PAUL BRANCA - TOTES, GIORGIO GALOTTI →
Giorgio Galotti is currently showing Paul Branca’s first solo exhibition in Italy and the gallery’s first show devoted to one artist. New York-based artist Paul Branca presents a selection of paintings made on readymade canvas tote bags that have been stretched on wooden stretchers and prepared as traditional supports. Branca, known for his research on the social connectivity of food culture, paintings of meticulously rendered sausage links as well as slices of cold cuts and vegetables, and projects that often question painting’s ability to mirror distribution strategies within historical languages of painting.