©2006 Raphael DiLuzio, I consider this series my first successful time-based  painting in terms of overall concept and intention. These works were first exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Then at Arte Domus Museum in Salamanca Spain as part of the exhibition “Video Killed the Painting Star,” curated by Paco Baragan and Javier Panera. It was later exhibited at the Gallerie Caprice Horn in Berlin Germany and the Jameson Modern in Portland Maine.

The Fall of the Roses, is a looped mono-channel DVD of 16 min., screened straight onto the wall, references the re-reading of classical genres like portraiture, specifically the works of Velazquez and Whistler. The work results from my theory of an “eye-in-time” which sees narrative structures in work that relies on cinematic time-based nonlinear sequence, montage and superimposition. Differing from what I call the “silent-eye” prevalent until early twentieth century that was conditioned to perceiving content in fixed images and perspective. This enigmatic portrait is recreated again and again by form and color reflecting different states of minds while alluding to a creative interplay of abstraction and figuration