Skip to content

Angelina Gualdoni

Shadows Slipping

September 23 – November 6, 2010

painting by Angelina Gualdoni

Edges of Presence, 2010

Oil and acrylic on canvas

52” x 47”

painting by Angelina Gualdoni

Untitled, 2010

Oil and acrylic on canvas

28” x 24”

painting by Angelina Gualdoni

Constructive Interference, 2010

Oil and acrylic on canvas

20” x 18”

painting by Angelina Gualdoni

Untitled (Dusty Dusky), 2010

Oil and acrylic on canvas

47” x 52”

painting by Angelina Gualdoni

Untitled (Ring), 2010

Oil and acrylic on canvas

22” x 24”

painting by Angelina Gualdoni

Untitled (Fragment), 2010

Acrylic and dye on canvas

51” x 48”

painting by Angelina Gualdoni

Cast Over, 2010

Oil and Acrylic on Canvas

36” x 48”

painting by Angelina Gualdoni

Untitled (Blue Crowd, Pink Shadow), 2010

Oil and acrylic on canvas

47” x 50”

painting by Angelina Gualdoni

Untitled (Diamond), 2010

Acrylic on canvas

36.25” x 36.25”

painting by Angelina Gualdoni

Untitled (Green Stripes), 2010

Oil and acrylic on canvas

50” x 47”

Press Release

Asya Geisberg Gallery is pleased to announce its inaugural opening with “ShadowsSlipping”, an exhibition of new works by Angelina Gualdoni, on view from September 23 through November 6, 2010. The gallery is located at 537B West 23rd Street, New York, NY.

Angelina Gualdoni begins her paintings by pouring thin veils of paint directly onto the canvas. By allowing the liquid to articulate the basis of her painting, Gualdoni relinquishes control, and then wields it back by marking strange objects uncomfortably on the surface pool. Structures build on the outlines of the stains, or leap out against the watery passages, or simply follow the odd paths that the liquid has chosen to flow. Gualdoni’s paintings posit a world where the known and the tangible lie always outside our reach, slipping into and out of shadows. Constant tensions of emptiness and being, object and field, movement and stasis permeate her work. Shadows march into the forefront, and objects recede against the diffusive stains. Gualdoni’s earlier series investigated failed utopias of Modern architecture, portraying decaying and imploding buildings crumbling into pools of paint. In “Shadows Slipping”, she extracts the essence of the decay, by leaving the viewer to question what is coming into being, and what is falling apart.

In an accompanying series, Gualdoni’s collages amplify the confusion of scale that occurs in her work. Within the paintings, a dab of paint might suggest a vase, a planet in a primordial cosmic stew, or a boulder levitating in the air, likewise in her collages photographic elements collapse spatial specificity.

Gualdoni writes, “The shift in the work, compared to previous bodies, is in favor of improvisa­tion, and against a photographic basis, in favor of degrees of presence, against “the void” as strictly a desolate absence, towards a condition of use that is in the spirit of Lauterbach’s reading of ‘As Is’.”

“As is” suggests the distance

from perfection which the object has traveled

through the course of time, its fall from Platonic grace of virgin purity.

“As

is” is a

variant

of “as if,” the way in which desire ineluctably turns into fulfillment

or disappointment

and in that turn, “something” is simultaneously lost and found.

–Ann Lauterbach, “As (It) Is: Towards a Poetics of the Whole Fragment”, 1999