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CURRENT / UPCOMING
RIDE THE LIGHTING
Curated by Giancarlo Scaglia
Revolver Galería Off-Site | Av. Francisco Bolognesi 699, Barranco, Lima, Perú
Opening 14 December 2023
The mastery of light through reason, from the warmth of fire to the unnatural intensity of fluorescent lighting, is a story of humanity against the environment—where gods and sensibilities are killed, and new deities emerge. Our notion of progress surrenders to the machinations of capital: endless warehouses, laboratories and offices can shine forever, making way for progress shaped by productivity. These dichotomies are more than present in works such as Alberto Borea’s SIESTA/FIESTA, where dreams are interspersed with festivity through an intermittent poster. These escapes pose language as a means to the confines of the irrational. Far from productivity, Borea reveals confluences of public and private beyond capitalistic logic.
Galvani employs technical means not as scientific methodology but as a fundamental source of investigation. Galvani’s neon sculpture The Theorem of Infinite Sun honors an equation used to derive the precise time of sunrise and sunset at any geographical latitude. Written in vivid red neon, the color of this sculpture is the same wavelength as the average solar radiance that reaches the Earth’s surface at sunrise and sunset. When we look at The Theorem of Infinite Sun, we are looking at the possibility of all sunrises and sunsets from every location on the planet.
Featured artists: Gwladys Alonzo, Artemio, Alberto Borea, Andrea Galvani, Jerry B. Martin and José Carlos Martinat
HORIZONTE Y LÍMITE. VISIONES DEL PAISAJE
Curated by Nimfa Bisbe Molin and Arola Valls
CaixaForum Madrid | Paseo del Prado 36, Madrid, Spain
1 May - 1 September 2024
First presented as the inaugural exhibition of CaixaForum València “Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències” then to the Spanish capital, Horizonte y Límite. Visiones del Paisaje arrives at the iconic CaixaForum Barcelona, housed in a former textile factory constructed by the storied Catalan architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch. Horizonte y Límite is a major international group show with artworks from the Contemporary Art Collection of Fundación la Caixa focusing on the idea of landscape as a representation of nature that simulates reality from pure artifice. Horizonte y Límite centers around artworks that engage, challenge, and redefine our notion of "landscape." Thematically structured around four meridians, the exhibition addresses the landscape from fiction, cultural and artistic codes, the notion of reality and objectivity, and environmental awareness.
Featured artists include: Julius von Bismarck, Patricia Dauder, Shezad Dawood, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Miquel Barceló, Victoria Civera, Dionís Escorsa, Simon Faithfull, Joan Fontcuberta, Hamish Fulton, Bleda & Rosa, Andrea Galvani, Andreas Gursky, Anne Imhof, Carlos Irijalba, Cristina Lucas, Karlos Gil and Marcus Maeder, Albert Merino, Michael Najjar, Perejaume, Joan Hernández Pijuan, Xavier Ribas, Sophie Ristelhueber, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Anna Talens, Su-Mei Tse, Oriol Vilanova, Rémy Zaugg, and more
BIOS TECHNE. CORPO AMBIENTE E TECNOLOGIA
Curated by Luca Bochicchio and Jessica Bianchera
AGIVERONA at the Università di Verona | Ca Vignal 3, Strada Le Grazie 15, Verona
Permanent Installation
Opening 5 May 2023
Featured Artists: Adelita Husni-Bey, Mario Airò, Joseph Beuys, Luca De Leva, James Ferris, Christian Fogarolli, Jacopo Mazzonelli, Carlo Nangeroni, Luca Pozzi, Liudvikas Buklys, Claudio D'Angelo, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Piero Dorazio, Andrea Galvani, Cristobal Lehyt, Dana Lok, Emil Lukas, Elio Marchegiani, Sebastiano Sofia, Sabrina Torelli, Michael Fliri, Invernomuto, Richard Long, Sandrine Nicoletta, Francesca Passalacqua, James Yamada, Loris Cecchini, Elena Mazzi
PAST
HORIZONTE Y LÍMITE. VISIONES DEL PAISAJE
Curated by Nimfa Bisbe Molin and Arola Valls
CaixaForum Madrid | Paseo del Prado 36, Madrid, Spain
29 November 2023 - 31 March 2024
First presented as the inaugural exhibition of CaixaForum València “Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències” and now traveling to the Spanish capital at CaixaForum Madrid, Horizonte y Límite. Visiones del Paisaje is a major international group show with artworks from the Contemporary Art Collection of Fundación la Caixa focusing on the idea of landscape as a representation of nature that simulates reality from pure artifice. Horizonte y Límite centers around artworks that engage, challenge, and redefine our notion of "landscape." Thematically structured around four meridians, the exhibition addresses the landscape from fiction, cultural and artistic codes, the notion of reality and objectivity, and environmental awareness.
