Intriguing look at urban landscapes
Published Date:
27 June 2008
By Ian Soutar
PAINTINGS and screen prints by Salvatore Fiorello of urban landscapes are on view in an exhibition at Persistence Works.
The Sheffield-based artist's paintings depict urban spaces devoid of people and signage. His emptied environments have an air of silence, and although uninhibited, they still give the impression of a space being watched. Fiorello interrogates images of often overlooked architectural domain, exploring the structure of man-made space.
The locations of the pictures are vague, as signs have been omitted so that the images of the generic buildings that make up a city look both familiar and strangely abstracted.
Our eyes are encouraged to look vertically, down a street or up at a building, but because the images are made up of a series of horizontal lines, our eyes move from right to left and close up the images disintegrate into abstraction.
New Work by Salvatore Fiorello continues at Persistence Works, Brown Street on weekdays until July 8.
The full article contains 163 words and appears in Sheffield Telegraph newspaper.
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Last Updated:
27 June 2008 7:09 AM
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Source:
Sheffield Telegraph
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Location:
SHEFFIELD, SOUTH YORKSHIRE
