News 2011 - 2014
2011 - 2014
UNTITLED. MIAMI BEACH 2014
Marso Galería | B29
3-7 December 2014
ARTISSIMA 2014
Artericambi | Main Section, Orange 12
Marso Galería | New Entries Section, Dark Blue 5
7-9 November 2014
LA GIOIA: THROUGH THE EYES OF THREE ITALIAN COLLECTORS
Maison Particuliére Art Center, Brussels
16 October - 21 December 2014
Artists: Mario Airò; Giorgio Andreotta Calò; Stefano Arienti; Vanessa Beecroft; Gianni Berengo Gardin; Antonio Biasiucci; Gianni Caravaggio; Vincenzo Castella; Lucien Clergue; Enrico David; Giovanni De Lazzari; Gabriele De Santis; Rä di Martino; Bruna Esposito; Flavio Favelli; Michael Fliri; Franco Fontana; Giuseppe Gabellone; Andrea Galvani; Alberto Garutti; Anna Gaskell; Mario Giacomelli; Damien Hirst; Marc Hosking; Mimmo Jodice; Kcho; Karen Knorr; Gabriel Kuri; Sarah Lucas; Eva Marisaldi; Hugo Markl; Jacopo Mazzonelli; Sabrina Mezzaqui; Ivan Mikhailov; Valentina Miorandi; Tracey Moffatt; Paolo Mussat Sartor; Luigi Ontani; Gabriel Orozco; Giulio Paolini; Martin Parr; Beatrice Pediconi; Vettor Pisani; Paola Pivi; Luca Pozzi; Tobias Rehberger; Sara Rossi; Thomas Ruff; Ferdinando Scianna; Rudolf Stingel; Luca Trevisani; Paolo Ventura; Francesco Vezzoli; Luca Vitone; Andro Wekua.
SOFT TARGET
Curated by Phil Chang and Matthew Porter
M+B, Los Angeles
26 June - 6 September 2014
Artists: Richard Caldicott, Julie Cockburn, Sara Cwynar, Shannon Ebner, Andrea Galvani, David Goldes, Peter Holzhauer, Whitney Hubbs, Tim Hyde, Ron Jude, Soo Kim, Anna Kleberg, Barney Kulok, Justine Kurland, Luisa Lambri, Miranda Lichtenstein, Matt Lipps, Sharon Lockhart, Jason Bailer Losh, Marlo Pascual, A. Pilgrim Peterman, Adam Putnam, Michael Queenland, Amanda Ross-Ho, Asha Schechter, Collier Schorr, Dan Torop, Michael Vahrenwald, Sara VanDerBeek and Hannah Whitaker.
LANDSCAPE AS A BRAIN | LECTURE
Andrea Galvani in conversation with Luca Panaro
Accademia de Belle Arti di Brera, Milan
28 April 2014, 10 AM - 1 PM
LANDSCAPE AS A BRAIN | WORKSHOP
New Technologies for the Arts, Brera | Room 207-208
29-30 April 2014, 9 AM - 1 PM and 2-6 PM
IX BIENNALE OF VISUAL ARTS OF NICARAGUA | RECYCLING MEMORY: RECAPTURING THE LOST CITY
Curated by Omar López-Chahoud
Centro de Arte FOG-BANPRO | Edificio Málaga, Plaza España, Managua
18 March - 12 April 2014
International Guest Artists: Nadege Quintallet (France); Joaquín Segura (Mexico); Daniel Borins (Canada); Jennifer Marman (Canada); Andrea Galvani (Italy - USA); Teresa Margolles (Mexico); Danny Zavaleta (Fuga Alternativa, El Salvador); Victor Rodríguez (Fuga Alternativa,El Salvador); Silvia Zayas (España); Javier Tellez (Venezuela - USA); Irvin Morazan (El Salvador – USA); Victoria Fu (USA); Yeni Mao (USA); La Toya Ruby Frazier (USA); Leah Dixon (USA); Christian Dietkus (USA); Ghislaine Fremaux (USA); Williamson Brasfield (USA). National Guest Artists: Marcos Agudelo; Darwin Andino, Colectivo 23; Fredman Barahona; Carlos Barberena; Ernesto Cardenal; Cristina Cuadra; Alejandro de la Guerra; Espira-Adrede; Milena García; Maruca Gómez; José González; Claudia Gordillo; Ricardo Huezo; Darling López Salinas; Juan Carlos Mendoza,Colectivo 23; José Montealegre, Colectivo 23; Consuelo Mora, Colectivo 23; Moisés Mora, Colectivo 23; Luis MoralesAlonso; Raúl Quintanilla; Ernesto Salmerón; Marisa Tellería; Leonel Vanegas (1942-1989); Kelton Villavicencio
ON WHAT THERE MIGHT NOT BE
Curated by Sofia Mariscal and Polina Stroganova
Marso Galería, México City
16 January - 23 March 2013
On What There Might Not Be features the work of 11 international artists who reflect on the concept of “nothingness,” a complex term which unfolds a variety of notions: zero in mathematics, the vacuum in physics, the void in philosophy, the “uncreated” in theology, infinity in astronomy, silence in music, the absurd in logic, the invisible and intangible in art. The works presented in this exhibition explore ways in which such seemingly trivial concepts are fundamental to our understanding of how life is shaped, and how nothingness is intimately linked to our history and everyday experience.
