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david gremard romero..metamorphosis
Friday, june 23,2006
7-9pm
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preview at www.bucheon.com
David Gremard Romero
Metamorphosis
June 23-July 29,2006
Reception
Friday, June 23, 7-9pm
Bucheon is pleased to present a solo show for San Francisco
based painter David Gremard Romero. The exhibition will open Friday
June 23, 2006 with a reception for the artist from 7 to 9pm and run
through July 29,2006. Please see complete essay by Jacqueline Cooper
on www.bucheon.com.
David Gremard Romero's paintings and drawings are redolent of
Classical allegory and executed in a technique that recalls the late
Renaissance and the subtle nuances of Mannerist portraits. Throughout
this body of work, figures, or characters, are depicted in
the throes of transfiguration. In the paintings and pastels on paper
this metamorphosis remains incomplete, whereas in the drawings the
completed transformation propels a specific narrative.
Taking his cue from the classical tradition of patronage when
artists depicted their benefactors as allegorical figures, David
began his series of paintings and pastels by asking his models to
describe
the characteristics, spiritual, moral or otherwise, of a super ego
that might be representative of their own projected desire. Some of
the models were specific while others were vague. The site, or stage
setting,for these transformations is frequently modeled on the
Elysian fields of Rococo landscape painting. Loosely brushed-in trees
sit in front of pale washes of color,while the confident brushwork
and strident colors of the figures occupy the foreground. Romero usually
refers to the partially transformed selves as"Superheroes".
The theme of metamorphosis as a medium for personal and political
change is followed through in a group of sequential drawings,
arranged as a frieze that partially wraps around the gallery walls.
Hung at eye level and reading from left to right, this work is an
homage to Ovid's Metamorphosis. The form and scale of Romero's
narrative drawing is comparable to a graphic novel or the preliminary
storyboarding of epic cinematography. A storyboard outlines direction
in the production of a film and, similarly, the frieze has changes of
pace and focus throughout its length.
In the frieze, as in the cinema, action is present and continually
unfolding as a narrative offered to a passive viewer. Although the
paintings present the transformation of character into archetype by
the adoption of theatrical costume and the drawings
describe acts of heroism and self-sacrifice, David Gremard Romero
refers to the lineage of classical narrative in both forms. In doing
so he provides the viewer with access to allegory as he attempts to
elevate the human condition through the loving act and attention of
painting and drawing.
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bucheon gallery
389 grove st
san francisco
415-863-2891
www.bucheon.com
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