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Camporeale Characters

webmaster 28-03-2011

Lima: The Enlace Arte Contemporáneo Gallery –Avenida Pardo y Aliaga 676, San Isidro– will open on March 31 an individual exhibit of paintings by Argentine artist Sergio Camporeale.

Entitled Obras recientes (Recent Works), this collection is made up of roughly 20 pieces on cloth, in midsize and large-scale format, that chip in a dehumanizing vision of reality, always based on a creative definition of the surrounding environment.

Born in Buenos Aires in 1937, Sergio Camporeale graduated from his hometown’s School of Fine Arts in 1961. He’s exposed in art galleries and cultural centers across Latin America and Europe (Israel, Poland, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Norway, Spain, Panama, Chile, Colombia, U.S., Venezuela, Uruguay, El Salvador and Argentina. He’s lived in Paris for approximately 18 years and his work has been recognized with major international prizes.

The promotional note sent to us from Enlace Arte Contemporáneo quotes this assessing excerpt on Camporeale’s work written by Pedro Luis Prados S., an Esthetics Professor at the University of Panama and a member of the Contemporary Art Museum’s Technical Council: “In his characters only the commotion of trauma prevails […] weightless characters for whom the world is no longer supported, a cruel masquerade of a circus that conceals the imaginable stages of cruelty, of undisturbed snicker, of a kind of order imposed above rationality and human conditions. In his sample of human tribulations, Camporeale intuits primary forms of relations with others in which objectivity and lack of identity rule, ties in which conscience lays bare an intricate motivational game aimed at subordinating other people. However, not only the threat of interpersonal relations prevails, but also an institutionalized alignment created by a system that relies on the personification of caricatures for the sake of models cut out for their purposes. Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, no matter the iconographic character, they always serve as roadblock in the way of the establishment of an order that stands far beyond good and evil.

“The enigma of Sergio Camporeale’s image unfolds in itself through its own representations, letting in some kind of introspective appraisal whereby the artist recaps his own memories and fears, his past and his present. It’s a gripping and touching image that can perfectly be the image of any of us and of our peoples threatened by a violence we never know for sure where it might be stemming from.”