20 January 2014
Ryts Monet won the 'Installation, Sculpture & Performance Prize', Premio Celeste 2013.
Gallery COEXIST-TOKYO is pleased to present Sisters, a solo show by the Italian artist Ryts Monet. Sisters is titled after one of the exhibited works – all created between Italy and Japan and displayed in Tokyo as part of his exhibition.
According to the physical principle of entropy, every system – including the universe itself, shifts from a state of order to a state of increasing disorder, in which energy tends to a constant dissipation. If on the one hand, order is defined as a specific arrangement of elements – which may arbitrarily be seen as harmonic – on the other hand disorder is the dissolution of that arrangement, and the placement of elements in a different form. The tension between order and chaos, evolution and crushing, act and potency is embodied in the artworks on display, which fluctuate between the strength of the visual and formal data and the precariousness of the human condition envisaged.
The figure of the Statue of Liberty, always the same and always different, imprinted with trichloroethylene in a series of prints, appears to crumble before the eyes of the viewer, as if the chemical process that generated it was acting in reverse, erasing the image. Similarly, the world that the works depict crumbles. Perhaps, only few traces of human activity – sometimes ephemeral sometimes violent, will survive in a world that tends to chaos and that began without man and will end without him. From the discovery of fire to the invention of the atomic bomb, the human spirit, through institutions, symbols, religions, customs and traditions, has tried to organize the universe. However, all human creations actually have meaning only in relation to man and will be dissolved into disorder after his disappearance from the Earth.
Following these and other suggestions, the artist acts in a space that oscillates between documentation and fiction, reality and imaginary, in which each figure could be seen as a relic from an archaeological museum of the future or as a cultural symbol-symptom; a divinity asking veneration or a survivor of a post-apocalyptic scenario. Collective narratives – such as colonialism, and the expansion of a culture by the spreading of its idols’ effigies – fit into the personal narrative of Ryts Monet, who, in his work, draws as much from the sacred as from science fiction.
'Beatrice Forchini'
http://www.celesteprize.com/ryts.monet
http://www.rytsmonet.eu/
Gallery COEXIST-TOKYO is pleased to present Sisters, a solo show by the Italian artist Ryts Monet. Sisters is titled after one of the exhibited works – all created between Italy and Japan and displayed in Tokyo as part of his exhibition.
According to the physical principle of entropy, every system – including the universe itself, shifts from a state of order to a state of increasing disorder, in which energy tends to a constant dissipation. If on the one hand, order is defined as a specific arrangement of elements – which may arbitrarily be seen as harmonic – on the other hand disorder is the dissolution of that arrangement, and the placement of elements in a different form. The tension between order and chaos, evolution and crushing, act and potency is embodied in the artworks on display, which fluctuate between the strength of the visual and formal data and the precariousness of the human condition envisaged.
The figure of the Statue of Liberty, always the same and always different, imprinted with trichloroethylene in a series of prints, appears to crumble before the eyes of the viewer, as if the chemical process that generated it was acting in reverse, erasing the image. Similarly, the world that the works depict crumbles. Perhaps, only few traces of human activity – sometimes ephemeral sometimes violent, will survive in a world that tends to chaos and that began without man and will end without him. From the discovery of fire to the invention of the atomic bomb, the human spirit, through institutions, symbols, religions, customs and traditions, has tried to organize the universe. However, all human creations actually have meaning only in relation to man and will be dissolved into disorder after his disappearance from the Earth.
Following these and other suggestions, the artist acts in a space that oscillates between documentation and fiction, reality and imaginary, in which each figure could be seen as a relic from an archaeological museum of the future or as a cultural symbol-symptom; a divinity asking veneration or a survivor of a post-apocalyptic scenario. Collective narratives – such as colonialism, and the expansion of a culture by the spreading of its idols’ effigies – fit into the personal narrative of Ryts Monet, who, in his work, draws as much from the sacred as from science fiction.
'Beatrice Forchini'
http://www.celesteprize.com/ryts.monet
http://www.rytsmonet.eu/
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