artisti
Amy O'Neill
Amy O'Neill, artista visiva americana, vive e lavora tra Ginevra e Brooklyn. Si appropria sia delle stranezze della sua cultura che di quelle svizzere, dove ha vissuto e lavorato per alcuni anni. O'Neill clona situazioni e oggetti di natura folk, rivelando l'inusuale nascosto oltre la superficie della banalità. Ogni volta il reale è ricostruito come sfondo. Tutti i suoi lavori sfruttano l'idea del vernacolare e, in particolare, sfidano gli standard di rappresentazione canonici.
Amy O’Neill is a visual artist born in Pennsylvania, USA. Currently, she lives and works in New York. Her solo exhibitions include shows at Centre Cultural Suisse in Paris, MAMCO in Geneva, The Box Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, and at Blancpain Art Contemporain in Geneva. Amy O’Neill is a storyteller of sorts, and while her cast of characters and locations are for the most part light-hearted and apparently banal, her view has always been shaded in darker tones. Moving in between the vernacular and canonical standards of rapresentation, she reveals the unusual. In O’Neill’s world there is no sentimental longing for the past, rather, she reminds us that, while never truly reconciled, the presence of the past haunts us, a lens through which we are able to view the circumstances in which we find ourselves today. Amy O’Neill is an artist whose project is both in, and against, the American grain.