Angelo Filomeno: By the ocean waiting for sunset

Angelo Filomeno By the ocean waiting for sunset

Angelo Filomeno By the ocean waiting for sunset

Angelo Filomeno By the ocean waiting for sunset May 6 - June 18, 2022

CHART, in collaboration with Galerie Lelong & Co., is pleased to present By the ocean waiting for sunset, an exhibition of new paintings by Angelo Filomeno. This is Filomeno’s first New York solo exhibition in seven years, and will be installed across both floors of the gallery. Ten recent paintings will fill the main gallery, paired with an installation of related smaller works on the gallery’s lower level. There will be an opening reception on Friday, May 6 from 6–8 pm and the exhibition will remain on view through June 18.

In this new body of work, Filomeno uses subjects from the natural world to further explore the symbolic struggles between life and death that have been prominently featured throughout his multi-decade artistic career. Known for his established practice of skillfully embroidering fabrics, Filomeno uses luxurious materials like shantung silk and rare crystals in his richly textured paintings, which are adorned throughout with his trademark zig-zagging threadwork. For his show at CHART, the artist has created a series of memento mori motifs featuring depictions of icebergs, islands, and other recognizable symbols from our current climate crisis.

As the critic Janet Koplos noted in Art in America, Filomeno “found his own way to the sublime by combining repulsion and beauty.” The works in By the ocean waiting for sunset utilize a similar pairing of contrasting forces to capture the grandeur of the world around us, albeit in a more minimalist manner than his past tableaux. The large-scale “Island” series, on view in the gallery’s main space, could be considered combinations of architectural geometry and color field painting. For instance, racing up the lower half of Island (red, silver, copper) are a sequence of hard-edged reflections in the sea—or, alternatively, chunks of the icy mass that have been calved away—that ascend to the meticulously rendered floating form, before giving way to a large swath of shimmering red silk.

The resplendence of the artist’s materials—which have been sourced from his own archival stores, in a nod to environmental consciousness—and the lucious fabrication of his forms mask the frightening symbolism these simple shapes express. In Filomeno’s hands, beauty itself can be shocking, and warming or stormy landscapes, however colorful, are no less grotesque than traditional symbols of death and decay. In another, more somber series, Filomeno presents stark portraits of magpies, a highly intelligent cousin of the common crow and popularly known as tiny thieves of shiny objects, evidenced here in Waiting for sunrise, where the little bird clutches a dangling onyx skull necklace. The stately, watchful creature addresses the viewer as if to say: if we’re not careful, nature will find a way to take back everything we hold precious. Death, as the classical memento mori serve to remind us, is inevitable, but if we take the warnings seriously, climate catastrophe does not have to be.

Angelo Filomeno has had solo museum exhibitions at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Tennessee; Italian Cultural Institute of New York; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Italy; Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali, Italy; and Italian Cultural Institute of Toronto, Canada. His work has been included in major international biennials including the 52nd Venice Biennale, Italy (2007), and ARS 06, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Finland (2006). Filomeno’s work can be found in several public collections including the Centre Georges Pompidou, France; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut ; 21C Museum, Kentucky; and Museum of Art & Design, New York. Filomeno was born in Ostuni, Italy, in 1963. He has lived and worked in New York City since 1992.

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Starry night, 2022 embroidery on silk shantung stretched over canvas 68 x 52 in (172.7 x 132.1 cm)

Starry night, 2022 (Detail)

Starry night, 2022 (Detail)

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Island (red, silver, copper), 2022 silk shantung stretched over canvas 68 x 50 in (172.7 x 127 cm)

Island (red, silver, copper), 2022 (Detail)

Island (red, silver, copper), 2022 (Detail)

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Storm, 2022 embroidery on silk shantung stretched over canvas 68 x 52 in (172.7 x 132.1 cm)

Storm, 2022 (Detail)

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Waiting for sunrise (dark green), 2022 embroidery on silk shantung stretched over cotton with silver 68 x 52 in ( 172.7 x 132.1 cm

Waiting for sunrise (dark green), 2022 (Detail)

Waiting for sunrise (dark green), 2022 (Detail)

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Waiting for sunrise (purple), 2022 embroidery on silk shantung stretched over cotton with silver, 68 x 52 in (172.7 x 132.1 cm)

Waiting for sunrise (purple), 2022 (Detail)

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Waiting for sunrise (blue), 2022 embroidery on silk shantung stretched over cotton with onyx and silver 68 x 46 in (172.7 x 116.8 cm)

Waiting for sunrise (blue), 2022 (Detail)

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Daisies in the sky, 2022 embroidery on silk shantung stretched over cotton 68 x 52 in (172.7 x 132.1 cm)

Daisies in the sky, 2022 (Detail)

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Dahlia 2022 embroidery on silk shantung stretched over cotton 68 x 50 in (172.7 x 127 cm)

Dahlia, 2022 (Detail)

