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The "Aiello/Venus" Collection - - "POLIMORFICA" Series
Artist Johnny Aiello - 109 Twining Road, Oreland, PA (215)376-0334 info@AielloVenus.com
Philadelphia Artist Johnny Aiello
To Present 45 Year Collection
(1961 - 2006) From The "POLIMORFICA" Series
"Aiello & Venus"
Renowned Fortune 500 Image Maker and Branding Guru Ron Pompei
To Feature "Aiello & Venus" in his All New
C3 Gallery @ Pompei Architecture & Design, LLC
PHILADELPHIA, PA 11/17/06 -- A 45 year journey of prolific inspiration, enlightened research and a thirst for discovery has brought Philadelphia artist Johnny Aiello to a creative precipice.
In 2007 a major exhibition entitled "Aiello & Venus" comprising 161 works -- paintings, gouaches, drawings and prints -- will be presented by the artist at the C3 Gallery, New York City headquarters of renowned Fortune 500 image consultant, creative director of architecture and design, and brand maker Ron Pompei, also a scion of Philadelphia.
"The immense diversity held within Johnny Aiello's artistic oeuvre awakens our innate potential to simultaneously appreciate concept, shape, color, image, texture, line position, story, and our own erupting visions and worlds unfolding in a primordial grove down the lane from where we normally live," says Ron Pompei.
"We seldom remember the path leading there from our greener years. Aiello brings it around again. I become elated, and stilled, very grateful to weave amongst so many of his projections in a universe of Mediterranean light."
As the title suggests, women are the focus of the exhibit and Aiello's expertise in various styles, and the selection of works from various periods of his nearly five-decade career, gives this collection of nudes the distinction of being very different while being very similar.
"The show's title is headlined "POLIMORFICA" because this is the overall concept I use to define my artistic journey," explains Aiello, who began his career as a wide-eyed Philadelphia art student in Rome in the early 1960's.
Over time, Aiello's career led him into academia as an instructor at the University of The Arts, into business as the operator of the trendy Caffé sud on South Street, and ultimately as a pure entrepreneur with his development of the "Italian Directory" a long running advertising feature in Philadelphia magazine.
All the while, Aiello was on a tireless quest for vision and clarity. Immersing himself in his own Italian heritage he has exhaustively researched a book Italian Culture: The Next Italian Empire.
"It was in the course of my research and returning at various times to my art that I really crystallized the idea of 'POLIMORFICA' defining for me the transition and growth in the changing styles of art from realism to abstract, and the dozen major themes of my art, of which "Venus" is just one" says Aiello.
"After all, Italian culture did not flourish and emerge still vibrant for over 2,500 years without Sincretismo, which is its own version of Polimorfica, and the linchpin of Italian creativity, the ability to bring together discordant entities into a purposeful harmony."
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