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Louise Giovanelli
Auto-da-fé, GRIMM 54 White St, New York, NY (US), 10 September - 23 October 2021

Louise Giovanelli: Auto-da-fé

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Works
  • oil painting depicting a fallen green and yellow curtain
    Louise Giovanelli
    Prairie, 2021
    Oil on canvas
    240 x 340 cm | 94 1/2 x 133 7/8 in
    diptych, each canvas 240 x 170 cm | 94 1/2 x 66 7/8 in
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  • oil painting depicting a fallen green and yellow curtain
    Louise Giovanelli
    Prairie, 2021
    Oil on canvas
    240 x 340 cm | 94 1/2 x 133 7/8 in diptych
    240 x 170 cm | 94 1/2 x 66 7/8 in each canvas
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  • oil painting depicting a shiny green fallen curtain
    Louise Giovanelli
    Pool, 2021
    Oil on canvas
    180 x 130 cm | 70 7/8 x 51 1/8 in
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  • oil painting diptych depicting two shiny golden shirts
    Louise Giovanelli
    Wager, 2021
    Oil on canvas, diptych
    120 x 160 cm | 47 1/4 x 62 in
    120 x 80 cm | 47 1/4 x 31 1/2 in (each)
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  • oil painting depicting a torso wearing a gold sequined dress, blurred by movement.
    Louise Giovanelli
    Orbiter, 2021
    Oil on canvas
    180 x 140 cm | 70 7/8 x 55 1/8 in
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  • oil painting depicting a torso wearing a gold sequined dress, blurred by movement.
    Louise Giovanelli
    Orbiter, 2021
    Oil on canvas
    200 x 150 cm | 78 3/4 x 59 1/8 in
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  • oil painting depicting a torso wearing a gold sequined dress, blurred by movement.
    Louise Giovanelli
    Orbiter, 2021
    Oil on canvas
    180 x 130 cm | 70 7/8 x 51 1/8 in
    Sold
  • oil painting depicting a smiling woman, her face partially cut off, glittering in reds and oranges
    Louise Giovanelli
    Auto-da-fé, 2021
    Oil on canvas
    Unframed: 35.5 x 21 cm | 14 x 8 1/4 in
    Framed: 37.3 x 22.4 x 4.5 cm | 14 3/4 x 8 7/8 x 1 3/4 in
  • oil painting depicting a smiling woman, her face partially cut off, glittering in reds and oranges
    Louise Giovanelli
    Auto-da-fé, 2021
    Oil on canvas
    Unframed: 40 x 24 cm | 15 3/4 x 9 1/2 in
    Framed: 41.5 x 25.3 x 4.5 cm | 16 3/8 x 10 x 1 3/4 in
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  • oil painting depicting a smiling woman, her face partially cut off, glittering in reds and oranges
    Louise Giovanelli
    Auto-da-fé, 2021
    Oil on canvas
    Unframed: 41 x 25.5 cm | 16 1/8 x 10 1/8 in
    Framed: 42 x 26.6 x 4.5 cm | 16 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1 3/4 in
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  • oil painting depicting a close up view of a woman holding a microphone. there is an x across the image.
    Louise Giovanelli
    Caryatid, 2021
    Oil on canvas
    Unframed: 35.5 x 25.5 cm | 14 x 10 1/8 in
    Framed: 37.1 x 27.1 x 4.5 cm | 14 5/8 x 10 5/8 x 1 3/4 in
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  • oil painting depicting a close up view of a woman holding a microphone. there is an x across the image.
    Louise Giovanelli
    Caryatid, 2021
    Oil on canvas
    Unframed: 30 x 19 cm | 11 3/4 x 7 1/2 in
    Framed: 31.6 x 20.9 x 4.5 cm | 12 1/2 x 8 1/4 x 1 3/4 in
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  • oil painting depicting a close up view of a woman holding a microphone. there is an x across the image.
    Louise Giovanelli
    Caryatid, 2021
    Oil on canvas
    Unframed: 35.5 x 25 cm | 14 x 9 7/8 in
    Framed: 37.1 x 26.9 x 4.5 cm | 14 5/8 x 10 5/8 x 1 3/4 in
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  • oil painting depicting a close up view of a woman holding a microphone. there is an x across the image.
    Louise Giovanelli
    Caryatid, 2021
    Oil on canvas
    Unframed: 35.5 x 25.5 cm | 14 x 10 1/8 in
    Framed: 37.1 x 27 x 4.5 cm | 14 5/8 x 10 5/8 x 1 3/4 in
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  • oil painting depicting a close up view of shiny yellow hair
    Louise Giovanelli
    Plexus, 2021
    Oil on canvas
    Unframed: 30.5 x 20.5 cm | 12 1/8 x 8 1/8 in
    Framed: 31.8 x 21.7 x 4.5 cm | 12 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 1 3/4 in
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  • oil painting depicting a close up view of shiny yellow hair
    Louise Giovanelli
    Plexus, 2021
    Oil on canvas
    Framed: 27 x 21.5 x 4.5 cm | 10 5/8 x 8 1/2 x 1 3/4 in
    Sold
  • oil painting depicting a close up view of shiny yellow hair
    Louise Giovanelli
    Plexus, 2021
    Oil on canvas
    Unframed: 35.5 x 20.4 cm | 14 x 8 1/8 in
    Framed: 37 x 21.7 x 4.5 cm | 10 5/8 x 8 1/2 x 1 3/4 in
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  • oil painting depicting the head of a man playing the flute
    Louise Giovanelli
    Hymn, 2021
    Oil on canvas
    Unframed: 30.8 x 20.2 cm | 12 1/8 x 8 in
    Framed: 32.4 x 21.5 x 4.5 cm | 12 3/4 x 8 1/2 x 1 3/4 in
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  • oil painting depicting the head of a man playing the flute
    Louise Giovanelli
    Hymn, 2021
    Oil on canvas
    Unframed: 30.5 x 20.5 cm | 12 1/8 x 8 1/8 in
    Framed: 32 x 21.8 x 4.5 cm | 12 5/8 x 8 5/8 x 1 3/4 in
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  • framed oil painting done on the cover of a book, painting depicting a man rubbing his eyes
    Louise Giovanelli
    Disciple, 2021
    Oil on book
    Unframed: 28.5 x 22 x 2.3 cm | 11 1/4 x 8 5/8 x 7/8 in
    Framed: 42.8 x 36.3 x 6 cm | 16 7/8 x 14 1/4 x 2 3/8 in
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  • framed oil painting done on the cover of a book, painting depicting a man rubbing his eyes
    Louise Giovanelli
    Disciple, 2021
    Oil on book
    Unframed: 28.5 x 22 x 2.3 cm | 11 1/4 x 8 5/8 x 7/8 in
    Framed: 42.8 x 36.3 x 6 cm | 16 7/8 x 14 1/4 x 2 3/8 in
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Installation Views
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Press
  • The Artsy Vanguard 2021: Louise Giovanelli