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Island (blue, gold, green), 2022 embroidery on silk shantung stretched over cotton 68 x 52 in (172.7 x 132.1 cm)

Island (blue, green, gold) TBD,, 2022 (Detail)

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American barn (yellow moon), 2022 silk shantung stretched over cotton 70 x 50 inches (177.8 x 127 cm)

American barn (yellow moon), 2022 (Detail)

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American barn (red moon), 2022 silk shantung stretched over cotton 46 x 32 in (116.8 x 81.3 cm)

American barn (red moon), 2022 (Detail)

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American barn (gray), 2022 silk shantung stretched over cotton 70 x 52 inches (177.8 x 132.1 cm)

American barn (gray), 2022 (Detail)

Installation view at CHART.

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L: Island, 2021 embroidery on silk shantung stretched over cotton 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm) (CH655)

R: Island, 2021 embroidery on lamé and silk moire stretched over cotton 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm) (CH852)

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Island, 2021 embroidery on silk shantung stretched over cotton 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm) L: (CH657) R: (CH853)

Island, 2021 (CH853) (Detail)

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Island, 2021 embroidery on silk shantung stretched over cotton 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm) L: (CH656) R: (CH845)

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L: Island, 2021 embroidery on silk shantung and snakeskin stretched over cotton 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm) (CH847)

R: Island, 2021 embroidery on silk shantung stretched over 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm) (CH848)

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L: Island, 2021 embroidery on silk shantung stretched over cotton 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm) (CH856)

R: Island, 2021 embroidery on silk shantung and snakeskin stretched over 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm) (CH850)

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Island, 2021 (CH848) (Detail)

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Island, 2021 embroidery on silk shantung stretched over cotton 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm) L: (CH855) R: (CH658)

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Island, 2020 embroidery on silk shantung stretched over cotton 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm) L: (CH851) R: (CH846)

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Island, 2021 embroidery on silk shantung stretched over cotton 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm) L: (CH849) R: (CH854)

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Island, 2021 embroidery on silk shantung stretched over cotton 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm) L: (CH875) R: (CH659)

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Island, 2021 embroidery on silk shantung stretched over cotton 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm) L: (CH870) R: (CH873)

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Island, 2021 embroidery on silk shantung stretched over cotton 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm) L: (CH883) R: (CH871)

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Island, 2021 embroidery on silk shantung stretched over cotton 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm) L: (CH882) R: (CH878)

Island, 2021 (CH882) (Detail)

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Island, 2021 embroidery on silk shantung stretched over cotton 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm) L: (CH877) R: (CH879)

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Island, 2021 embroidery on silk shantung stretched over cotton 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm) L: (CH876) R: (CH881)

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Island, 2021 embroidery on silk shantung stretched over cotton 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm) L: (CH874) R: (CH872)

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Island, 2021 embroidery on silk shantung stretched over cotton 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm) L: (CH880) R: (CH874)

Island, 2021 (CH876) (Detail)

Angelo Filomeno Born 1963, Ostuni, Italy Lives and works in New York, New York

EDUCATION

1986

MFA, Academy of Fine Arts, Lecce, Italy

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

2016

2015 2014 2013 2011

2010 2009

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2007 2006 2004 2003 2001 2000

In between dreams at dusk, Visitor Center, Newburgh, NY (forthcoming) By the ocean waiting for sunset, CHART, New York, NY Focus: Angelo Filomeno, MART Museum of Contemporary Art of Rovereto and Trento, Italy Omaggio A Pino Pascali L’Africano, Fondazione Museo Pinopascali, Polignano a Mare, Italy Angelo Filomeno, Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Milan, Italy Threaded, Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA Angelo Filomeno: The House of Magic Affection, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY Intoxication, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Toronto, Canada Venice Biennale In The World, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, NY Galeria Massimo Audiello Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico The marquis and a bearded dominatrix with a cake in the oven, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY Because the World Is Cruel, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France Mortality’s Alchemist, Savannah College of Art and Design, Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah, GA; Savannah College of Art and Design, Trois Gallery, Atlanta, GA Betrayed Witches, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY Eros and Thanatos, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy Massimo Audiello, New York, NY Hurqualia, Omphalos Arte

1999 1998

Contemporanea, Bari, Italy; Art Resources Transfer, New York, NY Art Resources Transfer, Project Room, New York, NY QCC Art Gallery, Queensborough Community College, CUNY, Bayside, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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2016 2015

