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Alfonse Pagano

Wide Ida

Wide Ida

€679,83 EUR
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Wide Ida ( part of the Shrine Series ) is in fact a small shrine-like object. A contained field held within a box, quiet . The candles stand together, pressed and slightly uneven, their tops breaking into a soft edge, unlit. It suggests something.... calm yet unsettling. A lack of sustainability?

Artwork Details

Artist:
Alfonse Pagano
Artist Gallery:
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Year Created:
2020
Dimensions:
8 × 13 × 3in
Edition:
Original 1/1
Style:
Pagano compresses the composition into a shallow, shrine-like box, and the eye lands first on the dense vertical field of golden-orange forms packed tightly against one another. The upper third is held in a pale, nearly blank reserve, so the warm mass below reads as both offering and barrier, its frayed tops breaking the hard geometry with a soft, irregular edge. The finish is restrained and tactile: smooth, waxy shafts, fibrous ends, and a faint sense of wear establish a work in conversation with assemblage, Arte Povera, and devotional object-making.
Tags:
shrine,assemblage,arte povera,wax,golden orange,minimalism,ritual,containment,devotional object,tactile

About Alfonse Pagano

Alfonse Pagano creates original artwork available to collect on Art Emerge, an AI-powered marketplace for artists and collectors.

Born in 1951 in Paterson, New Jersey, into a third-generation Italian American family. Paterson was gritty, vibrant, and full of contradictions—elements that continue to shape how He sees and make art. Raised by a single mother who saw his creative spark early, He was given freedom to explore. By fourteen, He knew art wasn’t a hobby—it was a path. Though He studied briefly at the School of Visual Arts, He is mostly self-taught. Alfonse learned by making, reading, and working with others—most memorably, Len Lye in the early ’70s. His energy and commitment left a mark. Alfonse has had many studios the first one was above Beacon Paints on the corner of Amsterdam and 78 Street.

Artist Statement

I began somewhere in the late 1960s, working with cardboard, photographs, and found images—early attempts to understand and organize my world, to hold a fragment of landscape, memory, and human presence as a visual object.. Even then, what mattered to me was not only what the object became, but the act of altering it: cutting, burning, layering, erasing, and rebuilding. The action itself carried as much weight as the final form.I have allways divided my time between painting and sculpture and the combining of the two.

Selected Highlights

  • All Politics Are Local, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • Rituals and Identity, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
  • Dreads, WBGO Gallery, Newark, NJ
  • Dreads, Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ
  • Dreads, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT

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