The characters from Razvan Ion’s photographs travel introspectively in search of their own identity. In a universe bombarding us with hyper exciting stimuli his new series of photographs reevaluates the importance of the conscious individual search for personal identity.
The girls in Laura London’s photographs are not models or aspiring young actresses, but her own students. They are inserted into a mise-en-scene which heightens the signifiers of an American adolescent world.
Erik Parker is comfortable in the role of Minister of Information, passing out star maps to 359 Broadway (Leo’s crib) and 26 Wooster (“The Gallery Has Moved”) like a precocious teen haunting the studio back lots, looking for the odd address to add to the Bel Air tour; but as for the guerilla-chic berets and storm trooper boots, well, that’s like, so two years ago.
These simple constellations of symmetrical patterns neatly dovetailed with Goethe’s Romantic notion of an irreducible ideal found in living nature. Dimpled surfaces, serrated edges, and ribbon-like appendages, when arrayed squarely across the page in perfect hub-and-spoke format, instantly became the new design idiom.
I mention this because Angelo Filomeno, born in Otsuni, Italy and educated at The Academy of Fine Arts in Lecce, is likewise the kind of a person who cautiously marshals his own verifiable facts (and poetic embellishments) to make a grandiloquent point. A certain trickster charm bordering on modest sacrilege is but one of his tactical hallmarks.
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