(Top) Swen df poisoned lover installation, 200x50x50 cm, 2006. (Middle left) Poracelsus Pissing installation detail, 210x46x23 cm, 2006. (Middle right) Suicida Witch detail, 100x100 cm, 2006. (Bottom) The grand circus - Death of a presumptus philosophers, 252x115 cm.

Angelo Filomeno's solo exhibition "Paracelsus Pissing" runs from May 4 to June 16 at the Anne de Villepoix gallery. Angelo Filomeno, an emerging Italian artist based in New York, is one of the most representative contemporary Italian artists following Italy's avant-garde movement. His unique artistic creation stands out in today's art world, renowned for his exceptional "Neo-Baroque" embroidered paintings. He states that he grew up with this folk craft, accompanying his mother in embroidery at age seven, later participating in work and continuously refining his skills until it became his distinctive artistic technique, leveraging the material's inherent characteristics.

Filomeno's "Neo-Baroque" artistic inspiration often stems from personal memories, drawing on Italian folk traditions, myths, and literary anecdotes. He likes to transform and juxtapose magical themes in an alchemical manner, full of humor and satire, reflecting life like a clear mirror. In the solo exhibition "Paracelsus Pissing," the painting "The grand circus - Death of a presumptus philosophers" shows a skull holding another skull, with a proud rooster walking on a suspended tightrope, symbolizing death and the metaphysical world against a striking gold-gray tone. "Abysmal discomfort" depicts a large fish swallowing a lizard in bright and dark black tones, rich in natural ecological metaphors of life and death.

Three innovative sculptural space installations also revolve around the metaphysical theme of death: "Poracelsus Pissing," "Swen df poisoned lover," and "As the lilies among thorns so we fall like lave n1." These combine embroidered objects with everyday items (such as mirrors, candlesticks, jewelry, ram horns, and feathers), golden skulls, chicks, and golden warrior helmets, presenting eternal meanings of life and death among numerous symbolic images. Filomeno says he explores the incomprehensible aspects of the soul world, emphasizing these symbols' connection to Jung's theory of the collective unconscious.

Filomeno's works possess social didacticism and existential meaning, established through traditional craftsmanship (hand embroidery) and modern technology (Singe brand embroidery sewing machines). This creates rich aesthetic forms, substantial colors, and unique materials, integrated into rigorous concepts, politics, and postmodern continuity to achieve perfection.