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Jancar Jones Gallery

November 19 - December 19, 2010

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965 Mission Suite 120 San Francisco, CA 94103
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Mirror 5
Opening Friday, November 19th, 6-9pm Jancar Jones Gallery is pleased to announce, Mirror 5, an installation of four paintings and a perfume by San Francisco-based artist Bruno Fazzolari. In his work, Fazzolari investigates the ambiguity and uncertainty of perception by exploring the interstice between abstraction, symbol and representation. Marks and shapes allude to symbolic systems such as written and graphic language and musical notation. Pictorial spaces and images are invoked but remain at the threshold of intellectual resolution.
 The Mirror 5 paintings deploy a vocabulary of gestural mark-making to explore the same space from several perspectives, as though in cross section; the dashed-lines of their blue borders recall the vernacular of printed maps. Taken together, the paintings describe a fifth “painting” or idealized space, which is not tangible but meant to be imagined. While the fifth “painting” exists only in the mind of the viewer, the perfume is intended to be available as an accompaniment to the work on canvas. Formulated by the artist, the fragrance is a variation on Eau de Cologne, traditionally unisex, and one of the oldest perfume accords. It has long-standing associations with wakefulness and cleanliness. The most vibrant part of this accord is highly ephemeral. Shortly after leaving the gallery, the brightest notes will be gone, though the “dry-down” will remain. Viewers will leave with a fragment of the scent, and a trace of the paintings, both material and immaterial. The fragrance will be available for personal application while viewing and in bottles as an open edition. Bruno Fazzolari has shown with Feature, Inc. in New York, Gallery Paule Anglim and Gallery 16 in San Francisco and Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles. His work has been included in shows at the M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco and the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY. He earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute after graduating from U.C. Berkeley in Comparative Literature. He is an active critic and interviewer in the Bay Area and is currently a lecturer at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco.