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1 Umberto Squarcia Jr. lives and works in New York City. After classical studies in Parma, Italy, he graduated from the University of Architecture of Rome, Italy. At the end of 1998 he moved to New York where he worked at M/G New York Architects, specialized in interior design at the Parsons Design School and in 2005 he created his own design company practicing a wide variety of architectural services: Historical restoration & conservation, buildings alterations, interior design & renovation, design-built, construction management & supervision, furniture design, industrial design, fashion & jewelry design, photography, guided tours to the architecture & art of Italy. He formed the Columbi Experience, an internship program for foreign students. All these professional grounds generate and inspire the creative process of Umberto’s artworks.
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Umberto Squarcia Jr. lives and works in New York City. After classical studies in Parma, Italy, he graduated from the University of Architecture of Rome, Italy. At the end of 1998 he moved to New York where he worked at M/G New York Architects, specialized in interior design at the Parsons Design School and in 2005 he created his own design company practicing a wide variety of architectural services: Historical restoration & conservation, buildings alterations, interior design & renovation, design-built, construction management & supervision, furniture design, industrial design, fashion & jewelry design, photography, guided tours to the architecture & art of Italy. He formed the Columbi Experience, an internship program for foreign students. All these professional grounds generate and inspire the creative process of Umberto’s artworks.
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To Anna Podesta’, my mother
Favilla rapita all’eterno! Eco silente che rimbomba nel cuore: “Luca”!
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CONTENTS
PROFILE 1
INTRODUCTION 7
SERIES:
ENDANGERED SPECIES 8
SHORTCUTS NOTHING NEW 20
OF LIFE AND DEATH 32
SELECTED WORKS 44
SHADOWS 52
IMMIGRATION 58
MOTHER and CHILD 60
AFTER WARHOL 64
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 70
INFO & CONTACTS 75
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INTRODUCTION
In his paintings, sculptures, and installations, the artist draws inspiration from his upbringing in Italy’s cultural landscape and in the Architecture’s work environment of New York City, engaging with history and modernism. His pieces are often a reinterpretation and re-visitation of art movements from classical to contemporary times. His projects transform the remnants of a dysfunctional and wasteful culture, revealing its inherent problems as well as reclaiming the latent aesthetic potential within industrial, natural, ecological and construction ruins and fragments. Often using laborious fabrication processes, Umberto reflects on society’s "endangered virtues" through the handcrafted production and intimate quality of his works, ironic and critical but always reaching to the depths of mankind’s soul and purpose, life and death, time and space, joy and suffering. Proportions, perspective, geometries, viewpoints, contrast, materials, textures and patterns, colors, light and shadow are always present in his compositions. His search and his efforts seem to lead, in recent projects, to the idea of “nature as imitation of art” coexisting with “art as imitation of nature”.
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ENDANGERED SPECIES
2012-2015
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Endangered Species #1 2012, Drift Wood, gypsum board, pencil, steel, glass 48 x 15 x 36 in. (120 X 38 X 90 cm)
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Endangered Species #2 2014, Drift Wood, glass, steel 34 x 14 x 24 in. (86 X 36 X 60 cm)
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Endangered Species #3 2014, reclaimed wood, drift wood, steel 12 x 9 x 18 in.
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Endangered Species #4 2014, Drift wood, steel 37 x 8 x 25 in.
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Endangered Species #5 2014, Drift wood, steel, tile 24 x 12 x 15 in.
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Endangered Species #6 2014, Drift wood and steel, tile 22 x 12x 16 in.
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Endangered Species #7 2014, Reclaimed wood, steel, glass 36 x 14 x 24 in.
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Endangered Species #8 2014, Drift wood, steel, glass 22 x 14 x 44 in.
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Endangered Species #9 2014, Drift wood, steel, glass 22 x 14 x 44 in.
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Endangered Species #10 2015, Drift wood, steel, glass 30 x 15 x 84 in.
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SHORTCUTS
NOTHING NEW
2014- 2015
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Shortcuts N.1 2015, Wood and paint 21 x 13 in. (52 X 32 cm)
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Shortcuts N.2 2015, Wood and paint 9 x 7 in.
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Shortcuts N.3 2015, Wood, paint, steel 11 x 9 in.
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Shortcuts N.4 2015, Wood, melamine board 11 x 9 in.
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Shortcuts N.5 2015, Wood 11 x 11 in.
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Shortcuts N.6 2015, Wood 7.5 x 10 in.
Shortcuts N.7 2015, Wood 17 x 6 in.
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Nothing New N.1 2014, Wood and paint 66 x 24 in. (165 X 60 cm)
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Nothing New N.2 2014, Wood and paint 24 x 24 in. (60 X 60 cm)
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Nothing New N.3 2014, Wood and paint 20 x 10 in. (52 X 32 cm)
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Nothing New N.4 2014, Wood and paint 38 x 10 in. (52 X 32 cm)
Nothing New N.5 2014, Wood and paint 38 x 10 in. (52 X 32 cm)
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OF LIFE AND DEATH
1998-2016
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Newborn 2004, Wood and steel 30 x 10 x 20 in. (75 X 25 X 50 cm)
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Madonna and Child 2013, Wood, stone, steel 16 x 16 x 16 in. (40 X 40 X 40 cm)
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Abortion - Unborn 2007, photograph 20 x 30 in.