    Osman Can Yerebakan, Artsy, December 1, 2021
  • When Emerging Painter Louise Giovanelli Runs Out of Ideas, She Turns to an Ever-Growing Personal Image Library for a Jol

    Caroline Goldstein, Artnet News, August 31, 2021
Publications
  • Auto-da-fé

    Auto-da-fé

    Louise Giovanelli Àngels Miralda, 2021 Hard cover with linen 102 pages
    Publisher: GRIMM Amsterdam (NL)
    ISBN: 978-90-831888-3-6
    Dimensions: 22 x 15 cm | 8 5/8 x 5 7/8 in
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Press release
Louise Giovanelli, Auto-da-fé
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GRIMM is proud to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Louise Giovanelli.

Louise Giovanelli’s (b. 1993 in London, UK) recent works depict the aesthetic of stage performances with various acts suspended. Giovanelli navigates different modes of picturing and approaches to painting, repositioning familiar imagery in her paintings by withholding or emphasizing details in combinations that require deep contemplation. Her paintings are as much about the subject matter they depict, as what is not shown but suggested within their borders.

Two large-scale diptychs portray sets of closed curtains on a stage, anchoring the exhibition. Theater curtains construct both space and atmosphere, simultaneously absorbing and radiating light to create moments where their material quality is intensified and abstracted. From this restricted perspective, the minutia of the stage appears to be performative itself, set at the periphery of an unnamed spectacle. In three paintings depicting a dancer, Giovanelli paints passages from performances that are cropped and magnified to harness the inner power they convey. The imagery Giovanelli uses for these paintings comes from American music videos and television series. Taking framed moments and duplicating them across her works, she blurs our understanding of cause and effect. Likewise, in the series Caryatid, an anonymous singer sustains an unheard note throughout four small-scale paintings. Her persona is given form through glossy lips, curved acrylic nails, and flecks of light from a disco ball shining outside the paintings.

Another large-scale diptych shows two shimmering gold blouses cropped tightly together in the frame, in such a way that the viewer can’t see who wears them, or if they are perhaps merely hanging side by side. Their fabric is reminiscent of the sparkling suits worn by gameshow hosts, or drapery from T.V. theater, in opposition to the dramatic heaviness of a theater curtain. The close-up perspective of these “figures” invades the viewers’ personal space and gives the work a menacing quality. 

Throughout the exhibition intimately-scaled works function as faint glimmers of human presence just legible amongst the dominating abstract structures and enveloping folds of the other larger work.

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  • Auto-da-fé Publications

    Auto-da-fé

    Louise Giovanelli Dec 7, 2021
    Published on the occasion of Louise Giovanelli's solo exhibition Auto-da-fé at GRIMM, New York, NY (US) on view from September 10 – October 23, 2021...
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  • The Artsy Vanguard 2021: Louise Giovanelli Press

    The Artsy Vanguard 2021: Louise Giovanelli

    Artsy Dec 1, 2021
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  • When Emerging Painter Louise Giovanelli Runs Out of Ideas, She Turns to an Ever-Growing Personal Image Library for a Jol Press

    When Emerging Painter Louise Giovanelli Runs Out of Ideas, She Turns to an Ever-Growing Personal Image Library for a Jol

    Artnet News Aug 31, 2021
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