Exhibits & Events

Artist Paul Fabozzi is introducing a new body of work inspired by a recent residency in Italy. An exhibition of this work is opening onJune 14 at the  gallery and cultural space Utò Lo Spazio della Luce in Lucera, Italy.

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From the artist:

Walking presupposes that at every step the world changes in some aspect and that something changes in us.

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—Italio Calvino, “The Thousand Gardens”

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"During a two-week stay in the spring of 2024, I walked the atmospheric streets of Lucera—streets in this ancient hilltop city in Puglia, Italy, that have been inhabited for millennia and that manifest complex layers of history. Often these walks occurred early in the morning or in the middle of the afternoon, when the city was quite empty. The shadows that gathered within this urban form became my entry into a state of attentiveness. Shadows meandered along the streets, and up the sides of buildings, sometimes playfully and at times dramatically, overlaying physical objects and creating complex, palpable geometries. Shadows are simultaneously physical and ephemeral. They are an unstable impression that utters with temporality. Because of this, they presented me with a meaningful entry point to the process of making. My first step was capturing these shadow impressions with a camera. Then back in my studio in Long Island City, New York, these simplified forms became a platform upon which I layered other visual elements. Meandering lines, bits of opaque geometry, and the undifferentiated pours of colored ink were brought into contact with the
push and pull of positive and negative spaces instigated by the shapes of the shadows. I used a paired down language as a way of gathering visual elements around a sense of being in space and place. The intimacy of their scale, each work being 11 by 8 1/2 inches, is an invitation for the viewer to move closer. What is truly magical about experiencing a new place is how everyday phenomena can take on a powerful presence. I attend more fully in unfamiliar spaces. Yet quiet moments during which I am enraptured by the play of light on a surface can be painfully eeting. These works fold together the tactile and the visual in a register attuned to the mutual dependence of presence and absence. Through this new series, Passaggi d’ombra, I am offering an invitation to attend to the temporality of Lucera, a moment that can be touched with your eyes."

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