ANDREA GALVANI

La deviazione

La deviazione (set 2 – livello 0.2 – unità 11), 2004 – Photographic print on aluminum, variable dimensions

 .

OPENING:  Saturday, 05 June 2004 – h 6.00

07 June 2004 – 15 September 2004

.

Critical essays on catalogue in catalogo di ALFREDO SIGOLO e LUIGI FASSI

Exactly two years after his last solo show at the Artericambi Gallery, Andrea Galvani presents a new and complex project. It is the mapping of a parallel universe, completely symbolic and abstract; in it converge the ideas of connection, territoriality, balance, information, according to rigorous geometries and metonymic visions.

In a radical practice of doubt and deconstruction, the artist traces fictions and perceptive violence that insinuate themselves through the media into our relationship with reality. White traces similar to aerial topographies, plans of electronic systems, underground ducts and labyrinths, are flanked by completely real photographic landscapes in which however a singular alien atmosphere shines through; places where time appears frozen in an artificial and dramatic wait. The work is articulated through a sinusoidal immersion in different semantic planes.

Using a complex vocabulary of visual synonyms Galvani identifies the coordinates of a mathematical system by setting precise conceptual intentions. The deviation alludes to the actual need to exercise a choice within a predetermined path and at the same time defines the chemical process by which the artist reverses photographic films. Galvani uses pure photography, manipulating it manually, but his work blurs the boundaries between installation and photography, between production and reproduction, also making use of different means of expression.

On this occasion, a series of ink drawings and a video previewed at Artefiera 2004 and selected for the On Air review – Art video broadcast from Italy, held last April at the Civic Gallery of Monfalcone, will also be exhibited.

Andrea Galvani, La deviazione – Unit 12, 2004 – Photographic print on aluminum, variable dimensions

_______________________________________________________________________________________

Andrea Galvani, La Deviazione (set 1 – livello 0.1), 2004 – Photographic print on aluminum, variables dimensions

Andrea Galvani, La deviazione (set 1 – livello 0.2 – unità 29), 2004 – Photographic print on aluminum, variable dimensions

Andrea Galvani, La deviazione (set 1 – livello 0.2 – unità 73), 2004 – Photographic print on aluminum, variable dimensions

Andrea Galvani, Hunting bears, 2004 – Video