Bruno Fazzolari: “New Work”
August 8 – September 26, 2010
Some Walls is pleased to present new paintings and photographs by San Francisco artist and critic Bruno Fazzolari from August 8 – September 26, 2010.
Bruno Fazzolari’s art is puzzling. His paintings and photographs occupy a strange zone where it’s difficult to put your finger on… well, let’s not start with ambiguous and unsatisfying statements. Try again:
Bruno Fazzolari’s art is not necessarily evasive or oblique, unfriendly or unclear, but it is difficult to identify precisely or definitively what the images he makes represent, mean, or allude to. His paintings and photographs refuse to… ah, statements in the negative aren’t helpful. One more time:
Bruno Fazzolari’s art is complex: it is sensitive and forthright, materially apparent and thoughtfully conceptual, well-crafted and expressive, fully intuitive and keenly intelligent. He says, "Art is interesting to me when it creates more problems than it resolves… I want my work to offer resistance to habitual ways of viewing." His images, perpetually on the edge of representation and abstraction, keep the viewer in a kind of visual, pre-lingual limbo-state where the experience of identifying and talking about something specific—what one sees, knows, and understands—is continually encouraged, suspended, and re-engaged. Fazzolari’s art requires and inspires a cycle of observation and conversation, where the viewer looks, responds and reflects, back and forth, moving in and out of the image’s space in order to recall, consider, revisit, and validate.
As is all good visual art, Fazzolari’s work it is not simply a consummable, but is instead time-consuming, endless, and rewarding. It must be seen in person.
Bruno Fazzolari’s most recent solo exhibition, Cold Turkey, took place in 2009 at Gallery 16, San Francisco. Upcoming solo exhibitions in San Francisco include The Lost Paintings (2001-2004) in September 2010 at Second Floor Projects, and Mirror 5 in November at Jancar Jones Gallery. He has shown at Feature, Inc., Gallery Paule Anglim, and Michael Kohn Gallery. His criticism appears regularly at ArtPractical.com. He earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996 after graduating from U.C. Berkeley in Comparative Literature with a focus on critical studies, French and Ancient Greek.
Some Walls is a curatorial and writing art project in a private home in Oakland, California. Some Walls is open by appointment only. To view the exhibition online please visit somewalls.com. To schedule a visit, or for more information, please contact Chris Ashley at info@somewalls.com.