This artwork presents a banner of colour overtop a raggedy-anne quilt like patchwork of soft colours. The top band seems to have been exposed and coming through the background.
I am constantly amazed how a simple message of information can get so confused when it is transported through different people, contexts, languages, cultures - and time. This painting exhibits glimpses of communication. From a distance this painting is a chunk of colour. Upon closer examination we discover slight workings buried under the surface and subtle colour revealing itself. A viewer with their nose close to the surface can identify glimpses of written information. Someone was present here.
Elements appear to be flying around over a surface etched with scientific or geometrical information. The painting presents itself as a flying circus pageant. On close examination the etched elements of science, knowledge and everyday things are quietly evident in the substrate.
Zeppelin and waterdroplet shapes float over the surface. Geometry elements are subtly visible etched into the background substrate. The painting presents itself as a flying circus. Perhaps a Zeppelin parade or a circus, but with the workings of science and knowledge are working quietly in the background.
A texture field that suggests our worldly elements. Imbued in the surface is a seemingly ancient pattern partially revealed through excavation. We live among giants in a delicate balance gently embracing us and giving life.
Rampallion - A ruffian or scoundrel! This painting recalls obscured layers of wallpaper, repair, and partially revealed discovery. A passive scrolling floral pattern is quietly revealed through incidental lighting.
Revealing a past by excavation of the current surface suggests that there is much more depth and history than what meets the eye. In some ways this artwork shows the artist planning their initial strokes and working through the movement of the pattern. The artist’s contemplation of pattern reveals the initial preliminary sketchy stages.
This painting presents as an old wall. Signage has come and gone. Repairs have been made with plaster and paint. Worn through everyday use. What this wall has seen? And if it could speak? History remains. The future can be written.
A wall of texture as if from an ancient cantina.
This piece was built on promises. Everything was once shiny and new and full of expectations. Now, used, old and beaten up. Repaired. Obscured. And then lost. Were the promises true?
One child in every class stands out for one reason or another. Sometimes the whiz kid will rise to the occasion and shine through and champion thinking and thought. Or sometimes they will falter and fail. A tribute to trying.
The wall sized field of texture suggest the presence of love and life around it, and the patina of texture shows off it’s ability to last and persevere. The translucent depths of layers of the encaustic medium bury past iterations of lives. Elements of wear and repair suggest a timeline of use. What the wall has seen remains fixed, but the future remains to be written.
Kevin Ghiglione, a Saskatchewan born and now Toronto-based painter, brings decades of his art-making experiences to his painting.
His main painting medium is the ancient encaustic medium. His paintings are abstract in their final stage - but inspired and created by common concerns of life and history. He uses the classical principles of composition, colour, and texture to create his works.
The continued thrust of his current work is the exploration of time. Evidence of wear, vestiges of life, or discoveries of lost knowledge - each painting becomes an object that seems to have travelled through time.