Lindberg-on-Sea Art Gallery is proud to present its premiere exhibition; Involuntaryism & Pneumatic shaping: Michael Sole och Emanuele Scoppola. The exhibition consists of artwork from two inspiring artists; British painter Michael Sole and Italian ceramicist Emanuele Scoppola.

Involuntaryism
By allowing the characteristics of the paint and gravity to create the painting, Michael Sole strives to achieve a state of involuntary mark making through his work, where the whole idea is to let the paint have a life of its own, creating the painting with the artist only ‘puppeteering’ it to exaggerate the characteristics of the paint.
Interested in nature and the re-evaluation of its painterly tradition, Sole’s work explores painting as a process using the great outdoors as a subject matter. To gain inspiration he places himself into the environment which he paints for weeks at a time, enabling him to bring thoughts, ideas, and the physical presence of the landscape back into the studio in Bournemouth and onto his canvases.

In his Morning series, Sole strives to change the appearance of the acrylic paints colour since it has to do with colour, tranquility and light.
The spume in Sole’s paintings are normally pure white but Sole wanted in these paintings to achieve a darker tone than the surrounding sea and also a colour that signified the coolness of dusk or in this case dawn:

“The effect of the spume being darker than the sea around it gave me a new path to follow as I was extremely happy with the outcome.
It gave me something to really get excited about and to dig my teeth into.
In terms of tranquility, this is my favourite time of the day, before the world gets going, I feel at peace seeing these colours, the reflecting light on a calm morning on the beach. The majority of my paintings are not calm and it was a relief to me to get as excited about a calm subject as much as a stormy, energetic subject.
These paintings are the next step in my evolution as an artist and I love making them and searching for the inspiration.”

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Pneumatic shaping
Emanuele Scoppola’s ceramic work entails a pneumatic shaping, where the artist creates a closed sculpture form and then works with the sculpture’s internal pressure of air before opening the form up again, giving it its finished shape.
Scoppola’s main work takes place in his studio in Rome where he works with various clays and clay mixtures in order to achieve different shapes and structures in his sculpture.
The Arafisk, like Filosfisk and Weekend Spare Whale, is created using coils of clay to which are then modified to build the body structure:

”Arafisk is in search of a middle state between flexibility of life – like in a fish tail – and stiffness of human manufactures - like in a paddle.”

The Joniska Majolica sculptures are made using an extruder to create the tube like clay shapes:

“Jonisk maiolica comes from the childish idea that in the ionic sea the fish have ionic shapes, like in ionic classical order with spirals.”

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