{"id":162029,"date":"2025-03-28T16:21:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/art\/inhabitants-of-a-fictional-world-search-for-understanding-in-damien-cifellis-vibrant-paintings-colossal\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T16:21:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:21:46","slug":"inhabitants-of-a-fictional-world-search-for-understanding-in-damien-cifellis-vibrant-paintings-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=162029","title":{"rendered":"Inhabitants of a Fictional World Search for Understanding in Damien Cifelli’s Vibrant Paintings \u2014 Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"


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In Tarogramma, the imaginary world conceived by Damien Cifelli<\/a> (previously<\/a>) as a setting for his vibrant paintings, plants are plentiful, but animals don\u2019t exist. The landscapes are as diverse and enigmatic as its inhabitants, who commune with bodies of water, traverse the desert in a suit, and size up an enigmatic object on a dinner plate.<\/p>\n

Cifelli\u2019s stylish figures investigate their environment to try to understand their place within it. Many of the paintings shown here were recently exhibited at Spinello Projects in Miami, emphasizing the artist\u2019s recent focus on analyzing what life is like in this fictive world.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI make a map in my mind but each time I raise my head it disappears\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIn Tarogramma, symbols are imbued with disassociated meanings unrelated to what we think they could be,\u201d says a statement for his show. \u201cIconography, such as flags or emblems, represent regions that exist not as physical places but as ideas or states of mind.\u201d This world is devoid of ethnic, cultural, or gender hierarchies, and identity is fluid and chosen, which encourages constant transformation.<\/p>\n

Occasionally, Cifelli\u2019s paintings reference famous artworks like \u201cWanderer before the Sea of Ice,\u201d which nods to German Romanticist\u00a0artist\u00a0Caspar David Friedrich\u2019s 1818 painting, \u201cWanderer Above a Sea of Fog<\/a>.\u201d Capturing the solipsism of the 19th-century work, Cifelli translates the view into an arctic scene of jagged ice, with the central figure wearing a coat decorated in symbols evocative of biological forms.<\/p>\n

Explore more on Cifelli\u2019s website<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe trick is to know what you are looking for\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cA new route to the interior\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cEverything that happens will happen today\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cDream Animal\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cGreen Fingers, Unit 14\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cInfinite Ground\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cAt the foot of the mountain, the land speaks\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cWanderer before the Sea of Ice\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n