Join us at the Da Vinci Art Alliance on Sunday, March 2nd at 10:00 am for a look into the creative mind of Carlos Gil as they give a talk surrounding their new exhibition.
Since photography’s inception, the image-making technology has been associated with reality. Yet it is within these assumptions of truth that we are most likely to fall into illusion. Da Vinci Art Alliance is proud to present “NATURAL EMOTIONS,” an exhibition of dimensional collage by Carlos Gil.
The latest evolution of Gil’s multi-decade practice, this exhibition utilizes collage and photography to deconstruct narratives we infer from photography and the fictions we tell ourselves about our relationship with the natural world.
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Carlos studied at the "Cristobal Rojas" School of Arts from 1956-60, and has participated in residencies and studies in Amsterdam, Holland, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Zaragoza and Spain, as well as taking photography courses at the Photographic Society of Aragon. Gil has lived and worked in Philadelphia since 1994, and his work has been shown both locally and internationally over the course of his decades-long career. Gil alters what seems-to-be by way of mutations, formation and deformation, trying to dispel the illusion of reality created by the camera. With this in mind, he simultaneously captures the beauty of the natural environment, and the contours threatened by climate change and rampant man-made destruction.
