PASCAL CAPUTO
BEYOND WITHDRAWAL
Galerie Dominique Bouffard is pleased to present the exhibition "Beyond Withdrawal", montreal artist Pascal Caputo’s Master’s graduation work.
Pascal Caputo creates painting portraits in which the empty areas engage the viewer in a process of projection and identification. He uses the Facebook social network to appropriate photographs of members, substituting their human features with heteromorphic forms. These paintings are the result of a translation of photography and its digital manipulations into pictorial representation, so as to highlight the idea of a “sense perception” of the digital image. Thus, the tension between the empty canvas and the painted index creates spaces and reserves dedicated to memory, imagination and intimacy.
The projective function of large areas of emptiness is well-known in painting. One has only to think of the Color Field painters and of the contemplative, meditative function of the empty areas they use. Or also of that of monochromes, where empty areas coax the viewer into perceiving the visibility of the making of the monochrome itself. Empty areas in Pascal Caputo’s works also have this projective function.
Far from wanting to find an answer or give a meaning to this paradigm, the artist views these failures to assign identity as a reflection on alternative identities. Possibilities that, ironically, can only be reached through the withdrawal of the figure.
Biographical Note
With the exhibition "Beyond Withdrawal", Pascal Caputo puts the final touch on his Master’s project in the painting program at UQAM, where he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in visual and media arts in 2003. In 2005, he completed his training with a diploma from the École supérieure des arts décoratifs (ESAD) of Strasbourg, France. Also worthy of note is that Pascal Caputo was a bursary-recipient and a laureate of the city of Laval’s Fondation du soutien aux arts for five consecutive years (1999 – 2005) and that in 2002, he was awarded the painting prize of the Fondation McAbbie at UQAM. The artist lives and works in Montreal and is represented by Galerie Dominique Bouffard.
When : 2012, September 11 - October 6
Opening : Wednesday, September 11, 6 pm
Opening hours : Wednesday to Friday 10 pm - 6 pm / Saturday & Sunday 12 pm - 5 pm
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