purposefully obscured and draw upon the classical genre of landscape painting.
g 8][57 d, 2018 Oil on canvas 31.5 x 35.5 inches 80 x 90 cm
g 8][58 d, 2018 Oil on canvas 35.5 x 31.5 inches 90 x 80 cm
g 8][59 d, 2018 Oil on canvas 35.5 x 31.5 inches 90 x 80 cm
g 8][60 d, 2018 Oil on canvas 35.5 x 31.5 inches 90 x 80 cm
g 8][61 d, 2018 Oil on canvas 11.75 x 11.75 inches 30 x 30 cm
g 8][62 d, 2018 Oil on canvas 11.75 x 11.75 inches 30 x 30 cm
g 8][63 d, 2018 Oil on canvas 11.75 x 11.75 inches 30 x 30 cm
g 19][72 d, 2017 Charcoal on canvas 69 x 110 inches 175 x 280 cm
g 19][73 d, 2018 Charcoal on paper 39 x 27.5 inches (unframed), 42.75 x 31 (framed) 100 x 70 cm
g 19][74 d, 2018 Charcoal on paper 39 x 27.5 inches (unframed), 42.75 x 31 (framed) 100 x 70 cm
g 19][76 d, 2018 Charcoal on paper 39 x 27.5 inches (unframed), 42.75 x 31 (framed) 100 x 70 cm g 19][75 d, 2018 Charcoal on paper 39 x 27.5 inches 100 x 70 cm
g 19][77 d, 2018 Charcoal on paper 13.25 x 9.625 inches (unframed), 16.25 x 12.625 (framed) 33 x 24 cm g 19][79 d, 2018 Charcoal on paper 13.25 x 9.625 inches (unframed), 16.25 x 12.625 (framed) 33 x 24 cm
g 19][81 d, 2018 Charcoal on paper 13.25 x 9.625 inches (unframed) 33 x 24 cm
g 19][83 d, 2018 Charcoal on paper 13.25 x 9.625 inches (unframed) 33 x 24 cm
g 19][84 d, 2018 Charcoal on paper 13.25 x 9.625 inches (unframed), 16.25 x 12.625 (framed) 33 x 24 cm
g 19][82 d, 2018 Charcoal on paper 13.25 x 9.625 inches (unframed) 33 x 24 cm g 19][85 d, 2018 Charcoal on paper 13.25 x 9.625 inches (unframed) 33 x 24 cm
g 19][78 d, 2018 Charcoal on paper 13.25 x 9.625 inches (unframed) 33 x 24 cm g 19][80 d, 2018 Charcoal on paper 13.25 x 9.625 inches (unframed), 16.25 x 12.625 (framed) 33 x 24 cm
This catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibtion
Giulia Dall’Olio Suspension
June 15 - July 15, 2018 Massey Klein Gallery 124 Forsyth Street New York NY 10002 www.masseyklein.com
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Massey Klein Gallery 124 Forsyth Street info@masseyklein.com