PAOLO COLOMBO Watercolor Painting On Gauze & Paper FRAMED SIGNED Ed Ruscha
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Artist: PAOLO COLOMBO (Italian, b. 1949)Title: "La Gloria Postuma" - 1982Medium: Original & Unique Painting in Watercolor, Collage, Graphite Drawing on Gauze and PaperSignature: Hand-Signed in Ink, verso, and also Titled in Ink, rectoEdition: Unique work, NOT an editioned limited editionSize: 12 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (art); 19 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (framed)Notes: Ross Wetzel Studio Archival FramingProvenance: Marianne... Deson Gallery, Chicago, IllinoisAbout the Artist: Paolo Colombo’s (b. 1949) paintings and photographs illustrate with exactness a lyrical series of moments, each holding the intensity of a world. Ranging from sizes to be peered into or poured over, they open across saturated washes of color, checkered squares, fine lines or lettering with a consistency of embroidered cloth. Chosen in part for its resistance as a medium to correction, we see watercolours in their most soft or dense tones of magenta, deep red, azure, and the rich pale gold of a particular light or sand. Several works physically suspend or lightly attach silhouettes, leaving a shadow or suggestion of possible movement (a pair of shoes, a ballerina), while others arrive at this suspension visually, placing a shape (a bundle of flowers, a foot) with the elusive insistence of a gesture against a textured field. Colombo has served as curator worldwide, assembling works by his art colleagues including Ed Ruscha, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jānis Avotiņš, Jorge Macchi, Paul Thek, Robert Gober, Rosemarie Trockel. Born 1949 in Torino, Italy. Colombo lives and works in Athens, Greece, and is the Art Advisor for the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art (2008 to present). Between 2001 – 2007, Colombo was the curator of the Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo in Rome, and the director of the Centre d’art Contemporain in Geneva between 1989 – 2000. Colombo studied at the University of Rome between 1967 – 1975, at Yale University between 1975 –1976, and at Columbia University between 1976 – 1977. 2018; Geometrica, Tristan Hoare, London, United Kingdom; Paolo Colombo, Marc Jancou Offsite, Rossinière, Switzerland; Paolo Colombo, Baert Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
