RESIDENT ARTIST
ENRICO TOMMASO DE PARIS
This month we are delighted to show Good News #220113, a work by the artist Enrico Tommaso De Paris.
Good News #220113, 2013
Acrylic and mix media on canvas
215 x 160 cm
Good News #220113 is indicative of the fragmentary nature of Enrico’s artistic practice. Its abstract sculptural paintings are juxtaposed, and yet their contents spill into one another, breaking the boundaries defined by their frames. Their eclectic nature is a reflection of the artist’s consumption of different types of media: images from the internet, television, scientific journals, advertisement, amalgamated and abstracted to mimic modernity’s information overflow.
In the artist’s own words: ‘In my experimentation I try to identify forms and structures that speak a new language, interpreting the clearest and even darkest areas of reality to become, the desire for the future, the desire to anticipate it, hope that the values are those of a humanity that is respectful towards the other and towards nature…. Avoid selfishness and get out of the rhetoric of the ego.’
BIOGRAPHY
Enrico Tommaso De Paris is a multimedia artist, whose futuristic and synthetic works respond to the accelerating technological transformation of the world.
Born in Zottier di Mal in the Italian province of Belluno in 1960, he graduated with degrees in both industrial electronics and veterinary medicine in Turin. From 1982 he devoted himself completely to art, working in the studios of acclaimed artists Francesco Casorati, Corrado Porchietti, and Giacomo Soffiantino.
Enrico held his first solo show in 1990, exhibiting a series of paintings depicting interiors and aerial views of imaginary cities in a neo-Pop style. His work has retained the fantastically futuristic spirit of these early paintings, but grown significantly in scale and ambition, incorporating his wide ranging expertise in electronics.
In 2005, he participated in the 51st Venice Biennale, creating Chromosoma for the spaces of the Arsenale Novissimo. This installation exploded human DNA into great winding constructions of metal and light, facilitating a sort of meta-encounter for the viewer.
The artist Enrico Tommaso De Paris
Laboratory 040411 | Mix media – 50 x 50 x 16 cm
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