As part of their summer programme, Galerie Joyce Yahouda is showing a small retrospective of the works by Massimo Guerrera.

Guerrera’s work deals with the human body – its fragility, its juxtaposition to architecture and space, and its relationship with other bodies. The artist’s paintings from the 1980s are dark and heavily textured. Attached to the canvases are ceramic sculptures of lumpy bodies, somewhere between birth and decay, floating in a sea of inky browns. Guerrera’s most recent work is more ephemeral, featuring a lighter, more muted palette. The superimposition of loose, detailed line drawings of human figures suggests a dark narrative and have a dreamlike quality. It’s the kind of work that you can keep looking at for a long time and continually discover a new storyline.
By the way, if you enjoy Guerrera’s work, there’s more of it on show at the Darling Foundry until August 31, 2008.

Galerie Joyce Yahouda
space 516
Massimo Guerrera
part of the summer programme Le rouge et le noir… et d’autres couleurs
exhibition period: June 26 – August 30, 2008
www.joyceyahoudagallery.com