Isolation Room/Gallery Kit: Thursday, 6 September 2012

Gary Passanise: Untitled
September 6 - October 4, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 6, 2012, 6pm-8pm

Gary Passanise is the Sicilian godfather of the St Louis art scene. Recently he’s distracted himself with some shelves built from odds and ends in his studio. They are full of trap doors and false bottoms, alternately looking like ziggurats or stacked books. When Isolation Room went to select a work at his studio, Gary mentioned Fra Angelico’s Convento di San Marco version of The Annunciation. Apparently if you mentally remove the holy figures from the ground, this leaves you with the famously luminous negative space depicting Mary’s empty bedroom (which is a spooky copy of the selfsame monk’s cell the work is painted in) … and that’s ultimately what Gary is trying to do in every abstraction he makes—represent the un-representable. While we are not attempting to recreate Angelico’s religious fresco, hopefully the space is charged with the same uncanny weirdness. Hours: By appointment only.

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