In Damien Cifelli’s fictional landscape of Tarogramma, plants thrive while animals are absent, creating an environment ripe for exploration. His latest paintings, showcased at Spinello Projects in Miami, depict stylish figures engaging with this enigmatic world. The iconography represents concepts rather than physical locations, emphasizing the fluidity of identity and the absence of cultural hierarchies. Cifelli's work also references historical art, reinterpreting classic themes in innovative ways, reflecting on the complex nature of existence within his imagined reality.
In Tarogramma, symbols are imbued with disassociated meanings unrelated to what we think they could be.
Iconography, such as flags or emblems, represent regions that exist not as physical places but as ideas or states of mind.
Cifelli's stylish figures investigate their environment to try to understand their place within it.
This world is devoid of ethnic, cultural, or gender hierarchies, and identity is fluid and chosen, which encourages constant transformation.
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