Artists: Francis Alÿs, Virginia Colwell, Arturo Hernández Alcázar, Zilvinas Kempinas, Daniela Libertad, Adrien Missika, Jakob Mattner, Tony Orrico, Luis Felipe Ortega, Andy Warhol.
Special Project: Andrea Galvani, Artist in Residency, January - March 2014
DECEPTOR
Curated by Kessler & Kessler
FIFI Projects, México City
5 February - 28 March 2013
Deception is the very thing that forms the human order and separates us from our wild companions. Unlike humans, the animal does not know lying and deceit. Animals don’t make bargains, to be upheld or broken. The capacity to deceive themselves is the superiority of humans over animal, and allows them to escape the knowledge of their own mortality. Though this gap of consciousness elevates us from the wild beast nevertheless we live in the body of an animal. Artists: Adam Helms, Andrea Galvani, Jon Naiman, Mark Dion, Nick Payne, Tony Oursler, Bradford Kessler, Carolee Schneemann, Daniel Allegrucci, Dana Sherwood, Dieter Buchhart, Gabriele Stellbaum.
THAW
Curated by Jill Conner
Dorosky Curatorial Programs, New York
19 January - 6 April 2014
Artists: Janet Biggs, Michele Brody, Blane De St. Croix, Vicki DaSilva, Elise Engler, Phyllis Ewen, Andrea Galvani, Elizabeth Jordan, Itty Neuhaus, Alexis Rockman, and Scott Walden
UNTITLED. MIAMI BEACH 2013
Marso Galería | B05
4-8 December 2013
Artists: Virginia Colwell, Andrea Galvani, Daniela Libertad, Jacqueline Lozano, Tony Orrico, Luis Felipe Ortega, Tim Hyde
ARTISSIMA 2013
Artericambi | Dark Blue, Booth 13
7-10 November 2013
Artists: Crystal Z Campbell, Helen Dowling, Andrea Galvani, Giovanni Morbin, Fabio Sandri, Christian Manuel Zanon
EXPO CHICAGO 2013
Aperture Foundation | Booth 101
19-22 September 2013
Artists: Jason Evans, Andrea Galvani, Richard Mosse, and James Welling
LANDSCAPE AS A BRAIN
A Conversation between Andrea Galvani, Jovana Stokic, and Mathias Kessler
Y Gallery, New York
4 October 2013, 7-8 PM
FRAMMENTI DI UN DISCORSO AMOROSO: 4 MUSEUMS FOR 4 COLLECTORS
Curated by Andrea Bruciati
Museo Lapidario Maggeiano, Verona
5 October - 10 November 2013
Artists: Pierre Bismuth, Alberto Garutti, Diango Hernandez, Anri Sala, Shilpa Gupta, Elad Lassry, Steven Pippin, Tobias Putrih, Andrea Galvani, Giovanni Ozzola, Luca Pozzi, Luca Trevisani, Vanessa Safavi, Wilfredo Prieto, Runo Lagomarsino, Jesse Ash
IN COLD BLOOD: ANDREA GALVANI AND MATHIAS KESSLER
Curated by Cecilia Jurado
Y Gallery, New York
11 September - 6 October 2013
Where does the landscape start? Where are its borders? In the work of Andrea Galvani and Mathias Kessler, the landscape manifests itself as an extension of memory and the body. The two artists have traveled to the coldest regions of the planet where they confronted nature;s overwhelming grandiosity. By illuminating icy landscapes, they tried to conquer an otherwise unreachable place.
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IL MONDO DEGLI OGGETI
UniCredit Contemporary Art Collection
UniCredit Art Gallery, Verona
June 2013
Il Mondo degli Oggetti ["The World of Objects"] features a selection of contemporary works from the UniCredit Art Collection that present us with new perspectives on everyday objects.These pieces by two Italian and four international artists challenge us to rethink how we represent, incorporate or interact with various objects in our daily lives. For Handan Börüteçene, objects give voice to the history of places. To Giuseppe Penone, objects are a bridge between humans and substance, while Robin Rhode displays them as a creative dialogue. But whether objects are the mysterious or unexpected presences of Andrea Galvani, accumulations of Maria Friberg or complex assemblages of Michael Johansson, the exhibition shows that objects interact with our spaces and with us, and speak to our time and history.
LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA: NELL'ACQUA CAPISCO
Curated by Claudio Libero Pisano
Ateno Veneto / Procuratie Vecchie
29 May - 29 September 2013
Water is protagonist of this project, it tells us the relations, communications, feelings and aspirations that move through this element as a vehicle to express a mood. Water is the common feature of all works exhibited, its roaming sound attempts to hide feelings of distress, diving into water can be a way to recover the outside world. Furthermore, water means sharing, interpreting inclusive messages, water gives us the possibility to reconvert a common good into more productive elements. All this is told through the works of artists who were able to create an original dialogue with water, sometimes joyful, often painful, but always thoughtful. Artists: Gregorio Botta, Simone Cametti, Paolo Canevari, Davide D’Elia, Alberto Di Fabio, Bruna Esposito, Andrea Galvani, Laurel Holloman, Regina José Galindo, Donatella Landi, Marina Paris, Simone Pellegrini, Gioacchino Pontrelli, Annie Ratti, Barbara Salvucci, Donatella Spaziani, Francesco Vaccari
HIGGS OCEAN: FOTOGRAFIA EUROPEA
Curated by Marinella Paderni
3 May - 16 June 2013
"Una volta trafitto il cielo e raggiunto l’ultimo strato della ionosfera, una qualsiasi fonte di luce a cui venga imposta una direzione è in grado di viaggiare per sempre verso le profondità più remote dello spazio." Con questa dichiarazione si apriva Higgs Ocean di Andrea Galvani, progetto esposto nel 2011 alla Biennale di Mosca e a numerose mostre internazionali, che viene ora per la prima volta riunito in uno spazio Istituzionale Italiano. La mostra a cura di Marinella Paderni fa parte del ciclo di personali ospitate da Fotografia Europea nella splendida cornice dei Chiostri di San Pietro. Per l’edizione 2013, che si svolgerà tra maggio e giugno, con tre giornate inaugurali dal 3 al 5 maggio, il tema scelto è Cambiare. Fotografia e responsabilità. Trattandosi di una riflessione a tutto campo sull’immagine contemporanea, si confrontano sul tema non solo fotografi ma anche intellettuali, artisti, filosofi e scrittori. Il punto di partenza è l’insegnamento di Luigi Ghirri: la possibilità, attraverso l’immagine, di guardare al mondo come non lo si è mai fatto prima.
PGH Photo Fair 2013
Spaces Corners
18-19 May 2013
Artists: Andrea Galvani, Ed Panar, Charlotte Dumas.
IL PRIMO LUSTRO
Curated by Luca Panaro and Marcello Sparaventi
Centrale Fotografia, Fano
8-9 June 2013
L’immagine fotografica torna ad essere protagonista nel centro storico di Fano con la V Edizione di Centrale Fotografia, rassegna annuale di eventi sulla fotografia e l’arte contemporanea. Quest’anno la manifestazione festeggia il suo primo “lustro”, cinque anni di intensa attività all’insegna dell’immagine analizzata nelle sue infinite declinazioni. L’intento della manifestazione è infatti quello di fare una radiografia dell’attuale panorama artistico italiano, attraverso incontri con gli autori, mostre, conferenze, tavole rotonde, eventi collaterali, momenti di riflessione sulla fotografia e l’arte attuale, oltre ad offrire l’opportunità di scoprire bellissimi luoghi della città, come la Rocca Malatestiana, dove quest’anno si svolgono i principali appuntamenti di Centrale Fotografia.
Negli anni precedenti la rassegna ha ricordato la Scuola Fotografica Marchigiana: Mario Giacomelli, Giuseppe Cavalli e Luigi Crocenzi (2009), in seguito ha ospitato importanti artisti come Franco Vaccari e Olivo Barbieri (2010), Mario Cresci e Paola Di Bello (2011), Alessandra Spranzi e Paolo Ventura (2012). Gli ospiti d’onore di quest’anno sono due altrettanto affermati artisti internazionali contemporanei: Andrea Galvani e Paola De Pietri. Come tradizione si raccontano al pubblico in una conferenza dal taglio retrospettivo, capace di trasmettere il senso e l’evoluzione della loro produzione nel tempo. Gli incontri con gli ospiti d’onore sono accompagnati da proiezioni d’immagini e arricchiti dal dibattito col pubblico, alimentando il dialogo e favorendo la comprensione di una ricerca visiva spesso complessa e articolata.
CONVERSAZIONI SULL'IMMAGINE BOOK LAUNCH
Centro Arti Visive Pescheria, Pesaro
14 April 2013, 5 PM
Eight conversations between Luca Panaro and artists of different approaches but nonetheless interpreters of the strictest contemporaneity. Their chosen medium is photography but their cultural field is art. Reflection on the image and its most recent use makes this brief collection of interviews a handy tool for decoding the present.
TERRARIUM: ANDREA GALVANI AND TIM HYDE
Marso Galería, México City
9 April - 26 May 2013
Terrarium is a conversation in five rooms taking place simultaneously. The historical architecture of the gallery is used by the artists to enclose a dialog between separate geographic explorations of time and memory. The exhibition itself is alive and in flux, featuring a collaboratively-built modular sculpture that is continuously reconfigured to enable conversations and actions with artists and curators in Mexico City. The show includes more than 25 works of photography, collage, drawing, video, and sculpture. New works are combined with projects that have been exhibited internationally at venues that include the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Moscow Biennale, the Ar/ge Kunst Galerie Museum in Bolzano Italy, the Poznan Biennale in Poland, and the Whitney Museum of Art in New York. Terrarium marks the first exhibition by both artists in Mexico.
In addition to the exhibition at Marso Gallery, the artists will present a special installation at Zona Maco 2013, derived from their ongoing collaborative project, The Skull Sessions. The Skull Sessions are conversations rendered as form. Each Session is a dialogue recorded and reshaped into experimental publications, objects, images, and installations.
