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Artist Exhibitions:
2005 Pop! (Tyler's Gallery,
Carrboro NC)
2004 Mi Cielo, Mi Tierra (MFA
Exhibition, Harwood Art
Center, Albuquerque NM)
2004 Small Is More (Group
Exhibition, Harwood Art
Center, Albuquerque NM)
2004 Consumable Avenue (RB
Winning Gallery, Albuquerque
NM)
2004 Dreams of Pavlov’s Dog: A
Juried Dada Show, ASA Gallery
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Artist Reviews:
From the Alibi, a local
publication from Albuquerque,
NM:
http://www.alibi.com/editorial/
section_display.php?di=2004-03-
18&scn=art<7341
Gallery Review
Mama, Don't Let Your Babies
Grow Up to be Gauchos
Memory Boards: Exploring
Hybrid Histories at Trevor
Lucero Studio Artspace
By Steven Robert Allen
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Artist Statement for Fabrizio Bianchi
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Memory Boards
How do you describe what is truly revealed without offering too much? Is there a sudden revelation behind knowing what may or may not exist? Can offering a piece of personal history give each of us a source of enlightenment that may open a hidden chapter that each of us have kept closed for a long period of time?
Pondering over what has triggered these personal questions has taken longer than actually answering them, but has been rewarding in creating interesting dialogues between verbal and visual languages. My work is about an identity that is both personal and universal from two different countries (USA & Argentina) that are evolving through words and images. I have been increasingly aware of how icons in film, video and digital formats have made the printed word almost a memory. I often include painted fragments and visual associations to certain advertisements that reflect my own experiences. As an oversized palimpsest, or “memory board,” each painting resembles a montage of sections from a faded billboard. Each individual image within these sections has it own significance or association, yet create a new combination of faded experiences rather than a specific diagram of events.
In Memory Board, the first of this new series, I have painstakingly applied many layers of drips and splatters over broken letters of a Coca Cola logo, a Quilmes beer label, and images of cartoons from an Argentine illustrator, Fontanarrosa. Only part of the word “Quilmes” shows through, displaying the letters “me,” placed next to a portrait of a gaucho (Argentine cowboy). Put together, the painting can read as a self-portrait, or as a dilemma between a more traditional way of life in Latin America and the contemporary urban lifestyle that most of us are associated with, the same dilemma that has almost erased the idea of tradition, as demonstrated through the cowboy. The cartoon bubble is a clean break from all the “antiquated” areas, giving the viewer a chance to rest the eyes, but also to ponder what thought is about to happen or just happened.
The colors and textures have been crucial in my paintings, for they create a feeling of nostalgia for me. Adding the extra layers of thinned down acrylic and latex paints over broad areas allows me to visualize the history of these walls, as if they have absorbed the actual memories and kept them in place over time.
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