Bob LoblawDOWNTOWN—British artist Louise Giovanelli is now showing new work at Grimm 54. The exhibition, Still Moving, goes through 21 June 2025, and features a bunch of new paintings that are being shown in a refreshing collaboration with the downtown cinema Metrograph.
According to a press release, the paintings are in dialogue with a curation of films playing at Metrograph throughout the month. Selections include Gummo, Kids, Ticket of No Return, and Buffalo ‘66. The partnership between gallery and cinema creates a novelistic link between Giovanelli’s works, and their cinematic source material.
Technically precious and visually pungent, Giovanelli’s paintings often feature tight, cropped, glowing images that float, as if detached, from an unknown, larger narrative. In this series, she draws on specific film stills, isolating fragments of faces, gestures, and light. The results are straightforward: clippings, punctums, visual grammars.
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