Charcoal and pastel on gray tonal paper
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(left) Julio Panisello-Huguet, 2020, Read my Lips, charcoal, and pastel on gray tonal paper, 12 x 9 in.
(middle) Julio Panisello-Huguet, 2020, Pillow Talk, charcoal, and pastel on gray tonal paper, 12 x 9 in.
(right) Julio Panisello-Huguet, 2020, In the Shower, charcoal, and pastel on gray tonal paper, 12 x 9 in.
Live Feed today (Friday) at 4 pm (pst) with @julio.panisello founder of @rooflesspainters in the live feed Julio and I will discuss his work in the exhibition and talk about his process and more thoughts on intimacy, Julio’s statement is also featured in exhibition as well. We will explore intimacy and what he wrote in a poetic sense. I am curious to explore what cane first, his text or the charcoal and pastel drawings.
ARTIST STATEMENT
In reflecting on the relationship with intimacy and pleasure, I think of the act of contemplating the stillness of anatomical gestures as we do when we look at classic representational art featuring nude figures. Intimacy evokes feelings of non-verbal gaze fetishizing a body, so I decided to represent close-ups of quiet gestures, as to stripping them of context and narrative so we can indulge in their pure physicality.
To me, the pain within the pleasure arises when the desire to be tactile is teased but unrequited, so these drawings seek to conjure unreturned desire. They only work one way: relishing in the haunt for the carnal but knowing it will never be corresponded.
BIOGRAPHY
Julio Panisello-Huguet, Born: 1971, Amposta (Catalonia)
Julio earned his BFA (cum laude) in Painting and a postgraduate degree in Pedagogy from the University of Barcelona, Catalonia. He has exhibited widely in the US and in Spain, including at The Lodge LA, A. I. R. Gallery in Brooklyn, and the main branch of the New York Public Library in NYC. He’s featured in the 2019’s West Coast issue of New American Paintings, curated by Christine Y. Kim, associate curator at LACMA. Julio is the founder of Roofless Painters, an itinerary painting atelier based in LA connecting the city with its local painters. He is the creator of The Havisham Hour, a multi-media, visual arts and literature project based on Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations and Julio with a P, a collection of recorded conversations with local artists.
julio.panisello@gmail.com | @julio.panisello