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Meanwhile in Paris - Ink & Phosphorescent paint on paper | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Paolo Giardi. Item made of paper & synthetic
Meanwhile in Paris - Ink & Phosphorescent paint on paper | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Paolo Giardi. Item made of paper & synthetic
Meanwhile in Paris - Ink & Phosphorescent paint on paper | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Paolo Giardi. Item made of paper & synthetic
Meanwhile in Paris - Ink & Phosphorescent paint on paper | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Paolo Giardi. Item made of paper & synthetic
Meanwhile in Paris - Ink & Phosphorescent paint on paper | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Paolo Giardi. Item made of paper & synthetic

Created and Sold by Paolo Giardi

Paolo Giardi

Meanwhile in Paris - Ink & Phosphorescent paint on paper - Paintings

Price $900

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DimensionsWeight
27.5H x 39.5W x 0.1D in
69.85H x 100.33W x 0.25D cm
0.6 kg
1.32 lb

AND TOMORROW IS ALREADY YESTERDAY, OR HOW THE HEART SKIPS A BEAT
Meanwhile in Paris
2010

39½”W x 27½”H (100x70cm)

Black ink and Phosphorescent green acrylic paint on acid free 400gsm watercolour paper. The writing ‘meanwhile in Paris’ is painted with the glow in the dark paint.

Signed and unframed.

Works from this series are conceived as random frames from a romantic photo-story where narrative and dialogue, out of their original context deliver a punch line, ask for an alternative reading, or simply disconnect the images from their original sources.

In sketching and re-sketching the preparatory collages, Giardi keeps adding different and contrasting elements to his storyboard, following the method of composition and writing in Marcel Proust’s brouillons.

The final execution, a combination of images and texts borrowed from vintage magazines, graphic design, literature and comic strips, presents us with the hieroglyphics of relationships and life itself. This world of signs is asking to be deciphered and interpreted.

Price doesn't include frame. Artwork shipped from London, UK, inquire for shipping cost.

Item Meanwhile in Paris - Ink & Phosphorescent paint on paper
Created by Paolo Giardi
As seen in Private Residence, London, United Kingdom
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Paolo Giardi
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Paolo Giardi works across a variety of disciplines producing art that explores the technique of the collage and its applications. This has led to a fascination with, and exploration of, the languages of appropriation, citation and adaptation. As part of his practice the artist has been collecting found material and tear sheets from all sorts of publications for many years. Through the exercise of association, he simultaneously attempts to manipulate and transport existing images out of their original context, blurring the experiences of memory and perception.

Paolo Giardi, born 1964 in Florence, studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze. Lives and works in London.

Paolo Giardi has never been an artist who paints exclusively; his background is also that of a window dresser, illustrator, retail designer and print maker. All these layers are clearly visible in his work. The sense of displacement generated by a combination of different and yet vaguely familiar idioms, recognisable imagery and more graphic and abstract elements evoke the nature of a forgotten or distant memory. What lay before our eyes becomes a hieroglyph to be deciphered. Such imagery could be at once seducing, amusing or alarming to the viewer.

Recent exhibitions includes 2021 'The Botanist' (Flora Chimera) – Collier Webb, Pimlico Road, London; 2017 Gallery Weekend Berlin - Room Capacity, Berlin; 2017 YIA Art Fair #9 - Less is More Projects, Le Square Meeting Center, Brussels; 2015 Art on Paper Art Fair - Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Pier 36, New York City; 2015 'Things We Didn’t Have Before' - Pump House Gallery, London; 2014 'The Botanist' (You Can Learn a Lot of Things From the Flowers) - Less is More Projects, Paris