I think this is the inaugural show, at the cryptically named -'Die Galerie' by young, Swiss artist, Marco Angelo Sembinelli. It features works employing a variety of materials including rust and asphalt.
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Vernissage: 29. April 2016 ab 18
30. April 2016 ab 18.00 bis 21.00
04. Mai 2016 ab 15.00 bis 19.00
07. Mai 2016 ab 18.00 bis 21.00
10. Mai 2016 15.00 bis 19.00
14. Mai 2016 18.00 bis 21.00
Finissage: 20. Mai 2016 18.00
Marco Angelo Sembinelli Die Galerie
coarse and grainy rugged-textured medium can produce the very 'non-illustrational' free-marks that Bacon often achieved from oil paint.
Bacon always wanted to get away from what he called 'illustration' (a literal likeness) and with charcoal one can make 'non-illustrational' marks that form facial features without having to literally 'draw' them in. Charcoal would have been the ideal medium Bacon would have used had he wanted to make 'complete' (not sketched) artworks (portraits), and not pencil.
I asked Bacon if he ever used pencil to make portraits with and he said no, and he told me that he did not like the pencil drawings of Lucian Freud saying that they were far too 'refined' and 'detailed'.
Drawing in pencil is antithetical to the ethos of anti-illustration that Bacon aimed at. The Cristiano Lovatelli Ravarino drawings have eyes that are far too literal, far too 'illustrational', to be by Bacon.
The crude and garish bright colour schemes used in these 'Italian drawings' are reminiscent of pop art that are not used by Bacon. Why would Bacon - who was into 'chance' making 'arbitrary' and 'irrational' marks, use such a 'graphic fine art' medium such as pencil? Bacon used to throw paint at the canvas; but one cannot throw pencil at a piece of paper! The Francis Bacon Estate is right to reject these drawings as not made by the hand of Bacon".