The Cluster Gallery is pleased to announce the solo exhibition “Is It Real?” featuring works by Sabrina Puppin, on view from April 26th through May 25th, 2019, with a public opening reception on Friday April 26th, 2019, 5-7pm.
Recently inspired by the poem’s words from Kokin Wakashu, a tenth century Japanese anthology of poems, Sabrina Puppin continues to investigate her observation and swiveled perception of reality.
This world of ours
Is it real or are we dreaming
Dream or real I cannot say
It exists yet is not there
Sabrina Puppin depicts a visionary world, defined by fluid and vivid colors where the world as known dematerializes and the underlying spatial relationships disappear. Attempting to eliminate any recognizable form and using media that eliminates any visible intervention of the human hand, the artist suggests that reality and perception are two sides of the same coin in the way they interweave and coexist; as perception arises uniquely for each individual who is observing part of reality. The visual content of Puppin’s work, through intricate details and hyper-colorful, shining, and overwhelming abstract arrangements, causes every person to perceive it differently, although the underlying substance of the work is the same. The paintings intend first to overwhelm the viewer and then to draw the viewer closer with their unpredictable optical effects, driving the eyes into a sense of distorted reality in which to live in.
