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POP SURREALISM: What a Wonderfool World at Spoleto: Museo Carandente in Spoleto | Group Show

Past exhibition
26 Jun - 16 Oct 2010
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Camille Rose Garcia, Poison Parade
Camille Rose Garcia, Poison Parade
Camille Rose Garcia, Poison Parade
Camille Rose Garcia, Poison Parade
Camille Rose Garcia, Poison Parade
Camille Rose Garcia, Poison Parade
Camille Rose Garcia, Poison Parade

Camille Rose Garcia USA, b. 1970

Poison Parade
Acrylic, glitter on paper mounted on board
44x25 cm
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Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Leila Ataya, Her Highness
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Leila Ataya, Her Highness
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Leila Ataya, Her Highness
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) Leila Ataya, Her Highness
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 5 ) Leila Ataya, Her Highness
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 6 ) Leila Ataya, Her Highness
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 7 ) Leila Ataya, Her Highness
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In “the Poison Parade” typical Apparent Dream-like scenarios and unexpected nature pops out from the oeuvre of Camille Rose Garcia while an allusion to the familiar and popular denotes similarities...
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In “the Poison Parade” typical Apparent Dream-like scenarios and unexpected nature pops out from the oeuvre of Camille Rose Garcia while an allusion to the familiar and popular denotes similarities to the comic culture of the 1930s and Pop Art of the 1960s.
Garcia's paintings are laced with the personal remnants of childhood memories that recall frequent trips to Disneyland and visits to her grandparent's cabin tucked away in the redwood forests of Northern California. Her artwork, a haunting recipe of sweet and sour, beautiful and grotesque, ominous and nostalgic, travels through Los Angeles's counterculture to paint the story of a machine-driven, violence-ridden, pill-popping society that has seemingly turned its back on the good, the human, and the existential.

As art critic Carlo McCormick writes:
“Garcia does not succumb to her unlikely mythologies for the sake of escapism; she cajoles us into making a leap of faith with her precisely so that we can see – through her alternate reality – how very grim and ultimately misguided is the consensus reality we so easily accept”

Nell’opera “The Poison Parade” tipici scenari da sogno apparente e natura inaspettata emergono dall'opera di Camille Rose Garcia mentre un'allusione al familiare e popolare denota somiglianze con la cultura comica degli anni '30 e la Pop Art degli anni '60. I dipinti di Garcia sono intrecciati con i ricordi d'infanzia dell’artista che ricorda i frequenti viaggi a Disneyland e le visite alla capanna dei nonni nascosta nelle foreste di sequoie della California settentrionale. La sua opera d'arte, una ricetta inquietante di agrodolce, bello e grottesco, minaccioso e nostalgico, viaggia attraverso la controcultura di Los Angeles per dipingere la storia di una società guidata dalle macchine, dominata dalla violenza e che fa scoppiare pillole che sembra aver voltato le spalle sul buono, l'umano e l'esistenziale.

Come scrive il critico d'arte Carlo McCormick:
“Garcia non soccombe alle sue improbabili mitologie per amore dell'evasione; ci convince a fare un atto di fede con lei proprio in modo che possiamo vedere – attraverso la sua realtà alternativa – quanto sia cupa e in ultima analisi fuorviante la realtà del consenso che accettiamo così facilmente
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