2012 – THE DOLLS – Sabiana Paoli Gallery – Singapore

DANILO BUCCHI “THE DOLLS”

Sabiana Paoli Art Gallery PTE LTD
Tanglin Shopping Centre Shop Unit#01-25/26
Tanglin Road 19 Singapore 247909

Sabiana Paoli Art Gallery is honoured to present the very rare cycle of paintings ‘The Dolls’ – realized for the occasion by the acclaimed Italian painter Danilo Bucchi – on show from 7 June until 7 September 2012. The Roman artist, whose works are exhibited in several Italian museums, at 33 is considered one of the most promising talents at international level. Sabiana Paoli, whose career originated  from extensive in-depth academic studies and includes lecturing and writing of essays on contemporary art, besides ten years experience working for high end art galleries, is presenting and promoting Italian art in its multi-faceted variety.

‘Deformation’ is a term used in the art world to indicate movements and styles that have been recurring repeatedly across the centuries.Danilo Bucchi’s protean world freely revises the theme of deformation through the ‘dolls’, offering a personal and original interpretation. The dolls, although lifeless, are at the same time subjects deriving from the playful world linked with children’s light-heartedness, whose uncertain recollection is referred to by Bucchi to be sublimated in a social criticism, characterized by the shallowness of contents, in which bodies without substance and with a sometimes glassy or astonished stare remain suspended motionless while observing the audience. The journey of this artist materializes a new universe, filled with figures whose proportions are excessive, that become the icons of this arduous and engaging polemic of our society. The representation of the subjects is the manifestation of a Pirandellian world, whose human and moral values have become clumsy and exaggerated personifications, soulless but esthetically pleasing although showing the substantial insensitiveness of the human being.While questioning the current commercialization of the human being, Danilo Bucchi also claims his own ‘ability to paint’; the shapes deriving from the playful childhood past of each one of us encompass a plasticity floating lightly in a world outside time and space, a world devoid of substance, too. The artist has been dealing with this theme since 2007, a theme developed through the evolution from representation to total abstraction, achieved through the quest of the sign.