Featured artists include: Julius von Bismarck, Patricia Dauder, Shezad Dawood, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Miquel Barceló, Victoria Civera, Dionís Escorsa, Simon Faithfull, Joan Fontcuberta, Hamish Fulton, Bleda & Rosa, Andrea Galvani, Andreas Gursky, Anne Imhof, Carlos Irijalba, Cristina Lucas, Karlos Gil and Marcus Maeder, Albert Merino, Michael Najjar, Perejaume, Joan Hernández Pijuan, Xavier Ribas, Sophie Ristelhueber, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Anna Talens, Su-Mei Tse, Oriol Vilanova, Rémy Zaugg, and more
Introduction by Curator Nimfa Bisbe, Director of Contemporary Art Collection at Fundación “la Caixa”
Selected Press: "Malestares y derroteros del paisaje en el arte contemporáneo" by Manuel Padín Fernández
“Perseguir el sol a bordo de un avión supersónico: así 'pinta' paisajes el arte contemporáneo” by Fernando Díaz de Quijano
“El paisaje, el horizonte y sus límites, ¿una invención del mundo del arte?” by María Serrano
“El arte (contemporáneo) nos recuerda que no debemos perder de vista el paisaje” by Andrés Castaño
EXPO CHICAGO 2024
Galería CURRO | Booth 312
Chicago Navy Pier
11-14 April 2024
Featured Artists: Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Andrea Galvani, Daniela Libertad, Francisco Ugarte, and Richard R. Walker with a site-specific installation by Claudia Peña Salinas
ARCO MADRID 2024
The RYDER Projects | Booth 9D04
IFEMA - Feria de Madrid | Avda. del Partenón 5, 28042 Madrid, Spain
6-10 March 2024
Featured Artists: Rosana Antolí, Nora Barón, Miguel Benlloch, Julia Creuheras, Shezad Dawood, Patricia Domínguez, Andrea Galvani, Sahatsa Jauregi, William Mackrell, Claudia Pagès, Suzanne Treister, and Ivana de Vivanco
QUINCEAÑERA
Galería CURRO | Calle Andrés Terán 726, Guadalajara
10 November 2023 - 17 February 2024
Featured Artists: Adam Parker Smith, Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Andrea Galvani, Claudia Peña Salinas, Cristina Garrido, Daniela Libertad, Francisco Ugarte, Juan Capistrán, Juan Manuel Salas, Melanie McLain, Mauricio Alejo, Octavio Abúndez, Richard T. Walker
ZONA MACO 2024
Galería CURRO | Booth D100
Centro Citibanamex | Av. del Conscripto 311, Mexico City
7-11 February 2024
Featured Artists: Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Andrea Galvani, Claudia Peña Salinas, Cristina Garrido, Daniela Libertad, Francisco Ugarte, Juan Manuel Salas, Mauricio Alejo, Octavio Abúndez, and Richard T. Walker
TRANSFORMATIVE BOUNDARIES
Fabienne Levy Gallery
9 November 2023 - 12 January 2024 | Rue des Vieux-Grenadiers 2, 1205 Geneva
14 December 2023 - 27 January 2024 | Avenue Louis-Ruchonnet 6, 1003 Lausanne
Featured Artists: Norbert Bisky, Catherine Bolle, Alina Frieske, Andrea Galvani, and Yuval Yairi
UNTITLED ART MIAMI BEACH 2023
Galería CURRO | Booth A2
