CONFERENCE
4 July - 28 July, 2007
Conference is as much an experiment as it is an exploration. With soft pastel pinks and fleshy tones Vito Manfredi fancifully reorganizes natural systems. Round organic forms share a surface with roughly hewn mineral deposits. Pores are traded for moon-like craters and flowers bud from smooth curves of skin.
Vito’s transformations are innocent evolutions. He composes and recontextualizes: fusing oddly familiar shapes into bizarre amalgams. The finished entity is not as a collection of parts, but rather a complete whole – a reinvention and reconciliation of systems – a functioning organism.
Conference calls us to inspect a flap of skin with new eyes and intentions. The work posits that plant, mineral and animal can co-exist in one arrangement. It advocates reformation and supports any compromise that lends to new possibilities.
Vito Manfredi is a Melbourne based artist who has exhibited his work domestically and internationally for many years. Conference will be his first Melbourne show for 2007.
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Exhibition Images |
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 Vito Manfredi, Blister | |
 Vito Manfredi, Gland | |
 Vito Manfredi, Joint | |
 Vito Manfredi, Sac | |
 Vito Manfredi, Three Peaks | |
 Vito Manfredi, Lost Rabbit | |
 Vito Manfredi, Dog | |
 Vito Manfredi, Swift | |
 Vito Manfredi, Essential Organ | |
 Vito Manfredi, Patient | |
 Vito Manfredi, Conference | |
 Vito Manfredi, Peer Group | |
 Vito Manfredi, Promontory | |
 Vito Manfredi, Sleep | |
 Vito Manfredi, Smile | |
 Vito Manfredi, Emergence | |
 Vito Manfredi, Two Peaks | |
 Vito Manfredi, I must be crazy | |
 Vito Manfredi, Digits | |
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