Zoe Lacchei “Carnivorous Beauties”
Showing with Renee French, Aaron Bo Heimlich, and Alessia Iannetti
October 2 – November 1, 2015
Artist reception: Friday, October 2nd; 8-11PM
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA 90027
www.laluzdejesus.com
Eclectic and passionate Zoe Lacchei has an unmistakable style which is a fusion of several traditional techniques and materials. Zoe, a resident of Rome, studied human anatomy and Japanese culture, the former affected her enormously: she simply adores Japan, with its contradictions and oddities, with its great sense for the art of image, in a traditional and at the same time modern way, given by Manga, Anime and videogames.
In April 2004 she created thirteen paintings for the Marilyn Manson’s Gold Disc (Golden Age of the Grotesque), collected afterwards in the original portfolio: Metamorphosis, the art of Zoe Lacchei. Her work on Marilyn Manson’s visual evolution has crucially marked her artistic career, both on a graphic level and in terms of visibility.
I have always been a slave to the beauty of others, to the mystery and danger that sometimes can be hidden behind it. In my mind, Eros and Thanatos are omnipresent forces that coexist in a single image. Even if the women I depict are captured in a fixed moment in time, they always have something disturbing about them, a dark and totally feminine power that pushes the observer to ask himself what happened or is about to happen. As carnivore plants, still and perfect, everything is suspended in the expectance of catching glances, of seducing their prey before devouring them in that imperceptible moment in which pleasure and pain become one. -Zoe Lacchei
