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 Louis Recchia - American (born 1949) The Spirit and the Muse, 1984 Oil and found objects on wood panels Gift of Kathryn Wenderski |
Louis Recchia is among Colorado’s most prominent contemporary artists. Recchia has achieved national recognition for his works that employ popular culture imagery to express Recchia’s exploration of “themes such as vulnerability and the idea of innocence and innocence lost.”
As an accompaniment to images such as animals (usually dogs), rockets, mushroom clouds, text, globes, and human figures, Recchia attaches found objects of all sorts to create collage-like images that suggest a narrative, but he provides only clues to a resolved story. "This is one of Recchia’s strongest works, with simultaneous references to mythological wolf figures, the Roman god Janus, and the atomic bomb – all interacting in a theatrical setting which covers two sides of a freestanding screen that, from a distance, appears painted in the pointillist manner of George Seurat," says FAC Curator of 19th-21st Century American Art Blake Milteer. "It is a wonderful addition to our growing collection of important contemporary regional art. " There is one Recchia painting already in the Museum’s collection called Animal Nature that was given as a 2005 gift. The Spirit and the Muse is a stronger work and is one that can be exhibited in the Permanent Collection American galleries right away. |
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