GIACINTO OCCHIONERO
Elusive Intertwine
October 22 - December 19

The gallery is delighted to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by gallery artist Giacinto Occhionero. This is Kristen Lorello’s fourth solo exhibition with the Rome, Italy-based painter. His practice involves back-painting plexiglass, and subjecting the painted surface to multiple tests and processes, which include the repeated removal and reapplication of paint.

Occhionero’s high-gloss surfaces relate complex interactions of composition, color, and light, and propose the relationship between each as a constantly evolving process.  Transparent windows open onto compressed scenes that relate nature through a malleable template of cellular abstraction.  Sections of colorful circles and swathes of crackling planes are interwoven, crisscrossed, and spliced together, suggesting layered spatial dimensions with intense shadows and sparkling colors.  They conjure the texture of an amphibian’s skin, the vision of a wind gust carrying a snowdrift, and sea foam receding from a shoreline.  Occhionero’s paintings suggest cycles of nature and biology, the states of coming to form and disappearance, as well as the attempt to capture something fleeting, both physically and in one’s mind.

Giacinto Occhionero lives and works in Rome, Italy.  He was born in Campobasso in 1975 and attended the Accademia delle belle arti in Rome.  His paintings have been exhibited at Kristen Lorello, NY, the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy, and 68 Projects, Berlin, Germany, among other venues.  Collections include the Capital Group, Los Angeles, CA, and the Collezione Banca Profilo, Milan, Italy, among many others.