An exhibition opened today in Barga Vecchia at the Galleria Comunale showing work featuring black and white images that have been created using two different methods – one by pointillism, the technique of painting small, distinct dots of paint* applied in patterns to form an image and the other, much larger works showing almost photorealist images using oil paint on canvas.
Both have something else in common, The smaller pointillist drawings and paintings were by Domenico Bocchino, the larger oil paintings by his daughter, Erika Bo.
The exhibition will be open daily until the 4th June.
Erika BO – Una laurea in Filosofia e una passione genetica per l’arte. Il Bianco e Nero : una scelta stilistica per la massima esaltazione della forma e della corporeità e una scelta filosofica perché ogni cosa è allo stesso tempo Bianca e Nera.
*To be super exact – Pointillism was not really a method using just black paint or ink as general speaking it was made up of tiny dots of primary-colours which were used to generate secondary colours. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching off from Impressionism and is usually categorised as a form of Post-Impressionism.
