Carlo Angelo Saavedra
Painter Carlo Angelo Saavedra calls his new works "imperfect objects". The treatment of the paintings is far from standard: frames hacked with a dull axe; paint overflowing the canvas limits; suggested figures emerging from a coat of mud-like mixtures; surfaces abused with the constant process of trial and error.
Saavedra holds that his aim is not to deconstruct or to deface. According to the artist, it is quite the opposite. Working with salvaged wooden frames and old paintings, Saavedra gives these found objects or subject matters new identities as instruments to an evolution of the creative process. "I'm never iconoclastic", he says. "The job of a painter is to make a memorable painting - not to vandalize."
And despite a number of people always commenting that his paintings never veer away from the macabre, Saavedra insists that he is, above all, optimistic. Inspired by poetry and what e.e. Cummings describes as "a fascination with the verb and the movement it creates in language", Saavedra points out his own fascination with the synestthetic quality of poetry and how within this idea, there resonates something autobiographical.
Works by this artist:
Act Zero
60 x 72 inches
Oil on Canvas
2008
Hands on the Wheel
41 x 41 inches
Oil on Canvas
2008
Plaster Shroud
72 x 60 inches
Oil on Canvas
2008
Mask
30.5 x 26 inches
Oil on Canvas
2008
Panorama
37.5 x 82.25 inches
Oil on Canvas
2008
Defunct Icon
36 x 26 inches
Oil on Canvas
2008
Monument in Memory of Nothing So Far
30.5 x 26.5 inches
Oil on Canvas
2008
This is the Sea
72 x 72 inches
Oil on Canvas
2008
Study for an Icon
35 x 28.75 inches
Oil on Canvas
2008
Cain and Abel
48 x 64 inches
Oil on Canvas
2008
Manhole (The Pit)
40 x 32 inches
Oil on Canvas
2008
The Night Recedes into the Weather without Answering
20 x 17 inches
Oil on Canvas
2008
Faultline
47.5 x 28.5 inches
Oil on Canvas
2008
Vanitas
2 x 10 feet
acrylic and oil on canvas 2006
Nude
Charcoal on Paper
My Head is My Own House Unless it Rains
18 x 12 inches
Mixed Media
2008
Tower D
24 x 30 inches
Oil on Canvas
2008
This Must Be the Place
61.5 x 32 inches
Acrylic on Canvas
2008
J
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
2008
Andrew
40 x 30 inches
Acrylic & Oil on Canvas
2008
Aftermath (The Exiles)
29 x 25 inches
Acrylic & Oil on Canvas (023)
2008
The Non-Member (The Exiles)
29 x 25 inches
Acrylic & Oil on Canvas (023)
2008
And They Were Upon Her (The Exiles)
29 x 25 inches
Acrylic & Oil on Canvas (023)
2008
The Refugee (The Exiles)
29 x 25 inches
Acrylic & Oil on Canvas (023)
2008
Penumbra (The Exiles)
29 x 25 inches
Acrylic & Oil on Canvas (023)
2008
Northbound (The Exiles)
29 x 25 inches
Acrylic & Oil on Canvas (023)
2008
Feed the Tree (The Exiles)
29 x 25 inches
Acrylic & Oil on Canvas (023)
2008
Portrait of Zelda (The Exiles)
29 x 25 inches
Acrylic & Oil on Canvas (023)
2008
Under Neon Emptiness (The Exiles)
29 x 25 inches
Acrylic & Oil on Canvas (023)
2008
The Odalisk (The Exiles)
23 x 35.5 inches
Acrylic & Oil on Canvas (041)
2008
Point of Departure (The Exiles)
24 x 72 inches
Acrylic & Oil on Canvas (043)
2008
Cathedral
48 x 60 inches
acrylic on Canvas (0450)
2010
Selenium (diptych)
40 x 32 inches
acrylic on Canvas (0370)
2010
Joanna in Silver Nitrate
48 x 48 inches
acrylic on Canvas (0430)
2010
Carbonized Portrait
48 x 34 inches
acrylic on Canvas (0470)
2010
Figure 1 (from a Daguerreotype)
80 x 80 inches
acrylic on Canvas (0131)
2010
Four Statues on the Perimeter of Map 7 (1)
40 x 30 inches
acrylic on Canvas (017)
2010
Four Statues on the Perimeter of Map 7 (2)
40 x 30 inches
acrylic on Canvas (017)
2010
Four Statues on the Perimeter of Map 7 (3)
40 x 30 inches
acrylic on Canvas (017)
2010
Four Statues on the Perimeter of Map 7 (4)
40 x 30 inches
acrylic on Canvas (017)
2010
Nudes in Asphaltum
48 x 72 inches
acrylic on Canvas (0550)
2010
Halcyon and on and on
48 x 73 inches
acrylic on Canvas (0470)
2010
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