Florencia De Giovanni Pacini
Interwoven
September 4 - 26, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, September 6, 6 - 8 PM
37-39 Clinton St NEW YORK
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Space776 | New York is pleased to present the winner of our solo show open call Florencia De Giovanni Pacini. Flo’s solo exhibition Interwoven invites viewers to contemplate the unseen connections that sustain life, the intricate web of interdependence within nature, and the interconnectedness that binds all living creatures, urging a deeper understanding of our place within this complex, beautiful tapestry.
In the exhibition’s eponymous painting, Interwoven, Pacini utilizes fantastical elements and rich, layered symbolism to explore themes of femininity, nature, and the subconscious. The dreamlike quality of Interwoven echoes the surrealist tradition of blurring reality and imagination, creating a narrative that invites introspection and interpretation. The mystic and the profane, the sensual and fleshy - all are present in Flo’s work, combined in unexpected ways.
The female figure in Pacini’s paintings connects the feminine mystique and strength and employs lush environments to explore themes of identity and existence. Always reaching towards or blending into nature, Flo’s protagonists are caught in moments of reverence.
The exhibition Interwoven manifests a promise to honor and nurture the earth daily, a blood pact spanning generations, from our ancestors to us, who carry within our bodies the life of plants defying gravity. Each painting in the exhibition serves as a visual poem, an echo of ancient traditions, capturing the delicate balance and unity in our world and reflecting a return to the essential. By observing circumstances of the inherent nature of the human body, Flo suggests an understanding of delicate life balance within the environment through the forces of nature, gratitude to creation, cycles, life-giving forces, human life, and the rhythms of the natural world.
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Florecia Giovanni Pacini (b. 1988, Buenos Aires) graduated from the Image and Sound Design program at the University of Buenos Aires, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn. Flo studied drawing and painting in the workshops of Lula Mari and Martín Palottini. Notable awards include 1st prize at The Young Salon of the Eduardo Sívori Museum of Plastic Arts(2015); 3rd prize at the Divine Proportion of Teorema contest (2016) with an exhibition in the Quinquela Martín Museum; 1st prize at La Sociedad Rural Argentina with an exhibition in Buenos Aires Directo de Artista (BADA, 2019). She was included in the book, “Best Latin American Illustrators 2015” from the University of Palermo. In 2017 she was selected for the official competition of the 1st International Expanded Corporality Festival. She participated in FlameZine, a transfeminist emerging art magazine from Berlin, Germany, and won a scholarship to exhibit at El más acá Cultural Club (2020).
Instagram : @flogiovannipacini
Website : www.flogiovanni.com