5-10 December 2023
Featured Artists: Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Andrea Galvani, Claudia Peña Salinas, Daniela Libertad, Francisco Ugarte, Melanie McLain, Octavio Abúndez, and Richard T. Walker
Accolades: 1st Prize awarded by Vortic Art, official partner of Untitled Art Miami Beach
WEST BUND SHANGHAI
West Bund Art Center Hall A & Hall B, Shanghai
Cassina Projects | Booth B337
9-12 November 2023
Featured Artists: Louisa Clement, Oh De Laval, Marcel Eichner, Alessandro Fogo, Andrea Galvani, Cecilia Granara, Georg Herold, Haeji Min, Gustavo Nazareno, Yves Scherer, and Gert & Uwe Tobias
TIME
Curated by Giorgio Galotti and Claudia Pignatale
LEA – Nitto ATP Finals
Teatro dei ragazzi | Corso Galileo Ferraris, 266/C, 10134 Torino
11-19 November 2023
Featured Artists: Andrea Galvani, Cerith Wyn Evans, Claire Fontaine, Duccio Maria Gambi, Finemateria, Luigi Ghirri, Massimo Uberti, Matteo Attruia, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Rä Di Martino, and Tipstudio
Press: Elle Decor “L’agenda delle mostre da vedere questa settimana” by Silvia Airoldi
FRIEZE | ART OF CONVERSATION
Andrea Galvani in conversation with Daniel Garza-Usabiaga
Museo Kaluz | Av. Hidalgo 85, Mexico City
8 November 2023
Special event organized by Deutsche Bank Wealth Management | Invitation Only
LOVE
Curated by Anne Brennan and Robert Unchester
CAM Cameron Art Museum | Wilmington, North Carolina
June 22 – October 8, 2023
Love examines this sometimes intense, often elusive emotion. True love, familial love, romantic love, self-love, platonic love, forbidden love, and lost love are all aspects of this universal emotion. Through contemporary art, Love explores, celebrates, and looks deeply at these various aspects of love and connects us with our shared humanity. Love is an adaptation of the 2022 exhibition, What Is Left Unspoken, Love curated by Michael Rooks at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
Featured Artists: Ghada Amer, Thomas Barger, Susanna Coffey, Alanna Fields, Andrea Galvani, Jeffrey Gibson, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Fritzi Huber, Rashid Johnson, Jana Vander Lee, Felicita Felli Maynard, William Selig, Dixon Stetler, Lien Truong, Michele Tejuola Turner, jina valetine, and Akram Zaatari
CONVERGING PERSPECTIVES
Curated by Sofía Sáenz de Santa María
Simon Miccio Gallery | Aspen, Colorado
September 1 – October 14, 2023
Converging Perspectives: Light, Memory & Transformation challenges us to reflect on our place in the world, our connections to the past, and the possibilities that await us in the future. On view at Simon Miccio Gallery across from the Aspen Art Museum, the space becomes an illuminated, active and immersive environment where interplays of light, time, and technology converge in a multi-sensory experience.
