[아츠앤컬쳐] 올해 Art Brussels에서 Maruani Mercier는 이탈리아계 미국인 아티스트 Bea Scaccia의 신작 Wrap Yourself In This Skin을 선보인다.

Scaccia는 어두운 색상 팔레트에 인상적인 명암대비를 보이는 Scaccia의 모피, 보석 및 직물의 복합적 구성으로 여성의 아름다움을 화려하게 상상을 더하여 표현하고 있다. Scaccia는 뉴욕 Katonah Museum of Art, 워싱턴 DC American University의 Katzen Arts Center, 뉴욕 Magazzino Italian Art 및 로마 Galleria Nazionale를 포함하여 지난 몇 년 동안 여러 전시회를 가졌다.

For this year’s edition of Art Brussels, Maruani Mercier is staging an immersive solo booth of new paintings by Italian-American artist Bea Scaccia titled Wrap Yourself In This Skin.

I wanted to invite you to feature Bea’s work, should you be covering the fair this year.

Rendered in a dark colour palette and enhanced with an impressive utilisation of chiaroscuro, Scaccia’s complex compositions of fur, jewels, and fabrics rework societal constructs of feminine beauty, configuring into images of subversive splendour and imagination. Scaccia has been the subject of several exhibitions in the past years including at the Katonah Museum of Art in New York, American University’s Katzen Arts Center in Washington, D.C., Magazzino Italian Art in New York and the Galleria Nazionale in Rome.

Bea Scaccia (b.1978, Veroli, Italy) earned her BA and MFA at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome where she studied with the late Italian artist Gino Marotta. In her paintings, she reworks the elements that collectively give rise to illusions of beauty and constructions of appearance, compressing them on the canvas as surreal, uncanny marks of a!ectation. Investigating the cultural links between feminine splendor and monstrosity, she builds pictorial compositions that can be read as true parodies of bon ton.

A trained realist painter, Scaccia’s method is more spontaneous rather than it is planned. She uses recurring visual tropes such as faux fur, jewels, wigs, cloth to signify darker psychological themes pertaining to female beauty. Pearls and hair clips become infestations; what was seen as well-ordered in the sensual hairdos of the Baroque and Rococo periods becomes unavoidably disturbing. The result is an over-the-top composition exemplifying an existential struggle to be contained.

Since 2011 Scaccia has been based in New York City, and has exhibited in various galleries and institutions both locally and worldwide including Katonah Museum of Art, New York, Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome, Galleria Nazionale, Rome, Magazzino Italian Art, NY, and the American University’s Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C., among others. Her work is found in collections including the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and the Portland Museum of Art. 

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