{"id":8096,"date":"2012-03-05T09:47:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T14:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=8096"},"modified":"2012-03-22T10:12:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T14:12:27","slug":"luca-reffo-looking-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=8096","title":{"rendered":"Luca Reffo: Looking within"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/rsz_la_cugina_preferita_ii_oil_on_canvas_40x30_cm_2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8078\" title=\"rsz_la_cugina_preferita_ii_oil_on_canvas_40x30_cm_2010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/rsz_la_cugina_preferita_ii_oil_on_canvas_40x30_cm_2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a>La Cugina Preferita, (The favourite cousin)\u00a0II, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 8 &#8211; April 21, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Saturday,\u00a0March 10, 4 \u2013 8 p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>ROBERT KANANAJ GALLERY<\/strong><br \/>\n1267 Bloor St. West<br \/>\nToronto, ON, M6H 1N7<br \/>\nT: 416.289.8855<br \/>\nE: <a href=\"mailto:info@robertkananajgallery.com\">info@robertkananajgallery.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertkananajgallery.com\/\">www.robertkananajgallery.com<\/a><br \/>\nHours: Tues\u2013Sat 11\u20136 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Reffo\u2019s artistic research attempts at to render movie-like, disquieting atmospheres carefully prepared through sketches, imitation of original stage-set photographs and vintage film frames. The event portrayed is a still-image, conveying a sense of anguish for dream-like situations where the roles of the persecutor and the victim are not clearly defined.<\/p>\n<p>The visionary aspect of his realistic images is further emphasized by an original and disturbing use of lighting. Technical excellence and manual dexterity lead to crystal clear forms obtained by minimal layering of paint in a fashion that is evocative of the great tradition of Italian painting.<\/p>\n<p>Luca Reffo was born in Padua in 1973. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Reffo\u2019s art bridges experiences in film, scenography, graphics and fashion photography. Now he lives and works in Milan, Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>March 8&ndash;April 21, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Saturday, March 10, 4\u20138 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ROBERT KANANAJ GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The visionary aspect of his realistic images is emphasized by a disturbing use of lighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=8096\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listings_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8096"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8507,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096\/revisions\/8507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}