Andrea Galvani © Death of an Image #18, 2006
C-print mounted on aluminum dibond
White wood frame with museum glass
128 x 180 x 6 cm / 50.4 x 70.9 x 2.3 inches

DEATH OF AN IMAGE

There are fundamental forces in nature that govern the structure and mobility of all things. In physics, they are defined as fields—physical entities that contain energy, occupy space, and mediate interactions between objects. Reality is comprised by these complex entanglements: continuous deformations, indefinite fluctuations, hidden structures embedded and superimposed within and among each other.  Death of an Image (2003-2008) is the result of pioneering ways of thinking about architecture, photographic space, and action—seeming to disclose dimensions invisible and internal, those which order and constitute the material fabric of our world. 
In the photographs of this early series, space is expanded and deposited under biological aggregations, strange crystalline formations, or cosmic explosions. Working for several years in the landscape, the artist used a barrage of objects to detract portions of the territory, mirrors to reflect light—measuring, unfolding, and altering the perception of space. Suspended in remote and dilated time, locations are disturbed and disrupted through physical experiments: sudden actions lasting for a fraction of a second; or on the contrary, structural interventions with fragile properties, constructed through very slow processes.

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Graphic reproduction of original
set distribution sketch for Death of an Image 
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Scan of artist's journal kept during the
production of Death of an Image

Andrea Galvani © Death of an Image #12, 2006
C-print mounted on aluminum dibond
White wood frame with museum glass
128 x 180 x 6 cm / 50.4 x 70.9 x 2.3 inches

Andrea Galvani © Death of an Image #2, 2005
C-print mounted on aluminum dibond
White wood frame with museum glass
113 x 158 x 6 cm / 44.4 x 62.2 x 2.3 inches

Andrea Galvani © Death of an Image #16, 2006
C-print mounted on aluminum dibond
White wood frame with museum glass
100 x 150 cm / 39.4 x 59 inches

Andrea Galvani © Death of an Image #4, 2005
C-print mounted on aluminum dibond
White wood frame with museum glass
140 x 180 x 6 cm / 55.1 x 70.8 x 2.3 inches

Andrea Galvani © 2005
Study on Transmissions for
Death of an Image
Ink on archival paper

Andrea Galvani © Death of an Image #5, 2005
C-print mounted on aluminum dibond
White wood frame with museum glass
108 x 146 cm / 42.5 x 57.5 inches