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Sparks of a Black Fire
05/03/2020

Sparks of a Black Fire

Sparks of a Black Fire

The exhibition - in Lorenzo Puglisi's own words - is a natural prosecution of ’Shades of Shadow’, the show which was held during Freeze Art Week 2019 at The Crypt gallery in King’s Cross, London: in perfect coherence with his pictorial path, the paintings go from a traditional and ancient place to a modern glass and steel setting of Moor House building designed by Sir Norman Foster. There is also a clear reference to the transition from darkness to light as a leitmotiv in Lorenzo Puglisi's artistic journey.

IDENTITY- SPARKS OF A BLACK FIRE
works by: LORENZO PUGLISI


Puglisi’s show at ArtMoorHouse is part of a of a series of exhibitions based on the concept of IDENTITY.
Defining one’s identity can be challenging, and discovering a sense of self-reflection in our digitalised era can sometimes take a lifetime.
Identity is not confined to tangible characteristics but rather it is the way we perceive and express ourselves, the way that we cast light upon darkens letting fragments of identity emerge. Factors that individuals are born with often play a role in defining one’s identity. Nonetheless, being such a fluid concept, many of its aspects change in a constant flux throughout our physical and digital life: our experiences and the places where we live largely contribute in shaping and re-shaping how we see ourselves. Our identity, on the other hand, plays a vital role in how we take decisions by influencing all our choices from the way we interact with peers or why we adopt certain fashions, to our attitudes towards ideologies and political beliefs.
Can art allow us to correct assumptions and express our identity?


Many artists use their work as an alchemical process of discovery a way to explore and question ideas about identity. All the works on show take aspects of the contemporary experience and in the process of transforming an idea into a physical object, synthesise the artist response to this encounter with the world.
The visual experience is uniquely capable of engaging the passerby and in conjunction with the architectural space of Moor House Building creating a moment of visual stimulation and a happy distraction from the everyday.


In Lorenzo Puglisi isolate structural elements emerge from the dark background to revel glimpses of his luminous figures in a sort of fragmented reconstruction of the real, the artist seem to express a process of identification through self determination.


Puglisi’s work is interested in producing a new iconography which, with references to great pieces of Art History from Leonardo da Vinci to Michelangelo and Caravaggio, questions the construction the cultural reference they represent.

SPARKS OF A BLACK FIRE
AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTING BY LORENZO PUGLISI
From Thursday 5th March to Monday 4th of May 2020

ArtMoorHouse,
Moor House building, 120 London Wall London EC2Y 5ET, UK

VIEW BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

Contacts:
E. info@ArtMoorHouse.com

W. www.ArtMoorHouse.com

T. +44(0)7502211914

Press information:
E. project@ArtMoorHouse.com
E. sara@criscontinicontemporary.com

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