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Trifecta Gallery Las Vegas presents Leonardo Aguirre di Matteo exhibition

Leonardo Aguirre di Matteo from Uruguay will visit Trifecta Gallery for the opening night of his August 2-30, 2012 exhibit “6191.” The shows title, Six-thousand one-hundred and ninety-one is named for the amount of miles from his South American home to Las Vegas. The title is less apt in distance than to the sensory nature of the artwork. Trifecta discovered the artist at random through frequent visits to the website artreview.com.

The new series of paintings from the Aguirre studio in Montevideo are charged with repetitive consonants and audio alliteration; not actual sound that you hear but sound that can be seen. The previous series Trifecta exhibited in 2010 used visual theatrical devices and content. “I swore I could almost hear the cranking of gears and the creaking of trap doors,” remarks Marty Walsh, the gallery’s owner. Stripped of the familiar stage props of couches, trap doors and dressmaker forms, the new pieces highlight the spare schematics of colored shapes with shadows and no visible clues as to how the components seem to tick. Di Matteo’s architectural background resonates within the works in the form of octagons, curved beams and carpenter squares; abstract characters in the language of building. Hearing visuals and seeing sounds suggests a form of “Synesthesia,” a neurological condition in which two or more senses are merged is at play in this new suite of paintings. Di Matteo’s cross-pollination of the senses in these canvases makes them compelling in more than one “sense” of the word.

Meet Leonardo August 2 from 6-8 pm for Preview Night and during First Friday in Trifecta Gallery.