Gusmano Cesaretti “Before the Revolution”
Crewest is getting ready to open their doors for a new solo show , “Before the Revolution”, featuring the artwork of Gusmano Cesaretti. Gusmano originally immigrated from Italy to Los Angeles in 1970 and this will be the first public exhibit of his work. His three-part fine art installation, Before the Revolution, with which he had long experimented privately while continuing to exercise a parallel vocation, photographing ethnic enclaves of Greater Los Angeles during the past thirty years. Check out this video of Gusmano talking about the show as he was preparing.
Gusmano has published two books: Street Writers- A Guided Tour of Chicano Graffiti, and Physical Graffiti-4×4=24. He is a contributing photographer to the book, 24 Hours in the Life of Los Angeles. His photographs have been exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2008, Gusmano participated in a major collaborative exhibition entitled, This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in Los Angeles Photographs at the Huntington Library.
Fourteen of Gusmano’s photographs are part of the permanent collection at the Smithsonian Institute (Smithsonian photo link) in Washington, D. C. and the Museum of Contemporay Art, Los Angeles. The many countries that Gusmano has made photographic studies of include: Mexico, Central and South America, Haiti, and South East Asia.
“Before the Revolution” has a public opening at Crewest in Los Angeles, CA on Friday, April 30th from 7-9 p.m.
For more information check out:
http://www.gusmanocesaretti.com
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