About the show

Eduardo Secci is pleased to announce the inauguration of the first Italian solo show of Stanley Casselman, curated by David Anfam, which will take place on Thursday December 9, 2021 (from 16.00 to 20.00) in our Milan exhibition spaces (Via Bernardino Zenale, 3 ). The exhibition will be open until February 5, 2022.

For the occasion, Stanley Casselman presents a new body of works whose sumptuous surfaces support a sense of awe and wonder, as if they were themselves spiritual elements of our being. In this sense, the experiential and speculative sources that create the network of physical reality are often a powerful undercurrent of the artist’s paintings. Initially dedicated to sculpture, Casselman soon follows his natural inclination to painting, approaching it with a unique tactile quality. By balancing the contradictions of making art, randomness and control, technique and dexterity, the artist creates a dynamic pictorial space that exists right on the edge of order and disorder. The dialectical image proposed by the artist becomes a synthesis of the multiple, which does not eliminate contradictions but rather cultivates them for their creative potential. For the Milanese solo show, Casselman conceives large-scale works that unfold both in their material possibilities and both in the mystical contemplation that the viewer is required to have. This series of paintings creates a bright and seductive environment, where the bold colors and a strong plasticity pushes the viewer to situation of proximity interact with the imaginative generosity of the artist’s hand. We can refer to the evocative words of the artist himself: “we as human beings seek to control our physical world, but often fail to realize that we owe our very existence to countless evolutionary events governed by only the known and the not yet understood forces that have played out since the dawn of both space and time. Humanity is inseparable from nature and nature driven by evolution is inherently blind.  It’s in this light that I choose to uncover new visual experiences that challenge us to consider our relationship to the universe we inhabit”

Eduardo Secci is pleased to announce the inauguration of the first Italian solo show of Stanley Casselman, curated by David Anfam, which will take place on Thursday December 9, 2021 (from 16.00 to 20.00) in our Milan exhibition spaces (Via Bernardino Zenale, 3 ). The exhibition will be open until February 5, 2022.

For the occasion, Stanley Casselman presents a new body of works whose sumptuous surfaces support a sense of awe and wonder, as if they were themselves spiritual elements of our being. In this sense, the experiential and speculative sources that create the network of physical reality are often a powerful undercurrent of the artist’s paintings. Initially dedicated to sculpture, Casselman soon follows his natural inclination to painting, approaching it with a unique tactile quality. By balancing the contradictions of making art, randomness and control, technique and dexterity, the artist creates a dynamic pictorial space that exists right on the edge of order and disorder. The dialectical image proposed by the artist becomes a synthesis of the multiple, which does not eliminate contradictions but rather cultivates them for their creative potential. For the Milanese solo show, Casselman conceives large-scale works that unfold both in their material possibilities and both in the mystical contemplation that the viewer is required to have. This series of paintings creates a bright and seductive environment, where the bold colors and a strong plasticity pushes the viewer to situation of proximity interact with the imaginative generosity of the artist’s hand. We can refer to the evocative words of the artist himself: “we as human beings seek to control our physical world, but often fail to realize that we owe our very existence to countless evolutionary events governed by only the known and the not yet understood forces that have played out since the dawn of both space and time. Humanity is inseparable from nature and nature driven by evolution is inherently blind.  It’s in this light that I choose to uncover new visual experiences that challenge us to consider our relationship to the universe we inhabit”

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