Axel Vervoordt Gallery Hong Kong is pleased to present an exhibition by Italian artist Marco Tirelli, featuring medium and small size paintings specifically created for the show.<\/p>\n
Tirelli\u2019s artistic philosophy consists in geometrical figures, rectangular and square structures delicately suspended in a tension between light and darkness. His enigmatic forms reflect a number of Tirelli\u2019s enduring preoccupations with time, space and what lies beyond.<\/p>\n
With their different architectural features and arresting contrasts of lights and shadows \u2013 nuances of modern- sfumato \u2013 the works evoke a fluctuation between appearance and disappearance which epitomize the artist\u2019s vision \u2013 a search for the mystery of the visible and its concomitant inner reflection \u2013 and his aspiration to elicit active sensorial and mental participation from the viewer, \u2013 \u201cI\u2019m fascinated by surfaces and what is on the other side of them.\u201c says the artist.<\/p>\n
Tirelli\u2019s dramatic technique is at the core of the spatial incongruities of vision and deviation of perspective that create the alienating space. Using low-pressure paint sprays and thin marten brushes, the chromatic buzzing of his dots provokes a continuous blurring and an apparent monochromatic effect. This remarkable application of pointillism, conceives a strong sensation of the flow of time, a passageway to meditation, a bridge between the possible and the impossible. Tirelli noted: \u201cThe pointillist saw reality as something that was not objective, as if to say that we perceive the light of reality, but things in themselves remain far away from us, deaf and dumb; all we perceive is the reflection of light on their surfaces.\u201d<\/p>\n
The artist\u2019s ambition to show what cannot be seen draws inspiration in a free and modern way from some of the fundamental characteristics of the Metaphysical Art of Giorgio De Chirico and Giorgio Morandi. His geometry has a lot in common with the three-dimensional forms that crowd the disappearing perspectives of De Chirico\u2019s silent cities as well as Morandi\u2019s still life of 1918 and 1919, where the geometrical elements entertain a contradictory interplay between illusion and reality.<\/p>\n
A body of large-scale canvases \u2013 some of which were exposed in \u201cDipingere il possibile\u201d in Todi, Italy in 2017- will be hosted in Axel Vervoordt Antwerp (9th June \u2013 25 th August). Tirelli has exhibited extensively in Europe and Japan and was selected to take part in the Italian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013.<\/p>\n
Axel Vervoordt Gallery plays a crucial role in presenting artwork from the Zero and Gutai art movements, throughout the exhibition of its principal artists to Europe. Axel Vervoordt Gallery is enhancing its vision to strongly support artists beyond the boundaries of space and time. The Hong Kong space opened in 2014 as a platform to consolidate the dialogue with the East, which has consistently been a central mission. In 2017, the Belgian gallery site relocated to the Kanaal in Wijnegem (Antwerp), a former industrial malting distillery, with a strong accent to site-specific project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","location_type":[350136],"event_category":[373317,373498],"area_type":[],"event_language":[],"series":[],"event_category_other":[],"class_list":["post-1279593","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","location_type-indoor-en","event_category-visual-arts-en","event_category-visual-arts-painting-en","search-detail"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/1279593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"location_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location_type?post=1279593"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=1279593"},{"taxonomy":"area_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area_type?post=1279593"},{"taxonomy":"event_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_language?post=1279593"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1279593"},{"taxonomy":"event_category_other","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category_other?post=1279593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}