Flo
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Interwoven
SPACE 776 GALLERY
MANHATTAN, NEW YORK
Space776 | New York is pleased to present the winner of our solo show open call Florencia De Giovanni Pacini. Flo's solo exhibition Interwoven invites viewers to contemplate the unseen connections that sustain life, the intricate web of interdependence within nature, and the interconnectedness that binds all living creatures, urging a deeper understanding of our place within this complex, beautiful tapestry.
In the exhibition's eponymous painting, Interwoven, Pacini uses fantastical elements and rich, layered symbolism to explore themes of femininity, nature, and the subconscious. The dreamlike quality of Interwoven echoes the surrealist tradition of blurring reality and imagination, creating a narrative that invites introspection and interpretation. The mystic and the profane, the sensual and fleshy - all are present in Flo's work, combined in unexpected ways.
The female figure in Pacini's paintings connects the feminine mystique and strength and employs lush environments to explore themes of identity and existence. Always reaching towards or blending into nature, Flo's protagonists are caught in moments of reverence.
The Interwoven exhibition manifests a promise to honor and nurture the earth daily, a blood pact spanning generations, from our ancestors to us, who carry within our bodies the life of plants defying gravity. Each painting in the exhibition serves as a visual poem, an echo of ancient traditions, capturing the delicate balance and unity in our world and reflecting a return to the essential. By observing circumstances of the inherent nature of the human body, Flo suggests an understanding of delicate life balance within the environment through the forces of nature, gratitude to creation, cycles, life-giving forces, human life, and the rhythms of the natural world.
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Interwoven. September 2024. Space 776 Gallery. New York.
'The embrace'
Argentinian Embassy in Berlin Exhibition curated by Laila Calantzopoulos
July 2023 .
In the last few years my work has been oriented towards research on the relationship between the body and painting. The series ¨The embrace¨ stems from an injury: a shoulder injury prevented me from performing habitual movements that, so ordinary, are lost in oblivion. Faced with the impossibility of painting, I could only look inwards. I traveled to the confines of my territory to confirm what I already felt: painting is the body and the body is painting.
Since then, the individual organism and the social organism have tuned in to a common process: configuring a different way to pass the days. Painting saved me. The desire to reconnect with her helped me to trust and to move on. Though not without discipline, as curing a body and painting both require patience. With each treatment, my fragmentary anatomy followed the path towards unity. Work after work, I rediscovered the coming and going of my entrails towards the canvas and from the color to the flesh. A force began to spread from my core towards the shoulder blades, which spread like wings. The entire body began to move avidly and to expand towards the collective, to transcend from its own towards the universal, and return on the same path.
The set of works that make up this series oscillates between the charm of the sinister and the return of a past that abandons familiar logic and seeks new questions for an ambiguous present. It is an invitation to halt in another kind of passing. Inhabit the oil’s tempo to find sediments of multiple art histories among the glazes. Fragments that look straight at whoever observes them, to reveal unknown wisdom. Wisdom which evokes memory of our true power.
Today, I am ready to embrace again. With my visceral body and with my body that, because of being pictorial, is no less vehement.
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The embrace, July—Sep 2023. Botschaft der Argentinischen Republik, Berlin.
'El Caldero'
Exhibition text by Lula Mari
May 2021
A body of colour moves between green and red, oscillating between areas of light and shadow. The hues melt, separate, draw a dimension and return to the mist, which is as much air as it is water.
There is something brewing in Flo Giovanni Pacini's paintings.
The surface of the canvas hollows out to become a vessel that not only contains textures and atmospheres, but also intuitions, mythologies, a pinch of astrology, dreams, nightmares, experiences, the body of a woman who knows she is one and many, the desire to house herself and others.
El caldero (the cauldron) is utilized in festivities to cook sacrificial offerings. It is also the device used by witches to cook their brews. The fire burns beneath el caldero. The food prepared there is more like a potion than a delicacy. It nourishes, yes, but above all, it heals. Cats know this.
A painting that paints the act of painting, and a painting that is experienced as an act of magic.
Perhaps that is why the eyes and hands stand out, going from the painter to the painting as if it were a mirror. Something is grazed before disappearing: some indistinguishable consistency, an intensity.
The painting throbs and summons us to the ritual. It awaits us with its ancient promise renewed.
El Caldero. September 2021. El Más Acá Club. Buenos Aires.
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Review Martín Palottini
