Portrait Yellow, 2012, embroidery on found photograph
Maurizio Anzeri's new exhibition at Cardiff's Chapter gallery features newly commissioned and previously unseen works alongside a selection of his critically acclaimed 'photo-sculptural' pieces.
As readers will recall from our Ghosts issue, Anzeri uses found photographs and embroidery to create subtly sculptural pieces in which strangers are given new identities. Labyrinths of forms and colours create intriguing geographies of faces, histories and souls with eyes that stare enigmatically from the centre of their 'masks'. The Chapter exhibition also includes new works that utilise embroidery and personal photography to create imagined or psychological space, and a series of morphologic sculptural pieces made from synthetic hair that hover somewhere between theatre and fetish.
Chapter gallery
Market Road
Cardiff CF5 1QE
Wed 1 May to Sun 30 June
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This exhibition is commissioned and presented by Chapter as part of Diffusion, a new month-long biennial international photography festival of exhibitions, performances and events throughout Cardiff.
Round Midnight, 2009, embroidery on found photograph
Baby, 2013, embroidery on found photograph