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Heart 2004, Wood and steel 14 x 14 x 33 in.
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Human Figure 2012, Wood, coconut and steel 4 x 8 x 60 in.
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Crucifixion 2000, Wood and steel, 26 x 46 x 6 in.
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“Via Crucis”, XII station 2016, Mixed Media 36 in. dia.
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Deposition (after Christo) 2004, Wood and steel, 84 x 24 x 48 in.
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Staring at the Sun 1998, painted steel 120 x 48 x 96 in.
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Resurrection (temporary installation) Easter Sunday 2003 cloth
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SELECTED WORKS
1990-2016
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Untitled 2014, Drift wood, reclaimed wood, steel, glass 12 x 9 x 18 in.
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War on War 2014, Mixed Media 48 x 24 x 4 in.
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Untitled 2013, Drift wood, marble, concrete, paint, steel 12 x 9 x 18 in.
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Untitled 2016, Mixed media, plywood 12 x 12 in. (30 X 30 cm)
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498 Broome St. New York, 5th Floor center window: Jan. 1 2015 12 PM 2016, Acrylic paint on paper 60 x 90 in. (150 X 230 cm)
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“The Ex” 2012, Mixed media 12 x 44 in. (50 X 50 X 50 cm)
“Art Fan” 2003, Mixed media 30 x 36 x 10 in. (50 X 50 X 50 cm)
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Medieval farmer (after B. Antelami) 1990, Stone 12 x 8 in. (30 X 20 cm)
Nativity 1999, steel 8 x 6 x 10 in. (20 X 15 X 25 cm)
“Nike” 1999, Wood and steel 20 x 15 x 30 in. (50 X 38 X 75 cm)
“I, Luca” 2011, Oil on canvas 4 x 4 in. (10 X 10 cm)
Eye 2005, Ink on tracing paper 5 x 5 in. (12.5 x 12.5 cm)
Resurrection (preparatory sketch) 2003, Watercolor 6 x 6 in. (15 X 15 cm)
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SHADOWS
1997 - 2003
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Self-Shadow 1997, Oil on Canvas 42 x 52 in.
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Luca N.1 1998, Oil on Canvas 64 x 96 in.
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Luca N.2 1999, Oil on Canvas 42 x 62 in.
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Luca N.3 2002, Oil on Canvas 36 x 36 in.
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Luca N.4 2003, Oil on Canvas 40 x 80 in.
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IMMIGRATION
2009
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Immigration N.1 2009, ink on canvas 9 x 12 in. (50 X 50 X 50 cm)
Immigration N.3 2009, ink on paper 9 x 5 in. (50 X 50 X 50 cm)
Immigration N.2 2009, ink on paper 6 x 8 in. (50 X 50 X 50 cm)
Immigration N.4 2009, ink on paper 9 x 12 in. (50 X 50 X 50 cm)
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MOTHER and CHILD
Preparatory Sketches for Madonna and Child
2013
Ink, oil pastels, pencil, color pencils, paint on photograph 8 x 10 in. (20 X 25 cm)
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AFTER WARHOL
1996-2011
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15 Black Cokes, after Warhol 1996, cans cut-outs, paint on canvas 18 x 12 in.
Portrait of my uncle, after Warhol 1997, Mixed media 24 x 18 in.
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Cokes, after Warhol 1997, cans cut-outs, paint on canvas 48 x 48 in. (120 X 120 cm)
12 Cokes, after Warhol 1998, cans cut-outs, paint on canvas 15 x 30 in. (38 X 75 cm)
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7 Ups, after Warhol 1998, cans cut-outs 36 x 48 in. (90 X 120 cm)
12 Christmas Cokes, after Warhol 1999, cans cut-outs, paint on wood 24 x 24 in. (60 X 60 cm)
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Coca-Cola, after Warhol 1998, cans cut-outs 36 x 48 in. (90 X 120 cm)
1664, after Warhol 2006, cans cut-outs, paint on wood 21 x 30 in. (52 X 75 cm)
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12 Gold Cokes, after Warhol 1999, cans cut-outs, paint on wood 24 x 24 in. (60 X 60 cm)
Bottle cap, after Warhol 2012, mixed media 5 x 5 in. (12.5 X 12.5 cm)
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Acknowledgements:
GIulio Belletti
Alice Squarcia
Prof. U. Squarcia Sr.
Valentina Buratti
Anna Podesta’
La Stamperia
S. Lissette Merlano
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Printed:
2016
Exhibition, Soho, New York, 2012
Next 3 pages: selection of architecture, interior design and industrial design works
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