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2012

What are you looking at?, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA Lands End, FOR-SITE Foundation, San Francisco, CA The Art of Being: Feelings, Memories, and Imagination, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA Chromotherapy, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Dark and Stormy Night: The Gothic in Contemporary Art, Lehman Collage Art Gallery, Bronx, NY Global New Art, Wood One Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan In Contemporanea, Spazio46/Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy Tête-à-tête: Art and Fashion from the SCAD Museum of Art Permanent Collection, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA Eccellenze, Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Milan, Italy Permanent Collection, Museo Pino Pascali, Polignano a Mare (Bar), Italy Re: Collection, Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York, NY Vanitas: Fashion and Art, Bass Art Museum, Miami, FL Home Spun, West Collection at SEI, Johannesburg, South Africa States of Mind, Maison Particulère Centre d’art, Brussels,Belgium Gold Rush, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ 45th Collectors Show&Sale, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK Threads: Contemporary Embroidery, Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY Privada luz, Galeria Massimo Audiello, Mexico City, Mexico Stretching the Limits: Fibers in Contemporary Painting, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

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2009

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Design Gallery (excinema Cavour), Milan, Italy Conversazione in una stanza chiusa #1, Bianca Arte Contemporanea (vecchia sede), Palermo, Italy The Gentlemen of Verona: sperimentazioni sul contemporaneo in Italia, Galleria d’Arte Moderna Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy The Mezzanin Collection. A Selection, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein Energheia, 2011 Miniartextil, Chiesa di San Francesco, Como, Italy Eleazar Corsoveneziaotto, Milan, Italy A New Hook: Re-thinking Needlework, Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland Love in Vein: Editions Fawbush projects and artists 2005–2010, Gering & Lopez Gallery, New York, NY The Fifth Genre: Considering the Contemporary Still Life, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY Il Trucco e le Maschere, Byblos Art Gallery, Verona, Italy 185th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art, National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, New York, NY Artifici contemporanei e difformità barocche, ARCOS Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Sannio, Benevento, Italy Thread Baring: A Portrayal of Masculinity One Stitch at a Time, Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI Black, G Fine Art, Washington, DC Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, TX; Grey Art Gallery at New York University, New York; The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY Collection II: shell-shelter, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan Expanded Painting, Space Other, Boston, MA

2007

2006

2005

2004

A Year in Drawing, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY What’s your hobby, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY M*A*S*H Miami: The Expanded Painting Show, Miami Design District, Miami, FL Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY Shattering Glass: New Perspectives, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY Senso Unico, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY 4aXY: 10 Years of Gallery 4A, Gallery 4A – Asia Australia Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia I Am As You Will Be: The Skeleton in Art, Cheim & Read, New York, NY 2ème Ete Culturel: Dialogues Mediterraneens, Citadelle de Saint-Tropez, France Shadow, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY Subtil Textile, Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind.

Art in the Present Tense, 52nd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy The Way of All Flesh, BravinLee Programs, New York, NY Arcadia, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY Fresh! Contemporary Takes on Nature and Allegory, Museum of Glass International Center for Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA ARS 06, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland Alternative Paradise, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan Hanging by a Thread, The Moore Space, Miami, FL Neo-Baroque!, Byblos Art Gallery, Verona, Italy It’s Not About Sex!, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY New Tapestries, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY Mystery, Grace Li Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland Surface, Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York, NY Chronos, Il Filatoio, Caraglio, Italy Filoluce, Museo della Permanente, Milan, Italy 100% Acid Free, White Columns, New York,

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Angelo Filomeno, Simon Periton, Philip Taaffe, Francesco Vezzoli, Gorney Bravin +Lee, New York, NY Stop & Stor, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY Game, Salvatore Ferragamo, New York, NY Makeover, Massimo Audiello, New York, NY Il Racconto del Filo, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy City Mouse, Country Mouse, Space 101, New York, NY Fashion, Italian Style, The Museum at FIT, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY Proper Villains, Untitled (space) Gallery, New Haven, CT Sew Fine, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY Officina America, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy Guardaroba, Ex Monastero Santa Scolastica, Bari, Italy Le Jardin, Villa Medici, Academie de France à Rome, Rome, Italy Re:Duchamp, Kulturbahnhof, Bremen, Germany; The Artists’ Museum, Lodz, Poland; Emmanuel Heller Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel Inantartico, Omphalos Arte Contemporanea, Bari, Italy Whichkraft?, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY Surface Structure, Nikolai Fine Art, New York, NY 25 Years of Photography, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY Paradise 8, Exit Art, New York, NY Artist of the week, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY No England-No Amsterdam III, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT Biennial Works on Paper, Queensborough Community College, CUNY, Bayside, New York, NY State Biennial, New York State Museum, Albany, NY Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA

1996

Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NY

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

21C Museum, Louisville 21ST Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan Bass Art Museum, Miami Centre Pompidou, France The Lever House Art Collection, New York Mezzanin Stiftung Fur Kunst, Liechtenstein Museo Pino Pascali, Polignano a Mare, Italy Museum of Arts and Design, New York Museum Bellerive, Zurich Museum of Design, Switzerland Museum of Glass / International Center for Contemporary Art, Tacoma Progressive Corporation, Cleveland Salvatore Ferragamo Museum, Italy Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta The West Collection at SEI, Oaks The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford

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