A guide to the Unknown Other, Damien Cifelli

In Tarogramma, the imaginary world conceived by Damien Cifelli as a setting for his vibrant paintings, plants are plentiful, but animals don’t exist. 

The landscapes are as diverse and enigmatic as its inhabitants, who commune with bodies of water, traverse the desert in a suit, and size up an enigmatic object on a dinner plate.

 Cifelli’s stylish figures investigate their environment to try to understand their place within it. 

Many of the paintings shown here were recently exhibited at Spinello Projects in Miami, emphasizing the artist’s recent focus on analyzing what life is like in this fictive world.