italian artist giuseppe gabellone at galerie emmanuel perrotin

italian artist giuseppe gabellone at galerie emmanuel perrotin‘untitled’, 1996

‘untitled’, 2002

ubik, one of philip k. dick’s most complex science-fiction novels, and one of the most harrowing books ever written about the perception of time, describes a reality that gives way under the feet of the book’s characters, caught in a time-frame that is breaking up and reverting to the past. the objects around them are deteriorating and seem gripped by a kind of reversion of matter, a collective hallucination and phantasmagoric counterpart of the real world, engendering general suspicion towards it. this is the kind of feeling we get when looking at giuseppe gabellone’s works: the sensation of a reality giving way, like a rug suddenly pulled out from under the onlooker’s feet.

‘l’assetato’, 2007

the solo show of giuseppe gabellone at gallerie emmanuel perrotin in paris runs until 07, march, 2009.