Monday, July 27, 2015

CANIGLIA-"Ennui Dream"

Here is another painting from the series I am working on for my upcoming shows. As I mentioned in my last post, these paintings are pretty much raw improvisational ideas that capture the melancholy of moments that characterize life in our world. Yes, some of these paintings are filled with loneliness, self-reflection, and ennui.

They are meant to capture the feeling and emotion that surround our world that feels on the brink or edge of chaos at times. There is beauty and hope in these paintings as well. I have hidden symbolism in each of the pieces. As I have said before my work has always been visceral and evocative filled with raw earthtone textures and meaning that demands to be looked into, rather than merely over. This new painting is called “Ennui Dream”.

I will post more images soon.


Caniglia   

Thursday, July 16, 2015

CANIGLIA-Latest Work

Currently on my easel is this oil painting, which is part of my new series called “Tanks for Nothing” which will be traveling as a show later in the year. This series is based on some of my notes, drawings, and sketches that I have created over the last few years depicting a world that mirrors our own at times.

These new paintings that I will be posting, are little frozen moments in time that are eternal, not of a particular time and place but of a world in which melancholy has taken hold and very few inhabitants exist. In this painting I created a young girl who is not afraid to stand alone in the face of what is to come. The title of this new piece is “The darkest point, where there is no path is where a future begins”.

The visual narratives that I am creating with these paintings aren’t clear and concise and are more ambiguous. This is done on purpose because there are many different outcomes and possibilities that we can choose in the world we live or the imaginary ones we create. I have always felt that great art gives you a direction but allows you to finish the story.

As Arthur O'Shaughnessy's poem “Ode” states… We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, and sitting by desolate streams, World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams.

I will post more paintings soon.

Thanks

Caniglia