NEXT STOP: ITALY
Curated by Renato Miracco
Phillips Collection, Washington DC
20 March - 28 April 2013
The new world that is taking shape demands to be explored by a wide range of artistic languages, with the aim of closely confronting the new frontiers of reality. As with other countries in the past, photography in Italy seems, more than ever, to be in harmony with the times, capable of integrating the dominant characteristics of the present era. The photographic composition involves a process of intensification and actualization of reality, a synthesis, exactly as poetry distills concepts with essential, perfectly balanced words, without there being a single superfluous one. The gift of the image and the brevity of verse are places from which to observe our own soul and to see precisely what it is doing, thinking, or feeling. In 2013, Year of Italian Culture in the United States, contemporary Italian photography and poetry verse join together as protagonists to show America the special, all-Italian relationship between tradition and renewal, past and future. Artists: Gabriele Basilico, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Mario Cresci, Andrea Galvani, Luigi Ghirri, Mimmo Jodice, Franco Vaccari, Nino Migliori, Renato D'Agostin, Francesco Nonino, Paolo Ventura
THE ARMORY SHOW 2013
Aperture Foundation | Booth 827
Spaces Corners | Booth 821
7-10 March 2013
Aperture Foundation Artists: Rinko Kawauchi, Enrique Metinides, Richard Misrach, Andrea Galvani, Doug Rickard, and James Welling
Space Corners Artists: Andrea Galvani, Tim Hyde, and Ed Panar
THE SKULL SESSIONS: UNTITLED. MIAMI BEACH 2012
Curated by Omar López-Chahoud
3-9 December 2012
Andrea Galvani and Tim Hyde and have been invited by curator Omar Lopez-Chahoud to present a version of their collaborative project The Skull Sessions as one of seven Special Projects that will be included in Untitled, the first curated art fair in Miami. The artists are constructing a modular space to contain an exploded view of The Skull Sessions No.01 and 02, long-form conversations with Saul Melman and Alice Miceli. Over the course of the event, The space will incorporate a series of public talks and actions talks that revolve around radiation, invisibility, and geometry.
CONTEMPORARY ISTANBUL ART FAIR
22-25 November 2012
ARTISSIMA 2012
Artericambi | Violet Hall, Booth 12
8-11 November 2012
Artists: Carles Congost, Helen Dowling, Andrea Galvani, Anna Hughes, Giovanni Morbin, Fabio Sandri, Wael Shawky
PARIS PHOTO
Aperture Foundation | Stand EE1
14-18 November 2012
Artists: Diane Arbus, Bruce Davidson, Rinko Kawauchi, Barney Kulok, Enrique Metinides, Richard Misrach, Moriyama Daido, Richard Mosse, Vik Muniz, Andrea Galvani, Martin Parr, Doug Rickard, Paul Strand, Penelope Umbrico
MEDIATIONS BIENNALE: THE UNKNOWN
Curated by Tomasz Wendland (Poland), Denise Carvalho (USA/Brazil), Friedhelm Mennekes (Germany), Fumio Nanjo (Japan)
Poznań, Poland
14 September - 14 October 2012
“The unknown exists with the same intensity as the known or everything already comprehended. Perhaps a better way of putting it is: what exists, exists; what does not exist, exists as well." Artists: Adel Abdessemed, Nicole Ahland, Paulo Bruscky, Benjamin Bergmann, Nick Cave, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Richard Fajnor, Andrea Galvani, Gabriela Golder, Nick Hornby, Ali Hossaini, Tadeusz Kantor, Adam Kalinowski, Algis Kizys, Dariusz Kowalski, Mischa Kuball, Piotr Kurka, Sang Nam Lee, Simon Lee, Daniel Lergon, Kristin Lucas, Lenore Malen, Teresa Margolles, Alice Miceli, Simon Morley, Oskar Muñoz, Glexis Novoa, Julia Oldham, Robert Parke Harrison, Shana Parke Harrison, Bernd Jansen, Magdalena Jetelovà, Fernando Prats, Nicolas Provost, Tim Roda, Robert Rumas, Regina Silveira, Alexander Steig, Adriana Varella, Alejandro Vidal, Alex Villar, Bill Viola and many others.
ANDREA GALVANI | APT COLLECTION, NEW YORK
Artist Pension Trust (APT) is the first investment program dedicated to the interests of emerging and mid-career artists. APT's long-term financial planning services allow artists to invest their artworks alongside a community of select artists, thereby providing a uniquely diversified, alternative income stream. Our vision is to build an integrated financial services firm that caters to the financial needs of the artist.
IMAGES
Festival des Artes Visuels de Vevey
8-30 September 2012
Artists: Cindy Sherman, Myoung Ho Lee, Philip Kwame Apagya, Jean-Daniel Berclaz, Kurt Caviezel, Frédéric Cordier, Gohar Dashti, Alain Delorme, Ella & Pitr, Liu Bolin, Noémie Goudal, Svetlana Khachaturova, Christian Marclay, Andrea Galvani, Tereza Vlčková, Roman Signer, Sohei Nishino, Kent Rogowski, Fred Lebain, Jason E. Powell, Julie Sorrel, Fernando Moleres, Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville, Gea Casolaro, René Burri, Cyril Hatt.
THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE INVISIBLE
Tatiana Kourochkina Contemporary Art Project, Barcelona
June 2012
The Architecture of the Invisible brings together a set of works by Andrea Galvani and William Lamson in Spain for the first time. Articulated around the complex perception of nature in the contemporary world, this exhibition examines the ways in which landscape transcends merely cultural images and how art can encourage us to experience and reconfigure our environment starting from two very different positions. Thus the exhibition space welcomes a story filled with subtleties, a conversation in the actual gallery space and in the spectator’s awareness. Each work is a sort of window that opens contemplation of the unrepresentable, a kind of lattice from which to behold the architecture of the invisible, as suggested by the title of the show. The natural environments that appear in the works of Galvani and Lamson have a phantasmagorical quality about them precisely because they are pure morphology. Hence the fact that the poetic value of their respective landscapes doesn’t stem from abandonment or fantasy but quite the opposite—from that excess of verisimilitude that makes them exceptional, unprecedented.
WANDERINGS
Y Gallery, New York
June 2012
wan·der (w n d r)
v. wan·dered, wan·der·ing, wan·ders
v.intr.
1. To move about without a definite destination or purpose.
2. To go by an indirect route or at no set pace; amble: wander toward town.
3. To proceed in an irregular course; meander.
4. To go astray: wander from the path of righteousness.
5. To lose clarity or coherence of thought or expression.
v.tr.
Artists: Alberto Borea, Travis Boyer, Ryan Brown, José Luis Falconi, Andrea Galvani, Greg Lindquist, Liz Magic Laser, Jules Marquis (Colin Snapp & Daniel Turner), Mie Olise, Aurora Pellizzi, G.T Pellizzi, Rona Yefman, Hennessy Youngman, Bryan Zanisnik
"OH, YOU MEAN CELLOPHANE AND ALL THAT CRAP"
Curated by Katherine Cohn, (visual and performance art), Victoria Brooks (film and video), Kevin Barry and Gryphon Rower-Upjohn (music)
Calder Foundation, New York
5 May 2012, 2 PM - 2 AM
In his interview with Katherine Kuh from 1962, Alexander Calder recreates the term realist within his own vocation: to envision a thought and “conjure” it into space. As Kuh moves to center the dialogue, Calder’s ultimate remark "Oh, you mean cellophane and all that crap" clarifies that the modern world and its materials alone were not as important as his aim to lead the viewer to understand a concept—often not even a visual one. Through the innovative, unconventional use of materials, industrial or otherwise, he conceived works that could activate their environment with unpredictable entities such as sound, movement, chance, and anticipation. Immateriality and its transformation of space, so integral to Calder’s work, underscores the Calder Foundation’s Oh, you mean cellophane and all that crap. Embodying Calder’s equivocal sentiment through visual and performance art, music, film and video, the 12-hour programming takes as its point of departure a 1933 sound-making mobile that conjures into space not a tangible representation of an object, but the disquieting experience of sound and anticipation. Provoking a similarly immersive experience will be works by contemporary artists and performers that swell beyond their material confines, activating the larger space around them with such phenomena as light, scent, sound, air, anticipation, and disorientation. Rather than fixed, the curating is open form and gives precedence to components of real-time experience such as chance and the unexpected.
Performance, sculpture, installations and film by: Cory Arcangel, Darren Bader, Alexander Calder, Nina Canell, Dan Flavin, Andrea Galvani, Haroon Mirza, Kira Lynn Harris, Zilvinas Kempinas, James Turrell, Allora and Calzadilla, Francis Alÿs, Sebastian Buerkner, Mary Ellen Bute, Amy Granat, Laurent Grasso, Yves Klein, Duncan Marquiss, Laurent Montaron, Alexandre Singh, Anri Sala, and Roman Signer, James Lee Byars, Mayumi Ishino, Liz Magic Laser, Haroon Mirza, Aki Sasamoto, and Jacolby Satterwhite. Music by: Dan Friel, Loud Objects, Ikue Mori, Gryphon Rue, Sightings, Trockeneis, White Suns, and C Spencer Yeh.
UNCOMMON GROUND
Curated by Chris Littlewood
Flowers Gallery, London
12 July - 1 September 2012
Uncommon Ground is an exploration of environmental interventions in contemporary photography. Inspired by the work of Keith Arnatt and Gabriel Orozco, this exhibition aims to obscure the intersection between photographs of observed reality and artistically-altered reality. Here, the environment is considered in its broadest sense: natural ecosystems, urban and suburban space, domestic interiors, industrial landscapes and even political arenas. A selection of represented and invited artists’ work spanning the last decade, across a variety of international locations, will be on view. Documentarians create visual evidence of human interference with a growing propensity for scale and complexity; they describe complicated phenomena by embedding concepts within their subject matter. Other practitioners perform figurative or sculptural interventions by physically inserting themselves and their subjects into an environment. They engage, manipulate, transform, or become transformed by their surroundings and thereby communicate through evidence of their own disruptions. Both approaches have strong historical lineages – the latter partly influenced by a boom in conceptual land art of the 1960s. Convergence of these strands is becoming intricately intertwined creating new possibilities for photography. The work in this exhibition encourages wanderings across modes of practice, re-considering subjects of photographic documentary as inherently artistic, and the anthropological potential of seemingly irrational artistic interference.
