Less is More Projects presents:

ONE WORK ONE ARTIST

Paolo Giardi

On Couche Ensemble, 2010

Watercolour and black ink on acid free 400gsm watercolour paper, 70x100 cm

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Paolo Giardi

And Tomorrow Is Already Yesterday, or How the Heart Skips a Beat

Statement

Location: Paris

Themes: Expectation, relationships, sexuality, disillusion. The human nature.

Love seems quite a major theme in movies, literature, music, but not so much in art. Or not anymore. Somehow death is still a big subject. Nature and the self. Sometimes religion. Art is the crucial subject in art.

‘Please don’t say we’re done

When I’m not finished’

The XX – Heart Skipped A Beat

Synopsis: The new series of watercolours entitled ‘And Tomorrow is Already Yesterday, or How the Heart Skips a Beat’ are conceived as random frames from a romantic Photostory. In sketching and re-sketching the preparatory collages, Giardi keeps adding different and contrasting elements to his narrative, following the method of composition or writing in Proust’s brouillons. The final execution, a montage of images, techniques and styles borrowed from vintage magazines, graphic design, literature and comic strips, presents us with a “circle of love”, a world of signs that must be deciphered, that is, interpreted.

‘The beloved’s lies are the hieroglyphics of love.

The interpreter of love’s signs is necessarily the interpreter of lies.’

Gilles Deleuze – Proust & Signs

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Artist's biography

Paolo Giardi works across a variety of disciplines producing art that explores the tecnique of the montage. This has led to a fascination with, and exploration of, the languages of citation, allusion and adaptation. Through the exercise of association, he simultaneously attemps to manipulate and transport existing images out of their original context, blurring the experiences of memory and perception. His characters, like in a Beckett play, seems always absorbed by a stage they do not belong to.

Giardi has never been an artist who paints exclusevely; his background is also that of a window dresser, an illustrator, a retail designer, a print maker, and all these layers are clearly visible in his work. The sense of displacement, generated by a combination of different and yet vaguely familiar idioms, recognisable imagery and more graphic and abstract elements, evokes the nature of a forgotten or distant memory. What lays before our eyes becomes a hieroglyph to be decifered. Such imagery could be at once amusing or alarming to the viewer.

Paolo Giardi is an artist based in London. Recent exhibitions include La collection de Monsieur X, ou les avantages d’être un collectionneur, avec Less is More Projects, Chic Dessin Art Fair, Paris, 2010; Wish You Were Here, avec Less is More Projects, Slick 2009, Paris, 2009, (catalogue); Salon, Whitecross Gallery, London, 2009 and 2008; This is About You, Whitecross Gallery, London, 2007; Why Can’t I Be You, Whitecross Gallery, London, 2006, solo show; Party People, Edo City, Rome, 2004, solo show.