Aaron Gilbert at Sant’Andrea de Scaphis, Rome

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Coming from a protracted line of antecedents, Gilbert is a painter of our new unrelenting trendy life, as lived by these on the margins. He’s a painter of the paranormal and the peculiar, of the non secular hidden contained in the on a regular basis. His topics possess a power and resilient grace underneath strain.

“The our bodies I depict are underneath the load of capitalism. I need that pressure to be very current. I need it to be as dominant within the work as it’s in our lives. You’ve the presence of those forces however then I’m occupied with discovering the place we are able to entry the ability that may circumvent the foundations of the sport.”

“The sacred is what I’m invested in. Deciphering how we entry an influence that transcends all the fabric construction of this world. I might say that I function on the concept none of us know the way highly effective we’re. None of us know what we’re able to doing or why we’re right here and, to me, essentially the most attention-grabbing factor in being alive is making an attempt to decipher that and unlock it and be a transformative pressure on this planet.”

“I just like the moments in portray historical past that stay on a bridge between two methods of considering, there’s these breaks of logic between Giotto for instance after which Trecento, Quattrocento. Like Fra Angelico, you’re nonetheless on this world of magic, however then you definately’re additionally midway into this world of logic and purpose.”

at Sant’Andrea de Scaphis, Rome
till September 17, 2022

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