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CURATION : DANA MINOTTI
PHOTO : ROBERTO GRECO
GALERIE POLOMARCO
A lively exhibition space located in the heart of the Old City, Galerie Polomarco offers an independent and regularly renewed selection of contemporary artworks from both established and emerging artists.
The gallery is also a meeting point for discussions and sharing, evolving with the rhythm of openings and events, where all art lovers, friends and acquaintances, as well as other enthusiasts converge.
DREAM SERIES
The “Dream Series” exhibition presents four local artists who navigate in the versatile spheres of the subconscious, memory and intuition. By sometimes challenging the senses or on the contrary by soliciting them, the artists invite us to discover their intimate worlds.
CURATION : DANA MINOTTI
PHOTO : ROBERTO GRECO
GALERIE POLOMARCO
A lively exhibition space located in the heart of the Old City, Galerie Polomarco offers an independent and regularly renewed selection of contemporary artworks from both established and emerging artists.
The gallery is also a meeting point for discussions and sharing, evolving with the rhythm of openings and events, where all art lovers, friends and acquaintances, as well as other enthusiasts converge.
DREAM SERIES
The “Dream Series” exhibition presents four local artists who navigate in the versatile spheres of the subconscious, memory and intuition. By sometimes challenging the senses or on the contrary by soliciting them, the artists invite us to discover their intimate worlds.
ROBERTO GRECO
Roberto Greco was born in Geneva in 1984. A horticulturist by profession, he obtained his diplomas in photography at the CEPV in Vevey in 2007 and in visual communication at the ECAL in Lausanne in 2010.
The Italian-born artist looks at the real world with wonder, which he translates into his portraits and still lifes, using metaphors and flamboyant dreamlike effects. He uses light to paint a particular detail on his subject and stops time at a precise moment to give us to contemplate. Each scene is broken down into several new compositions that support the main narrative. Through these metaphors, Roberto Greco plays with symbolism and classical iconography by reappropriating them. And he does not skimp on humorous, even cynical details, which contribute to move his work away from stereotypes and artistic references and create his own iconographic lexicon.
The series Wear His Skin reflects excerpts from his memory, scenes where his experiences are held up to distorting mirrors. These memories that are, those that we create and those that are fantasized.
Troubled and foggy like the memory, these images are made of disguised asperities that force us to slow down to fully grasp them, not without scratching ourselves at their contact.
OLIVIA MALENA VIDAL
Olivia Malena Vidal, born in Geneva in 1989, studied at the Lucerne University of Art and Design, after a Master’s degree in translation, and then at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam where she obtained a Bachelor’s degree in visual arts with a specialization in photography. Her artistic approach mixes video, performance, collage, photography, writing and painting in a research where dream and reality collide, accomplices of a perpetual quest for memory.
The year 2019 marks a turning point in the artist’s artistic practice, as she realizes her first large format painting series – Scars. It is through this second series – Playful introspection – that Vidal fully assumes her return to painting on canvas with the realization of 11 large format paintings. Here, 5 paintings from the series are presented to the public for the first time and mark a conscious and formal pivot in the artist’s practice by sealing the beginning of a new aesthetic.
ERIC ERISTON WINARTO
Born in 1980 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Eric Eriston Winarto is a Swiss artist based in Geneva since 1995. He graduated in painting from HEAD, in 2005.
In 2014, the five vertical paintings of this series were brought together to reveal five luminous windows like five futuristic monoliths, surrounded by luminous stardust inviting us towards a descent into a lunar and nocturnal melancholy. A window on one’s inner self, represented by the “selva oscura”, a founding theme of Dante’s Divine Comedy and a recurrent inspiration in the artist’s work. The selva symbolizes here the loss of meaning and the beginning of a peregrination that turns into a spiritual and initiatory itinerary, inviting the spectator to pierce a mystery.
Light as a condition of all perception takes on its full meaning in the work of the artist-painter. His works are born from the alliance of fluorescent pigments and black light. The tension between light and darkness is protagonist in his work.
ANDONI GUIRESSE
Born in France in 1985, Andoni Guiresse grew up on the Basque coast in Saint-Jean-de-Luz. He currently lives and works near Geneva. Following a path of Fine Arts training, experimentation and research, he created Poetic Minimalism in 2014, a manifesto that will guide the essence of his work from then on.
