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"Before the Wall, Within Time" Oscar Piattella Solo Exhibition (《在牆體之前，在時間之中》 奧斯卡．皮亞德拉個展)
「La materia mette in movimento i sogni; la forma si imprime nella memoria. La pittura si realizza tra la memoria e il sogno.」－O.P. "Matter sets dreams in motion; form is imprinted in the memory. Painting is realized between memory and dream."
The creations of Oscar Piattella (奧斯卡・皮亞德拉) treat walls as containers sealing the scenery of centuries. As memories interweave, the viewer can engage in a dialogue with history and existence. "Before the Wall, Within Time" presents his deep exploration of wall surfaces and the traces of time.
Positioned within the core context of Italian post-war abstract art, Piattella's works are inspired by the walls of urban and religious buildings that have endured for centuries. These walls bear weathering and plant growth, preserving fragments of human carving, repair, and life. Their rough and mottled surfaces become his starting point for exploring color, material, and spirit.
In addition to painting practice, he also echoes his creations with poetry and philosophy: "Talking about life is not about knowing much, but about seeing through what is known. Life is not elsewhere; it must be sought and understood here. Experience does not constitute life—unless you understand it." In this understanding, the wall is both being looked at and looking back at the viewer, becoming a meeting point of history and the present.
In his early creative period, Piattella used layers of rags to shape readable wall structures. Color—especially blue—creates differences in density, depth, and rhythm depending on the material. Later, his work deepened, and he began to use natural media such as minerals, sand, shells, leaves, and gold and silver foil, making the image unfold like geological strata, with light moving slowly on the surface, revealing the texture of time. Works in this stage are often titled "Gemmazione" (Sprouting), pointing to the generative force within matter; as Leonardo da Vinci said, spots are not chaos but the starting point of imagination. Ordinary cracks and traces become veins nurturing color, shining spiritually and as precious as gems.
Piattella's works have long entered churches and public buildings, coexisting with light, architectural structures, and the passage of time, continuing to exist in life with the changing seasons. "Before the Wall, Within Time" concretizes the thickness of time and the weight of existence—those marks ignored in daily life but always present.
#SoloExhibition #MixedMedia
The creations of Oscar Piattella (奧斯卡・皮亞德拉) treat walls as containers sealing the scenery of centuries. As memories interweave, the viewer can engage in a dialogue with history and existence. "Before the Wall, Within Time" presents his deep exploration of wall surfaces and the traces of time.
Positioned within the core context of Italian post-war abstract art, Piattella's works are inspired by the walls of urban and religious buildings that have endured for centuries. These walls bear weathering and plant growth, preserving fragments of human carving, repair, and life. Their rough and mottled surfaces become his starting point for exploring color, material, and spirit.
In addition to painting practice, he also echoes his creations with poetry and philosophy: "Talking about life is not about knowing much, but about seeing through what is known. Life is not elsewhere; it must be sought and understood here. Experience does not constitute life—unless you understand it." In this understanding, the wall is both being looked at and looking back at the viewer, becoming a meeting point of history and the present.
In his early creative period, Piattella used layers of rags to shape readable wall structures. Color—especially blue—creates differences in density, depth, and rhythm depending on the material. Later, his work deepened, and he began to use natural media such as minerals, sand, shells, leaves, and gold and silver foil, making the image unfold like geological strata, with light moving slowly on the surface, revealing the texture of time. Works in this stage are often titled "Gemmazione" (Sprouting), pointing to the generative force within matter; as Leonardo da Vinci said, spots are not chaos but the starting point of imagination. Ordinary cracks and traces become veins nurturing color, shining spiritually and as precious as gems.
Piattella's works have long entered churches and public buildings, coexisting with light, architectural structures, and the passage of time, continuing to exist in life with the changing seasons. "Before the Wall, Within Time" concretizes the thickness of time and the weight of existence—those marks ignored in daily life but always present.
#SoloExhibition #MixedMedia
Event Details
- 2026-02-28 — 臺中市現代畫廊