Dominic Virtosu

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Solo Exhibition, Impulse Gallery, 2022

Solo exhibition
Impulse Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland
2022
Curated by Zhuang Hong-Yi

Installation photographs document the paintings in the gallery, from the arrangement across the room to closer encounters between individual works. Painting details and photographs from the studio bring attention back to the material and the making of the paintings.

Wide installation view of Dominic Virtosu’s paintings across three walls at Impulse Gallery, Lucerne, 2022 — Installation view, Impulse Gallery, Lucerne, 2022.

Four foliage paintings installed in a row on a white gallery wall at Impulse Gallery — Four paintings in the exhibition, Impulse Gallery, 2022.

Corner installation view with two paintings and a doorway opening into the next gallery room — Installation view, looking towards the adjoining room.

A foliage painting on blue and a colourful cactus painting installed side by side on a white gallery wall — Installation view, Impulse Gallery, 2022.

Gallery view with a metal figure sculpture in the foreground and paintings on the walls behind — View through the gallery, with paintings in the background.

Paintings and surface

Green and pale yellow leaves around a reddish stem against a blue painted ground — Painting view.

Close detail of textured yellow foliage marks against a blue painted ground — Painting detail.

Dense orange and yellow foliage with dark branching marks and visible paint texture — Painting view.

In the studio

Large foliage paintings leaning against the studio wall beside a ladder — Paintings in the studio.

Dominic Virtosu seated in the studio working on a colourful cactus painting, with other canvases around him — Dominic Virtosu at work in the studio.

Dominic Virtosu standing playfully between large foliage paintings in the studio — Among the paintings in the studio.

Dominic Virtosu seated in front of a large orange and yellow foliage painting in the studio — Studio portrait.