Postcards: They are a thing most of us have despatched or gained at some phase in our lives, but as time goes on and electronic records evolve, so way too does equally the beauty and significance of these small, still “fragile time capsules”.
From the internationally acclaimed artist Marco Luccio, who brought the environment New York Postcards in 2019, comes a new exhibition opening on April 4 at fortyfivedownstairs on Flinders Lane which seeks to reposition these sensitive artefacts in a total new way.
Operating till April 29, Cuorosensa: A Reverse Archaeology offers but one more assumed-provoking collection of combined-media functions by the award-successful Italian born, Melbourne-centered artist, who has held upward of 50 solo exhibitions nationwide and internationally.
Additional than 15 several years ago, Luccio started amassing utilized postcards from New York Town flea markets and curio stores when he was a resident at the leading of the Chrysler setting up (notably, the only other artist to have had a studio in the legendary landmark is esteemed Lifestyle photographer, Margaret Bourke-White).
Impressed by the evocative nostalgia and intimacy of the playing cards, they were being, in accordance to Luccio “beautiful artefacts, remnants of the previous preserved in smaller and fragile time capsules”.
That sentiment was mirrored in Luccio’s fantastic collection of tiny-scale functions, New York Postcards.
In Cuorosensa – an Italian word fashioned by Luccio meaning “sensed for the heart”, which encapsulates the feeling he stated he professional in New York when initially encountering the “beauty of the texture” of the postcards, the evolution will take on a a great deal greater scale.
The exhibition sees Luccio’s recognisable themes, from his Eiffel Tower and his Trojan Horse to his meditations on the myths and figures of classical antiquity, presented on levels of postcards with glimpses of the messages they the moment conveyed laced in the course of.
Describing postcards as the “perfect illustration of our lives” that are a “testament to civilisation and human connection”, Luccio reimagines what were at the time fragile artefacts as the bedrock of an interlocking canvas.
By doing so, Luccio elevates their significance as the presumptive ephemera of material tradition results in being the base on which levels of more substantial and vaster gestures are developed, as the expansive thought of civilisation fulfills the intimate principle of local community … and it is unexpectedly coherent.
In this show of “reverse archaeology”, Cuorosensa makes it possible for us to instead dig into our possess remnants and rejoice our have individual understandings of record and link as a result of a image that in by itself also challenges turning into shed to time.
Luccio informed CBD News the thought of preservation was a further central part to his hottest overall body of work, which recognises the importance of our possess heartfelt artefacts by delivering an intriguing foundation for lots of critical discussions.
“They’re like artefacts and they are variety of fragile as nicely, so in a sense they are the excellent representation of our life, simply because we carry all these terms and views and matters in our bodies and in our minds,” he stated. “By preserving them as artefacts, their importance is elevated as our very own symbols of civilisation.” •
For a lot more information and facts: marcoluccio.com.au
Pictures: Robert Wagner