Gaya Fusion of Sense to host a solo exhibition of Italian Artist

Gaya Gallery, the leading contemporary art space in Bali, presents a one-man show by an Italian artist, Filippo Sciascia. The opening will be held at 7 p.m. on Friday, August 20th 2004 at Gaya Fusion of Senses, J. Raya Sayan, Ubud, Bali. The event will run through September 11th 2004.

All of the works are inspired by photographs and movies, which continue to be Filippo's main source of inspiration. The aim of this work is to highlight, or create, a relationship between the media of oil painting and video, which are not usually seen as related. The exhibition File 98-04 also endeavors to demonstrate how a video can be inspired by a painting and vise versa how video can inspire a painting. The work undertaken in the project has lead to some interesting results.

Some of these works of Filippo require a visual effort which have been caught by a video camera, replacing the human eye of the artist, and has been transformed into paintings, or as Filippo refers to them as, Video Paintings.

The transformation of video into painting is presently not considered mainstream, and it has only been investigated by video artists of Filippo Sciascia, but it does show that the creation of art by electronic means, such as video, can soon find a permanent place in contemporary art streams