Envy and Gratitude

Victoria Colmegna

Envy and Gratitude, 202360 x 40 x 4cmSign in to view price
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inkjet print on cotton paper, mixed-media collage, mounted on boardFitzpatrick Gallery
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This minimalist contemporary artwork features the word "DOCENT" in a bold, monochromatic design. The clean, sleek typography and neutral gray tones create a visually striking and conceptual piece. The simplicity of the composition and the choice of a single word as the subject matter suggest an exploration of language, education, and the role of a docent or guide in the art world. The overall style and technique evoke a sense of austerity and intellectual introspection, inviting the viewer to contemplate the meaning and significance behind this understated yet thought-provoking work. ...

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Victoria Colmegna
Artist
Victoria Colmegna
Argentinian

Working with collage, drawing, installation and video, Victoria Colmegna explores the fluid dynamics between psychology, medicine, art and fashion. Mobilising kitsch, glossy aesthetics, Colmegna frequently layers pop cultural objects together with archival fragments or art historical images, weaving together bizarre cultural tableaux. In her collage series The Cure (2023), Colmegna gathers various books such as Freudian texts, A Tibetan Book of Healing, a cosmological study and information booklets around Bipolar, photographing these texts in gaudy, camp contexts. Lingerie, care bears, studded leather belts and tiaras enshroud these books. Each print acts as a hallucinatory self-portrait, referencing Colmegna’s coming of age, or perhaps rendering wider culture’s conflicting social messages. Other bodies of work have seen Colmegna delve deeper into this exploration of self, drawing her own self-portraits alongside found yearbook images, or fictionalising moments from history such as the Manson murders. This fleeting, kaleidoscopic investigation of popular culture characterises Colmegna’s practice as she continues to untangle the ever-changing contours of culture and its relationship to selfhood. ...

Fitzpatrick Gallery

Established in 2020, Fitzpatrick Gallery is focused on an international program of curated projects in site-specific venues worldwide, and on-site exhibitions at their primary location in Paris, inaugurated in September 2021 in the Marais gallery district at 123 rue de Turenne. They are involved in every level of production with their represented artists, working in close collaboration with institutions, publishing houses, advisory firms, and other partners. Fitzpatrick Gallery builds on the legacy of Freedman Fitzpatrick which was established in 2013 with locations in Los Angeles and Paris. ...