Pietro Roccasalva Hetalvo 002

Hétalvó

Pietro Roccasalva

日期
28.11.2018 | 23.02.2019
画廊
London
文件
OTHER

Massimo De Carlo is pleased to present Hétalvó by Pietro Roccasalva, this is the first solo exhibition in London by the Italian artist, who lives and works in Milan.

Even though Roccasalva’s practice involves many different mediums, painting is the constant, crucial element that channels the artist narrative, and around which all other mediums circle.

For the exhibition the artist presents a new body of work, composed of large-scale canvases and a series of smaller paintings that is named as the exhibition itself: Hétalvó. Each painting aims to embody in a different way the poetic narrative of Roccasalva’s installation The Seven Sleepers. This immersive installation, that was first exhibited in Roccasalva’s survey show at MAGASIN in Grenoble in 2013, and is now part of the MoMA collection, is a sculptural/performance-based piece from the still life / tableau vivant reversals that have become a major thread in the artists’ work.

The Seven Sleepers is composed of a room designed to resemble a recording studio: here seven students were asked to sketch a sculpture, while the pads on which their paper rested was equipped with microphones and the sounds of their pencils rubbing against the paper was amplified at high volume in another space. The sculpture in front of them was a scaled- down model of Just Married Machine (2012): a major installation/tableau vivant piece based on a film still from La Ricotta by Pier Paolo Pasolini that depicts a traditional nature morte which Roccasalva transformed into a fully realized, life-sized objects.

This exhibition is the culmination of a practice commenced by Roccasalva 15 years ago which combines disparate languages to create complex staging that always serve as source for the paintings. With the merging of the whole process solely into the two-dimensional strength of the canvas, Hétalvó marks an important step in this long-term research.

Keeping references to Roccasalva’s lexicon of imageries and iconographies, the works on view reveal his on-going process of experimentation, pointing to his deep engagement with questioning and challenging the language of painting through a very personal vocabulary, which constantly mixes and balances the traditional history of painting techniques and the recent digital practices.

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。