Aerial Silk - Louise Giovanelli

LOUISE GIOVANELLI AERIAL SILK

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LOUISE GIOVANELLI AERIAL SILK

GRIMM is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new paintings by Louise Giovanelli (1993, London, UK). This will be the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery and her first solo exhibition in the US. Louise Giovanelli has been drawing attention as a rising young painter for her delicate, luminous works, which inject vitality into historical subjects from the canon of Western Art. For her inaugural solo presentation in the US, Giovanelli presents a body of paintings that continue her development of several distinct series.

Giovanelli explores the fidelity of images through a meticulous representational style influenced by the early Renaissance masters.

Although her subject matter is carefully observed, she has a detached and unsentimental approach to painting more concerned with the immediate experience of seeing than projected meanings and associations. Her sources are primarily chosen for their formal qualities and include staged photographs, film stills, classical sculpture, architectural elements and ornamentation.

The artist navigates different modes of ‘picturing’ and approaches to painting encouraging the viewer to switch between modes of looking. Rich fluid hues recede into the canvas contrasted by soft, luminous volumes that define the structure of a supple fold, a strand of hair, or a closed eyelid. As the eye passes over her paintings, sharp lines, ‘glitches’, or smudges are apparent in some works, causing interruptions in the coherence of the whole. These small interventions and visual non sequiturs are a recurring motif and a method of experimenting with the boundary between modes of aesthetic refinement and distortion.

In the series of paintings titled Peeping Tom, each of the works depict a single moment from the 1960s thriller of the same title. Here the viewer is presented with the image of a woman shutting her eyes briefly before a lethal attack by her stalker, but the context of this original narrative is obfuscated in the painting. Instead, Giovanelli’s cropped framing, and fragmented visual clues communicate an atmosphere of violence and restriction.

Dividing and gridding the canvas, th abstract or natural elements, this cr is distinctively contemporary in the isolated. This method is present in t dense foliage is layered onto the sh center. In other works, dormant or p and painted with a sense of deferen consideration of her subject matter scrolling and visual burnout. To beh is detached from familiar urgencies consideration.

About the artist: Louise Giovanelli (b. 1993, London, U am Main (DE), where she is pursuin Städelschule with professor Amy S

She earned a Bachelor’s Degree (B Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, Recent solo exhibitions include inclu Rome (IT); Louise Giovanelli, Manche (UK); Louise Giovanelli, Workplace Fo Throw to the Side, Warrington Museu (UK); Slow to Respond, Touchstones tongue, Louise Giovanelli and Pius F (UK). She has also participated in th El oro de los tigres, Air de Paris, Rom Distance, curated by Workplace Foun (UK); The Dream That Follows The M (UK); Staedelschule: Rundgang, Städe Tales of the haunted and the body, cur Schneider, Berlin (DE), among other

Giovanelli’s work can be found in th (UK), Sarow Gallery collection (DE)

he artists gives structure to reates a pictorial perspective that way elements are detached and the series titled An Ex, where hape of a letter X crossing at the peripheral objects are enlarged ntial authority. Giovanelli’s tender r eludes today’s culture of endless hold her work is reorienting; it s and delivers moments of deep

UK) lives and works in Frankfurt ng her Master’s Degree at the Sillman.

B.A. Hons, Fine Art) at the Manchester (UK). ude; Time Inside, Frutta Gallery, ester Art Gallery, Manchester oundation, Gateshead (UK); A um and Art Gallery, Warrington s Gallery, Rochdale (UK); Hold your Fox, Transition Gallery, London he following group exhibitions: mainville (FR); Touching from a ndation, The Conduit, London Mouth, Arcade Gallery, London elschule, Frankfurt Am Main (DE); rated by Kuba Paris, Casa Cristea rs.

he Government Art Collection ), The University of Salford

collection (UK), The Grundy Gallery collection (UK), Manchester Art Gallery Collection (UK), Manchester School of Art collection (UK), the Warrington Museum and Art Gallery collection (UK) and a number of private collections.

About the gallery: GRIMM represents thirty international artists. Since its establishment in 2005, it has been the gallery’s mission to represent and support the work of emerging and mid-career artists. The gallery has two exhibition spaces in Amsterdam and one in New York.

Louise Giovanelli b. 1993 in London (UK) Lives and works in Frankfurt (DE) and Manchester (UK)

DUAL EXHIBITIONS 2018

Hold your tongue, Louise Giovanelli and Pius Fox, Transition Gallery, London (UK) One flew east, Louise Giovanelli and Jenny West, CBS, Liverpool (UK)

EDUCATION 2018

Städelschule (Professor Amy Sillman), Frankfurt am Main (DE)

2015

B.A. (Hons) Fine Art, Manchester School of Art (UK)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020

El oro de los tigres, Air de Paris, Romainville (FR)

2019

A meeting with Erna Schilling, Pablos Birthday Gallery, New York (US)

GRANTS AND AWARDS 2019

Arts Council England project grant

2018

Arts Council England project grant

Tales of the haunted and the body, curated by Kuba Paris, Casa Cristea Schneider, Berlin (DE) Statue, Frutta Gallery, Rome (IT)

The Eaton Fund 2016

The Contemporary British Painting Prize (special commendation)

2015

The Beep Wales Painting Prize (shortlisted)

Touching from a Distance, curated by Workplace Foundation, The Conduit, London (UK) Stäedelschule: Rundgang, Stäedelschule, Frankfurt am Main (DE)

The Leonard James Fine Art Prize

On Repeat, The Grundy Gallery, Blackpool (UK)

The Manchester Academy of Fine Art Award The Ken Billany Painting Prize

P is for Portrait, The Art House, Worcester (UK)

Saatchiart, Showdown: The Painted World (Second prize) SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2020

The Dream That Follows The Mouth, Arcade Gallery, London (UK) 2017

Aerial Silk, GRIMM, New York (US)

The Contemporary British Painting Prize, The Stables Gallery, London (UK)

GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL) [forthcoming] Workplace, Gateshead (UK) [forthcoming] 2019

Time Inside, Frutta Gallery, Rome (IT) Louise Giovanelli, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester (UK)

Adolf Menzels Foot, PS Mirabel Gallery, Manchester (UK) 2016

Louise Giovanelli, Workplace Foundation, Gateshead (UK) 2018

A Throw to the Side, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, Warrington (UK)

2016

Slow to Respond, Touchstones Gallery, Rochdale (UK)

In Residence, The Griffin Gallery, London (UK)

Beep Wales International Painting Prize, Swansea College of Art (UK) Pleasure Islands, Artwork Atelier, Salford (UK) Art in the Home, various venues, York (UK) Institution | Outstitution, The International 3, Salford (UK)

2015

The Painted World, Saatchiart Showdown Final, Ace Hotel, Los Angeles (US)

From Here to Here (part 1 & 2), The Grundy Gallery, Blackpool (UK)

Tumbling Die, The Holden Gallery, Manchester (UK)

Prima Donna, The International 3, Salford (UK)

Ones To Watch, Sarow Galerie, Pforzheim (DE)

SELECTED COLLECTIONS The Government Art Collection (UK) Sarow Gallery Collection (DE) The University of Salford Collection (UK) The Grundy Gallery Collection (UK) Warrington Museum and Art Gallery (UK) Manchester Art Gallery Collection (UK) Manchester School of Art Collection (UK)