Emanuele Vitorioso: Blueshift

The Chenus Longhi Gallery wanted to start its 2016 program by sharing its discover of Emanuele Vittorioso, a Sicilian artist whose lively, colorful paint strokes make an immediate impression. We find in this artist both the energy of lyrical abstraction and the gestural freedom of graffiti. A graduate of the Milan Fine Arts School, Emanuele Vittorioso developed a fascination for post-war Italian art, marked by artists such as Emilio Scanavino, Giuseppe Santomaso and Emilio Vedova, who were emblematic of the 1950s and 1960s.

« Blueshift », Emanuele Vittorioso's first exhibition in France, offers a selection of about twenty paintings on canvas and some drawings. From Egyptian art to Klein's monochromes, via Van Gogh's Starry Night, the color blue has never ceased to fascinate artists, to provoke questions and wonder. By appropriating the physical concept of "blueshift" as a guideline for his exhibition, Emanuele Vittorioso participates in this fascination, while inviting a decentering of the gaze. The focus is not only on the blue itself, but on the movement that sees colors transform and reconfigure throughout the visible spectrum.