THE SKULL SESSIONS 01
Andrea Galvani and Tim Hyde in conversation with Saul Melman
Meulensteen Gallery, New York
22 April 2012, 7-10 PM
Based on the structure of a magazine, The Skull Sessions is a series of conversations that Tim Hyde and Andrea Galvani are conducting with other artists, architects, scientists, and writers. Each issue is an opportunity to treat a conversation as a living form that could be manifested as some combination of interview and collaboration.
ARTBUS BQE PROGRAM, NEW YORK
4 May 2012, 3:45-8 PM
Coinciding with Frieze Art Fair, Artbus will offer a tour of independent spaces and studios in Bushwick, Greenpoint and Long Island City. Organized in collaboration with Residency Unlimited, the Artbus BQE program will offer passengers the opportunity to comfortably visit off the beaten path galleries, artist studios and some of the most dynamic museums outside of Manhattan without the hassle of depending on public transportation. Equipped with flat screens and a bar, the interior of the Artbus will host a series of informal conversations and presentations by Brooklyn-based artists, each presented or nominated by a reputed curator. Conceived as an itinerant exhibition platform and discussion space, Artbus BQE program aims to connect local artists and organizations to the international community attending the fairs. Participating Artists: Sara Bichão, David Brooks, Alberto Borea, Ernesto Burgos, Andrea Galvani, Guy Goldstein, Raul Gomez Valverde, Hilario Isola & Matteo Norzi, Ivana Ivkovic, Irgin Sena, Kilian Rüthemann, Tuguldur Yondonjamts. Curators: Marco Antonini (Director, NurtureArt), Bosko Boshkovic (Residency Unlimited), Guillermo Creus (Fortress to Solitude), Bridget Donahue (Cleopatra's), Alex Gartenfeld (West Street Gallery), Chelsea Haines (Independent Curators International), Omar López-Chahoud (Independent Curator), Eva Mendoza (Independent Curator), Wesley Miller (Art 21), Eriola Pira (Independent Curator), Vita Zaman (The Journal)
ANDREA GALVANI: A FEW INVISIBLE SCULPTURES
Meulensteen Gallery, New York
23 February - 21 April 2012
What are we talking about when we talk about sculpture? With the rigor and method characteristic of the American writer Raymond Carver, who in 1981 published a collection of short stories entitled, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Galvani calls widely accepted definitions into question. Thus A Few Invisible Sculptures provides a sober and insightful reflection on the function of contemporary sculpture, radically extending its boundaries. The exhibition will consist of an interdisciplinary body of work including sound sculpture, drawings, text-based works, collages and photographs, which cumulatively delve into phenomenological experiences to convey what the artist describes as an “architecture of the invisible.”
The project began with three minimalist sculptures constructed and later destroyed for the sound installation A Cube, a Sphere, and a Pyramid #1. Originally recorded in Germany, the audio track documents the echolocation of a group of bats flying around the suspended sculptures. Recorded with extreme precision, it provides a sonar scan of negative space around the objects, which is then played back at an audible frequency in an immersive installation of ten standing speakers. Extending the concept of an open sculpture, the exhibition also includes a text piece documenting a conversation Galvani had with a deaf electromagnetism researcher, collages that collapse memories of space to generate new and unstable forms, and photographs in which sculptures are used to produce actions. In all of these, the loop becomes a means to explore the physicality of consuming experience.
ANDREA GALVANI | Lecture
The School of Visual Arts Amphitheater, New York
16 February 2012, 7 PM
MELANCHOLY IS NOT ENOUGH
Curated by Niels Van Tomme
Pavilion Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, Bucharest
15 December 2011 - 19 February 2012
"A sorrowful pleasure,” according to Bulgarian-French theorist Julia Kristeva, melancholy is assumed to exclude any action. Besieged by one’s grievous state, one can’t react with or against this all-pervasive affective condition. Turning away from deliberately finding pleasure in overpowering sentiments and environments, as the melancholic subject is expected to in most conceptualizations of her state, the artists in this exhibition subvert the looming of melancholia into delight, relentlessly relating the physical places they navigate to the mental states they desire to appropriate. Artists: Lotte Van den Audenaeren (BE), Anne-James Chaton (FR), Andrea Galvani (IT), Jo Mitchell (UK), Matthias Wermke & Mischa Leinkauf (DE)
FOUR MINUTES, THIRTY-THREE SECONDS
Curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud
LegalArt, Miami
Opening 2 December 2011
Four Minutes, Thirty-Three Seconds revisits the liberated attitude towards the creative process that defines the Fluxus movement. This project coincides with significant exhibitions happening at MOMA, NY; the Grey Art Gallery; NYU and at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, in collaboration with Performa 2011. This leads us to reflect on the similar attitudes between Fluxus actionists and a younger generation of artists, as well as the socio-economic context in which these responses arise. The title of this exhibition makes reference to a piece by composer John Cage, a notable influence on the Fluxus work of Lithuanian-born artist George Maciunas (1931–1978). The Fluxus art movement in the 1960s and '70s was characterized by a strong Dadaist attitude, promoting artistic experimentation mixed with social and political activism. Often celebrated anarchistic change, Fluxus members avoided any limiting art theories and spurned pure aesthetic objectives. Their activities resulted in events or situations often called Aktions (works challenging the definition of art) and included performances, guerilla or street theater and concerts of electronic music, many of them similar to what in America were known as Happenings. Featured artists: Augurari Editions, Rodolfo Andaur, Hackworth Ashley, Spring Break, Monserrat Rojas Corradi, Cat Dove, Viking Funeral, Andrea Galvani, Jay Hines, Scott Hug, Karlo Ibarra, Carlos Irijalba, Brookhart Jonquil, Jason Keeling, Kristin Korolowicz, Liz Magic Laser, Nicolas Lobo, Gean Moreno, Richard Mosse, Ernesto Oroza, Gaston Persico, Manny Prieres, Print and Paste Collective (FAU), Megan Riley, Tom Scicluna, Joaquin Segura, SOMA, Natika Soward, Lara Stein Pardo, Suzanne Stroebe, Third Streaming/Yona Baker, Cecilia Szalkowicz, TM Sisters, Pinar Yolacan and others.