Close to Japanese aesthetics, Andoni Guiresse develops a purified work, attempting through the triangulation between the sacred, presence and emptiness, to remind us of our spiritual dimension. A. Guiresse conceives art as a space and a breathing time allowing to cultivate a harmonious relationship with the universe. Poetic Minimalism is an invitation to recharge one’s batteries through contemplation, daydreaming and meditation. An invitation to be inspired by a positive approach through inner experience.
ROBERTO GRECO
Roberto Greco was born in Geneva in 1984. A horticulturist by profession, he obtained his diplomas in photography at the CEPV in Vevey in 2007 and in visual communication at the ECAL in Lausanne in 2010.
The Italian-born artist looks at the real world with wonder, which he translates into his portraits and still lifes, using metaphors and flamboyant dreamlike effects. He uses light to paint a particular detail on his subject and stops time at a precise moment to give us to contemplate. Each scene is broken down into several new compositions that support the main narrative. Through these metaphors, Roberto Greco plays with symbolism and classical iconography by reappropriating them. And he does not skimp on humorous, even cynical details, which contribute to move his work away from stereotypes and artistic references and create his own iconographic lexicon.
The series Wear His Skin reflects excerpts from his memory, scenes where his experiences are held up to distorting mirrors. These memories that are, those that we create and those that are fantasized.
Troubled and foggy like the memory, these images are made of disguised asperities that force us to slow down to fully grasp them, not without scratching ourselves at their contact.
OLIVIA MALENA VIDAL
Olivia Malena Vidal, born in Geneva in 1989, studied at the Lucerne University of Art and Design, after a Master’s degree in translation, and then at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam where she obtained a Bachelor’s degree in visual arts with a specialization in photography. Her artistic approach mixes video, performance, collage, photography, writing and painting in a research where dream and reality collide, accomplices of a perpetual quest for memory.
The year 2019 marks a turning point in the artist’s artistic practice, as she realizes her first large format painting series – Scars. It is through this second series – Playful introspection – that Vidal fully assumes her return to painting on canvas with the realization of 11 large format paintings. Here, 5 paintings from the series are presented to the public for the first time and mark a conscious and formal pivot in the artist’s practice by sealing the beginning of a new aesthetic.
ERIC ERISTON WINARTO
Born in 1980 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Eric Eriston Winarto is a Swiss artist based in Geneva since 1995. He graduated in painting from HEAD, in 2005.
In 2014, the five vertical paintings of this series were brought together to reveal five luminous windows like five futuristic monoliths, surrounded by luminous stardust inviting us towards a descent into a lunar and nocturnal melancholy. A window on one’s inner self, represented by the “selva oscura”, a founding theme of Dante’s Divine Comedy and a recurrent inspiration in the artist’s work. The selva symbolizes here the loss of meaning and the beginning of a peregrination that turns into a spiritual and initiatory itinerary, inviting the spectator to pierce a mystery.
Light as a condition of all perception takes on its full meaning in the work of the artist-painter. His works are born from the alliance of fluorescent pigments and black light. The tension between light and darkness is protagonist in his work.
ANDONI GUIRESSE
Born in France in 1985, Andoni Guiresse grew up on the Basque coast in Saint-Jean-de-Luz. He currently lives and works near Geneva. Following a path of Fine Arts training, experimentation and research, he created Poetic Minimalism in 2014, a manifesto that will guide the essence of his work from then on.
Close to Japanese aesthetics, Andoni Guiresse develops a purified work, attempting through the triangulation between the sacred, presence and emptiness, to remind us of our spiritual dimension. A. Guiresse conceives art as a space and a breathing time allowing to cultivate a harmonious relationship with the universe. Poetic Minimalism is an invitation to recharge one’s batteries through contemplation, daydreaming and meditation. An invitation to be inspired by a positive approach through inner experience.
galerie polomarco
Living exhibition space | Contemporary art
Electron Festival | 18.04.2024 – 12.05.2024
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galerie polomarco
Living exhibition space | Contemporary art
Electron Festival | 18.04.2024 – 12.05.2024