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Meshhed – Collage and digital print on fine art paper | Prints by Paolo Giardi | L'Atelier Richelieu in Paris. Item made of paper
Meshhed – Collage and digital print on fine art paper | Prints by Paolo Giardi | L'Atelier Richelieu in Paris. Item made of paper
Meshhed – Collage and digital print on fine art paper | Prints by Paolo Giardi | L'Atelier Richelieu in Paris. Item made of paper
Meshhed – Collage and digital print on fine art paper | Prints by Paolo Giardi | L'Atelier Richelieu in Paris. Item made of paper
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Meshhed – Collage and digital print on fine art paper | Prints by Paolo Giardi | L'Atelier Richelieu in Paris. Item made of paper

Created and Sold by Paolo Giardi

Paolo Giardi

Meshhed – Collage and digital print on fine art paper

Featured In L'Atelier Richelieu, Paris, France

Price $800

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DimensionsWeight
19.69H x 27.56W x 0.39D in
50H x 70W x 1D cm
0.2 kg
0.44 lb

AURORA BOREALIS
Meshhed - Students of a Government School
2013

27½”W x 19 ¾“ H (70x50cm)

Artist Proof from a limited edition of 2 plus 1 artist proof, from a series of 20 artworks.

Handmade collage intervention with oil paint and color card on digital image printed on Arizona UV 320gr Fine Art paper.

Signed on back of paper and unframed.

‘Le Vie del Mondo’ was a monthly geographical/travel review published by the Italian Touring Club between 1924 and 1992 under, over the years, slightly different headings. In the years from 1933 to 1937 the publication changed its title to ‘Le Vie d’Italia e del Mondo’ and offered themes and illustrations that were highly influenced by the fascist ideology of the time. Under the pretext of showing the picturesque diversity of customs and costumes, the wonder of nature and the beauty of artefacts, the reviews were actually proposing a perspective of the world that was west-centric, bigot, colonial, and kept feeding to its readers ridiculous and dangerous prejudiced clichés.

With ‘Aurora Borealis’ Paolo Giardi presents us his most personal work to date. It is a reflection on the act of seeing and its process of attraction and repulsion, at what draws us into something and what pushes us away. An evaluation of what makes an image alluring and what is its real context. An exercise on aesthetic and ethic.

Giardi wants the viewer to discover his grandfather’s books with his very own sense of wonder and curiosity that was felt as a child. He is adding geometrical shapes borrowed from the modernist movement, quoting contemporary artists, pasting colourful screens in order to conceal the view and obliterate any form of nostalgia. Underneath the playful doodles another reality exists, and it is not always pretty.

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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