Almine Rech will stage an exhibition of new works by Italian artist Gioele Amaro, based in Paris and Milan, in its London gallery from 11 April to 18 May 2024.

Amaro is a master of synthesis, an artist who blends, modifies, and dissolves barriers to create a conversation between new technology and conventional media such as painting, photography, and drawing. He prints his digitally painted canvases following a rigorous process around materiality, image and colours. Each of his canvas is reworked, adding multiple coats of varnish. Amaro captures the spirit of reality and moves figurative representation into the abstract by adding his own touch to this innovative technique.

“Obliterating the production of a long tradition of aesthetic classifications, this series of paintings does not address the previously determining categories of abstraction or figuration, of technique or reference, of rejection or imitation of the world. Instead it is about absorbing the world, about the world’s ability to approach this increasingly porous boundary in which simulation is confused with reality. In the eyes of the contemporary world, it is not true painting (art history has shown us that this debate, while not completely vain, will never end) but it is truly only a painting — a dense, opaque fragment of this history and its future evolutions.” Jérôme Sans wrote about his work in Flash Art.