Exhibition Dates
July 12 – 18, 2007



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Evidence of Form - Indizio di Forma

By Alberto Tes­sore, art critic, Rome:

Onishi Gallery is proud to present the lat­est art­work of Pamela Cento in her New York exhi­bi­tion debut, under patron­age of the Ital­ian Cul­tural Insti­tute of New York and the Cul­tural Poli­cies Asses­sor­ship of the City of Rome.

While Onishi Gallery hosts the phys­i­cal por­tion of the exhibit, for those who can­not attend, the exhi­bi­tion can be vis­ited online after 5 PM on Fri­day, July 13, on myspace.com/1zerozero.  Through this web­site, it will be pos­si­ble to com­mu­ni­cate directly with the artist and oth­ers con­nect­ing to the space.

The works exhib­ited rep­re­sent a selec­tion of Cento’s “Evi­dence of Form—Indizio di Forma” series.  Using dig­i­tal, widely dis­sem­i­nated pho­tos of pop­u­lar media fig­ures, Cento lit­er­ally breaks up the images, reassem­bling them pixel by pixel in a work that focuses on form.  Hun­dreds of pix­els, each its own unique color, are dis­trib­uted on the gallery walls, the form of the square mul­ti­ply­ing itself in space, each time chang­ing slightly into a dif­fer­ent incar­na­tion.  Through this dis­sec­tion of media images, Cento hopes to glean mean­ing that is now absent from these com­mon pic­tures, so famil­iar that only through micro­scopic exam­i­na­tion can under­stand­ing be furthered.

Com­ment­ing on both dig­i­tized pix­eliza­tion of images as well as pay­ing homage to the spir­i­tual under­cur­rent of Mondrian’s work and pas­sion­ate Expres­sion­ist col­ors, Pamela Cento is still able to main­tain lev­ity in her art, all while allow­ing the viewer to grasp the under­ly­ing tex­ture of the media which she so metic­u­lously understands.

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“In Pamela Cento’s highly accu­rate and rig­or­ous work, what really attracts my atten­tion is the attempt to get to the root of things, to see real­ity through a micro­scope, a micro­scope inves­ti­gat­ing the DNA of peo­ple and things.

We are con­stantly sur­rounded by a myr­iad of dig­i­tal images plas­tered all over our daily lives, our streets, the walls in and out of our dwellings, with mil­lions of stereo­types that repro­duce our dreams. We live in them.

Pamela Cento selects a num­ber of images that inter­est and sur­prise her in a spe­cial way, and then focuses on analysing a par­tic­u­lar detail, the one that has the great­est impact or that expresses the essence of the whole image. She then zooms deeper down enter­ing the tun­nel of the sub­stance, of mat­ter. We know that any image of today, and as such, dig­i­tal, is made up of mil­lions of pix­els, and Pamela Cento goes all the way into the finest details to reveal them to us in all their clarity.

We thus dis­cover, thanks to her extremely pre­cise and highly pro­fes­sional pho­to­graphic work, that in cer­tain images we can recog­nise some of Mondrian’s intu­itions, in the per­fect squares and absolute geome­tries, or the vio­lence of the Expres­sion­ist colours with their pas­sions and afflic­tions, or the lev­ity and light­ness of cer­tain symbolists.

Intu­itions these, that other enquir­ers into the unseen have always had, but which Pamela Cento reveals today with the pre­ci­sion of a sur­geon observ­ing the mol­e­cules of a body exam­ined under a microscope”.

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