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Giocondità

Pietro Roccasalva

日期
19.10.2021 | 30.10.2021
画廊
Pièce Unique
文件
PRESS RELEASE


MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique is happy to present Pietro Roccasalva’s first show at the gallery, Giocondità.

Following the space’s “pièce unique” premise, the exhibition features six works in six days: one work each day, drawn from a digital animation of a basilica seen from different angles, from dusk till dawn.

The presentation of Giocondità is accompanied by a text by Los Angeles-based curator Douglas Fogle:

“One of the principal methods employed by Roccasalva is repetition. The strongest images that make up his ongoing symbolic lexicon reappear over and over again throughout his work with each iteration embodying a slight transformation as they migrate from two to three dimensions and back again.

The digital animation Giocondità (2002) was produced during an artist’s residency in the deconsecrated Church of San Francesco in Como, Italy. Cinematographically composed of an aerial tracking shot that sweeps around a digitally rendered church, Roccasalva’s simulated camera methodically observes this speculative building with a bird’s eye view from the digital firmament. As his “camera” tracks its irregular circular trajectory around this structure, time elapses and the Sun starts to steadily set forcing the building to cast longer and longer shadows on its virtual surroundings. Upon closer inspection we are startled to see that this is no normal basilica as its cupola has been rather subversively rendered by the artist in the form of a common kitchen citrus juicer that slowly rotates through the duration of the video. (…) In his formulation, what at first seems like a virtual architectural folly in the form of a church becomes a tomb for a failing Sun which itself mirrors the decline of Western notions of Truth and Reason while heralding a world that has lost its center.

Admittedly this may seem like a lot to load onto this image but in Roccasalva’s world it doesn’t seem so burdensome. There is a lightness to the way that he focuses on everyday objects and transmits them to the viewer as if these images somehow came to us in daydream. (…) As the camera in Giocondità follows an irregular orbital path around the church we find ourselves caught not only within the gravitational pull of a building illuminated by the crepuscular shadows of a dying Sun but also within the confines of a cinematic establishing shot of an ongoing story of loss and decay.”

Douglas Fogle

Pietro Roccasalva

皮埃特罗·洛卡沙勒瓦 (PIETRO ROCCASALVA) 1970年生于意大利莫尼卡,目前工作居住在米兰。


艺术家洛卡沙勒瓦因他的多才多艺和创造力而享有盛誉,作品涉及装置、雕塑、表演、视频和摄影等多种媒介。他将复杂的符号与从文学、电影、哲学、和集体想象力中汲取的灵感交织在一起。由此产生的艺术作品以复杂风格和强烈个性化的图像形式呈现。洛卡沙勒瓦的作品反映了他无限的好奇心和对探索世界无尽的渴望。其作品捕捉到生命转瞬即逝的本质和平凡生活的美好,像镜子一样反映着人类的处境。


洛卡沙勒瓦曾受邀参加2009年威尼斯双年展、2008年第七届欧洲宣言展,以及2007年布拉格双年展。