Joseph Pisani
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Joseph Pisani (born 1971) is an American artist, abstract painter, and designer, living in Switzerland.
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[edit] Life
Joseph Pisani was born and raised in the Bronx, New York, by a second generation Italian family with strong ethnic roots. He attended high school 1985–89, the State University of New York at Delhi 1989-91, and the State University of New York at Plattsburgh 1991-94.
He left New York in 1994 and traveled throughout America, including visits to forty-two of the fifty states, before setting off on a "backpack" solo tour of Western Europe. He stayed in Prague for a time, and in 1996 settled in the Rocky mountains, West of Denver, Colorado. As well as painting and drawing, he began to design and produce furniture and to experiment with wood sculpture and mixed media.
In 1998 he traveled again in Europe and the Middle East and found "an interesting spot hidden between two worlds" in the South Sinai, Egypt, where he discovered Scuba diving. The influence of the colorful underwater life of the Red Sea is apparent in paintings, such as: "The Secrets of the Underwater World", and "Deep (Approximately 63 Meters Below the Red Sea)". He met a Swiss Woman there and in 1999 returned to settle with her in Zurich, Switzerland.
Pisani continues to travel extensively, and uses his travel as the main source of inspiration for his art.
[edit] Art
Pisani's is influenced by the Abstract Expressionism of Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman. However, unlike Rothko, who purposely avoided giving titles to his work, because he did not want to influence viewers, Pisani deliberately lends clues through the poetic titles of his paintings:
| “ | I attempt to lead my viewers in the right direction about where I was, and what I was thinking or feeling at the time of creating a particular painting. Then, after giving this initial clue, it is my specific purpose to leave the viewers on their own to question how the title relates to the art itself and to decide how the artwork makes them feel in the context of my clues. | ” |
[edit] Recent Solo Exhibitions
- 2006 September - November, Galerie deArtis, Zurich, CH, “That Lasting Tingle of Déjà Vu”, Under the patronage of the consulate of the USA in Zurich
- 2006 May, Gallery Steinegger, Ruedlingin, CH, "The Trials & Misdemeanors of Life on the Road"
- 2006 January - March, Grafik & Text Atelier, Zug, Switzerland, "How to do Everything in Just One Lifetime"
- 2005 April, Gallery Nordstrasse, Zurich, Switzerland, "Acquaintances in Foreign Places"
- 2004 October, Schiffbau 10, Zurich Switzerland, "Let it All Out, she said"
- 2003 March, Schiffbau 10, Zurich, Switzerland, "All the Things I Couldn't Have"
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes and references
- Paulina Szczesniak, "Glanzlichter der Woche (Highlights of the Week)", Zueritipp, No. 43, October 26, 2006
- Vera Huotelin, "When the Sun is a Carpet", Schaffhauser Nachrichten, May 8, 2006 (article online in German)
- "Abstract Painter", Schweizer Touristik, April 7, 2006
- Silvano Cerutti, "World Traveling Painter", 20 Minuten Week, May 26, 2005
