NOISE
Studio la Città, Verona, Italy
Jacob Hashimoto’s solo show at Studio la Città will present – on Saturday 24 – a cycle of works on canvas exhibited for the first time. So, it will not be monochrome kites invading the gallery space, nor wall-mounted works with kites. coloured by multi-shaped collages.
While Hashimoto has previously used oil and acrylic paints on canvas to explore tangents in his work, asides and inspirations, these latest explorations in painting are more substantively an extension of the body of work for which he is best known. Through the language of these paintings, we can beter understand the fundamental conceptual substrates of his process. The paintings both allow us a deeper understanding of his lifetime of work and suggest potential directions for Hashimoto's practice. They strip the work of its charactaristic technique and leaves the essential gestures and motifs - the foundations of Hashimoto's musings. The signature characteristics of his broader output are still recognizable: here, the essential architectures undergirding his kite-based work now translate to the color fields and layered paint marks appearing on these medium-sized canvases.
Alongside these chromaatic abstractions, a new series of painngs employing a muted, largely black and white palete will hang in a row on the longest wall of the gallery. This series is a rumination on liminal fundaments and visual language: thoughts elaborated into images through intuiton. More significantly, this series represents a new set of concerns explored by the artist: the ideas of signal, cacophony, and meaningless noise in the face of a world awash in authorless or semi-authored images.
The work gives rise to the show's title, “Noise “, which also evokes the ground interference, moire paterns, and static that characterized the experience of watching old TV sets.
This static, this white noise threatens to drowned our appreciation of image as the language of our image landscape is reduced to an infinity of averages, a finite greyscale of limited meaning. Hashimoto asks and wonders: “How must we assemble meaning out of this noise? How do we slow our minds and consider how we build meaning out of all of these fragments of language?”
WHEN:
Opening Saturday June 24 2023, at 11am
June 24 – September 16, 2023
WHERE:
Studio la Città, Lungadige Galtarossa, 21 – 37133 Verona
Tel. +39.045597549