REWRITING WORLDS | 4TH MOSCOW BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Curated by Peter Weibel and Joseph Backstein
The ARTPLAY Design Center and the TSUM Art Foundation, Moscow
23 September - 30 October 2011
The Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art Rewriting Worlds will begin on Sept. 22, 2011. The main project will be held in two venues: the ARTPLAY Design Center and the TsUM Art Foundation (the exhibition space of the TsUM department store). Peter Weibel, a prominent artist, new media expert and head of the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, is curator of the main project, which will welcome about 80 artists from more than 20 different countries. The Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art is considered one of the largest, most prestigious and trend-setting contemporary art events in Russia and abroad. It owes its immense popularity to the participation of leading curators, philosophers and experts of present-day art. This year the organizing committee has opted for Peter Weibel to curate the main project. Biennale commissioner Joseph Backstein commented: “Curatorial functions of the main project of the Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art will be performed in 2011 by Peter Weibel, a famous specialist in the sphere of new media. Unlike the contents and style of the main project of the Third Biennale, this year’s exhibition will show different approaches to how media can be used in the contemporary artistic creative process as well as types of art that are deliberately critical of the role of technology and media in the life of modern civilization.” This year’s theme is “Rewriting Worlds,” which proclaims that art is a sphere where new things are unceasingly generated. What contemporary artists do is rewrite the existing world conveying their ideas in their artistic work. Weibel believes that the exhibition’s main goal is “to demonstrate different levels of artistic thought — technological, political and psychological.” In light of this, the following artists were invited to take part in the main project: Kader Attia, Chen Chieh-jen, EVOL, Claire Fontaine, Andrea Galvani, Susan Hiller, Rebecca Horn, Manabu Ikeda, Elmgreen & Dragset, Shilpa Gupta, Isaac Julien, Armin Linke, Fabian Marcaccio, Neo Rauch, Rosangela Renno, Timo Toots, Guido Van der Werve and many others.
THE GENTLEMEN OF VERONA | EXPERIMENTS ON THE CONTEMPORARY IN ITALY
Curated by Andrea Bruciati
Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Palazzo Forti, Verona
24 September 2011 - 8 January 2012
The project is a clear sign of how strongly private galleries wish to open a dialogue with the city's public administration, providing further stimulus to increasing awareness of creativity today and tomorrow. This initial experiment, designed and created by Andrea Bruciati, led to the important exhibition “The Gentlemen of Verona: experiments on the contemporary in Italy.” The centerpiece of the exhibition is the wealth of the artistic offerings which has characterized contemporary art in the region, through the works of great authors who have marked the history of Italian art over the last decade and beyond. The exhibition presents the works of 21 artists, divided up into generations: firmly established artists, mid-career artists and budding young artists. Some of the works have rarely been displayed, while many are brand new or have been specifically created for the exhibition, demonstrating the powerful creative force which has characterized this part of Italy for years. As curator Andrea Bruciati underlines, “culture is not a waste of time because, especially when talking about contemporary art, it is needed in the present in order to establish an access channel between our own reality and the changes occurring and the projection of our dreams and ideals, in order to imagine the realization of these. Finding legitimation in individual utility, such as the emotions and critical intelligence which it is able to generate, it creates a better world for the collective interest." As part of this important exhibition, a supporting bilingual Italian/English publication will be created which will include interviews with all stakeholders involved, a great and rich iconography pertaining to the production of the artists in the exhibition as well as unique photographic documentation relating to the history of the galleries involved. Featured artists: Luigi Carboni, Angelo Filomeno, Franco Guerzoni, Emilio Isgrò, Aldo Mondino, Giovanni Morbin, Luigi Ontani, Anna Galtarossa, Andrea Galvani, Daniele Girardi, Paolo Maggis, Andrea Mastrovito, Sissi, Alessandro Roma, Thomas Braida, Tomaso De Luca, Elio Germani, Valerio Nicolai, Agne Raceviciute, Dragana Sapanjos, Giulio Squillacciotti
ANDREA GALVANI | FOUR WORKS
Curated by Nora Lawrence
Aperture Foundation, New York
Opening 28 July 2011
Artists Wanted, in collaboration with Aperture Foundation, presents a solo exhibition of work by artist Andrea Galvani, winner of the 2010 Exposure Prize. Curated by Nora Lawrence, Four Works shows both the breadth of the artist’s work in the last five years and the consistency of his research. Cerebral, austere, and visually sharp, Galvani’s images present singular moments in time that invite the viewer to enter rich, seductive and allusive visual universes. Two of the images selected for this exhibition are being shown for the first time in the United States.
