This exhibition has been curated by established Art Consultant and long-time John Jones client Charlotte Artus. The collection showcases the work of eight international artists, and presents the beginning of a fairytale. Viewers are invited to be transported by the images into fantastical landscapes free from the boundaries of everyday life. The artists reject familiar objects and recognisable environments in exchange for supernatural spaces drawn from adifferent world, time and reality. Through this collection we are able to create our own personal fairytale, finishing a story that the artwork begins. Selected images on display are presented to the finest Museum Standards in John Jones frames

Artists

Tilo Kaiser
Tilo Kaiser is a London based, German artist. He works primarily with doodles, papers and collage to create narrative canvases which comment on popular culture and consumerism. Tilo’s practice combines the immediacy of drawing with the elevated stature of large scale painting. This results in intricate and overlapping images that combine a plethora symbols and textures.

David Micheaud
In ‘Smoke Detector’ a new world which is at once familiar, mundane,remote and unsettling calls the viewer. This is compounded by the choice of subject matter, as the smoke detector as an object is bothreassuring and a constant reminder of the dangers that can permeate our own homes. Time and scale are deceptive in this painting, which is completed with photographic precision. In the ‘Fog Series’ the line between reality and illusion is blurred in a white world where objects appear and then slip away, back into the
blankness. In these paintings, each revelation is short lived and we are only privy to a glimpse of the view.

Simone Pellegrini
Simone’s intention is to create artwork which embodies organic energy that we can feel and sense but not see. For the artist, this is the layer of life between heaven and earth. The marks on paper have
been worked over repeatedly until they approach saturation or destruction, creating something which seems innate and ancient to the viewer. Simone was a representative of Italy at the Biennale di Venezia 2011, having been independently invited by four of the curators.

Flavio de Marco
Flavio's artistic practice is centred on the dilemma of how to paint a landscape today, in the digital age. In his series on paper, Flavio has worked plein-air with pencils, ink, and acrylic to create landscapes resonant with the common language of computers and internet browser windows. In his ‘Readymade’ series, Flavio creates his own landscape paintings based on cities in which he has lived and worked. These pieces also incorporate readymade landscape images which the artist has purchased from street painters. This combination creates a new and unique artwork. Both of the ‘readymade’ works on display at John Jones are based on street paintings of London.

Federico Pietrella
Federico’s paintings mark the passage of time. In the series ‘Date Stamp Paintings’, the artist creates landscapes or portraits using a traditional date stamp turned to the date on which he is working.
Federico has made a small number of these works annually for the last fifteen years, and as a collection they mark the passage of his own life. The painting on display at John Jones depicts a street scene from Berlin where Federico now lives. In the series ‘Thirty Days Painting in Black’, Federico produced a new painting each day throughout June 2008, and exhibited these works together at a Foundation in Milan.

Stanislao di Giugno
Stanislao di Giugno works in sculpture, painting, collage, and installation in order to put his own conceptual spin on modern observations. In this exhibition, Stanislao exhibits paintings of dilapidated architecture discovered in Sardinia alongside abstractpaintings that suggest space and the universe. His exploration of colour ranges from the bleached out painting of negative space to vibrant forms hovering on foreign horizons. Stanislao has recently displayed work in the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and at the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation.
Alessandra Spranzi
Our acknowledgement of the world often stops once we have recognised and understood our environment. In the series ‘Cose che Accadono (Things That Happen)’, the artist creates vignettes that kew these automatic perceptions, and challenge our thought processes. In ‘Stanze (Rooms)’, Alessandra combines images of holiday rooms from travel brochures to deconstruct and then recompose fresh landscapes. Viewers are on the threshold of an abyss, where past experience is forgotten and we are invited to go beyond into a mysterious new environment.

Soichiro Shimizu
Soichiro’s work is a unique fusion of action and meditation, nature and artifice. The artist draws from Japanese, American and European painting traditions to create original artwork that embraces art history
but also transcends it. The surface of the painting seems like the surface of the earth, built up with layer upon layer of geological history. There is a sense that these works were created through natural processes like eruption and erosion, yet there is also the presence of a skilled and practiced hand. Shimizu fuses opposing approaches to painting into a single work, and viewers are simultaneously in Paris, New York, and Tokyo, indoors and outdoors, in the past and in the present.

Opening:
Monday - Friday 9am – 6pm
Saturday 10am – 3pm

Museum Standards in John Jones
4 Morris Place
N4 3JG London
UK
marketing@johnjones.co.uk

Giacomo Guidi Arte Contemporanea
Vicolo Sant'Onofrio 22/23
Roma
tel.+39 06 96043003
mob. +39 393 8059116
info@giacomoguidi.it