This November, Almine Rech will feature paintings by Italian painter Gioele Amaro, the third solo show with the gallery. The exhibition presenting new works will be on view from November 17 to December 10, 2022 in Paris.

Borrowing from the language of traditional media, Gioele Amaro creates digital paintings that mimic the appearance of distorted reflective surfaces. Originally trained in architecture, Amaro worked for the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Jean Nouvel before embarking on a career as an artist.

Amaro renders his deceptive compositions using digital tools, then prints them on canvas before applying layers of varnish or paint to their surfaces; this gives his pieces the shiny, reflective appearance of foil or stainless steel, and further heightens their illusory quality.

His adept rendering of folds and creases gives the impression that the viewer is looking at a slightly crumpled sheet of metallic material rather than a flat, printed surface.

Although they are produced digitally, Amaro’s images are indebted to painterly techniques like trompe l’oeil and anamorphosis that have been used for centuries to depict illusionistic space.”This movement from a transcendent form with fluid properties to an immanent form is at the heart of the artist’s approach. Printed on canvas and varnished, his artworks question the history of painting, foregrounding a new history, that of a reproducible digital image. In this uninhibited back-and-forth between the real and the virtual, the artist steps into a meta-world where time and space are elements of a world in continuous construction. These blurred images, which can be dismantled and put back together again, are symptomatic of the contemporary world.” Jérôme Sans, critic and curator.