Exhibitions, Italy, Milano, 16 March 2011
On Wednesday the 16th of March will be inaugurated at the Ciocca Arte Contemporanea gallery a solo artist exhibition of artist Arianna Vanini titled ‘Impermanence’. The artist has four site-specific installations that, like snapshots, capture a moment of the impermanence of reality that surrounds us and outline a geography that is usually removed from our perception. Arianna Vanini, through the use of sound or of familiar materials such as salt, graphite and matches, leads the viewer in a microcosm consisting of structures that you can feel empathy with, which are somehow "close" to human life. Yet they do not reassure, they are fragile and precarious, sometimes evanescent, composed of the same material as the earth. ‘Sintassi – Altra Sintassi’ welcomes the viewer at the entrance of the gallery: the white wall becomes a blackboard on which the artist rewrites through a mathematical alphabet, the homonymous text of Carlos Castaneda. At first glance, the content does not seem intelligible, as if the artist is asking visitors, ideally, an effort to disrupt the usual syntactical and mental systems. The process of rewriting - as well as that of "reading" - thus becomes a form of action, a kind of ritual behavior that does not end in action, but through mathematics attempts to develop a poetic form of knowledge.
At the center of the gallery visitors will find ‘Bright Vibration’, a large floor installation, which recreates a mapping of the salinity of the oceans. The artist uses sea salt and thus reflects on the symbolic dimension of this natural occurring element that has remained unchanged over time in significance and meanings, such as life and death, conservation and purification, and which was the subject of superstitions and a symbol of hospitality. What interests the artist in using such a highly symbolic material like salt is suggested to us by its own etymology, which contains the words "vibration" and "lightwave", underlining its ability to create and preserve life or at the same time to destroy it; the emotional geography which is created is something that is changeable and elusive, a kind of "negative" in which the lands that have emerged are being built by subtraction. ‘Potential Self-portrait’ (Lat N 45 ° 37 '12.00 ", Long E 8 ° 50 ' 24.00", 29.01.1977, 14:00) is a large wall installation composed of hundreds of matches, each of which represents a star in the sky: an architecture apparently fragile and harmless which, like the life of a man, can be consumed in few seconds.
The title of ‘Potential Self-portrait’ (Lat N 45 ° 37 '12.00 ", Long E 8 ° 50 ' 24.00", 29.01.1977, 14:00) takes us back to the coordinates of a time and a place "others", revealing what is for the artist a potential mapping, a personal reflection on the relativity of the concept of time. But if what seems real is nothing more than an elaboration of information, then the question of time leads inexorably to a reflection on the dilemma of being? The last work in this exhibition is ‘80AU’, an installation that spreads mysterious sounds through the gallery spaces. The artist in this case has reworked the recording of the electromagnetic waves produced by the planets of the solar system, turning them into a frequency audible to the human ear. The work's title refers to the unit of astronomical measurement (AU = Astronomic Unit) that is normally used to define the size of the solar system in relation to the distance between earth and sun. The sound in this work is used as a sculpture material that defines the geography in the - and of the - space. As in previous works, here the artist applies a reversal of plans, thus offering the viewer a different perspective, placing him at the center of a new reference system.
Arianna Vanini's works have the same ephemeral nature of the world in flux, where, when something appears, the rest disappears. These are technical representations like proper maps are themselves, in other words representations of a concept that does not intercede at all with actual reality. The space of the creation is moving along the tracks of geographical astronomy and physics, along the union that may result from an art which poetically chooses to represent the scientific "disorder " of the known universe.
A critical essay by Matteo Bergamini will accompany the exhibition.
For information: gallery@rossanaciocca.it
Hours: 14:00 to 19:30 Closed Sunday and Monday, via Lecco 15 - 20124 Milan
tel. +39-02.29530826, fax +39-02.20421206
www.rossanaciocca.it gallery@rossanaciocca.it
At the center of the gallery visitors will find ‘Bright Vibration’, a large floor installation, which recreates a mapping of the salinity of the oceans. The artist uses sea salt and thus reflects on the symbolic dimension of this natural occurring element that has remained unchanged over time in significance and meanings, such as life and death, conservation and purification, and which was the subject of superstitions and a symbol of hospitality. What interests the artist in using such a highly symbolic material like salt is suggested to us by its own etymology, which contains the words "vibration" and "lightwave", underlining its ability to create and preserve life or at the same time to destroy it; the emotional geography which is created is something that is changeable and elusive, a kind of "negative" in which the lands that have emerged are being built by subtraction. ‘Potential Self-portrait’ (Lat N 45 ° 37 '12.00 ", Long E 8 ° 50 ' 24.00", 29.01.1977, 14:00) is a large wall installation composed of hundreds of matches, each of which represents a star in the sky: an architecture apparently fragile and harmless which, like the life of a man, can be consumed in few seconds.
The title of ‘Potential Self-portrait’ (Lat N 45 ° 37 '12.00 ", Long E 8 ° 50 ' 24.00", 29.01.1977, 14:00) takes us back to the coordinates of a time and a place "others", revealing what is for the artist a potential mapping, a personal reflection on the relativity of the concept of time. But if what seems real is nothing more than an elaboration of information, then the question of time leads inexorably to a reflection on the dilemma of being? The last work in this exhibition is ‘80AU’, an installation that spreads mysterious sounds through the gallery spaces. The artist in this case has reworked the recording of the electromagnetic waves produced by the planets of the solar system, turning them into a frequency audible to the human ear. The work's title refers to the unit of astronomical measurement (AU = Astronomic Unit) that is normally used to define the size of the solar system in relation to the distance between earth and sun. The sound in this work is used as a sculpture material that defines the geography in the - and of the - space. As in previous works, here the artist applies a reversal of plans, thus offering the viewer a different perspective, placing him at the center of a new reference system.
Arianna Vanini's works have the same ephemeral nature of the world in flux, where, when something appears, the rest disappears. These are technical representations like proper maps are themselves, in other words representations of a concept that does not intercede at all with actual reality. The space of the creation is moving along the tracks of geographical astronomy and physics, along the union that may result from an art which poetically chooses to represent the scientific "disorder " of the known universe.
A critical essay by Matteo Bergamini will accompany the exhibition.
For information: gallery@rossanaciocca.it
Hours: 14:00 to 19:30 Closed Sunday and Monday, via Lecco 15 - 20124 Milan
tel. +39-02.29530826, fax +39-02.20421206
www.rossanaciocca.it gallery@rossanaciocca.it
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