DIPLOPIA

FALCO: “Diplopia is not easy to explain. It has to be viewed to be experienced. Diplopia is not easily understood.” Diplopia, the exhibition’s title, is taken from a word for the medical condition for double vision, referring to both the content of the exhibition and the potential for a dialogue between the images on view. Reminiscent of the moiré effect, Falco’s layered images pop and fade through fragments of rising paint like a luminous mirage. A spectrum of emotions is simultaneously evoked by the artist’s carefully chosen graphics as multiple discernible planes intumesce intertwined; floating and disappearing along the surface of the paintings like ghosts. Falco’s uniquely developed layering technique results in tantalizing visual phenomena which torque between the fore and aft of the visible field – effectively punking the two-dimensional optical continuum piece by piece. - Elsa Henderson, New York City, August 2022