Featured Artists: Pablo Armesto, Andrea Galvani, and Juan Garaizabal
IN SEARCH OF THE INVISIBLE
Revolver Galería New York | 88 Eldridge St., 5th Floor
12 May - 29 August 2023
Featured Artists: Andrea Galvani; Marco Di Giovanni; José Carlos Martinat; Jerry B. Martin; Ishmael Randall-Weeks; Giancarlo Scaglia; Pedro Wainer; Maria Yzaga; Luis Enrique Zela Koort
EXPO CHICAGO | IN/SITU
Curated by Claudia Segura
Site-Specific Installation presented with Galería CURRO
Festival Hall | Navy Pier, Chicago
13-16 April 2023
ART PARIS 2023 | 25th EDITION
Andrea Galvani Solo Show
Fabienne Levy Gallery | Stand I2
Grand Palais Éphémère | Place Joffre, 75007 Paris
30 March - 2 April 2023
ARCO MADRID 2023
The RYDER Projects | Stand 9D04
IFEMA | Avda. del Partenón 5, 28042 Madrid
22 - 26 February 2023
Featured artists: Rosana Antolí, Patricia Domínguez, Andrea Galvani, Sahatsa Jauregi, Claudia Pagés, Ivana de Vivanco
ZONA MACO 2023
Galería CURRO | Booth D129
Centro Citibanamex, Mexico City
8-12 February 2023
Featured artists: Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Andrea Galvani, Claudia Peña Salinas, Daniela Libertad, Francisco Ugarte, Mauricio Alejo, Octavio Abúndez, and Richard T. Walker
LIFE ETERNAL
Curated by Magnus af Petersens
Liljevalchs Konsthall | Djurgårdsvägen 60, Stockholm
1 October 2022 - 29 January 2023
Presented in collaboration with the Nobel Prize Museum, Life Eternal explores crucial issues of our era and offers hope for the future.
Can we outwit death? That question has been asked for as long as humans have roamed the earth, but modern research shows that the question of eternal life should be viewed not only from as a religious and philosophical matter, but also as a biological possibility. But while we humans are developing more and more advanced methods to prolong life, for the first time in history we ourselves have the capacity to extinguish all life on earth. Nuclear weapons are not the only threat. Our way of life is destroying the climate and diminishing the chances of future life, day by day. The aim of the exhibition Life Eternal is to reflect on issues related to eternity, and thus also the future. It is more urgent than ever to find new ways of talking about how we should continue our journey. In these discussions, the Nobel Prize can play a key role.
Bringing together science, art, and cultural history, Life Eternal highlights various issues and shows different approaches to eternity. Visitors will be challenged to think about what happens as we get older and whether it is possible to stop aging. How our lives and societies are being affected by Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. Whether there may be a life after this one, or whether parallel worlds exist. In one of the halls, the exhibition will take an in-depth look at why some people put their own lives at risk for a higher purpose.
Featured artists: Mark Dion, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Christian Partos, Oscar Nilsson, Anna Dumitriu, Andrea Galvani, Ann Lislegaard, Britta Marakatt-Labba, Christian Partos, Dana Sederowsky, Éva Mag, Fredrik Paulsen, Jillian Edelstein, Jone Kvie, Julian Charrière, Laura Splan, Mark Dion, Mats Hjelm, Moa Israelsson, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Petra Lindholm, Rineke Dijkstra, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Ulla Wiggen, William Kentridge, Ylva Carlgren, and a joint work by John Wynne and Tim Wainwright
23rd TRIENNALE MILANO: UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS
Curated by Ersilia Vaudo Scarpetta
Triennale Milano | Viale Alemagna 6, Milan
15 July 2022 - 8 January 2023
The most significant cultural institution in Italy focused on the intersections of art, design, and architecture, the Triennale Milano is centered around the international exhibition Unknown Unknowns. An Introduction to Mysteries, curated by Ersilia Vaudo Scarpetta. Galvani is one of a select number of artists—including Refik Anadol, Anish Kapoor, Tomás Saraceno, Bosco Sodi, Yuri Suzuki, and architects' collective SOM—who were invited to develop and present a special commission for the Triennale, addressing themes including deep space, the fundamental force of gravity, and the possibilities for extra-terrestrial architecture.
