Luigi Ontani at Massimo De Carlo

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The "hypertrophic imagination of the artist".
The excessive [...] breeding monsters, unnecessary invention, a bit too. A hangnail bleeding the excess of art, much.

Caleb Considine at Massimo de Carlo

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In a time when texture gains an utmost importance in creating immersiveness in digital worlds, where objects comprised of surface to be texture-mapped, painted, Considine's micro-attention to the variants of matte diffuse surface (something digital rendering has difficulty with) and scattered specular speaks to the digital by deploying what it cannot, a sort of prescient anachronism: artisanal Old-timey rendering, wrapping its cold surface in warm wool.

See too: Mathew Cerletty at Office Baroque, Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel at Micheline Szwajcer