Yoan Capote - 'Elegy' 2022, exhibition view at Galleria Continua, The St. Regis, Roma. Photo: Giorgio Benni
Yoan Capote - 'Elegy' 2022, exhibition view at Galleria Continua, The St. Regis, Roma. Photo: Giorgio Benni
Yoan Capote - 'Elegy' 2022, exhibition view at Galleria Continua, The St. Regis, Roma. Photo: Giorgio Benni
Yoan Capote - 'Elegy' 2022, exhibition view at Galleria Continua, The St. Regis, Roma. Photo: Giorgio Benni
Yoan Capote - 'Elegy' 2022, exhibition view at Galleria Continua, The St. Regis, Roma. Photo: Giorgio Benni
Yoan Capote - Requiem (lontananza) 2022, oil, nails, 24k goldleaf, collective blood and fishhooks on canvas mounted on wooden panel, 180 x 352 cm. Photo: Giorgio Benni
Yoan Capote - Isla (lacrimosa) 2022, oil, nails and fishhooks on linen mounted on wooden panel, 120 x 210 cm. Photo: Giorgio Benni
Yoan Capote - Isla (lacrimosa) 2022, oil, nails and fishhooks on linen mounted on wooden panel, 120 x 210 cm. Photo: Giorgio Benni
Yoan Capote - Requiem (exvoto) 2022, oil, 24k goldleaf, nails and fishhooks on panel of plywood and canvas, 81 x 160 cm. Photo: Giorgio Benni
Yoan Capote - Requiem (exvoto) 2022, oil, 24k goldleaf, nails and fishhooks on panel of plywood and canvas, 81 x 160 cm. Photo: Giorgio Benni
Yoan Capote - Isla (realismo mágico) 2022, oil, nails and fishhooks on linen mounted on wooden panel, 120 x 120 cm. Photo: Giorgio Benni
Yoan Capote - Isla (lasitud) 2022, oil, nails and fishhooks on linen mounted on wooden panel, 165 x 240 cm. Photo: Giorgio Benni
Yoan Capote - Isla (lasitud) 2022, oil, nails and fishhooks on linen mounted on wooden panel, 165 x 240 cm. Photo: Giorgio Benni
Yoan Capote - Requiem (resguardo) 2022, oil, nails, 24k goldleaf, collective blood and fishhooks on linen mounted on wooden panel, 30 x 40 cm. Photo: Giorgio Benni
Yoan Capote - Purificación (revelación) 2022, plaster, wires and recycled metal elements on jute panel mounted on plywood, 118 x 182 cm. Photo: Giorgio Benni
Yoan Capote - Purificación (alambrada) 2022, plaster, wires and recycled metal elements on jute panel mounted on plywood, 118 x 182 cm. Photo: Giorgio Benni
Yoan Capote - Purificación (espejismo) 2022, plaster, wires and recycled metal elements on jute panel mounted on plywood, 100 x 70 cm. Photo: Giorgio Benni
Yoan Capote - Deriva 2022, marble, wood, and metal, variable dimensions. Photo: Giorgio Benni
Yoan Capote - Presagio 2022, wood and metal, 56 x 76 cm. Photo: Giorgio Benni
Galleria Continua is pleased to present 'Elegy', the first solo exhibition of Yoan Capote in Rome. All the artworks of this exhibition coincide in their deeply conceptual and emotional approach to Landscape. Here we can appreciate the dialogue that is created between different bodies of work and some sculptures that expand Capote’s iconic seascapes towards a wider, global spectrum of reflection by underscoring the values, symbolism, and cultural importance of the culled materials used to create the paintings: recycled fishhooks, broken chains, wire fences, deconstructed barbed wire, gold leaf, plaster, and others.
Although all the pieces in this show reflect on migration, from a local and universal perspective, they also take on meanings with social and political overtones.
