June 26 - Aug 26 - Andres Ciccone & Francesco Maccapani Missoni

Paralleled Perspectives curated by Egle

In “Parralleled Perspectives” an online duo-exhibition, Egle facilitates a conversation between two artists who generate vibrant optically alluring artworks, Francesco Maccapani Missoni and Andres Ciccone. Their stripped-down, warped geometric compositions pulsate, ever so slowly, casting a near-hypnotic spell upon the viewer. While both artists draw upon this sensorially potent means of transmission, their visions are particular, running, as the exhibition’s title suggests, parallel to one another.

Francesco Maccapani Missoni quite literally weaves illusions. From a distance his polychromatic patterns appear flat, the product of densely applied paint. Upon closer examination, a considerable degree of texture emerges into view. For his five multidimensional works on view, Missoni employed a two-stage technical process: first, he intricately overlaid colored paper and satin ribbons of various widths, and then he determined whether to coat his completed grids with resin or leave them unvarnished.

Heir to the Italian prêt-à-porter family, Missoni, the artist’s penchant for interwoven color aligns with his storied lineage, while finding expression through a distinct form. His grandfather employed new machinery in the service of his pioneering zig zag stitch; Missoni, alternatively, is drawn to the meditative manual process of warp and weft. Here, his works evince his profound capabilities as a visual conductor. Chromatic and dimensional variations engender rhythm and resonance.

While equally intrigued by the dynamism of geometry, Andres Ciccone’s works ventures off of the rectilinear plane, pulling the viewer’s eye toward vanishing points rendered in primary colors, à la neo-suprematists such as Kasimir Malevich and Alejandro Otero. Born in Venezuela and currently based between New York and Berlin, Andres Ciccone has devoted his practice to both kinetic and op art through painting, sculpture and even furniture. His three abstract paintings on display explore movement’s attendant metaphors: migration, exile, and theories of the shadow self. These themes hold personal significance for the artist, who has spent the last nine years in exile throughout Europe and America. During this time, Ciccone delved into the ideas of Plato and Carl Jung, seeking to integrate his shadow side into his ego and attain a wholly constituted self.

Egle invites you to suspend fixed notions of reality and discover the layered truths contained within two illusive perspectives.

Text by Caroline Reagan Photos by Krizia Salemi