Capsule Venice is delighted to present to the public artist Alessandro Teoldi’s (b. 1987 Milan; lives and works in Brooklyn) special project “Dipinti”, featuring his new paintings and works on paper.
The project is hosted in Capsule’s Project Room 1. Teoldi’s homages to the language of painting, no matter whether in his newest oil on canvas pieces or his gouaches on paper, are expansive and resonant. On this occasion, the artist – who studied photography, first in Milan and then in New York, and who, in recent years, has come to prominence for works with aircraft blankets, uses an unfamiliar medium to present daily domestic scenes, familiar faces, intimate atmospheres, and sober situations. While not a widely known aspect of his practice, oils have long been a longstanding interest for the artist. The depictions in these new works are neither spectacular nor extraordinary but exist as a sort of personal diary that is extremely true to life. The miniature size of the works stresses the idea of intimacy, the unassuming nature of his subjects which span from flowers to sardines, from landscapes to still lifes, and tributes to influences including Giorgio Morandi - one of the artists Teoldi indirectly quotes regularly. Also among the images is a naked male back, a body in front of a window, men showering. The works are a small encyclopedia of the quotidian that Alessandro’s warm palette translates into imagery.
