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For IMMEDIATE release
July 31, 2012
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For
more information, please contact:
Marty Walsh 702.366.7001
marty@trifectagallery.com
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LEONARDO AGUIRRE di MATTEO
Montevideo Artist
travels to Trifecta Gallery Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV—July
27, 2012— LEONARDO AGUIRRE di MATTEO from Montevideo,
Uruguay will
visit Trifecta Gallery for the opening night of his August 2-30, 2012 exhibit
“6191”. The shows title, Six-thousand
one-hundred and ninety-one is named for the amount of miles from his South
American home to Las Vegas. The title is less apt in distance than to the
sensory nature of the artwork. Trifecta discovered
the artist at random through frequent visits to the website artreview.com.
The new series of paintings from the Aguirre studio in Montevideo are charged with repetitive
consonants and audio alliteration; not actual sound that you hear but sound
that can be seen. The previous series
Trifecta exhibited in 2010 used visual theatrical devices and content. "I swore
I could almost hear the cranking of gears and the creaking of trap doors,"
remarks Marty Walsh, the gallery's owner.
Stripped of the familiar stage props of couches, trap doors and
dressmaker forms, the new pieces highlight the spare schematics of colored
shapes with shadows and no visible clues as to how the components seem to
tick. Di Matteo’s
architectural background resonates within the works in the form of octagons,
curved beams and carpenter squares; abstract characters in the language of
building. Hearing visuals and seeing sounds suggests a form of 'Synesthesia', a
neurological condition in which two or more senses are merged is at play in
this new suite of paintings. Di Matteo’s
cross-pollination of the senses in these canvases makes them compelling in more
than one ‘sense’ of the word.
Meet Leonardo
August 2 from 6-8 pm for Preview Night and during First Friday in Trifecta
Gallery.
TRIFECTA GALLERY
107 E. Charleston Boulevard Suite
135 Las Vegas, NV
89104
Leonardo Aguirre di Matteo
exhibit runs through August 30.
Free admission.
Open Daily.
www.trifectagallery.com
(702) 366-7001
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