Editions Fawbush is pleased to announce the publication of Angelo Filomeno’s edition As The Lilies Among Thorns, So We Fall Like Love, 2007, co-published with Gering Lopez Gallery. The work is a large format photographic triptych, based on the artist’s sculptural installation of the same name from the previous year. In that installation, a set of three large, extravagantly plumed and intricately embroidered medieval-styled helmets were suspended in a darkened room at eye level, dramatically lit and voluptuous in their amount of detail and intricacy. Each helmet was crafted by the artist’s own hand, from shantung silk, velvet, crystals and feathers, and richly embroidered with the same delicacy as his large-scale shantung paintings. For the photographic edition, extremely large digital files were created from the installation in order to recreate the same detail that the eye captures upon viewing the sculpture, but with razor-sharp clarity. Caught still in time, and with the feeling of an Albrecht Durer etching come to life, the photographs give the viewer the opportunity to scrutinize every last sparkle of each crystal, every delicate stitch, and every graceful curve of each feather with the same attention to drama and stateliness that the installation created. Large black frames add the finishing touch, filling out the neo-Baroque feeling of the entire project and bringing the pieces full circle back into Filomeno’s framed hanging works.

Angelo Filomeno was born in Italy, and has exhibited extensively both in New York and abroad. Aside from numerous solo exhibitions, he has been included in the 52nd Venice Biennale (curated by Robert Storr), Fresh!Contemporary takes on Nature and Allegory, Museum of Glass International Center for Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA; ARS 06, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland; Alternative Paradise, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Hanging by a Thread, The Moore Space, Miami; Neo-Baroque!, Byblos Art Gallery, Verona, Italy; Filoluce, Museo della Permanente, Milan, Italy; Il racconto del filo, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MART), Rovereto, Italy; Fashion, Italian Style, The Museum at FIT, New York; Sew Fine, Islip Art Museum, Islip, New York; Officina America, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy; Re:Duchamp,Traveling Exhibition, Istanbul Bienali, Venice Biennale; Le Jardin, Villa Medici, Academie de France à Rome, Italy; Biennial works on paper, QCC/CUNY, New York; New York State Biennial, New York State Museum, Albany, NY; the Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY; and the Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NY. He has lectured at the Museum of Glass International Center for Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA; the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; and the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. Angelo

Filomeno lives and works in New York, and is represented by Galerie LeLong.

Other artworks by Angelo Filomeno

Black Skull, 2007