Vibrato
Stanley Casselman
Curated by David Anfam
Eduardo Secci
Milan,from December 9 to March 18, 2022 (EXTENDED)
Opening: Thursday, December 9, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Exhibition walkthrough video available online
Exhibition view, Vibrato, Stanley Casselman, Eduardo Secci Milano, 2021, Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Eduardo Secci is pleased to announce Stanley Casselman’s first Italian solo show titled “Vibrato” curated by David Anfam in the gallery space in Milan from December 9 to March 18, 2022.
For the occasion, Stanley Casselman presents a new body of works whose sumptuous surfaces express a sense of awe and wonder, as if they were themselves spiritual elements of our being. In this sense, the experiential and speculative sources that create the structure of physical reality are often a powerful undercurrent of the artist paintings.
Initially devoted to the sculpture, Casselman soon follows his natural inclination to painting, approaching it with a unique tactile quality. By balancing the contradictions of making art, randomness and control, technique and manual skill, the artist creates a dynamic painting space that exists right at the edge of order and disorder. The dialectical image proposed by the artist becomes a synthesis of the multiple, which does not eliminate contradictions but actually cultivates them for their creative potential.
The large-scale works conceived for the exhibition unfold as much in their material possibilities as in the mystical contemplation required of the viewer. This paintings series generate a bright and seductive environment, where the vibrant colors and strong plasticity pushing the viewer to a situation of proximity interact with the imaginative generosity of the artist's hand.
Referring to the evocative words of the artist himself: “We as human beings seek to control our physical world. However, often fail to realize that we owe our very existence to countless evolutionary events governed by only the known and the not yet understood forces that have played out since the dawn of both space and time. Humanity is inseparable from nature, and nature led by evolution is inherently blind. It is in this light that I choose to uncover new visual experiences that challenge us to consider our relationship to the universe we inhabit”.
Exhibition view, Vibrato, Stanley Casselman, Eduardo Secci Milano, 2021, Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
The exhibition walkthrough video with the artist is online at: www.eduardosecci.com/exhibitions.
Stanley Casselman, born in 1963 in Phoenix (Arizona), lives and works in New York. After art studies at Pitzer College in California (1985), he conceived abstract works with acrylic paint, applied in layers, on polyester fabric. Compared to Gerhard Richter's abstractions, the artist works transcend any explanation through language.
Casselman is closely related to the idea that color, line, and shape can change our perceptual and cognitive dimension. Elaborate but at the same time direct, his artistic process reveals itself in a pictorial spectrum that explores a wide range of emotions in search of higher consciousness.
His works have been exhibited at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Jim Kempner Fine Art (New York), Gazelli Art House (Baku and London), Lowell Ryan Projects (Los Angeles), Brintz Galleries (Palm Beach), among others. His work is included in the collections of New Orleans Museum of Art, Georgia Museum of Art, Fredrick R. Weisman Art Foundation in Los Angeles, Flint Institute of Arts, Coral Springs Museum of Art, and Borusan Contemporary in Istanbul.
David Anfam (1955) is a British art historian and critic, eminent expert in Abstract Expressionism. He is the senior consulting curator at Clyfford Still Museum in Denver.
He studied at the Courtauld Institute in London. He is the author of the catalogue raisoneé “Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas” (1998). He has curated: “Abstract Expressionism”, Royal Academy of Arts, Londra (2016), co-curated with Edith Devaney; “Jackson Pollock’s ‘Mural:’ Energy Made Visible”, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Palazzo Venier, Venice (2015); the solo show “Ocean Without a Shore” of Bill Viola, on the occasion of the 52° Biennale Arte in Venice (2007).
Eduardo Secci is an Italian gallery founded in 2013 in Florence with a second location in Milan from June 2021. Both spaces present a double program featuring the exhibitions of the main gallery and NOVO, its new independent experimental space.
