“Art Goes on Vacation“
A Solo Exhibition by Matthew Lauretti
Matthew Lauretti will be on the view February 1-28, 2011 at Gershwin Hotel located in midtown Manhattan’s Flatiron District at 7 East 27th Street, between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue.

Gershwin is a unique Manhattan hotel offering an artist residency program and supporting great artists, global nomads and creative international travelers.

 At Gershwin’s premier lounge space, great art goes on vacation!
In this trendy and fashionable hotel, Matthew Lauretti will present his latest series about Manhattan. This young Italian-American artist’s con­tri­bu­tions to the art world are inno­v­a­tive and incred­i­bly alluring. In his third New York solo Lauretti is interpreting the Big Apple using his large scale calligraphic style paintings on industrial fabric.

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Departure
SoHo, October, 2011

"Departure from pretentiousness. Passage out of mediocracy. Good-bye to black/white-seeing. Farewell to dulled-out love. Escape from hypocrisy. Separation from bad faith. Vacation from hierarchy. Deviation from the expected. Innovation to the unknown. Shift of rules. Variation into live music. Wandering in the clouds. Outgoing for the embrace. Initial motion from slavery. Last exit to Brooklyn*. Hasta la Vista baby. Adieu mon amour. Kick the habit. Removing of the shells. Dissapear into the sunset. Point of embarkation. Winging one’s flight. Leaving the past. Exception to the norm. Avoidance as a strategy. Difference of beauty. Prevention from the inevitable. Annihilation of being. Cessation of debris. Collapse of failure. Oblivion to taste. Dying…Contrasting life. Exodus. Liberation from duality. Distinction of meaningfulness.
Departure of the artistry… "


*In reference to ”Last Exit to Brooklyn Bridge” drama film based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr. , directed by Uli Edel and starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, 1989.