Developed especially for the Triennale, Galvani's installation is an immersive unified field that illuminates space—an incandescent landscape composed by hand-blown white and cobalt blue Murano glass mounted on metal structures either rising from concrete bases on a multitiered platform, or suspended from the ceiling. Made of pure light, Galvani’s filiform sculptures seem to float in space—ascending above the public and directing our attention to the mathematical and scientific languages which for centuries have allowed us to investigate and designate the unknown. Generated in collaboration with researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich and La Sapienza Università di Roma, this installation was conceived as an immersion into ideas and concepts at the vanguard of science, projecting us into the potential of future discoveries. Deploying mathematics as a human invention that has simultaneously enabled us to transgress our limits, the artist leads us on a journey into a strange and extraordinary reality still unknown and beyond comprehension.
HORIZONTE Y LÍMITE. VISIONES DEL PAISAJE
Curated by Nimfa Bisbe Molin
CaixaForum València | C/ Eduardo Primo Yúfera 1A, València, Spain
22 June 2022 - 8 January 2023
Horizonte y Límite. Visiones del Paisaje—the inaugural exhibition of CaixaForum Valéncia—focuses on the idea of landscape as a representation of nature that simulates reality from pure artifice. The seed of this exhibition is artworks from the Contemporary Art Collection of Fundación la Caixa which engage, challenge, and redefine our notion of "landscape." Thematically structured around four meridians, Horizon and Limit addresses the landscape from fiction, cultural and artistic codes, the notion of reality and objectivity, and environmental awareness.
Featured artists include: Hermen Anglada-Camarasa, Edward Burtynsky, Tacita Dean, Ramon Casas, Victoria Civera, Gustave Courbet, Nicolas Faure, Andrea Galvani, Kimsooja, Cristina Lucas, Joan Miró, Perejaume, Ugo Rondinone, Sophie Ristelhueber, Bleda & Rosa, Ioanna Sakellaraki, and more.
CERTEZA | CERTAINTY
Presented by Colección SOLO
Plaza de la Independencia 5, Madrid
1 April - December 2022
Over twenty different artworks come together in dialogue on the idea of certainty in Certeza, upcoming exhibition at Espacio SOLO from 1 April through December 2022. At a time when concepts such as truth or identity progress, change, come under threat, or fall victim to manipulation, this exhibition presented by SOLO seeks to generate conversation and collective reflection. For centuries, thinkers have grappled with the concept of certainty, and artists have continually encouraged us to reevaluate what we see. Continuing in this tradition, Certeza (Certainty) features works by artists from across the world and in diverse media including painting, sculpture, installation, video and decentralized, collaborative AI art.
Featured artists include: Amoako Boafo, Botto, Nick Cave, filip custic, Alex Hug, Andrea Galvani, Chino Moya, Koka Nikoladze, and SMACK, all of whom have artworks in the Permanent Collection of SOLO.
ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH
Revolver Galería | Booth C30
29 November - 3 December 2022
UNTITLED MIAMI BEACH
Eduardo Secci Contemporary | Booth A54
28 November-3 December 2022
For the 20th anniversary of Art Basel Miami Beach, Revolver Galería is honored to present Andrea Galvani's masterpiece diptych Death of an Image #5 and #9 from the artist's internationally acclaimed photographic series Death of an Image, originally shot and produced almost two decades ago. Featured artists: Christian Bendayan, Adam Bilardi, Chelsea Culprit, Elena Dahn, Elena Damiani, Jorge Eielson, Andrea Galvani, Jerry B. Martin, Jose Carlos Martinat, Ishmael Randall Weeks, and Jesus Ruiz Durand
At UNTITLED, Eduardo Secci presents a monumental neon installation from Instruments for Inquiring into the Wind and the Shaking Earth, Galvani's award-winning body of work that was commissioned by the 23rd Triennale Milano for a site-specific installation at the international exhibition. Galvani's sculptures cast an otherworldly radiation the same frequency as sunlight, illuminating fundamental phenomena such as spacetime dilation at the core of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity. Featured artists: Marco De Sanctis, Daria Dmytrenko, Andrea Galvani, Joshua Hagler, Radu Oreian, Giò Pomodoro, Chris Soal, Michael Staniak and Levi Van Veluw
ANDREA GALVANI | LA PERCEZIONE DELL’IMMATERIALITÀ
Andrea Galvani in Conversation with Carlo Sala
Followed by a Book Signing of Andrea Galvani Monograph
Presented by the Comune di Marano di Valpolicella and Associazione Culturale Urbs Picta
Valpolicella Benaco Banca | Via dell’Artigianato 5, 37020 Marano di Valpolicella
11 November 2022, 9pm
ANTEPARAÍSO
Curated by Josseline Pinto
La Galería Rebelde, Guatemala City
10 August - 28 October 2022
There are different ways to think about landscape; like a place in the distance, a memory, colors that draw different shapes on the horizon, like geography and territory. For this edition of the project ANTEPARAÍSO, La Galería Rebelde hosts three renowned international galleries—Galería CURRO, Galería ARRONIZ, and Galería Nueveochenta—with a collection of 15 artists, whose work is constructed as a conversation about different manifestations of the contemporary landscape from those who live in it and the gazes and bodies that occupy it. A look onto nostalgia, abstraction and architecture. A space of voices and mountains that wonder what else can be a political or imaginary horizon? The landscape is a possibility of existence, a look towards a path to cross, an expedition to the limits and forms of the world. Thus, we present an album of images from different backgrounds and media that together form a diverse single horizon, a postcard of our natural world.
Featured artists: Fernando Carabajal, Natalia Castañeda, Aldo Chaparro, Adrián Fernández Milanés, Luciano Goizueta, Andrea Galvani, Daniela Libertad, Norman Morales, Ishamel Randall-Weeks, Ricardo Rendón, Léster Rodríguez, Juan Rodríguez Varón, Diana de Solares, Albertine Stahl, Francisco Ugarte
WHAT IS LEFT UNSPOKEN, LOVE
Curated by Michael Rooks
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
25 March - 14 August 2022
Is love intrinsic, or is it a habit? What is the difference between love and friendship? What is the relationship of love to truth, freedom, and justice? These are just some of the questions to be explored in What Is Left Unspoken, Love, featuring contemporary artworks from 1987 to 2021 that address the different ways the most important thing in life—love—is expressed.
Organized during a time of social and political discord, when cynicism often seems to triumph over hope, this exhibition will examine love as a profound subject of critical commentary from time immemorial yet with a persistently elusive definition. As poet and painter Etel Adnan wrote, love is “not to be described, it is to be lived.” Love will feature more than seventy works, including paintings, sculpture, photography, video and media art, by more than thirty-five international artists based in North America, Europe, and Asia such as Ghada Amer, Rina Banerjee, Patty Chang, Andrea Galvani, Jeffrey Gibson, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Tomashi Jackson, María de los Angeles Rodríguez Jiménez, Rashid Johnson, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Kerry James Marshall, Wangechi Mutu, Ebony Patterson, Magnus Plessen, Gabriel Rico, RongRong and inri, and Carrie Mae Weems.
BG ART GALLERY | BANCA GENERALI COLLECTION
Curated by Vincenzo De Bellis
Palazzo Pusterla | Piazza Sant’Alessandro 4, Milan
22 March - 4 May 2022
BG Art Gallery is a new exhibition space dedicated to the renowned contemporary art collection of Banca Generali. Located in the historic Palazzo Pusterla in Milan, BG is distinguished by the best of Italian contemporary art—a selection of 13 works curated by Vincenzo De Bellis, associate director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Exhibited artists: Francesco Arena, Rosa Barba, Enrico David, Lara Favaretto, Linda Fregni Nagler, Maurizio Donzelli, Andrea Galvani, Marguerite Humeau, Marzia Migliora, and Giulio Paolini
THE THEOREM OF INFINITE SUN
Curated by Rafa Barber
The RYDER Projects | Miguel Servet 13, Madrid
17 February - 2 April 2022
Opening Reception and Live Performance: 17 Feb, 7-9pm
The RYDER Projects is proud to present Andrea Galvani’s The Theorem of Infinite Sun, a multidisciplinary solo exhibition constituted by a new series of large-scale photographs, neon works, video sculpture, and live performance. This marks the international artist’s third solo show with The RYDER and his first solo show in Madrid. Curated by Rafa Barber, The Theorem of Infinite Sun is presented with the collaboration and support of Fundación la Caixa and Colección SOLO, two of Spain’s most prestigious contemporary art institutions that have recently acquired several of Galvani’s works for their permanent collections.
