Win Zibeon

Win Zibeon will be exhibiting his newest paintings at the Piermont Flywheel Gallery June 1 – 18, 2006. 

Remember the old moralistic story, about how King Midas wished that everything he touched would turn to gold?  And then it happened?  Win Zibeon’s one-man exhibition at the Piermont Flywheel Gallery goes a long way to showing us what King Midas’ world must have looked like. 

The exhibition is titled “Placcato Oro” which in Italian means covered in gold.  These paintings are, without doubt, gold in every possible dimension.  When asked about how he came to paint these canvases, Win says, “If you are familiar with my work you know that my paintings have incorporated paintings of frames for many years now.  The frame is part of the painting.  At first I did this because someone framed a painting I’d done with the most awful, dominating, ugly frame imaginable and the painting wasn’t my painting any more.  I have been studying frames for over twenty years.  Sometimes I’ll go to a museum just to look at the frames.  So often they are gold, more gold and golder still.  Often the frame overwhelms the painting, even on venerable old masters, and sometimes I find it impossible to even see the painting because the frame is so wide and ornate. With the first painting I did in this series, I wanted to experiment and see what happened when the gold took over literally. These paintings are the result.”