ANDREA GALVANI

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Andrea Galvani, N-1 #7, 2007 – C print on aluminum, wood frame, perspex, 54 x 74 inch

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OPENING:  Saturday, 17 November 2007 – h 6.00 pm

19 November 2007 – 16 February 2008

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Curated by ANNA DANERI

The Artericambi gallery is pleased to announce, on Saturday 17 November 2007, the Andrea Galvani’s exhibition “N-1”.

“The image is a breath, a breath, but dying, on the verge of extinction. The image is what is extinguished, consumed, it is a fall. It is a pure intensity that is defined as such by its height, that is, by its level above zero, which it describes only by falling.” Gilles Deleuze (L’exhausted, 2nd edition June 2005, Cronopio Editore, Naples.)

In project N-1, the second appointment of the “Intelligence of evil” trilogy, Andrea Galvani seems to proceed by subtraction, orchestrating a slow process of disappearance of the subject. Creatures that become penultimate, absorbed by fog or darkness, like Beckett’s damned, stand out in anticipation of the end. But it is an open process, a mathematical function whose equilateral hyperbola plummets without touching zero. It is a pure intensity aimed at exhaustion that is divided by changing nature each time.

In the video installation, “La triade di Bichat II”, developed with the technical collaboration of Paolo Berto Durante, a family of objects projected on the wall in real size, undergoes, in different ways and times, a sudden process of disintegration, sublimating and dispersing in space. In the photographic images the landscape is nourished by the gradient through which it dissolves. A group of rabbits freed in the center of a glacier at 3400 m altitude, collaborate in the staging of a pack. Like a dissolving cloud, light feed-back on the dilated pupils of animals surprised in the night, the limit is not infinite in terms but is found everywhere, it bounces between them until they are constituted.

For several years he has been working on a conceptual reflection on the status of images. His research favors the photographic medium, but he often also makes use of other languages, especially video, drawing and wall painting. His work has become part of important collections.

Andrea Galvani, N-1 #1, 2007 – Sprint on aluminum, wood frame, perspex, 54 x 66 inch

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BIO

Andrea Galvani (Verona 1973) lives and works in Milan. For several years he has been working on a conceptual reflection on the status of images. His search for him prefers the photographic medium, but he often also makes use of other languages, especially video, drawing and wall painting. His work has become part of important collections. Among the numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad, we remember: 2007 L’intelligenza del male, texts by / text by Anna Longo, Circuit, Losanne, CH 2006 Andrea Galvani 2003-2006, edited by / curated by Andrea Bruciati , GC.AC Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, IT 2006 Lovley Daze, curated by / curated by Charwei Tsai, “When I Am Alone, Everything Is So Surreal”, LOVELY DAZE ISSUE 3: collection of artists, Whitney Museum , New York, USA 2006 Carnegie Art Award, Den frie udstilling, Oslo Plads, Copenhagen, DK 2006 Hydra Show, curated by / curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis, Hydra school, island of Hydra, GR 2006 Visions of Paradise, curated by / curated by Karin Frei and / and Domenico Lucchini, Swiss Institute of Culture, Villa Maraini, Rome, IT 2005 Deconstruction of a mountain and the death of an image by / by Marinella Paderni, Artopia, Milan, IT.

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Andrea Galvani, N-1 #5, 2007 – C print on aluminum, wood frame,  perspex, 54 x 74 inch

(LEFT) Andrea Galvani, The intelligence of evil #1, 2007 – C print on aluminum, 47 x 47 inch / (RIGHT) Andrea Galvani, The intelligence of evil #3, 2007 – C print on aluminum, 47 x 47 inch

Andrea Galvani, The intelligence of evil #5, 2007 – C print on aluminum, 54 x 66 inch