LUKE PELLETIER | T.L. SOLIEN + DAST – Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea – Milano – 06/04 – 20/05

LUKE PELLETIER | T.L. SOLIEN
Filling empty rooms
curated by Michela D’Acquisto and Renato Montagner

The young Luke Pelletier exhibits a body of works with a vibrant pop energy, heavily influenced by punk and skate cultures, in a celebration that, at the same time, is also a denunciation of the American consumer society.
Based in Los Angeles, but native of North Carolina, Pelletier combines characteristic elements of his home state, such as crocodiles and palm trees, with the decadent atmosphere of LA.It is undoubtedly a fresh contrast to the maturity of T.L. Solien, one of the protagonists of the American art of the last thirty years, who in his paintings skillfully blends abstraction and figuration, thus creating a highly personal pictorial language with which to tackle the big issues of life, filtered through the autobiographical experience.
With his revisited expressionism, full of literary references and influences of the popular culture of the last century, the artist offers a disenchanted interpretation of the current state of affairs, especially in today’s America.

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in Little Circus
DAST
Far finta di essere umani
curated by Michela D’Acquisto

Dast proposes a series of works that, through the archetype of the robot, investigate the isolation of the contemporary man.
Concealing the identity of the protagonists of his works behind masks with features typical of Fifties’ tin toys, the artist gives them the freedom to act according to their instincts, and meanwhile carries out a subtle analysis on the complexity of interpersonal relationships.

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