Hogar Collection Gallery
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Cecilia Biagini

Absolute Threshold

Hogar Collection Gallery is pleased to present “Absolute threshold”, an exhibition by Cecilia Biagini, May 5 – June 19, 2006, opening reception on Saturday, May 6 from 6-9pm. In her first solo show at the gallery, she will be presenting new paintings, photograms and sculptures that flow seamlessly from medium to medium. Utilizing a bold sense of color, line, depth, flatness and abstraction the varied works find commonalities in their language, composition, playfulness and sensorial experience. In her paintings, repetitious colored string-like lines loop and interweave infinitely into and out of themselves, evoking sound waves, seismic motion/vibrations and temperature currents. Similarly, her alluring color photograms, which are created completely in the darkroom with filters and objects, are captured
moments of the lyrical residues of the process used to create them. The sculptures act as a 3 dimensional perspective of the 2 dimensional work in that they are direct manipulations of the chosen material and reveal to us an idea of a self-sustaining system. Throughout the work geometric shapes such as circles, lines and triangles manifest the compositions playing key visual roles. Evoking ideas of physics, the geometric shapes are activated and their movement acts as a definition of animation and therefore of what makes life. She sees movement as a “reunion of the many individuals that comprise a
collective whole, where every segment has autonomy; however, they unite to perform as a single body where growth occurs by replication of individual segmental units.” In the end, the picture acts as no more than what it is, existing in a space where a pure meander can be considered and appreciated. Her intention is, “to put in the “scene” animated aspects that are more or less hidden from the matter, as if illustrating the point where a stimuli moves from undetectable to detectable, the absolute threshold of the invisible. In their own rhythm, everything is in motion and there we can read the successive steps of change.”