Video animation & painting by Carla Viparelli opens Friday in Manhattan Beach
Artistry in motion “Mimesis,” with painting and video animation by Carla Viparelli, opens in Manhattan Beach Simply put, most local art venues feature local artists. However, working with the Manhattan Beach Art Center, curator Homeira Goldstein has turned this idea on its head in a big way: Carla Viparelli, whose solo exhibition “Mimesis,” opens this Friday, is from Naples, Italy. Viparelli has previously shown in Little Tokyo, Culver City, and Lancaster, with one work in the Culver City gallery catching Homeira’s eye. It was an animated video, which Homeira then purchased. “I’ve seen a lot of video animation,” Homeira says, “but this one was altogether different and innovative and new.” Viparelli’s videos don’t feature cartoonish characters with lots of color, scene changes, and rapid movement, but have a kind of gravitas. Homeira compares them to microscopic cells, the encounter between sperm and egg is how she phrases it, because there is a gradual converging and interweaving of the visual forms. The forms that glide and rotate towards one another and intermingle are compositionally different. One may have strong, clearly defined geometric patterns while the other may resemble…
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