EDUARDO FAUSTI--Artworks for Sale. BIDDINGTON'S GALLERY--More Nature, Landscape & Eco Art.
EDUARDO FAUSTI
Natural History Paintings
CURRENT EXHIBITION:
Eduardo Fausti
Cascaval Art Museum
Cascaval, Paraná, Brazil
March 25-April 14, 2008
BIDDINGTON'S CREATIVE PROCESS visits the Tribeca (New York)
studio of Argentine-born painter/printmaker Eduardo Fausti.
Eduardo Fausti: Through art, my goal is to remind the viewer of his or her connections to the natural world on which we all depend for survival. My work derives as much inspiration from a natural history museum as it does from an art museum.
Eduardo Fausti
Road to Our Ancestors
Etchings with Painting on Canvas
Eduardo Fausti: Road to Our Ancestors visually represents a rainforest in burning fire colors. The oil painting of the skulls of pre-human habitants are placed as reminder of our origins. The etching of names of plants over the rainforest background, conveying an encyclopedic codification, attempts to suggest emotional response to the fragility of our environment. I like the idea of seeing the world from a scientific point of view--not just from an aesthetic one.
Detail Showing Applied Etching
from Eduardo Fausti Painting
Road to Our Ancestors
Eduardo Fausti: In this series I worked in a layering process, which begins with printed-paper (etchings and lithographs). This is due to my long relationship and fascination in working with paper and the printing process. In some cases, I hand-make paper which I then incorporate onto the canvases. After the prints are pasted and sealed onto the canvas, I add a final layer of oil painting. So, these are very finished, durable works.
Eduardo Fausti: All the work in this series has a direct relation with the human body. I chose a human size and my own body as a reference for the size of the frames. They are slightly lower than my actual height and are the width of my wing span. In Internal View, I'm interested in the representation of the human body beyond the confines of the skin and in its wholeness, which is directly connected to the natural world.
Eduardo Fausti: In some canvases, the process becomes one of an ontological experience, searching for factors, which include history and mythology. In the Oneida Tradition canvas, I contacted a member of the Oneida Nation, a North American Indian tribe and requested information on medicinal herbs used by the Oneida people. She wrote to a scholar of the Oneida language at the Onyataka Language Center in Canada. She was able to provide me with a list of 49 names, all of whose pronunciations are phonetic (this is especially significant given that the Oneida language exists through oral, not written, transmission), of sacred tress and plants and their healing properties and mythological origins.
Text, Paint and Logarithm Book Detail from
Eduardo Fausti Painting
Oneida Tradition
Eduardo Fausti: Some of these names are printed and included in this piece, along with a succession of small pages from an old book with a list of logarithm numbers. The leaves from the book are a metaphor for the production of paper, a product of nature/tree, as well as metaphor to account for the rapid depletion of the world's rainforest. My use of difference languages is not meant to educate the viewer about a particular culture per se. Instead, I use text to illustrate a nexus between culture and nature and to provoke consideration about the impact each has on the other.
Eduardo Fausti: In the painting entitled Bees' Trek the plant names represent the healing aspects of nature. This painting has applied etchings with the English name of familiar healing herbs used in the West. A layer of transparent bees' wax covers the list.
Eduardo Fausti
Wax Covered Herb Name Etching
from Eduardo Fausti Painting
Bees' Trek
Eduardo Fausti: The Bees' Trek canvas evokes a page of illuminated manuscripts from medieval time and represents a natural "pollinization" among plants.
Medicinal Herb Names and Other Etchings
in Fausti's Studio
Eduardo Fausti: I often use solitary figures as a means to visually explore and investigate the world. In the iconographic system of Binary Bones I incorporated the language of technology as a metaphor for the current global paradigm. Technology, as represented by the series of 1's and 0's, is juxtaposed with a skeletal image being pushed out of the canvas. It reminds the viewer of the priorities placed on living versus non-living systems.
Binary and Skeletal Detail from
Eduardo Fausti Painting
Binary Bones
Eduardo Fausti: In the mid-1990's, I studied at the China National Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou. Images--extracted and modified--from Chinese medicine books are elements I often incorporate in my painting and printmaking.
Print (Modified) from Chinese Medicine Book
Eduardo Fausti: Landscape of Healing Herbs contains the prints of names of a number of Chinese healing herbs written in their original calligraphic strokes from the medieval period. Many of these names I gather from my frequent visits to the Museum of Natural History in New York or from books or articles about plants and healing that I collect while traveling in the Far East.
Eduardo Fausti: Overall, this series of paintings attempts to remind the viewer about life, death and our origins, about the sanctity of life and the indispensable value of our ecological system.
Eduardo Fausti
with Painting
Skull
View Eduardo Fausti paintings offered for sale at
BIDDINGTON'S Contemporary Art Gallery.
Eduardo Fausti is represented in public collections including:
The Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The New York Public Library
The Printmaking Workshop, EFA, New York, NY
Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, NJ
Achenbach Foundation of Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
Frans Masereel Center for Graphics, Kasterlee, Belgium
Llotja Scola de Artes, Barcelona, Spain
Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Xochimilco, Mexico
Museo Nacional del Grabado, Buenos Aires, Argentina
More extensive exhibition and publication history on this artist are available upon request.
Eduardo Fausti
Saffron
Oil Painting on Canvas
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