MFA
Oil Paint
121.0 x 132.0 cm
2022
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About this artwork
Oil and oil pastels on canvas
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Nov 14, 2023
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About the artist
“ Lorella Paleni’s canvases are richly painted spaces of dialogue as well as sites of ambivalence where we struggle to reconcile our existence with that of non-human nature. They are liminal zones of contact or gap between human and animal spheres of comprehensibility. By extension, these paintings’ leitmotif is also relationships broadly, particularly between privileged parties and their others. Paleni’s paintings act as curious mirrors where animals sometimes appear as inscrutable phantoms of the real beyond our reach, and elsewhere we seem to be ghosts intruding upon their world. Translation or failure to translate—an inability to assimilate all that always exceeds the translation— drives one’s encounter with Paleni’s works. Failure to translate does not imply a lack of meaning. Rather it highlights issues of mishearing, incompatibility of apprehensive frameworks, disparity of value systems, and the limitations of human cognition. In Paleni’s paintings, we grope about in the dark, and in our groping the myth of human mastery falters. “ - Excerpt from “Listening to the Anthropocene” Essay by Douglas Cushing. Published in occasion of the exhibition "Listening to the Anthropocene", curated by Douglas Cushing at the Sarofim Fine Arts Gallery and in connection with the 2019 Brown Symposium.
Curriculum Vitae
BFA
Advanced Painting Intensive
Summer recidency in Painting and Mixed Media
Out loud - Kunstalle 1, HB55 Kunstfabrik - Berlin (DE)
Dcéra Anubis - Galéria Mesta Levoča - Levoča (SK)
OTHƎRWISƎ - Magic Beans Gallery - Berlin (DE)
Untamed - Galerie de L’OpenBach, Paris (FR)
Dwellers - E.Tay Gallery - New York, NY (USA)
Out loud - Kunstalle 1, HB55 Kunstfabrik - Berlin (DE)
Dcéra Anubis - Galéria Mesta Levoča - Levoča (SK)
OTHƎRWISƎ - Magic Beans Gallery - Berlin (DE)
Untamed - Galerie de L’OpenBach, Paris (FR)
Dwellers - E.Tay Gallery - New York, NY (USA)
Myriad Spheres’ exhibition catalog, IESA Art & Culture, Paris, June.
« Dcéra Anubis» - Presentation pamphlet for the exhibition, introduction text by Jakub Milčák - Levoča (SK)
Johnny Magdaleno, "Art Discovery: Lorella Paleni”, Interview Magazine, February 12.
Jovanny Varela-Ferreyra, “Studio Visit: Lorella Paleni-Shaking The Hands Of A Painter”, Art Parasites, May 13
Michele Poulos, Cover Art for the poetry book “Black Laurel”, Iris Press
Isabelle Teran, “A visit to the studio of Italian artist Lorella Paleni in Paris”, Los Contemporaneos, April 17
Tullio Casilli, “Premio Bozzolo- Lorella Paleni: l’artista dal dialogo proiettata verso nuove prospettive”, La Voce di Mantova, October 21 (p.16).
Océane Laparade, Trois nouvelles artistes en résidence à découvrir le 29 juillet, LaDepeche, June 17.
Natasha Marie Llorens, “Flashes in the Breach”, published in Lorella Paleni and Natasha Marie Llorens. Lorella Paleni – Dwellers, Catalog, Vanilla Edizioni.
Antonia Shoumatoff, “Artists work in the Old Maxon Mills, Wassaic’s Winter Project”, volume 3 n°48, December 7.
Sashwata Saha, ‘Kolkata to play host to European modern artists’, Media India, November 9th
Andrew Nunes, “Humans Ain't Nothin' But Mammals in these Animalistic Paintings”, Creators Vice, November 29
Tobia Donà, “Lorella Paleni”, It’s Different Magazine, issue n’20 (p.39-41)
Esther Harrison, ‘Lorella Paleni: Brujas’, Coeur & Art, April
Larissa Kikol, “Menschentier – Starter: Lorella Paleni”, Art das Kunstmagazin, March.
‘The Perspective Issue’ – Popout Magazine #3, Paris
Carlo Sala, “Out Loud – Lorella Paleni”, Show Catalog.
Paolo Meneghetti, “Il sogno e il suo metabolismo senza peso”, VeniceCulture, June 15
Milena Estrada, “Animal Kingdom”, Yet Another Art Blog, June 20.
Simek Shropshire, “Lorella Paleni”, Floorr Magazine, Jenuary 21.
Anders Dyhr, “The artist Lorella Paleni-The enigmatic puzzle from a place called riddle”, Xamou Art, November 17
Frank, “Die ungewöhnliche Welt der Lorella Paleni”, I Heart Berlin, April 12
Katre Laan, “Lorella Paleni – Dreams are private”, SCHÖN! Magazine, Issue n’16 (p. 94-95)
A. Will Brown, “Fan Mail: Lorella Paleni”, Daily Serving, June 12
Simone Dumdam, “Da Bergamo a New York con i pennelli in tasca”, Il Giornale Off, Jenuary 22
Julien Foulatier, “Lorella Paleni - Peintures de rêves”, Boum Bang, February 11.
Public Jury Prize- International Art Prize Bozzolo - Bozzolo (IT)
Wassaic project, winter resident - Wassaic, NY (USA)
Indo-European Residency Project Kolkata, Alliance Française du Bengale, Goethe Institut, Cima Gallery, and Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University Santiniketan - Kolkata (IN)
AZ West - Andrea Zittel Institute of Investigate Living - Joshua Tree, CA (USA)
Catwalk Art Residency, Catwalk Institute - Catskill, NY (USA)
Adjunct Professor, Columbia Univeristy School of the Arts, NY _ Basic Drawing
Teaching Assistant, Columbia Univeristy School of the Arts, NY _ Figure Painting
Teaching Assistant, Columbia Univeristy School of the Arts, NY _ Figure Drawing
TOMS Visual Arts Scholarship, Columbia University - New York (USA)
2nd prize, Artist Residency Grant award, Le CouveNt - Auzits (FR)
Residency Grant, Italian Cultural Institute in Vilnius - Vilnius (LT)
Painting Grant, Robert Gambling - (USA)
Grant Nominee, Rema Hort Mann Foundation - New York (USA)
Visual Arts Graduate Fellowship, Columbia University - New York (USA)
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