Contributed by Julia Couzens / Paolo Arao's exuberant textile paintings radiate a bracing freshness, like nautical flags snapping brightly in a cracking breeze. From a distance clear color and crisp geometry flip space backward and forward, causing the eye to toggle in and out of the paintings, nuanced, irregularly faceted grids. Seen up close, quavering, irregular seams of sewn fabric argue against the lacquered, bulletproof stance and historical superiority of the painted surface.
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