Nara Roesler New York is pleased to present VOLUMENS, Rodolpho Parigi's first solo show in the US, which brings together around 35 new paintings made over the last two years. The exhibition title refers to a pictorial element widely used in Parigi's work throughout his career: elaborating volumes created in a two-dimensional medium, such as paintings. This characteristic can be seen in the work of historical artists, who are considered references or inspiration for the artist, such as Pablo Picasso and Tarsila do Amaral. In VOLUMENS, his works of vivid colors, malleable, and ambiguous forms resemble body parts, organs, biomorphic forms, and sculptural abstractions.
In the words of Luis Pérez-Oramas: "Rodolpho Parigi's sparkling and virtuoso-like paintings, baroque and deliberately over-the-top, exude as much queerness as they do art historical wisdom. They are a case in point: fearless of the artificiality of painting, Parigi ceaselessly pursues the bursting of life, the...blast of physis. This is the reason why, while flashy on the surface and in the depicted accumulation of reflective surfaces, Parigi's oeuvre is also profoundly serious in its structural complexity, its mastery of execution, and its multilayered art historical implications."
Rodolpho Parigi (b. 1977, São Paulo, Brazil) is part of a new generation of Brazilian artists who emerged in the early 2000s. The artist's work lies in a liminal space between abstraction and figuration, entwining a series of references that range from the tradition of Art History, with particular emphasis on Rubens' baroque corporeality, to graphic design, advertising, scientific illustrations, pop culture, anatomical planes, and music. Together with dance, music is notably responsible for orchestrating the gestural dynamism that characterizes Parigi's figures, which emanates from formal and structural vigor, rather than from the nature of the brush stroke on the surface of the canvas.
In Parigi's words, his work dives into his subconscious: "My work emerges from the conflict between reality and fiction. Through drawings, paintings, and performances I explore a universe of self-imagined fiction, inhabited by hybrid or androgynous figures of strange beauty, forms that inhabit the surface like living bodies that could even breathe or move."
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