In Tarogramma, the imaginary world conceived by Damien Cifelli (previously) as a setting for his vibrant work, vegetation are plentiful, however animals don’t exist. The landscapes are as numerous and enigmatic as its inhabitants, who commune with our bodies of water, traverse the desert in a go well with, and measurement up an enigmatic object on a dinner plate.
Cifelli’s fashionable figures examine their surroundings to attempt to perceive their place inside it. Lots of the work proven right here have been not too long ago exhibited at Spinello Tasks in Miami, emphasizing the artist’s latest concentrate on analyzing what life is like on this fictive world.
“In Tarogramma, symbols are imbued with disassociated meanings unrelated to what we predict they might be,” says a press release for his present. “Iconography, comparable to flags or emblems, symbolize areas that exist not as bodily locations however as concepts or states of thoughts.” This world is devoid of ethnic, cultural, or gender hierarchies, and identification is fluid and chosen, which inspires fixed transformation.
Sometimes, Cifelli’s work reference well-known artworks like “Wanderer earlier than the Sea of Ice,” which nods to German Romanticist artist Caspar David Friedrich’s 1818 portray, “Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog.” Capturing the solipsism of the Nineteenth-century work, Cifelli interprets the view into an arctic scene of jagged ice, with the central determine sporting a coat adorned in symbols evocative of organic types.
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