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On
the occasion of Armory
Arts Week 2010
in New York
Opening of
"Velocita` d`automobile +
fiori / Car Speed + Flowers"
Site specific installations by
Andrea Mastrovito
Friday
March 5, 2010
6-8pm
Italian Cultural Institute of New York
686 Park Avenue
NYC
Exhibition
on view through March 26, 2010
Italian
Cultural Institute of New York
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“Velocità
d’automobile + fiori/Car Speed”
Detail
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“Encyclopedia
of Garden Flowers”
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Andrea
Mastrovito lives and works in Bergamo, Italy. He has
shown widely in Europe and the U.S., both in public
institutions and private galleries such as the Palais
des Expositions in Bruxelles, the Maxxi Museum in Rome,
Analix Forever in Geneva, 1000eventi and Antonio Colombo
Arte Contemporanea in Milan, including his most recent
site specific installation at the Museum of Art &
Design of New York (Fall 2009 –“Slash: Paper
under the Knife”) and solo exhibitions at the
Foley Gallery of New York.
Andrea Mastrovito is known for creating large-scale
installations primarily using cut paper. Mastrovito
uses the most basic of two-dimensional materials to
create three-dimension installations. His monumental
works are like interactive collages.
“Velocità d’automobile + fiori/Car
Speed + Flowers” will show two site specific
installations.
The title itself ironically evokes Futurism, more specifically
Balla and Boccioni’s paintings and sculptures
where speed, dynamism of engines and horses were connected
to light, rhythm, and noise or, in some cases, to human
artifacts such as home or town.
The first installation, “Encyclopedia of Garden
Flowers”, is made by using 500 garden books,
each dismantled into 3 parts to obtain 1500 books, and
a choice of a couple of pages with selected flowers’
illustrations. The illustrations have been cut by the
artist and fixed perpendicularly at the edge of the
book’s pages to obtain a pop-up open-book effect.
The installation is aiming at revisiting Futurism through
a process of destruction and re-creation from ruins.
This cycle of destruction and re-creation (flower>tree>paper>book>flower)
is the naturalistic antithesis to the second installation,
which is inspired by Boccioni’s painting and creates
an illusion of three-dimensional explosion within the
exhibition space.
Exhibition on view through March 26, 2010
Gallery hours Monday through Friday 10 am – 4
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With
our thanks to the Italian Cultural Institute of New York
for providing the press release
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