Fabric of Time


For Gino "painting is entangled with human existence, a form of visual poetry that encapsulates humanity" 

In a "Fabric of Time" he attempts to express the human experience and condition. Gino investigates the meaning of life and narratives of truth within human society. Each Society is formed using neutralising discourse as both camouflage and weapon. Creating a societies reality facilitating truth and promoting the conformity of individual place becoming a fractured perception of human experience,.

The human condition is no longer remote and can be formed via technology. Many seek personal truth through the perspective of commingling social media societies. A constant never-ending signal a fusion of immediate voices promoting hybrid truths directly impacting human consciousness. The human consciousness becomes saturated with information, and for the majority determining the difference between fact and fantasy is unimportant and is usually led by personal belief, controlled by systems of power, science or religion. Observing these patterns Gino sees a multiple fractured world presenting a myriad of personal beliefs, opaque to others.  

Gino asks "is truth simply letting go of the construct that makes us who we are, realising life is simply a series of human connections" 


Existing in The World


Before the first cave paintings the human imperative to communicate through story telling existed. This hasn't changed and Gino asks what will happen as human development is augmented in a increasingly rational world? Will the action to freely express using a visually imaginative process become aesthetically simplified - perhaps redundant - repurposed to suit a decorative post AI world, which by its very nature can only be totalitarian. Goya and Rodin would say look for "truth" and Gino does this.

    • Identity


    Who we are and what we stand for have become existential dillemnas for the human condition. Science has created choice and highlighted the unbalanced

    chemical makeup of humans in contrast to the historical view of gender identity. Genetic technologies enabling sex selection of the human embryo demonstrates how closely associated genders are. Usually the physical characteristics are spread throughout the human genome which is made up of 46 chromosomes that each contain hundreds or thousands of genes. Generally the male genes are turned off in the female and the female gene is turned off in the male.


    But we know from human experience that feelings of sex is something that is triggered both externally and internally. Science has changed the parameters and given choice to the many people who struggle to come to terms with their gender identity.


    This story of human evolution  creates much hostility for very obvious reasons, when a baby is first born everyone wants to know is it a boy or girl? and at that stage the answer is very straight forward and acceptance is very easy with no social fallout. Breaking the social expectation usually creates hostility and rejection and notions of gender choice is no different.


    Creating or defining gender identity is fraught with social, scientific and religious challenges.           

    Mum


    We originate from a union filled with all sorts of emotions. But the mothers strength to endure, support, protect and raise a child comes from within and without. Experience and environmental conditions "who we are" and "who we become" is only part of the story. A story which goes as far back as our consciousness has been framed and guides us in the here and now and continues into the future.


    "So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp"

    "but what we feel is the wind in our faces."


    Rainer Maria Rilke

    Asleep


    When sleeping we are condensing human experience allowing the body to recharge. Without sleep the brain becomes disorientated and its ability to process information is compromised and our grasp of reality is altered. Sleep is essential for the human psyche, a healthy body and to stay alert. It organises consciousness, enabling Us to understand Our place in society.


    Sleep is unique to the individual and orientates the internal and external universe of that individual.

    Smoke


    Smoking is a long standing tradition which many people do even though their are serious risks to health. The health concerns are real and those who use tobacco are aware of them. it is a ritual which becomes a part of an individuals life and it reflects individual traits of the smoker. It is both a lifestyle choice and habit that satisfies taste and replenishes the central nervous systems supply of of psychoactive chemicals absorbed through the respiratory system entering the lungs bloodstream then into the central nervous system.


    A drug of recreation with over a billion people using it. 

    • Lived Experience 123 ++ Heads


    Gino paints head studies to create a living memory of the individually lived experience. Gino sees this time stretched multiple project as a document of the human face its infinite variety encapsulating many aspects of the human condition and their lived experience represented as a melody of time and history.


    It is also an historical document representing a section of people Gino invited to come and sit for a painting. These are not commissions but a collaborative diary. The multiple work has been shown in different exhibitions, as Gino paints another head to add to the work the showing of the multiple is always formatted differently being redefined by the adding of another life. Often a head does become a painting existing which exists in it's own space.


    Below are details of the multiple

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