This solo exhibition of Pizzani’s recent photography and video will be on displayed in the Winwood Art District from April 14th to May 6th.
Signature Art Gallery, in the continuous effort to promote young Latin American artists, presents the works of this emerging artist that has developed his career between Caracas and New York. “Absent Portraits” is a joint project with La Carnicería Gallery in Caracas, with texts by Venezuelan curator and writer Lorena Gonzalez. In 2006, Pizzani participated in Gonzalez workshop “Narrative in Photography and Photography in the text” where the collaboration between the two started, and helped consolidated a new body of work created by the artist in the last 2 years. Pizzani describes her current artwork as “an exploration of the self, constructing a narrative with movement and expression, using my body as an abstract landscape. Even thought the starting point is the density of personal experience, these emotional states are triggers to a creative process where I loose the sense of self, entering a kind of numbness where the empty space/mind are guided by instinct”.
Lucia Pizzani was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1975, and now resides between NY and Caracas. She studied Visual Communications in the Catholic University Andres Bello, Caracas, Venezuela (1998), she recently received the Second Prize at the IX National Young Artists Salon FIA, Caracas, Venezuela. Her selected solo exhibitions include: Humedo Maat Studio Caracas (2006), Pendare, PIAG, Miami, FL (2005); Organic, Galeria 39, Caracas, (2004); and Vestigios, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, (2003). Her selected group exhibitions include:The III Queens Museum Biennial “Everything all at once”, Queens, NY (2006), Identidades, Galería El Museo, Bogota, Colombia (2006), The Drop, Exit Art, New York, NY (2006); Boats, Islip Art Museum. Islip, New York, (2005), Venezueland, Galería Galou, Williamsburg, New York (2005), Scope Hamptons Featured artist Solar Gallery, South Hampton, NY (2005), and Naturalezas Abiertas II National Salon Exxon Mobil, National Art Gallery (GAN), Caracas, (2003), among others.
”With a disciplined and constant performance in the fields of image production and audiovisual creation, Pizzani stands as a young artist basically concerned with the instability of the self and its fractures within contemporary world. Her worries lead her to use herself as a subject-object for self-representation” says Lorena Gonzalez. About two specific pieces she gives this notes: “designs and watery variations of oneself go through periods of hiding, rejection, growth and fracturing – dissolving in a photographic set that encompasses visions of the body mixed with wide and unknown environments in her series Liquida, shadows that dilute over the outdoor landscape and dialectical constructions of the gaze over herself; a confuse exchange as proposed in her piece “Pedazos”, where the focus of the camera, the pondering of the individual about herself and the reflection of mirrors from where she takes the shot come together in a complex perspective that unfolds dynamically before the spectator”.
***Photo: Oculta, 2007. Lucia Pizzani
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