Il Salotto – via di Canneto il Lungo 67/69 R, Genova
From 9 to 31 Ottobre 2014
Carlos Giordano personal exhibition
While many artists take refuge and deal with non-places or places assimilated in many parts of the world, Carlos Giordano chooses, this time, a precise geographical place: Rajasthan in northern India.
From that place Carlos selects the male turban, a classic Indian headdress that in Rajasthan reaches its most developed and infinite forms and where it symbolizes various social meanings. Carlos remained fascinated by these “pieces of long, colored and luminous fabric” used twofold and styled in voluminous ways by the princes during solemn circumstances but also by the elderly to keep their head and neck warm during the winter.
Based on qualified, but also enjoyable and stimulating research, Carlos Giordano has created the amazing series “WITH TURBAN” where long and twisted silk ribbons in a thousand colors, wrapping around themselves, become protagonist garments of the faces below.
The skillful use of color enhances the meaning of these pieces of fabric. Dry pastels, almost pure pigments and today a rediscovered technique, combined with acrylic and watercolor, bring the light to the wearer’s soul.
The energetic colors of the turbans contrast with the warm and soft colors of the clothes and the dynamism of the lines scratched with ink. The background, almost always agitated and swirling, tells us more about the geography of the protagonists. On the one hand stability and quietness, on the other hand movement and instability.
Edoardo Archimede Maria Liberio
Catalogue (file)
