Herbert Baglione – Two Broken Knees – exhibition at Lazarides Galery
21 November – 20 December 2008
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Lazarides Gallery is pleased to present Two Broken Knees, a newseries of work by Herbert Baglione.
Brazilian artist Baglione is an established contemporary painter whodraws on strong, simple mural designs, extreme physical figures andhuman and alien icons, rendered in the style of cave drawings. His stylehas influenced the vibrant street art movement in South America for atleast ten years. His position as one of Brazil’s most distinctive artistshas also cemented his international acclaim in the design and artworlds.
Jaded with the scene and what he saw around him, Baglione startedexperimenting with new ways to look at the street, using the extremes ofurban architecture to create his paintings, provoking a new dialogue.Although his figurative subjects are ever present, his art is constantlygrowing and changing, relying on a strong palette. This new work has a work has a strong minimalism set against an elaborate calligraphy andnew injection of colour. In ‘Coins and Scratched Dice’ (illustrated aboveright) emaciated figures fall down like match stick rain; in Spit, Bloodand Mud (illustrated above left), figures hang upside down from a baseof stark geometric colour.
In his new body of work comprising twenty paintings in small and largescale in acrylics, enamel and varnish, Baglione uses characters thatseem to bloom and reclaim life. Textures from urban dirt and scratchedout typography found in big global cities that he experimented withyears ago and are now integrated with his recent work on geometricpatterns, fractals, religion and erotica. Two Broken Knees marks a newphase in which the painting process has become a religious ritual in asearch of faith lost in the great urban centres of the world. He usespainting, drawing and installation as new instruments, continuing totouch on subjects which he considers provoking such as death,individualism and chaos.
Herbert Baglione started painting in the Streets of São Paulo in thebeginning of the 90s. Throughout the various phases in his work in hishome country, Europe and the United States, Baglione has paintedalongside important names of the international graffiti scene.
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