A Table For One or Quite Literally The One?
By Rose Polpi
Publication Date 30th September 2022 Time 08:44
Naughty Boy Omero Tarquini (see article- insert “Smiles All Around or Simply PR Brilliance?” Hyperlink) mischievously uploads an Instagram Post of him at the “Artist’s Table” of the Chelsea Arts Club London. Known for historic members from celebrated American painter James McNeil Whistler to Reynolds Woodcock the inspiration of the international Daniel Day Lewis blockbuster Phantom Thread
The Global Art Sensation clearly sits alone at the most prominent and sort after table in premises. Yet the one thing even non members know about this club, is that in the 21st century technologically orientated epoch we inhabit -mobile phones, cameras and all personal devices are a strict no.
Yet Tarquini is the kind of guy who somehow obtains permission where one would usually think impossible.
*(Omero Tarquini captured above in discourse with worldwide PR wizard Lulu Buti at Il Passato ET The Future the exhibition in Rome see article)
Who else in the history of humanity at the age of 26 has juxtaposed their sculptures next to original Imperial Era Roman Masterpieces? Bernini, Michelangelo? Well it’s hard to tell. Michelangelo started off making fakes for salivating Grand Tourers so perhaps so, yet never less whoever might have done it thus far you could count them on one hand.
Image Credit: Galleria Valerio Turchi- Via Margutta Rome
Image Credit: Galleria Turchi -Via Margutta Rome
What kind of pressure can such prestigious realisations put on a young man however and what kind of aspirations can a young man possibly strive to accomplish beyond what most of us would already think so much more than outstanding?
And after countless pilgrimages with a rather expensive set of litter pickers doing one on Rauschenberg with nothing but a pretty face to look at afterwards (see article), who on earth could say he hasn’t succeeded in doing so? Forget the order, chaos and randomness, just look at the beauty, sorrow and reality of this diptych, in fact it’s so intrinsically visceral we’re not the only ones feeling the impressionable impact of material one might find any day of the week whilst on a park walk, looking under a public bench or personally placing this, that and beyond in the trash as even the global jigsaw puzzle conglomerate Ravensbuger of Germany has reportedly been very interested in buying the rights to a number of the Artists meditative Detritus works (opportunities to date the artist still hasn’t capitalised on).
Image Credit: Georgia Shomber
Just what goes through this man’s head at breakfast? How a Thatcher’s four pack wrapper could represent a Venus that in time might well be deemed equal if not superior to Botticelli’s Uffizzi confined masterpiece or how a dog toy juxtaposed with nothing less than Calvin Kline’s may well stimulate the female visual cortex more than Rocco Siffredi’s manhood – who knows but overlooking the decisively installed legion of poppies next to the map of the entire world, this is all really child’s play. Very much so, as in reality beyond that what might have him recognised as a geometrical genius or heartened environmentalist let least a Good Samaritan the still very much young Tarquini, (full name Omero Benvolio Whiteleg Amor Tarquini Esq) who’s hereditary forebears span a history with the British Military from the times of the first telegram implementation in conflict, (at the Crimea) as well as the above marvel(s) is actually working with some of the most pioneering technological techniques on, in and around the planet-utilising BCI creation methodologies, holograms and even more
Hence why the artist’s “diecienal” (biannual for 10 years) exhibitions (Space 4 Thought, Mother Nature & Arête) are so highly anticipated.
We only have 6 more years to wait, what in good heavens are we to expect.
Well one thing is for certain absolutely nothing less than human orchestrated excellence