David Florimbi - Forces of Nature
Written by Joe Dirosa   
Tuesday, 05 September 2006

DAVID FLORIMBI’S NEW PAINTINGS, “FORCES OF NATURE” FOLLOWS HIS HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL EXHIBITION, “REAL ESTATE” AT FRANK PICTURES GALLERY ON SEPTEMBER 10, 2006

David Florimbi’s new show, Forces of Nature, continues the discussion of what is original and what constitutes a copy that Florimbi began in his first Muybridge referenced exhibition of paintings, “Pinturas Matadores” in September of 2004 at Frank Pictures and again with “Real Estate” in September of 2005. The paintings, like those in Pinturas Matadores, are motion studies, in this case, replacing scenes of bullfighting with car racing, surfing, horse racing, rodeoing, birds in flight and tornados. Like their predecessors, Forces of Nature incorporates the use of multiple still images enlarged from Florimbi’s original photographs off the moving images on television. Once he selects his subject from the photographs, he then paints an original small scale oil painting of the scene, then enlarges the paining digitally and repaints over it – rendering a copy (the photograph) into an original (the oil painting) into a copy (the digital enlargement) into an original (the over painting in oil). “As a painter, I’ve always been fascinated by the problem of capturing the passage of time,,” says Florimbi, “A single second in any event is rife with action, most of which goes unnoticed.  When E. Muybridge, back in 1883, first photographed a galloping horse, we were finally privy to a moment heretofore guessed at.  Four hooves did, indeed, leave the ground at once.  In my latest series, Forces of Nature, I’ve used Muybridge’s revolutionary photographs as a departure point, and using paint, photography, and film, tried to capture the myriad unseen moments that occur inside the briefest flash in time.” Florimbi’s exhibition is currently on view in the Bergamot Station gallery and will officially open Sunday, September 10th from 6:30 to 9:30 and will run through September in conjunction with Flow, Fine Artists Create Original Limited Edition Surfboards, which will run concurrently in Frank Pictures’ second gallery.

For More information contact Laurie Frank: 310 828-0211 or by cell phone: 323 839-6166.
Frank Pictures Gallery Bergamot Station gallery A-5 2525 Michigan Avenue Santa Monica California 90404
www.frankpicturesgallery.com laurie@frankpicutresgallery.com
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11:30-6:30 or by appointment