The Colour of Your Energies
Those of you who saw this show may have been a little mystified as to how artist/ curator Diena Georgetti managed to cohere by will or hex artists of such diverse directions to such great effect. Most of the works are themselves amalgams of different media, in effect somewhat analogous to the show as a whole.
As the subtitle suggests, much of the work deals with esoteric or metaphysical themes. The shared commonality is a kind of textual vagueness, not actually distortion but a kind of interference of sources.
For example, Eugene Carchesio has placed within the minute architecture of his constructions what appear to be various mathematical equations. It isn't easy to dismiss the awe of complex technologies, especially when the catalyst of fascination is our incomprehension.
However, these equations confer a sense of awe to the totality of the pieces through their 'anchoring' effect, and their positioning. Interesting also were the many cones which were included as babelistic references to geometry. Apparently multifunctional, these cones served at times as sound receptors or transmitters.
Nancy Caltabiano's suspended sculptural pieces were both visually and tactilely interesting. In form they resembled the leaves of the carnivorous pitcher plant, containing the same hidden volume. If we refer to biology, however, the surfaces better approximate something more fleshy: the rough sown edges being reminiscent of the skin of some gruesome amputee victim.
The same concern for morphology recurs in Diena Georgetti's collection of diagrammatic sketches. Here we are witness to lessons in the transcendence of imperfect form - as opposed to perfect, Platonic, form. A blackboard drawing of a nearly fallopian figure rested in nice contrast to the internally faceted forms of the