Montevideo Artist Travels to Trifecta Gallery Las Vegas

Las Vegas, NV, August 02, 2012 --(PR.com)-- The new series of paintings from the Aguirre studio in Montevideo are charged with repetitive consonants and audio alliteration; not actual sound that you hear but sound that can be seen. The previous series Trifecta exhibited in 2010 used visual theatrical devices and content. "I swore I could almost hear the cranking of gears and the creaking of trap doors," remarks Marty Walsh, the gallery's owner. Stripped of the familiar stage props of couches, trap doors and dressmaker forms, the new pieces highlight the spare schematics of colored shapes with shadows and no visible clues as to how the components seem to tick. Di Matteo’s architectural background resonates within the works in the form of octagons, curved beams and carpenter squares; abstract characters in the language of building. Hearing visuals and seeing sounds suggests a form of "Synesthesia," a neurological condition in which two or more senses are merged is at play in this new suite of paintings. Di Matteo’s cross-pollination of the senses in these canvases makes them compelling in more than one "sense" of the word.

Meet Leonardo August 2 from 6-8 pm for Preview Night and during First Friday in Trifecta Gallery.