V2 A1409

Sincerely, Tony

Jamian Juliano-Villani

日期
29.03.2017 | 29.04.2017
地址
Massimo De Carlo, Milano

Massimo De Carlo is pleased to present Sincerely, Tony a new solo exhibition by the American painter Jamian Juliano-Villani, in the spaces of Via Ventura 5 in Milan. This is Jamian Juliano- Villani’s first exhibition in Italy.

Jamian Juliano-Villani’s practice is composed by large-scale figurative canvases where ambiguous and unsettling elements create a harmonious yet unnerving narrative, populated by extroversions of appropriated images and anxious introversions of traces of personal moments. These images seemingly disregard time, place, reality and taste. The New York based artist draws her varied and colourful iconography from popular culture and imagery, encompassing television, collectibles, and magazines, creating gaudy juxtaposition and uncanny situations.

For Sincerely, Tony Jamian Juliano-Villani has physically transformed the gallery space, by adding objects and architectural elements. In order to see the paintings on show the viewer is forced to pass through a claustrophobic environment that resembles a neglected and daunting basement populated by gym equipment and chewed dog toys, and then across a long corridor where an unnerving surprise awaits and observes them.

The room at the end of the corridor evokes the eerie atmosphere of a non-space type of lieu that could be a cheap hotel’s hall or a hospital’s waiting room (whatever the viewer associates to this kind of familiar yet unsettling feeling) and is filled with six vivid paintings.

Each painting depicts absurd and illogical situations that are drawn from everyday life scenarios – such as a middle-aged snowboarder dodging a pregnancy test through the slopes, a group of Italians fighting over a bill at Bar Basso (the historical Milanese cocktail bar), a butterfly seduced by adolescent sexuality in the form of a sphinx that lies close to a thermostat on a wall or a Joe Bradley painting and a Torey Thornton’s piece from the 2017 Whitney Biennial that stand defeated in a gym locker-room. With Sincerely, Tony Jamian Juliano-Villani is able to create reckless and visually punching environments that drag the viewer into a surreal yet vivid daze.

Jamian Juliano-Villani

加米安·尤利亚诺-维拉尼1987年生于美国新泽西州纽瓦克市,目前工作生活于美国纽约。


加米安·尤利亚诺-维拉尼的作品以大型具象绘画为主,其中,模糊不安的元素创造出一种表面和谐却令人紧张的叙述性,充满看似恰当的表象与紧扣个人焦虑的内在。她的作品无视时间、地点、现实、审美。这位来自纽约的艺术家从多彩多样的流行文化图像中汲取灵感(包括电视、可供收集的物品和杂志等),创造出华丽丰富的排列方式和离奇的场景。


其作品被众多机构收藏,包括:纽约布鲁克林博物馆;洛杉矶哈默美术馆;亚特兰大高等艺术博物馆;纽约古根海姆美术馆;纽约惠特尼美国艺术博物馆。

IMG 6050