MARCO LANDO
FRAGMENTS
GOBBIPHOTOSTUDIO GALLERY
VIA RAFFAELLO 101 URBINO (PU)
11.18.2021 - 01.09.2022
Opening reception: Nov. 18th 6PM
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Marco Lando solo show presents two important and connected projects in the artist's production: Specter of belief and Alchemy.Specter of Belief is the natural evolution of his previous project, entitled Alchemy, where we find deranged aerial scenes of the heavens where architectural images, old and new, float amid stormy skies and portentous moons.
Lando adapts the ancient Byzantine tradition of mosaic to his own conceptual ends in photo-based compositions, using the idea of fragmentation juxtaposed with the whole.
This series references the renowned 5th and 6th century mosaics of Ravenna, created when the city was the western capital of the Roman Empire, and the contemporaneous Tomb of the Julii, with its mosaic depiction of Christ as a pagan sun god.
Composed of loosely arranged tiles that simultaneously coalesce and break apart, the crowned figures that emerge evoke emperors and popes. With gaping mouths and apprehensive expressions, these fragmented, dissipating forms loom large amid dark starry skies. These constellations of half-formed, recycled powers from ancient Rome shape-shift their way through space and time, lost and searching. Contemplating the enduring potential of myth, they offer us the specter of belief and the lost promise of tomorrow.
Marco Lando has most recently shown his work at the Site: Brooklyn Art Gallery and at the Viridian Artists Inc. both in New York City, and at the Studio Psacaropulo Museum in Trieste. He won the 2021 “Special Prize” for photography and digital art at the DeSidera Art Festival, and was a finalist at the 2016 WAC in Wells, UK.
Representing gallery: Viridian Artists Inc. - 548 W 28th Street, New York 10001.
Artist website: www.marcolando.org
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