Stanley Casselman, Untitled (white over purple WP21R7), 2020, acrylic on polyester screen, 180 x 254 cm (70.8 x 100 in), Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Stanley Casselman, Untitled (Orange and Blue) W Floor, 2020, acrylic on polyester screen, 185 x 152 cm (72.8 x 59.8 in), Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Stanley Casselman, Untitled (white over black WB21R3), 2021, acrylic on polyester screen, 152 x 190 cm (59.8 x 74.8 in), Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Stanley Casselman, Untitled (yellow over pink&gray YPG21T), 2021, acrylic on polyester screen, 206 x 183 cm (81.1 x 72 in), Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Stanley Casselman, Untitled Presence 9-30, 2020, acrylic on polyester screen, 86 x 86 cm (33.8 x 33.8 in), Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Stanley Casselman, Day One (H5TM), 2018, acrylic on polyester screen, 152 x 152 cm (59.8 x 59.8 in), Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Eduardo Secci Milano
Vibrato - Stanley Casselman
Curated by David Anfam
From December 9 to March 18, 2022 (EXTENDED)
Unmatter - Joshua Hagler, Luisa Rabbia, Maja Ruznic
Curated by Alberto Fiz
From April 28 to September 16, 2022 (POSTPONED)
NOVO Milano
Bright Beneath - Kristian Touborg
From December 9 to March 18, 2022 (NEW DATES, EXTENDED)
Via Zenale 3, Milan, Italy / +39 02 38248728 / milano@eduardosecci.com
Hours: Monday - Friday, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm / 2:30 - 7:00 pm
Eduardo Secci Firenze
Upon a Time - Bea Bonafini, Daria Dmytrenko, Carla Giaccio Darias, Sahara Longe, Sophie Spedding
Curated by Edoardo Monti
From January 29 to March 12, 2022
NOVO Firenze
Nidhal Chamekh
Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
From January 29 to March 12, 2022
Piazza Goldoni 2, Florence, Italy / +39 055 661356 / firenze@eduardosecci.com
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm / 2:30 - 7:00 pm
www.eduardosecci.com / gallery@eduardosecci.com / IG @eduardoseccigallery / FB @eduardoseccicontemporary
www.novo.ooo / hello@novo.ooo / IG @novo_projects / FB @NOVOprojects
Exhibition walkthroughs videos with artists and curators: www.eduardosecci.com/it/exhibitions - www.novo.ooo/it/exhibitions
Press Office: THE KNACK STUDIO / Tamara Lorenzi
tamara@theknackstudio.com / +39 347 0712934
info@theknackstudio.com / www.theknackstudio.com
Vibrato
Stanley Casselman
Curated by David Anfam
Eduardo Secci
Milan,from December 9 to March 18, 2022 (EXTENDED)
Opening: Thursday, December 9, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Exhibition walkthrough video available online
Exhibition view, Vibrato, Stanley Casselman, Eduardo Secci Milano, 2021, Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Eduardo Secci is pleased to announce Stanley Casselman’s first Italian solo show titled “Vibrato” curated by David Anfam in the gallery space in Milan from December 9 to March 18, 2022.
For the occasion, Stanley Casselman presents a new body of works whose sumptuous surfaces express a sense of awe and wonder, as if they were themselves spiritual elements of our being. In this sense, the experiential and speculative sources that create the structure of physical reality are often a powerful undercurrent of the artist paintings.
Initially devoted to the sculpture, Casselman soon follows his natural inclination to painting, approaching it with a unique tactile quality. By balancing the contradictions of making art, randomness and control, technique and manual skill, the artist creates a dynamic painting space that exists right at the edge of order and disorder. The dialectical image proposed by the artist becomes a synthesis of the multiple, which does not eliminate contradictions but actually cultivates them for their creative potential.
The large-scale works conceived for the exhibition unfold as much in their material possibilities as in the mystical contemplation required of the viewer. This paintings series generate a bright and seductive environment, where the vibrant colors and strong plasticity pushing the viewer to a situation of proximity interact with the imaginative generosity of the artist's hand.
Referring to the evocative words of the artist himself: “We as human beings seek to control our physical world. However, often fail to realize that we owe our very existence to countless evolutionary events governed by only the known and the not yet understood forces that have played out since the dawn of both space and time. Humanity is inseparable from nature, and nature led by evolution is inherently blind. It is in this light that I choose to uncover new visual experiences that challenge us to consider our relationship to the universe we inhabit”.
Exhibition view, Vibrato, Stanley Casselman, Eduardo Secci Milano, 2021, Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
The exhibition walkthrough video with the artist is online at: www.eduardosecci.com/exhibitions.
