LONDON.- The South London Gallery and Spike Island, Bristol, present a two-part solo exhibition by French artist Isabelle Cornaro (b. 1974). The SLG hosts an existing large-scale installation while the presentation at Spike Island focuses on new and recent work.
Isabelle Cornaro works with painting, sculpture, film and installation, to explore the influence of history and culture on our perception of reality. As a trained art historian specialising in 16thcentury European Mannerism, her visual language draws on a wide array of references from the Baroque to modernist abstraction. In her work Cornaro uses found objects imbued with symbolic potential or emotional value, which she presents in different types of display and media to reveal the subtle shifts of meaning provoked by processes of reproduction and translation.
Isabelle Cornaro -Paysage avec poussin
South London Gallery
24 Jan - 5 Apr 2015
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