SEMBIANZE | LA FOTOGRAFIA TRA REALTÀ E APPARENZA
Curated by Roberto Maggiori and Italo Zannier
San Francesco Museum, San Marino
16 July - 2 October 2011
La realtà e la sua metamorfosi bidimensionale sono l’oggetto di indagine di questa rassegna fotografica che, organizzata dalla Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Repubblica di San Marino, si svolgerà presso il Museo San Francesco dal 16 luglio all'8 ottobre. Un appuntamento importante per mostrare uno dei temi cardine attorno al quale orbita tutta la fotografia, ma anche un’occasione preziosa per la presenza di uno studioso della materia come Italo Zannier che, insieme a Roberto Maggiori, cura questo evento. Entrando nello specifico, il tema della collettiva è quello del medium fotografico inteso come strumento in bilico tra verità e finzione, un meccanismo ambiguo in cui riproduzione e rappresentazione si intrecciano a formare un legame difficilmente districabile. La rassegna coinvolge artisti che in maniera esemplare hanno affrontato questo tema – occasionalmente o più assiduamente – realizzando lavori che si sono rivelati emblematici. Più di cinquanta tra autori storicizzati, contemporanei e anonimi che hanno riflettuto e riflettono sulla traduzione bidimensionale della realtà messa in atto dalla fotografia, in un periodo che va dalla sua nascita fino ai giorni nostri. Featured artists: Vasco Ascolini, Olivo Barbieri, Giorgio Barrera, Gianantonio Battistella, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Roberto Bossaglia, Piergiorgio Branzi, Cesare Colombo, Cuoghi Corsello, Mario Cresci, Mario De Biasi, César Domela, Franco Fontana, Maurizio Galimberti, Andrea Galvani, Marcello Galvani, Cesare Gerolimetto, Luigi Ghirri, Paolo Gioli, Guido Guidi, Mimmo Jodice, Giorgio Lotti, Federico Maddalozzo, Pietro Melecchi, Nino Migliori, Paolo Monti, Ugo Mulas, Paul Nadar, Carlo Naya, Luca Maria Patella, Antonio Pauletta, Roberto Salbitani, Paolo Salvarani, Fabio Sandri, Mario Sillani Djerrahian, Nicola Smerilli, Alessandra Spranzi, Pio Tarantini, George Tatge, Davide Tranchina, Paolo Ventura, Giovanni Zaffagnini, Italo Zannier, Giovanni Ziliani and some anonymous authors from the Zannier collection.
ARTMRKT HAMPTONS
Meulensteen | Booth 115
14-17 July 2011
Featured artists: Saul Chemick, Andrea Galvani, Oliver Herring, Ann Pibal, and Tobias Putrih
ANDREA GALVANI: LECTIO MAGISTRALIS
Curated by Giorgio Verzotti
MIA Milan Image Art Fair 2011
“Una volta trafitto il cielo e raggiunto l’ultimo strato della ionosfera, una qualsiasi fonte di luce a cui venga imposta una direzione è in grado di viaggiare per sempre verso le profondità più remote dello spazio”. Con questa dichiarazione si apre Higgs Ocean, Lectio magistralis tenuta da Andrea Galvani e presentata da Giorgio Verzotti. L’incontro è il secondo di tre appuntamenti in cui il pubblico di MIA potrà assistere alle lezioni magistrali tenute da tre importanti esponenti del mondo della fotografia internazionale: Dieter Neubert, Andrea Galvani, Andres Serrano.
Higgs Ocean è un’immersione in un progetto complesso quanto affascinante. Andrea Galvani, che lo scorso anno ha attraversato il freddo Oceano Artico per settimane, a bordo di un’imbarcazione a vela tecnologicamente attrezzata per la navigazione estrema, traccerà le coordinate di un progetto prima di tutto cerebrale, attuato per estendere la memoria visiva di un’esperienza, oltre il perimetro stesso del pianeta terra. Con l’omonina serie fotografica (proveniente dalla collezione CAP Milano) l’artista presenta inoltre, per la prima volta riunita in una fiera italiana, la documentazione di un’azione unica, della durata di alcuni minuti, prodotta al largo delle Isole Svalbard nel Circolo Polare Artico e preceduta da alcuni interventi sul territorio urbano di New York.
ANDREA GALVANI | ASPEN CONTEMPORARY ART COLLECTION, NEW YORK
With the opening of Aspen’s offices in New York in 2011, the Contemporary Art Society curated an exemplary collection of contemporary work, investigating the huge array of artists found in the city. An emphasis on artworks that offer a distinctive and out of the ordinary view of our world builds a dynamic picture of the creative energy that characterises this great city. The collection is a daring one – substantial works from acclaimed career artists sit alongside newly discovered work from the emerging art stars of the future. Painting and photography feature strongly, and a new dimension is added with the inclusion of a number of moving image and light-based works. Amongst the collection are works that reveal hidden aspects of the metropolis, works that expand ideas of landscape and ecology, and works that celebrate people and human relationships.