Image slideshow
“Forever Young”
PAX PALOSCIA
May 29th - July 24th 2010
Opening on Saturday May, 29th
2010, from 18:00 to 21:00
Exhibition from May 29th to July 24th 2010
Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 - 19:00
« … but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding
like spiders across the stars […] » Jack Kerouac, On the Road.
Press Release:
With Forever young, her
second personal exhibition at the ADDICT
Galerie, PAX Paloscia
delivers us the fertile universe of a nostalgic rêverie.
Influenced by street art, PAX
runs endlessly across the world accompanied by a camera and a suitcase full of
memories. Her passion for photography and her infatuation for the 7th art are
the engines of her inspiration and place the image in the center of her work.
They dictate her choices but also guide her imagination.
Here, everything begins with a photograph, being it an old family snapshot, a
simple cliché that she took or a shot out of a Cassavetes’ film. As soon as she
gets in contact with it she lets her feelings emerge, without filtering the
emotions that only her painting can restore. The photograph, sublimated by a
new texture, becomes a work transfigured. Painting is not the model; it is the
look on the model. The creation is here, beneath the fascinated gaze of the
artist, speaking to us in her own way about a photograph that touched her. Very
close to graffiti, her paintings look like a familiar wall, where pictural
signs and feelings are superposed.
PAX gets inspired
by famous personalities of the 7th art, her close friends and Women.
Thus, Charlotte Gainsboug or Anna Karina are immortalized in suave iconic
portraits. What is most important to her is retranslating what she feels -
anonymity and frailty concerning her as much as does celebrity. Showing the
woman beneath the star, the shadow beneath the glow, this is what captures her
attention.
Family reminiscences, childhood memories, contribute to an abundance of
pictures, situations or significant details, composing a sort of a
personal diary which is feeding her creation. Forever young explores the passage between childhood and
adulthood. The time is frozen, the space limited to the world of the past but
every mark, the artist knows it, remains elusive.
PAX paints as a poet.
Her sensibility, deeply feminine, is translated by a large stylistic freedom.
She will not forbid herself anything. On the contrary, she strives hard to blur
tracks, dipping in her treasure box, and its precious -and useless at the same
time- content. She plays with shapes and colours and can bewilder by using many
annotations, more or less decipherable.
PAX Paloscia proves
once again that the originality of art is in the specificity of its language,
the boldness of its writing, the individual vision that each one of us has of
the world. It is this mysterious procedure which leads to getting in
touch with the Universal by talking about the Self : “I marvel when images
become moments of love, of nostalgia, of loneliness, of self-confidence, of
sex, of youth, of beauty. We are 16 years old again, we are heart-broken again,
drunk again, sick again, in love again.”
By exhibiting Forever young, ADDICT galerie is fortunate to remain faithful to this idea of creation.