Otino Corsano, Antonietta Grassi & Davide Pan
January 1998
Otino Corsano
enamel on wood
1997
Antonietta Grassi
Scar Calendar
mixed media on paper
1997
Davide Pan
145 Rusty Nails
aluminum, steel, glass
1997
Artcore is proud to present the work of three young artists from across
Canada, who have been brought together to form the gallery's first group
exhibition. Otino Corsano, Antonietta Grassi and Davide Pan work
differently from one another in expressing their constantly evolving senses
of identity, ethnicity and relationships to art and its transformative capabilities.Otino Corsano
Corsano, a Toronto-based artist, works in painting and in light installation.
Highly abstracted, both his paintings and light pieces use industrial
materials to create literally and figuratively reflective works of art that
contain little trace of the artist's hand. Spiritual and lucid, his pieces
engage concentration and stretch the imagination.Antonietta Grassi
Grassi's new paintings from the series The Scar Project(ongoing) layer
paint into wounds and scars on the surface of the canvas. The paintings
act as a form of diary or journal through which Grassi records the passing
of specific days on which she produces the works, and she dates them
accordingly. Alluding to the passage of time as a form of healing, the
paintings as scars resonate with the power of personal transformation and
transcendence.Davide Pan
Pan's sculptures play with the painterly possibilities of three-dimensional
creation; essentially abstract paintings realized in three dimensions,
these works incorporate recycled objects and are affixed to the wall as
would be paintings. Powerful and whimsical, Pan's works are an exploration
of the space inhabited by artists in the 90s, where the bombardment of
visual imagery and art theory is non-stop.Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 - 5:00
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