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Angelo Filomeno’s (b. 1963, Italy, lives and works in New York, NY) precisely stitched scenes first caught the world’s attention at the 52nd Venice Biennale. Since then, he has continued to receive critical acclaim for highly symbolic artworks that incorporate a variety of fabrics and materials—including denim, shantung silk, metallic thread, and gemstones—to create pieces that are both alluring and provocative. Filomeno infuses his embroidery with a deep knowledge of art history. Of particular interest are memento mori—still-life paintings popular in early modern Europe meant to serve as reminders of our mortality and the transience of earthly goods.
In these new and recent works, subjects from the natural world—brilliantly rendered peacocks and marine life, blooming flora—shepherd us between the material and spiritual planes. With their sumptuous colors and lustrous textures, Filomeno’s works delight viewers while highlighting the interdependence of all life.
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Angelo Filomeno
Tell Me, Tell Me, 2016
Embroidery and crystal on denim
61 x 41 inches
$35,000
Featuring beautifully rendered birds and fish, these works from 2016 evoke the beauty and mystery of the fauna that surrounds and sustains us. Throughout the series, Filomeno utilizes denim, a fabric whose origins harken back to gold rush-era San Francisco—a time when our most cherished natural resources were often sacrificed in an effort to strike it rich. In Filomeno’s hands, the material now reminds us of the urgency to preserve and protect what remains.
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Angelo Filomeno
Still Life (Peacock), 2016
Embroidery and crystals on denim
Diptych, each: 8 x 10 inches
Sold
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Bridging the natural and spiritual worlds, Filomeno’s recent series of flowers and plants (all 2021) speak to the healing properties of flora. With their jewel-like rings of concentric threadwork, his Mandhalias like imagery of blooming dahlias to mandalas, those circular, patterned forms seen across various spiritual traditions that invite transcendence through focused contemplation. Elsewhere, the artist highlights the medicinal properties of flowers such as dandelion and chamomile, whose healing aspects are widely recognized. Throughout these works, the beauty of nature nourishes both mind and body.
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In this suite of Filomeno’s abstract works from 2019, a delicate filigree of metallic thread suggests a strong link between the earthly and spiritual planes: prayer beads, magnetic fields, and the unseen phenomena of our internal worlds are all evoked with Filomeno’s characteristic beauty, the repetition of linear threadwork echoing the series’ title, Mantra. Here, as throughout Filomeno’s work, peace of mind is granted via a concerted act of looking.
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Angelo Filomeno
Mantra (Black X), 2019
Metallic thread on cotton
10 x 8 inches
$4,000
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Angelo Filomeno
Broadway, 2019
Metallic thread on cotton
10 x 8 inches
$4,000
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Angelo Filomeno
Metallic thread on cotton
20 x 32 inches
Signed, titled and dated on verso
$10,000
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ANGELO FILOMENO
b. 1963, Italy | Lives and works in New York, NYAngelo Filomeno received his MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Lecce, Italy, and has a background as a tailor and costumer. In addition to solo museum exhibitions at the Savannah College of Art and Design, GA; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, TN; Italian Cultural Institute, New York, NY and Toronto, Canada; and Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali, Italy, his work has been ex-hibited at group exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, TX; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, NY; Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY; as well as the 52nd Venice Biennale. Filomeno’s work can be found in sev-eral public collections including the 21C Museum, Louisville, KY; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; and Museum of Glass / International Center for Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA.
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