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ALDO IACOBELLI From time to time one talks to the moon
Curated by Linda Marie Walker
Opening 6pm Thurs 15 Nov. 16 Nov - 15 Dec. Gallery Talk 4pm Fri 23 Nov |
| For more than twenty years Aldo Iacobelli – based in Adelaide (South Australia) and Valencia (Spain)– has been exploring the conceptual boundaries of painting. The paintings and objects he makes place the work and pleasure of texture, ornamentation, and colour, alongside political and social issues. From time to time one talks to the moon includes painted, ceramic and architectural elements that together seem to tell a story, or signal fields of memory. |
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Curator Linda Marie Walker writes that
"Aldo’s acute attention to surfaces as sites of complex events – their simultaneous personal and political affects – and his insistence throughout his exhibition career that the composition of the work within the architecture of the gallery, is a critical aspect of the overall expressive situation that he creates for painting. The sculptural elements that he brings into relationships between painting and ceramic forms for this exhibition, further complicate the work of painting." |
Hole 7, 455metres par five with a small amount of difficulty 2007, oil on canvas, two glazed terracotta sculptures, 174cm x 365cm (oval shaped canvas). |
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His artistic experiments have also led him to use the ornament as one of the distinctive traits in his painting.
"It is in such subtle layered generations and balancing acts that the pleasure of Iacobelli’s work lies, as well as in their pure optical beauty and physical sensuality. As soon as we engage with one of his works we are travelling between orderings of representation and knowledge, understanding and ideas, and like the arrangement of tiling, each small shift or re-arrangement in our understanding of these works occasions new patterns and relationships to be generated" Richard Grayson, 'Travelling with Aldo' Catalogue essay. Tomas March, Valencia
(back) My mother does not speak english
2007, oil on canvas, 153cm x 244cm, (front) De vez en cuando uno habla con la luna
2007, glazed terracotta pignata, 130cm x 102cm. |
My mother does not speak english (detail). |
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Manises railway station
2007, oil on 360 canvases 20cm x 20cm each, 183cm x 800cm |
Un paese vuol dire non essere soli, sapere che nella gente, nelle piante, nella terra, c'e' qualcosa di tuo, che anche quando non ci sei resta ad aspettarti
2007, glazed terracotta, 10cm hole, five terracotta sculptures, variable size |
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The wall grabbed the land and grabbed us too
2007, oil on canvas, 165cm x 71cm |
Aldo Iacobelli has exhibited extensively and was included in the 2003 issue of London art journal, Contemporary. In 2006 he exhibited in Parallel Lives: Australian Painting Today curated by Victoria Lynn for the inaugural TarraWarra Biennial, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria and has recently been the subject of a Wakefield Press monograph by art critic John Neylon titled I love painting.' Transient Architectures' (2006) – an installation that includes painting and ceramic objects – was recently acquired by Museo de Bellas Artes de Santander. His works are also in the collections of the Art Gallery of South Australia, the National Gallery (Canberra), and the Alava Museum (Vitoria, Spain). Aldo Iacobelli is represented by Valencia-based Galeria Tomas March (www.tomasmarch.com) who presented his work at Arco 07, Madrid. He recently had solo exhibitions with Galeria Manuel Ojeda, Las Palmas de Gran Canarias, Spain, March - April 2007, and with Galeria Siboney, Santander, Spain from May - June 2007.
Aldo Iacobelli wishes to acknowledge with gratitude:
“Linda Marie Walker, for agreeing to curate the project, and for generating an ongoing, richly rewarding and illuminating dialogue, Akira Akira for his assistance and the unforgettable tea breaks in the front garden, where we had meaningful discussions about world soccer, and Mark Heidenreich for his technical assistance and for giving me an insight into his world of clay, and the staff at the Experimental Art Foundation for their generous support.” The artist acknowledges the support of Arts SA. |
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My mother does not speak english (detail) photo by Teri Hoskin. All installation photos by Nic Folland. |
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