Forever young… « … but burn, burn, burn, like
fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars […] »
Jack Kerouac, On the Road.
With Forever young, her second
personal exhibition at the ADDICT
Galerie, PAX Paloscia delivers
us the fertile universe of a nostalgic rêverie.
Influenced by street art, PAX runs endlessly across the world
accompanied by a camera and a suitcase full of memories. Her passion for
photography and her infatuation for the 7th art are the engines of her inspiration
and place the image in the center of her work. They dictate her choices but
also guide her imagination.
Here, everything begins with a photograph,
being it an old family snapshot, a simple cliché that she took or a shot out of
a Cassavetes’ film. As soon as she gets in contact with it she lets her
feelings emerge, without filtering the emotions that only her painting can
restore. The photograph, sublimated by a new texture, becomes a work
transfigured. Painting is not the model; it is the look on the model. The
creation is here, beneath the fascinated gaze of the artist, speaking to us in
her own way about a photograph that touched her. Very close to graffiti, her
paintings look like a familiar wall, where pictural signs and feelings are
superposed.
PAX gets inspired by
famous personalities of the 7th art, her close friends and Women. Thus,
Charlotte Gainsboug or Anna Karina are immortalized in suave iconic portraits.
What is most important to her is retranslating what she feels - anonymity and
frailty concerning her as much as does celebrity. Showing the woman beneath the
star, the shadow beneath the glow, this is what captures her attention.
Family reminiscences, childhood memories,
contribute to an abundance of pictures, situations or significant details,
composing a sort of a personal diary
which is feeding her creation. Forever
young explores the passage between childhood and adulthood. The time is
frozen, the space limited to the world of the past but every mark, the artist
knows it, remains elusive.
PAX paints as a poet. Her sensibility, deeply
feminine, is translated by a large stylistic freedom. She will not forbid
herself anything. On the contrary, she strives hard to blur tracks, dipping in
her treasure box, and its precious -and useless at the same time- content. She
plays with shapes and colours and can bewilder by using many annotations, more
or less decipherable. PAX
Paloscia proves once again that the originality of
art is in the specificity of its language, the boldness of its writing, the
individual vision that each one of us has of the world. It is this mysterious procedure which leads
to getting in touch with the Universal by talking about the Self : “I marvel
when images become moments of love, of nostalgia, of loneliness, of self-confidence,
of sex, of youth, of beauty. We are 16 years old again, we are heart-broken
again, drunk again, sick again, in love again.”
By exhibiting Forever young, ADDICT
galerie is fortunate to remain faithful to this idea of creation.
