SANCTUARIES
The Guild Room
November 8, 2024 to January 3, 2025
For nearly twenty years, David Gista’s work has focused on books and libraries, creating paintings depicting various subjects within libraries or interacting with books. His exhibition explores our relationship with knowledge and information in a hyper-technological society, questioning whether books are merely objects and if libraries are becoming sanctuaries of a fading physical world.
Gista’s work often transforms books into shapes and colors reminiscent of pixels, highlighting the tension between the material and digital worlds. He uses traditional mediums like paint to emphasize this paradox. One notable technique involves drawing on paper with a torch flame, symbolizing both revelation and destruction, referencing historical book burnings and censorship.
Gista’s “burnt drawings” embody both ambivalence and ambiguity through themes that reflect on the intersection of nature and technology. He parallels nature and libraries as sanctuaries, all the while questioning whether technology will soon blur the boundaries between the natural world and a new frontier of augmented reality.
Click HERE for more information on gallery hours and private appointments.
SANCTUARIES
The Guild Room
November 8, 2024 to January 3, 2025
For nearly twenty years, David Gista’s work has focused on books and libraries, creating paintings depicting various subjects within libraries or interacting with books. His exhibition explores our relationship with knowledge and information in a hyper-technological society, questioning whether books are merely objects and if libraries are becoming sanctuaries of a fading physical world.
Gista’s work often transforms books into shapes and colors reminiscent of pixels, highlighting the tension between the material and digital worlds. He uses traditional mediums like paint to emphasize this paradox. One notable technique involves drawing on paper with a torch flame, symbolizing both revelation and destruction, referencing historical book burnings and censorship.
Gista’s “burnt drawings” embody both ambivalence and ambiguity through themes that reflect on the intersection of nature and technology. He parallels nature and libraries as sanctuaries, all the while questioning whether technology will soon blur the boundaries between the natural world and a new frontier of augmented reality.
Click HERE for more information on gallery hours and private appointments.
David Gista was born and raised in Paris, and now divides his time between France and the United States, having established his artistic career on both continents. Gista studied art at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, and his work is held in private and corporate collections in the U.S. and in Europe.
David Gista was born and raised in Paris, and now divides his time between France and the United States, having established his artistic career on both continents. Gista studied art at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, and his work is held in private and corporate collections in the U.S. and in Europe.
