Immersive installation artist Leo Cremonese is bringing his exhibition The Colour of the Invisible to Dubbo Regional Council’s (DRC) Western Plains Cultural Centre (WPCC) from 20 June – 6 September 2020. The installation explores the Kandos artist’s own personal relationship with nature by transforming a private outdoor experience into an internal gallery space.
Cultural Development Coordinator Jessica Moore says the DRC curators helped install the artwork and choose which works would be featured.
“Leo Cremonese’s work is a unique combination of painting and installation, and fashion from a variety of materials, resulting in a sense of harmony and beauty within the gallery walls,” Ms Moore said.
“Creomense attributes his ability to connect and have silent conversations with the bushland that surround his home in Kandos to his animal spirit and Zen master; a cattle dog named Penny who would often accompany him on his walks. It was during these bushwalks that Cremonese found solace, a state-of-mind he aims to recreate within his work,” she said.
The works are used as a tool to capture the attention of the viewer, asking us to look beyond what we consciously know, see and understand. The intended outcome is for the viewer to question their own understanding of time and space.
“In this show, I adapt these outdoor private and intimate experiences of place so that they can be shared with an audience within the context of a gallery, bringing the non-human, for a moment, to the human domain. In my paintings and installations, I use different materials and colours, resonating in harmony with our bodily physicality, to give form to that which is usually invisible,” said Cremonese.
The Colour of the Invisible is an exhibition that not only explores nature, but also questions our perceptions by asking the viewer to take a step back and reflect on their environment and individual relationship with the cosmos.
Mayor of the Dubbo Region, Councillor Ben Shields, says having local artists utilising the space for such advanced artworks shows how diverse the gallery space at WPCC can be.
“Fresh Arts is currently on display and it’s fantastic to have more local artists being able to exhibit their work. We are very proud to be able to support them and show their work off to visitors and locals alike,” Councillor Shields said.
The show will be open to the public on Saturday 20 June 2020, visit our online studio for the artists and curator Q&A session on Tuesday 23 June 2020.
Source: DRC