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Passages November-Decmber 1998 Curator: Nathan Harpaz |
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Passages November-Decmber 1998 Curator: Nathan Harpaz |
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| "Postiglione's vocabulary,
labyrinth, maze, loss of centeredness, trouble in Utopia, or deadly viruses,
reflects a metaphoric reality of our personal outlook as well as the destiny
of postmodern art. It is quite noticeable that Postiglione is drawing elements
from his own personal collective entity by applying methods of solutions
from the Age of Reason or the Italian Renaissance. The humanism of the
Renaissance created "Ideal Models" or "Utopias" using science and technology.
The Ideal City or The Ideal Architectural Structure of the Renaissance
era are experiments of moving out of the Labyrinth, searching for a passage
into the future. Postiglione's own career as an artist and a theoretician
is an echo to the Italian Renaissance's motifs such as the 'Universal Man'
or the age of 'Enlightenment.' " (From the introduction to the exhibition's
catalog)
Corey Postiglione is currently teaching art history and critical theory at Columbia College in Chicago. He obtained a master's degree in art history, theory and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a bachelor's degree in painting, sculpture and printmaking at the University of Illinois in Chicago. The exhibition presented large format acrylic canvases (one of them 13' wide), small acrylic paintings on paper, and an educational display of studies, texts and illustrations. |
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