BE THERE
Water MarksPresented by Charles Cowles Gallery October 4, 2007- October 27, 2007Reception: October 4, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmBeatrice Caracciolo
In his new essay on Caracciolo’s new body of work, “Wave Worship,” Donald Kuspit describes this relationship: Caracciolo’s inexhaustibly dynamic line is a response to external reality: a delineation of endlessly moving water, a representation of breaking waves, rhythmic yet collapsing into chaos – an attempt to distill their presence into transcendence of the sea, the eternal livingness and life-givingness of water .... No doubt the fluidity of water symbolizes Caracciolo’s emotional and above all creative process – her primary creativity, expressing itself in the spontaneity of her gestures, in their lyric viscerality and ecstatic vitality, conveyed by delicate and assertive touches, harmoniously intertwined for all their difference in energy – but Caracciolo has looked at the real sea, observed its movement carefully, studied its surface to fathom its depth and force. For in many of her works one senses the depth beneath the surface, indeed, depth uncannily becoming surface. Invisible depth does not so much erupt through her surface as become visible in the excitement of the surface. Beatrice Caracciolo lives and works in Paris where she has also previously exhibited. Her work is included in private collections in both Europe and the United States. Caracciolo, who is Italian, has studied at the New York Studio School. An illustrated catalogue including an essay by Donald Kuspit is available in conjunction with this exhibition ($15).
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