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Private Ceremonies

Diane Dal-Pra

日期
03.03.2022 | 02.04.2022
画廊
London
文件
PRESS RELEASE
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MASSIMODECARLO is pleased to present Private Ceremonies, Diane Dal-Pra’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

Diane Dal-Pra’s paintings explore the relationship between body and object, questioning how our material possessions can act as a crutch, providing a sense of security, stability and permanence. She alludes to how rituals and superstitions can form around such objects. With her work the artist encourages us to explore the duality of our relationship to the things we possess which, while defining us and our habits, also have the capacity to engulf us and our identities.

Dal-Pra translates the ‘latent states of consciousness’ that she experiences during insomnia into the dream-like atmosphere of her works. During these states objects often become a physical support that she uses to meditate on or excite daydreams. Many of the titles of the works in Private Ceremonies relate to the passing of time while waiting for sleep such as ‘Suspended Time’, ‘Midnight Disorder’ and ‘Vanishing Point’. The artist does not impose fixed readings to her paintings, the objects are obscured, layered and veiled, purposefully hard to make out. This echos the transitory nature of focus when shifting in and out of sleep and daydreams and to encourage the viewer’s personal allusions while deciphering the work.

The artist works predominantly on large canvases giving her sculptural figures, that are formed from an assortment of objects and bodily forms, a monolithic stature. Her crafted compositions of varying textures and translucencies appear at the same time both three-dimensional and monumental yet also flat and one-sided.

The paintings in Private Ceremonies are decidedly modern in their aesthetic and object choice yet perfectly timeless. The artist places great importance on the specific atmosphere of each work, deciding on the overall feeling to evoke during the early planning stages of the composition. The artist’s reverence for metaphysical and surrealist painters is tangible; her works evoke the silent atmospheres created by Polish-French artist Balthus, particularly her rendering of delicate hands, and also the innovative textured compositions of Italian painter Domenico Gnoli. While her expert handling of oil paint draws a connecting line through the history of painting beyond the Twentieth Century to the Renaissance and Mannerist painters that Dal-Pra cites as important influences.

Diane Dal-Pra

黛安·达尔-普拉1991年生于法国佩里格,现工作居住在巴黎。


黛安·达尔-普拉的绘画探索了我们在生活中收集的某些物品与我们之间的关系与仪式感。达尔-普拉天生迷信:她审视物质财富对于人类内在平衡的影响,也试图探索前者如何定义人类的身份地位。在其作品中,艺术家指出了物质财富的二元性:虽定义了我们与我们的日常习惯,又有足以将人类吞没的能力。


达尔-普拉的作品以大型绘画为主,她创造的人物由各种各样的物体和形态构成,被赋予了某种独特的整体性。油彩颜料固有的体积感更强调了融合的形式。然而,艺术家对清冷色调的运用和对半透明纺织品的喜爱,加上流畅的笔触和对纹理的细节处理,抵消了形式在画面中的权重,将作品拉回完美的平衡与和谐。


黛安·达尔-普拉的绘画在美学和主题选择上是绝对现代的,同时又有一种永恒感。画中人物如同古典雕塑一般,通过油画媒介结合精妙的画法,令人联想起从油画史到对艺术家有深刻影响的文艺复兴大师们。当呈现其完美平衡的作品时,达尔-普拉鼓励我们从作品的陈列中得出自己对作品叙事性的判断。


黛安·达尔-普拉的作品被众多机构收藏,包括:赫施霍恩博物馆与雕塑园,华盛顿;和美术馆,佛山;余德耀美术馆,上海;路易威登基金会,巴黎;老佛爷百货基金会,巴黎;迈阿密当代艺术学院,迈阿密。

Diane Dal Pra