Stanley Casselman, born in 1963 in Phoenix (Arizona), lives and works in New York. After art studies at Pitzer College in California (1985), he conceived abstract works with acrylic paint, applied in layers, on polyester fabric. Compared to Gerhard Richter's abstractions, the artist works transcend any explanation through language.
Casselman is closely related to the idea that color, line, and shape can change our perceptual and cognitive dimension. Elaborate but at the same time direct, his artistic process reveals itself in a pictorial spectrum that explores a wide range of emotions in search of higher consciousness.
His works have been exhibited at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Jim Kempner Fine Art (New York), Gazelli Art House (Baku and London), Lowell Ryan Projects (Los Angeles), Brintz Galleries (Palm Beach), among others. His work is included in the collections of New Orleans Museum of Art, Georgia Museum of Art, Fredrick R. Weisman Art Foundation in Los Angeles, Flint Institute of Arts, Coral Springs Museum of Art, and Borusan Contemporary in Istanbul.
David Anfam (1955) is a British art historian and critic, eminent expert in Abstract Expressionism. He is the senior consulting curator at Clyfford Still Museum in Denver.
He studied at the Courtauld Institute in London. He is the author of the catalogue raisoneé “Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas” (1998). He has curated: “Abstract Expressionism”, Royal Academy of Arts, Londra (2016), co-curated with Edith Devaney; “Jackson Pollock’s ‘Mural:’ Energy Made Visible”, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Palazzo Venier, Venice (2015); the solo show “Ocean Without a Shore” of Bill Viola, on the occasion of the 52° Biennale Arte in Venice (2007).
Eduardo Secci is an Italian gallery founded in 2013 in Florence with a second location in Milan from June 2021. Both spaces present a double program featuring the exhibitions of the main gallery and NOVO, its new independent experimental space.
Stanley Casselman, Untitled (white over purple WP21R7), 2020, acrylic on polyester screen, 180 x 254 cm (70.8 x 100 in), Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Stanley Casselman, Untitled (Orange and Blue) W Floor, 2020, acrylic on polyester screen, 185 x 152 cm (72.8 x 59.8 in), Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Stanley Casselman, Untitled (white over black WB21R3), 2021, acrylic on polyester screen, 152 x 190 cm (59.8 x 74.8 in), Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Stanley Casselman, Untitled (yellow over pink&gray YPG21T), 2021, acrylic on polyester screen, 206 x 183 cm (81.1 x 72 in), Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Stanley Casselman, Untitled Presence 9-30, 2020, acrylic on polyester screen, 86 x 86 cm (33.8 x 33.8 in), Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Stanley Casselman, Day One (H5TM), 2018, acrylic on polyester screen, 152 x 152 cm (59.8 x 59.8 in), Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Eduardo Secci Milano
Vibrato - Stanley Casselman
Curated by David Anfam
From December 9 to March 18, 2022 (EXTENDED)
Unmatter - Joshua Hagler, Luisa Rabbia, Maja Ruznic
Curated by Alberto Fiz
From April 28 to September 16, 2022 (POSTPONED)
NOVO Milano
Bright Beneath - Kristian Touborg
From December 9 to March 18, 2022 (NEW DATES, EXTENDED)
Via Zenale 3, Milan, Italy / +39 02 38248728 / milano@eduardosecci.com
Hours: Monday - Friday, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm / 2:30 - 7:00 pm
Eduardo Secci Firenze
Upon a Time - Bea Bonafini, Daria Dmytrenko, Carla Giaccio Darias, Sahara Longe, Sophie Spedding
Curated by Edoardo Monti
From January 29 to March 12, 2022
NOVO Firenze
Nidhal Chamekh
Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
From January 29 to March 12, 2022
Piazza Goldoni 2, Florence, Italy / +39 055 661356 / firenze@eduardosecci.com
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm / 2:30 - 7:00 pm
www.eduardosecci.com / gallery@eduardosecci.com / IG @eduardoseccigallery / FB @eduardoseccicontemporary
www.novo.ooo / hello@novo.ooo / IG @novo_projects / FB @NOVOprojects
Exhibition walkthroughs videos with artists and curators: www.eduardosecci.com/it/exhibitions - www.novo.ooo/it/exhibitions
Press Office: THE KNACK STUDIO / Tamara Lorenzi
tamara@theknackstudio.com / +39 347 0712934
info@theknackstudio.com / www.theknackstudio.com
