Artist: GINO
SACCONE
Mieke van Schaijk gallery
Verwersstraat 19-21 (1e etage Westside)
NL 5211 HT ‘s-Hertogenbosch
T 0031 (0) 623690189
[email protected]
www.miekevanschaijk.nl
Gino Saccone, Ponte di capelli, 2016, 210 x 163 cm
MIEKE VAN SCHAIJK GALLERY
Verwersstraat 19/21 (1e etage Westside)
5211 HT ’s-Hertogenbosch, Nederland
T + 31 (0) 6 23690189
[email protected]
www.miekevanschaijk.nl
Work description
Artist: Gino Saccone
The images selected show examples of a variety of projects and work series from recent years in
an attempt to capture the different branches of Gino Saccone’s practise and its chronology. Working
across a range of media the results in these images take form as Jacquard tapestry, printed media,
sculpture and painting.
In recent years the images originating in sculptural and painted traditions are filtered through a
hyperreal virtualized landscape where the collage of analogue and the virtual aesthetics takes place
then reformed into textile and print media.
Clay model making and analogue drawings meet the slick, plasticated and impossibly lit world of
the computer generated images in [see “Este and Spec” (2015) Glclee print]. These gestural works
takes their cue from abstract traditions, adding artifice to the colour and form.
Another grouping of works is focused on the contingency of physical objects. The Lacuna textile
project [see “Interlaced T1 (Lacuna)”] set about to develop objects with no spatial origin by creating
a double-sided woven variation of the autostereogram; a technology that was designed to create the
visual illusion of a three-dimensional relief from a two-dimensional image. With an inward convergence of both eyes to obtain single binocular vision, a sunken-relief can be seen on both sides. The
technology was first developed by Bela Julesz in 1959 at a time when it was thought by many vision
scientists that depth perception occurred exclusively in the eye itself.
A heterogeneous assortment of paintings making up the digits of a new phone number [See “New
number”]. It is part of an playful biographical body of numerical works which include “Dance without
pin number” another work which displays the pins numbers for various different bank accounts in an
action of defiance and precarity. This preoccupation with numbers is echoed in The Ouija board paintings whose interface with the spirit world keeps a channel open for the voice of dead (artists).
“Limbo dancing pole” seen here is one of many incarnations that are cast using resin tinted with oil
paint and an inner arrangement of floating copper, brass and stainless steel cubes threaded on a rod.
They are based around a fascination of the limbo dance and how those physical movements could
translate as a sculptural language and in relation to other objects in the context of a display.
Gino Saccone grew up on Jersey a small island in the English Channel and is now currently living
in Ladywell, London. He has a studio located in a former Morgue outside his house. He studied at
Rijksakademie 09-10 and Royal college 07-08.
MIEKE VAN SCHAIJK GALLERY
www.miekevanschaijk.nl
Artist: GINO SACCONE
Born 1979, Jersey (C.I)
Lives and works in London
Education
2009-10
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
2006-08
MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London
2003
Ecole Philippe Gaulier, (Theatre), Paris
1998 - 2001
BA Fine Art -First Class Honours, Falmouth College of Art, Cornwall
Erasmus Study Exchange, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan
1997 - 1998
Foundation Diploma, University of the West of England, Bristol
Selected exhibitions
2017
La Brea studio artists residency, LA
http://www.thecabinla.com/
2016
Neolithic Grafitti, QB, Oslo
Théâtre de l’absurde (prequel), Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam.
Perennial, Bristol, Uk
Uncommon Chemistry, Observer bld, Uk
Corridori in Fuga (solo), Nospace, Oslo
Hotel Savigny, Frankfurt, curated by Michael Pybus
2015
C~C, Tate St Ives, Cornwall, Uk
hubcaP sMiley guest starring F ·R ·I ·E ·N ·D ·S ✓Friends, Evelyn Yard, London
2014
90% Proof, Welcome Screen, London (solo)
New works, Lime wharf, London (solo)
Combination LarkBeck, Order of St John, Clerkenwell, UK
Event Horizon, Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, NL
Opening with a stitch, Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, NL
Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Pablo’s Birthday, NYC
Ab - Stretching the Canvas, Jeanine Hofland, NL
2013
Metafonia Atelier Concorde, Lisboa, Portugal (solo)
Landmark Seizures, Aid & Abet, Cambridge, UK
tathaga schfach, with Phillip Kremer, Tilmann Meyer-Faje, MiekeVanSchaijk, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
2012
EAR FOUND - Please contact reception, Ana Cristea, NYC (solo)
Stereopsis, The drawing room / Tannery arts, London.
Maquette for an e-card, Supplement gallery, London (solo)
Everyone else was either busy or dead, Zurich,
Everything’s alright forever, Paradise row, London, UK
2011
Lightwork I, Paradise Row, London, UK
Hairdoo for pizza man, Limoncello gallery, London (solo), UK
Lightwork II, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, NL
Young London, V22 workspace, London, UK
2010
Rijksakademie OPEN 2010, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
Space Is A Word Part I: New Work, P/////AKT, Amsterdam (Solo), NL
Everything Beautiful is Far Away, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, NL
2009
Rijksakademie OPEN 2009, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
2008
Haptic Field, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, NL (Solo)
Implant, The UBS Art Gallery/The Horticulture Society of New York, NYC
The S.A.W. Show, FINN collective, Glasgow
2007
Mussolini’s Missing Ships, Hockney Gallery, RCA, London (solo)
Offsite Residency Programme, Action in Public Spaces, Whitechapel Art Gallery/Look Ahead
Housing, London
2006
Tract, Offsite Performance Programme, Newlyn Art Gallery, UK
Turnstile, Independents Liverpool Biennial
2005
Somewhere between Norway, Galerie Kit, Trondheim, Norway
Inverse, Transition Programme, Newlyn Art Gallery, UK
Tate Xtra, Tate Britain, London, UK
2004
Expo, festival of live art, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham
Decoder, 340 Old Street, London (solo)
Speakeasy, Seminar Programme, Space Studios / The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2002
Fishbowl, The Foundry, London
Loosely Drawn, Kingsland Dalston, London
Ceiling Center, Kingsland Dalston, London
2000
Laboratory Europe, Spazio Umano, Foro Buonaparte, Milan, Italy
Interlaced T1 (lacuna)
Exhibition: EAR FOUND – please
contact reception, 2012 (solo)
Ana Cristea NYC
Artist: Gino Saccone
New Number
Exhibition: Space Is A Word Part I: New Work,
2010 (Solo)
P/////AKT, Amsterdam
Artist: Gino Saccone
Exhibition: Neolithic Grafitti
2016 (solo)
QB, Nosplace Oslo
Artist: Gino Saccone
Exhibition: Neolithic Grafitti
2016 (solo)
QB, Nosplace Oslo
Artist: Gino Saccone
Este and Spec
Glclée print
2016
Artist: Gino Saccone
Este and Spec
Glclée print
2015
Artist: Gino Saccone
Exhibition: Space Is A Word Part I: New Work
2010, P/////AKT, Amsterdam (Solo)
Artist: Gino Saccone
Exhibition: 90% Proof
2014, Welcome Screen, London (solo)
Artist: Gino Saccone
Limbo dancing pole
resin, copper, oil paint, brass, stainless steel
Artist: Gino Saccone
Ouija board
Watercolor 33 x 48 cm
Artist: Gino Saccone