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ADRIANO GEMELLI Loose ends … Beginnings |
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Adriano Gemelli's latest exhibition reveals the excitement of an innovative medium, holospectral art, taken to greater heights. The title of the exhibition, Loose ends…Beginnings, reflects the axiom - all things are in dynamic change, which produces the potential of new beginnings from apparent endings. 'The empty glass is not vacuous, it is a problem of perception & need. Art can be conceived in contradictions. What appears as an end can be perceived as a beginning and vice versa. One merely considers the circle and its point of departure,' says Gemelli. This series of works, using mediums of hologram, faux gold, resin, metal leaf and graphite have inherent properties of change, in the hope that it is not as an end for the viewer but a commencement of new discourse. Titles of the paintings, which are connected to haiku poetry, are art works of their own, invoking answers and stimulating our thought responses to the works. Adriano Gemelli lives in Williamstown and works from a studio/warehouse in the seaside town Hastings where he completed a major commemorative sculpture for the Dandenong RSL in early June 2003. He began his artistic career living and studying at the Dunmoochin artist colony with some of Australia's premier artists like Clifton Pugh and Frank Hodginson in the early seventies. In 1998 he was granted a patent on his unique holographic technique, which resulted in the highly acclaimed series of works titled 'Sea & Water' 1996-2002. Adriano Gemelli has taken part in many group and solo exhibitions on a regular basis and his work sits in collections both in Australia and overseas. The faux gold and hologram featuring in these works express the vagaries of 'all is not what it appears'. Gold is not only beautiful, but also beguiling, the 'knife edge' of ambiguity in beginnings and endings - the not only but also. 'The art of Adriano Gemelli is innovative and spectacular!' says Age journalist Jeanette Leigh, 'The artist takes you into his complex world exploring the depths and bounds of creativity and poetry with a medium that you can only dance with and rejoice in. It's a must see.' for further information contact: Adriano
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