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Emanuela Campoli is pleased to announce The Pulverized Poem, Nick Mauss’ fifth exhibition with the gallery and his first in Milan.
For his exhibition at 48, Foro Bonaparte, Nick Mauss juxtaposes two mirrored murals and a drawing on paper and voile in an apartment that appears suspended in a state of ambiguous habitation -- not yet, or no longer, lived in or vacated.
Painting behind glass, Mauss enacts procedures of painting in reverse. Line and color, applied in layers on the verso of the transparent support, produce a meshwork of simultaneous description, figuring fragments of bodies in a gestural vocabulary that shuttles between written language, obliteration, and ornamental cipher. Through a process of silvering, the painted glass is rendered reflective, animated by alchemical swarms of silver deposits and halos of oxidization behind the brushmarks. Corresponding and reacting to the given architecture of the space,...More
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Emanuela Campoli is pleased to announce The Pulverized Poem, Nick Mauss’ fifth exhibition with the gallery and his first in Milan.
For his exhibition at 48, Foro Bonaparte, Nick Mauss juxtaposes two mirrored murals and a drawing on paper and voile in an apartment that appears suspended in a state of ambiguous habitation -- not yet, or no longer, lived in or vacated.
Painting behind glass, Mauss enacts procedures of painting in reverse. Line and color, applied in layers on the verso of the transparent support, produce a meshwork of simultaneous description, figuring fragments of bodies in a gestural vocabulary that shuttles between written language, obliteration, and ornamental cipher. Through a process of silvering, the painted glass is rendered reflective, animated by alchemical swarms of silver deposits and halos of oxidization behind the brushmarks. Corresponding and reacting to the given architecture of the space,...More