Artists VOLTA NY 2008
Presented by: Baumet Sultana
Born 1978 in Stamford, CT, USA
Lives and works in Miami, USA
Burgeoning, abundant, as if in a state of perpetual creation, the painting of Jacin Giordano appears as clever assemblages, collages in which forms and materials seem in constant experimentation, proceeding with precise and painstaking additions, bands of acrylic paint, glue, threads, fragments of wool…. on a chosen surface (canvas or MDF).
Giordano never ceases to play with constructive oppositions and fascinating contrasts, his technique using the accumulation of successive layers renders such contrasts and oppositions visually efficient and most intriguing. Like puzzles in potential evolution, assembled without preparatory outline, Giordano’s paintings appear almost like construction games within which the eye is invited to lose itself then reassemble the elements. Each work constitutes a possible solution for the artist, a working hypothesis that sometimes leads him to express himself sculpturally.
Though sometimes seemingly chaotic, his painting is not stripped of a certain sensuality, a poetry in which the world of childhood, fears and fairytales seems close by, even if the threads Giordano weaves lead us to wander afar.
Text by Frederic Bonnet, art critic - Curator
 Jacin Giordano, Untiled (Harlequin Swirl), 2007, acrylic on wood 64,35 inches x 59,67 inches (165 cm x 153 cm) |