LOUISE GIOVANELLI
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Louise Giovanelli, An Ex, 2020, Oil on canvas, 170 x 120 cm.
Installation view. Making the Landscape, GOWEN, Geneva, CH, 2024. © Julien Gremaud
Installation view. Making the Landscape, GOWEN, Geneva, CH, 2024. © Julien Gremaud
Louise Giovanelli, Pool, 2020, Oil on canvas, 100 x 70 x 4 cm.
Installation view. Revival I - XVIIIe siècle, 2023, Gowen, Geneva. Courtesy of Gowen © Annik Wetter
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ABOUT
As a rising young painter, Louise Giovanelli has been drawing attention for her delicate, luminous works, which inject vitality into historical subjects from the canon of Western art. Through interconnected series, Giovanelli weaves together visual clues surrounding a specific moment or event. Her subject matter is primarily chosen for its formal qualities and includes staged photographs, film stills, classical sculpture and architectural elements. Within each series, Giovanelli repeats her motifs and certain paintings appear nearly identical, excepting slight alterations of the composition, or tonality.
Deftly manipulating light and form, her multivalent imagery reminds us that the classical foundations of painting remain sources of delight and innovation. Keenly attuned to the historical significance of painting as a medium and system of representation, her paintings challenge the eye by dissolving representation into carefully crafted textures and patterns. For Giovanelli, painting allows for a visual slowing-down, and beholding her works is akin to a meditative process.
BIOGRAPHY
Louise Giovanelli was born in 1993, London, UK. She lives and works in Manchester UK. Louise completed her postgraduate studies at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main (DE) with professor Amy Sillman in 2020, after having earned a Bachelor’s Degree (B.A. Hons, Fine Art) at the Manchester School of Art, Manchester (UK) in 2015. Solo exhibitions include: Collection Spotlight: Louise Giovanelli, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool (UK); As If, Almost, White Cube Bermondsey, London (UK); Auto-da-fé, GRIMM, New York, NY (US); A Priori, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL); in medias res, Workplace, London (UK); Aerial Silk, GRIMM, New York, NY (US); Time Inside, Frutta Gallery, Rome (IT); Louise Giovanelli, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester (UK); Louise Giovanelli, Workplace Foundation, Gateshead (UK); A Throw to the Side, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, Warrington (UK); Slow to Respond, Touchstones Gallery, Rochdale (UK); Hold your tongue, Louise Giovanelli and Pius Fox, Transition Gallery, London (UK). Public Collections: of the Akzo Nobel Art Foundation (NL); Asymmetry Art Foundation (UK); The Contemporary Art Foundation (JP); THE EKARD COLLECTION (NL); Fundación Medianoche0 (ES); The Government Art Collection (UK); The Grundy Gallery Collection (UK); Hall Art Foundation (US); The Hepworth Wakefield (UK); Hill Art Foundation, New York, NY (US); Hort Family Collection, New York, NY (US); Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL (US); Longlati Foundation (CH); Manchester Art Gallery Collection (UK); Manchester School of Art Collection (UK); The National Museum of Oslo (NO); Sarow Gallery Collection (DE); The UK Government (UK); The University of Salford Collection (UK); Warrington Museum and Art Gallery (UK); Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (UK).
