2013/14
Focal Point
Solo show
Bellpark Museum
Bellpark Museum
23/11/13 – 12/3/14
Kriens
Kriens
With his latest works, Giacomo Santiago Rogado pushes his conceptual painting into states of crisis. The seemingly given elements of the image—support and layer of paint—are broken open through expressive gestures and deconstructed into their components, in order to generate new images from this very process. He removes the canvas from its stretcher, dyes it, sprinkles pigment directly onto the linen, or alters its coloration through the use of bleach. In these new works, Rogado clearly allows the uncontrollable to unfold, confronting it with the constructive conceptual approach that has characterized his practice until now. His current works are momentary images emerging from these processes, engaging with the question of how the transient can be represented and perceived.
From this experience, Rogado has developed an exhibition for the Museum im Bellpark that integrates the notion of reflection into its very form of presentation. Through an installative approach, the artist makes his painting spatially perceptible. Unfinished works, found objects, sketches, and fragments all find their place within this setting. Rogado also includes experimental series showing different stages of his paintings’ development, exemplifying the process of how his works come into being.
From this experience, Rogado has developed an exhibition for the Museum im Bellpark that integrates the notion of reflection into its very form of presentation. Through an installative approach, the artist makes his painting spatially perceptible. Unfinished works, found objects, sketches, and fragments all find their place within this setting. Rogado also includes experimental series showing different stages of his paintings’ development, exemplifying the process of how his works come into being.
The artist thus adopts a reflective approach to his own practice and painterly strategies, opening up a space of reflection on painting itself, within whose tradition he situates his work. The exhibition is accompanied and expanded by an artist’s book, which continues the engagement with process beyond the exhibition. Created in close collaboration with graphic designer Amanda Haas, the book extends Rogado’s experimental exploration of painting and its specific means. Conceived as a kind of “research report,” the publication offers insight into the genesis of the works, while also revealing an iconographic network of references and models that are important to the artist. In doing so, Rogado also discloses the subtext that underlies and supports his entire artistic practice.
Hilar Stadler
Hilar Stadler