Exhibitions, Italy, Venezia, 20 April 2013
The Françoise Calcagno Art Studio is proud to announce its upcoming exhibition, the first of a series of solo and group exhibitions, lasting one year, proposals from the newborn group of artists associated with the gallery.
The artist Jean Louis Poveda back to Venice with a third exposure. After "The désert - the desert" in 2007 and "Views and whims" of 2012, introduces a new suite of paintings in tempera, ideal sequel of his latest exhibition, abstract suggestions of Venice, partially or totally imaginary representations known by the name of views or whims designed according to the expression of Vasari. For Giorgio Vasari, painter and famous art historian of the sixteenth century, the term refers to the whim fantasy elements which demonstrate the originality of a painter "strange whims that he expresses in the painting."
Gabrielle Testa writes about the artist: "The vagaries of Poveda are fragments of imagination, the nuggets of memory that can not be translated literally. These "views designed" are a reflection of the happy imagination of the painter that marries elements of nature with elements of fiction to transport lightly up to the limit of a world in which reality becomes a dream. The grip of time and weather, the silence of the lagoon, nostalgia and loneliness, embody the essence of Venice, just like music or phrases appear and return, this series of images to tempera, combining blues and ocher winking Byzantine iconography, transport us leaving the taste of the mystery. "
Jean Louis Poveda was born in 1947 in Mascara, in North Africa.
After attending the School of Fine Arts in Montpellier and parallel to his film career and work as an art director, he devoted most of his time to painting and engraving, moving between Paris, Montpellier and the Aegean Sea.
His painting draws the strength that characterizes it from Venice and numerous boat trips between the East Mediterranean culture, and remains light. It 's the result of the meeting of two worlds: the Mediterranean and the poetic imagination of the Eastern world.
The artist Jean Louis Poveda back to Venice with a third exposure. After "The désert - the desert" in 2007 and "Views and whims" of 2012, introduces a new suite of paintings in tempera, ideal sequel of his latest exhibition, abstract suggestions of Venice, partially or totally imaginary representations known by the name of views or whims designed according to the expression of Vasari. For Giorgio Vasari, painter and famous art historian of the sixteenth century, the term refers to the whim fantasy elements which demonstrate the originality of a painter "strange whims that he expresses in the painting."
Gabrielle Testa writes about the artist: "The vagaries of Poveda are fragments of imagination, the nuggets of memory that can not be translated literally. These "views designed" are a reflection of the happy imagination of the painter that marries elements of nature with elements of fiction to transport lightly up to the limit of a world in which reality becomes a dream. The grip of time and weather, the silence of the lagoon, nostalgia and loneliness, embody the essence of Venice, just like music or phrases appear and return, this series of images to tempera, combining blues and ocher winking Byzantine iconography, transport us leaving the taste of the mystery. "
Jean Louis Poveda was born in 1947 in Mascara, in North Africa.
After attending the School of Fine Arts in Montpellier and parallel to his film career and work as an art director, he devoted most of his time to painting and engraving, moving between Paris, Montpellier and the Aegean Sea.
His painting draws the strength that characterizes it from Venice and numerous boat trips between the East Mediterranean culture, and remains light. It 's the result of the meeting of two worlds: the Mediterranean and the poetic imagination of the Eastern world.
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