Mario Wagner 'Lost Art Of Murder' Solo Exhibition Back to list

13.Jun.2009 to 08.Jul.2009 11am until 6pm

@ Cerasoli Gallery, Culver City , USA

Cerasoli Gallery is pleased to present Mario Wagner 'Lost Art Of Murder' Solo Exhibition in Gallery One, and Marco Cibola 'A New Division' Solo Exhibition in Gallery Two, at the Cerasoli Gallery (8530-B Washington Blvd in Culver City). Opens Saturday June 14, 2008, and remains on view through July 5, 2008. You are invited to attend the Private Viewing on Saturday,June 14 from 6pm – 9pm.

German artist and illustrator Mario Wagner's large scale papercollage and acrylic on canvas works derive from familiar Modernist techniques – Dadaist collage and photomontage. Despite their 'analog' processes, utilizing old magazines, scissor, glue and acrylic, Wagner's unique, inchoate assemblages are erratic and surprising. Clustered bodies float within vintage settings split by lightning bolts. Salaciously grinning mouths hint at scandal and subplot as eyeless faces drip retro glamour. Wagner's work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions and will be at the Feinkunst Krüger Gallery in Hamburg, Germany, in June, 2008. His illustrations and artworks have been commissioned by Playboy, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine.

Marco Cibola 'A New Division' Solo Exhibition in Gallery Two includes mixed media on wood artworks that are spacious, gorgeous, and esoteric. At times Cibola's alluring works resemble architectural plans on graph paper or rangy, manic diagrams of alchemist crystals, shards radiating along the lines of a Mandala. Exploring themes of time, repetition, and growth, Cibola's meticulous doodles -- intimations of pop modernity -- play fast and loose against their strict grid backdrops. Part time instructor at Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in the Illustration program, Cibola has exhibited his artwork in galleries in North America and Europe. He is one half of Nove Studio, a design firm whose clients include Time Magazine, Nylon, and Random House.