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For his first solo exhibition in Italy Lowe created works inspired by the emblematic palazzo, extending his reflection to the idea of time, which concerns every area of existence. In this interview Rick Lowe guides us through his work.<br \/>\r\n<h2>INTERVIEW WITH RICK LOWE<\/h2><br \/>\r\n<strong>The exhibition <em>The Arch within the Arc<\/em> makes clear from its title the concepts that have guided your recent pictorial research. How would you describe your paintings on display at Palazzo Grimani to those who have not yet seen them?<\/strong><br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nMy mark making derives from mapping the real and imaginary patterns made by domino games. When I cut out these patterns from paper and collage them into painted compositions, the results adopt the look of topographical maps. When I was asked to make work for an exhibition at Palazzo Grimani, I visited the space and was taken by its archways, ovals, circles, and semicircles \u2012 forms that appear throughout the city \u2012 and decided to pay homage to these shapes, all of which derive from the curvature of the circle. I try to avoid forcing the paintings to bend to my predetermined desires, allowing them instead to challenge and guide me, and the arch became the focus because of its overwhelming presence. The foundations of most of the paintings in the exhibition are made up of crisscrossing arch shapes, but the arch is not only an architectural element, it is also a fragment of something larger, an arc, which speaks of time and the all-encompassing circle, itself representative of unity and infinity. This expansion of my thinking from the simple architectural arch to the arc and the circle allowed me to think about the age of the buildings, my own aging process, and the quality of time that everything shares. There is always a beginning, a high point, and an end to the arc of life. Even the arch itself is subject to an arc.<br \/>\r\n<h2>RICK LOWE IN VENICE<\/h2><br \/>\r\n<strong>In what ways have the architecture of Palazzo Grimani and the architecture of Venice left a mark on your painting?<\/strong><br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nAs a painter whose work is primarily abstract, I don\u2019t usually respond to the architecture of the exhibition site. But walking through the Palazzo Grimani, I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the architecture and felt compelled to speak to it in some way. The building\u2019s circles, ovals, and arches stood out to me the most and I decided to respond to the form in my paintings. However, during the process of making the paintings I gained deeper understanding of the value of the circles and ovals. This revelation pulled images of those symbols into the paintings as well.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<strong>As an artist, what do you wish for the future of Venice?<\/strong><br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nIt is an honor and a privilege to exhibit in Venice but I\u2019m concerned about how climate change will affect the city and its status as a global cultural center. My wish for the future of Venice is that measures are taken to ensure that it will remain important to the arts for a long, long time to come.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<strong>Interview by Arianna Testino<\/strong>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categorie_magazine":[343],"class_list":["post-8962","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","hentry","categorie_magazine-words-from-marte"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Painting meets architecture in Rick Lowe\u2019s exhibition in Venice - Marsilio Arte<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A historical and architectural symbol in the urban landscape of the city, Palazzo Grimani welcomes the paintings of Rick Lowe\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/rick-lowe-exhibition-palazzo-grimani-venice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Painting meets architecture in Rick Lowe\u2019s exhibition in Venice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A historical and architectural symbol in the urban landscape of the city, Palazzo Grimani welcomes the paintings of Rick Lowe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/rick-lowe-exhibition-palazzo-grimani-venice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Marsilio Arte\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MarsilioArte\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024_VENICE_LOWE_004.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1772\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1199\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@MarsilioArte\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/rick-lowe-exhibition-palazzo-grimani-venice\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/rick-lowe-exhibition-palazzo-grimani-venice\/\",\"name\":\"Painting meets architecture in Rick Lowe\u2019s exhibition in Venice - 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