| Aldo Iacobelli, born in Napoles, went to live in Australia where he started his carreer as an artist. He currently lives and works between Spain and Australia. His oeuvre, as he uses a personal and minute technique of oil painting with which he attains a certain tridimensionality, raises a series of questions about both the art production process and its relation to decoration.
Iacobelli, well known artist in Autralia, has exhibited in the main galleries and institutions of Adelaide, Queensland, Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney. His work is found in important collections as Australian National Gallery, Canberra; Art Gallery of South Australia; Museum of Contemporary Art of Brisbane; Riddoch Art Gallery, Mout Gambier; South Australian Museum; City of Hamilton Art Gallery, Victoria; Phillip Morris Collection; Bassat Ogilvy & Mather Collection, Barcelona; Diputación de Cádiz collection; and ARTIUM collection, Vitoria, Alava.
Iacobelli has been concerned since the early 70’s about the depth and surface problems of painting, has been approaching the standards that normalize visual perception disemboweling its conventions. That is how the extraordinary series “Pattern” (1997-1999) arised , reproducing the weft of a sample case of op fabrics. With this series - now beeing shown for the first time, at Galería Tomás March -, the painter allows us to see the reach of his craft, to touch its substance and feel how he ironizes about it. Starting from the painting, and in a kind of mannierist loop, Iacobelli re takes his distance to paint it back, inventing it again.
José Luís Clemente, El Cultural de El Mundo |
