Wedding Dress
Imposition
As individuation forms out of formlessness into grooves, ridges, crevices and arroyos defining the embodiment of awareness as human being our experience narrows down into an either/or. This appears to be necessary to steer this organism through life. intact. What once was a means for survival then becomes an imposition, an impingement, an impediment, a […]
Review of wedding dress
One has to walk into a room where the wedding dress sculpture created by Ms. N. Giulini visually dominates the space where it stands in order to experience the full, very profound and disturbing effect of its impact; to truly comprehend the magnitude of this achievement…There is meaning in this sculpture that says all of […]
Review of Artist’s Statement
In another work, titled Artist’s Statement, Giulini has push-pinned dozens of rubber bands to the wall. Arranged in the form of a text block, the five rows of sagging ellipses take on the quality of coded writing in a greeked alphabet, which gives us the form of language but not its content. It is indeed […]
Review of Puppets
The most extraordinary work is by Giulini, who fabricates giant brown carnival figures like medieval mummers or Miro’s Ubu Roi characters from layers of fungal skin. She cultivates this in her backyard, shapes, dries and varnishes it before stitching it together… Japan Times, April 13, 1997
San Francisco Bay Guardian review
..Cross the threshold of Gallery One and you encounter Nöle Giulini’s Wedding Dress, a gender-neutral sculpture constructed from recycled men’s and women’s undergarments. Hardly a patchwork that conjures up the traditional lace-curtain circus, these off-white undies have been through the wringer (they’re hand-me-downs appropriated from friends and thrift shops)…And while it may be OK for […]
San Francisco Chronicle review
I do admire Nöle Giulini’s sculpture. Along one wall, she has a row of untitled puppets made of discarded underwear on wire armatures. A kind of sexual joke winks in the idea of underwear rising to perform on its own. These ungendered little figures are like friendly ghosts of the social unconscious… Datebook, San Francisco […]
San Francisco Examiner review
As she has in the past, Nöle Giulini steals the show…Following the classic surrealist precept to make it strange, Giulini has succeeded in astonishing the viewer with a simple insight executed to perfection…Other work of hers, such as slippers and a jacket sewn from banana peels, address survival issues and the nature of skin as […]
Artspace Magazine review
At Paula Anglim, four artists shared the space. The most compelling work in the gallery was indisputably Nöle Giulini’s installation of a suite of dried banana skins, each with its own meticulously constructed, bandage like shroud-cumcarrying case. Horrifyingly attractive, these withered fetish-like lumps suggest voodoo, or maybe the pious preservation of some peculiar portion of […]
Three Women At New Langston review
Magical procedures happen to be a theme in this show, too. There is a quality of the fairy-tale grotesque about Giulini’s “Untitled (Bananashoes).” Here pairs of shoes made from stitched-up banana peels sit atop a row of glass shoe boxes. The paradox in making shoes from stuff that symbolizes a pratfall turns to pity for […]