About the exhibition:

CARLOS A. GILL ON NATURAL EMOTIONS —

“Natural Emotions explores the border between Painting and Photography. The images are based on photographs of nature which are modified using collage, assemble, and drawing photography software. I believe that technology is a powerful tool to enrich artistic expression of the images. I am concerned about the mistreatment of the environment by human beings. We have forgotten the essential, nature, the forest, its breath, its noises, its spaces, they're details.

Photography is not simply a representation of reality, photography is a technique that offers many possibilities for experimentation.

Physically we inhabit a space, but mentally we are inhabited by others, memories, memories. I remember unknown spaces those that we intuit are yet to come, but we don't know nor how, nor when. I work with the aim of exploring these visions of the future through art, spaces altered that seem and are not and appear and are shown, asymmetry, mutations, formation and deformation, trying to dispel the illusion of reality created by the camera.

With this in mind, I simultaneously capture the beauty of the natural environment, the contours threatened by climate change, and the rampant man-made destruction. Working this way I am able to transform my images into new spaces in order to submerge the viewer into a world of visual sensations, different and unknown to them.”

Natural Emotions will be on view in Gallery 2 from February 27 - March 23, 2025 with an opening reception on Saturday, March 1st from 4-7pm.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Carlos A. Gil 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.