Julio Villani I L'eau rougie de la veine mémoire

For his fourth exhibition at the RX&SLAG gallery, Julio Villani, a Franco-Brazilian artist born in 1956, will be presenting a previously unseen group of some fifteen paintings and large papers mounted on canvas. Villani's work reflects two of his obsessions: the importance of nature - apparent in his earliest works from the 1970s - and his attachment to language and words. These are under attack in a world where the rhetoric of the ‘tooth pullers’ is particularly loud, misleading and toxic. In response, he creates works in which charcoal lines unite fragmented spaces and arrange forms in balance.