NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Pino Lavecchia in The Figure and Unknown Places. The exhibition opens July 7, 2018 and runs through July 27,  2018 with an opening reception on Thursday, July 12 from 6-8 pm. Any art lover who enjoys thought-provoking artworks and meeting talented and interesting artists is encouraged to attend.

About the Artist

Pino Lavecchia’s oil paintings on canvas combine fragments of art historical imagery with banal signifiers of modern life to create surreal works that blur space and time. Ancient Greek and Roman statuary populates his canvases alongside both historical architectural renderings and heaps of trash, the odd juxtapositions creating a narrative in which the future is inherently inflected by the past. The artist derives his technique from the Renaissance Masters, drawing, drafting, veiling, and retouching his works to achieve aesthetic perfection and technical complexity.

Lavecchia’s Anthropology 4 images a figure reminiscent of Greek statuary, nude and in contrapposto. Broken wine bottles litter one side of the canvas, painted with an almost trompe l’oeil effect in a stark juxtaposition of painting styles and art historical references. In Anthropology 5, the artist renders the Winged Victory of Samothrace amid other sculptural fragments. The Parthenon is visible in the background alongside a pale, waning moon. Finally, Anthropology 6 depicts what appears to be a Roman bust amid debris on a beach. The object appears to have washed ashore like the other discarded detritus that served a function in a different time and place.

Exhibition Dates: July 7 - July 27, 2018

Reception: Thursday July 12, 2018 6-8 PM

Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11:00am – 6:00pm

Gallery Location: 530 West 25th Street, New York, NY

Event URL: https://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Pino_Lavecchia.aspx

Featured Artists:

Monica Adams | Francis Annan Affotey | Yu He | Angela Blattner | Ilaria Castagnacci | Boguslawa Czarnecka | Fiorenza D'Orazi | Jutta Ebeling-Dehnhard | Ashraf Elsharif | Marco Henrie | Ketan Kelkar | Gunter Langer | Pino Lavecchia | Taikyu Lim | Susan Marx | Andreas Meer | Mireille Pizzo | Mileidy Plata | J.H. Rebelato | Linda Rosen | Marliese Scheller | Christine Stettner | Richard Tomlin | Gonzalo Urrea Correa | Germán Valles Fernández | Hugo Ximello-Salido

About the Exhibition

The Figure and Unknown Places is an exhibition featuring twenty-six international painters and photographers exploring the connections between humans and the world we inhabit. Working between landscape painting and portraiture, the artists included reassess traditions and convey unique perspectives on timeless themes. Utilizing diverse visual languages, these artists provide fresh insight on engrained understandings of culture and nature, man and animal.

About Agora Gallery

Agora Gallery is a contemporary fine art gallery located in the heart of Chelsea’s fine art district in New York. Established in 1984, Agora Gallery specializes in connecting art dealers and collectors with national and international artists. The art gallery’s expert consultants are available to assist corporate and private clients in procuring original artwork to meet their organization’s specific needs and budget requirements. With a strong online presence and popular online gallery, ARTmine, coupled with the spacious and elegant physical gallery space, the work of our talented artists, who work in diverse media and styles, can receive the attention it deserves. Over the years Agora Gallery has sponsored and catered to special events aimed at fostering social awareness and promoting the use of art to help those in need.