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GRIMM presents
Louise Giovanelli | A Priori
27 November 2020 - 9 January 2021
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GRIMM is pleased to present A Priori, a presentation of new paintings by Louise Giovanelli, coinciding with the exhibition at the gallery's Van Baerlestraat location in Amsterdam. The exhibition marks Giovanelli's second solo exhibition with the gallery and her first solo exhibition in the Netherlands.
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Louise Giovanelli’s practice is one of subtle contrasts and involves an erasure or undoing of prior meaning in the images she appropriates. Using thin layers of paint to build up form, light and shade, Giovanelli removes her subject matter from circulation in the world, to be studied and observed. Disconnected from their original context, the subsequent ephemera of staged performance and film comes to life in a new series of paintings.
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Giovanelli’s luminous works are created by applying single pigment colors to create real painted light. In the central work of the exhibition, the large diptych, Be all end all, theatre curtains construct both space and atmosphere. Simultaneously absorbing and exhuming light to create moments where their material quality is intensified and abstracted. From this restricted perspective, the minutiae of the stage appears to be performative in itself, set at the periphery of an unnamed spectacle.
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A second diptych titled Wager depicts two shimmering gold blouses cropped tightly together in the frame. Giovenelli renders them in such a way that the viewer can’t see who wears them, or if they are perhaps merely hanging side by side, unworn. Their fabric reminiscent of gold-sparkling suits worn by gameshow hosts, drapery from TV theatre, as opposed to the imbued dramatic heaviness of a theatre curtain. The close-up perspective of these ‘figures’ invades the viewers’ personal space and gives the work a menacing quality.
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For enquiries regarding the featured works or for more information,
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Installation views
A Priori | GRIMM, Van Baerlestraat -
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About the artist
Louise Giovanelli (b. 1993, London, UK) lives and works in Manchester (UK). She recently completed her postgraduate studies at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main (DE) with professor Amy Sillman in 2020, after having earned a Bachelor’s Degree (B.A. Hons, Fine Art) at the Manchester School of Art, Manchester (UK).
Recent solo exhibitions include: Aerial Silk, GRIMM, New York, NY (US); Time Inside, Frutta Gallery, Rome (IT); Louise Giovanelli, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester (UK); Louise Giovanelli, Workplace Foundation, Gateshead (UK); A Throw to the Side, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, Warrington (UK); Slow to Respond, Touchstones Gallery, Rochdale (UK); Hold your tongue, Louise Giovanelli and Pius Fox, Transition Gallery, London (UK).
Giovanelli’s work can be found in the Government Art Collection (UK), Sarow Gallery collection (DE), The University of Salford collection (UK), The Grundy Gallery collection (UK), Manchester Art Gallery Collection (UK), Manchester School of Art collection (UK), the Warrington Museum and Art Gallery collection (UK) and a number of important private collections.
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