Walking up the stairs to a natural light filled foyer past the Trocadero Art Space gallery you come to an innovative studio ironically numbered one. Here occupied by an innovative artist Patricia Todarello. As an artist struggling for recognition and dialogue this artist took matter into her own hands. Self funded, she rented a studio and transformed it into a gallery to exhibit her work every month over a 12 month period. Her exhibition openings coinciding with the Trocadero Art space.
The studio is situated on a corner of old office spaces. The once used windows are now transformed into light boxes of artworks. Both sides of the windows are framed by materials like rippled contact and brown paper in symmetrical order. Your instant reaction is to touch and feel the tangible material only to be greeted by cold glass. Each panel is framed with a silver paint which insetuates the works.
As you enter the studio, you are faced with what seems to be a two-toned gloss and matte white wall. As you walk closer to the work, the detail becomes more apparent. The wall is an eccentric architectures delight, clean white matte line reflecting the exaggerated corner of the room. Within these lines stands a white box dripping with paint almost profusely sweating. Like pre determine graffiti which combines well with the clean lines and minimalist entities.
Opposite this wall is a corner painted with muted grey blocks of colour and a white square. Again, the lines are sharp and exaggerated on a large wall. The grey breaks up the intruding white and gives you the feeling of the height and length of both pieces.
Both works question the space you are looking at and somehow makes this small studio into a large gallery challenging your perception of space and corners.
Highly recommend.
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