Generated by a series of radical actions and rigorous research, the artworks in this show disclose secret transits and powerful transformations that enable us to escape the illusion of time as uniform and absolute, breaking the barricades of finitude and opening a new dimension into which we can physically enter.
Time manifests as cosmic movements: the transit of light from day to night, tracing the orbit of our planet around the Sun. We generally float through time, passively obeying its cyclical rhythms and respecting its seemingly impenetrable parameters. But in The Theorem of Infinite Sun, Galvani forces, compresses, and extends its rigid perimeter. In this show, time becomes malleable as the artist imposes new forms—inviting us to enter into a dimension that is real, concrete, and possible.
BETWEEN THE LINES
Fabienne Levy | Avenue Louis-Ruchonnet 6, Lausanne
24 February - 26 March 2022
Featured artists: Longinos Nagila, Aurélien Martin, Andrea Galvani, Daniela Edburg, Vikenti Komitski, Norbert Bisky, Jorge Conde, Yuval Yairi
ARCOmadrid 2022
The RYDER Projects ”A Collection Yet to Be” | Booth 9D04
Eduardo Secci Contemporary | Booth 9D29
23-27 February 2022
The RYDER Featured artists : Rosana Antolí, Nora Barón, João Gabriel, Andrea Galvani, Jonas Lund, William Mackrell, Anna Perach, Belén Uriel, and Ivana de Vivanco
Eduardo Secci Featured Artists: Andrea Galvani, Joshua Hagler, Luisa Rabbia, Kevin Francis Gray, Alfredo Pirri, Radu Oreian and Matthew Ritchie.
ZONA MACO 2022
CURRO | Booth A109
Eduardo Secci Contemporary | Booth C126
9-13 February 2022
CURRO Featured Artists: Octavio Abúndez, Mauricio Alejo, Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Andrea Galvani, Cristina Garrido, and Claudia Peña Salinas
Eduardo Secci Featured Artists: Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Andrea Galvani, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Joshua Hagler, Kevin Francis Gray, Levi Van Veluw, Marco Tirelli, Stanley Casselman, Radu Oreian, and Theo Triantafyllidis
ANDREA GALVANI | TIME IS THE ENEMY
Galería CURRO | Calle Andrés Terán 726, Guadalajara
21 October 2021 - 30 January 2022
If things fall, it is due to [the] slowing down of time. Where time passes uniformly, in interplanetary space, things do not fall. They float, without falling. –Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
CURRO is pleased to present Time is the Enemy, a major exhibition by Andrea Galvani—his first solo show since joining the gallery—constituted by mixed-media sculptures, a monumental site-specific neon installation, and the international premiere of a new large-scale photographic series. Collaborating with professional skydivers over the course of 3 years, testing different technologies and experimenting in different locations, the artist introduces new photographs that capture bodies free-falling at dusk—crossing the border between time, day and night. Travelers suspended in twilight, in the transit of light, these solitary figures evoke vertiginous sensations of ascension and decline, elevation and the fall.
ART021 SHANGHAI
Fabienne Levy | Booth E30
11 - 14 November 2021
Featured artists: Andrea Galvani, Norbert Bisky, Romane de Watteville, and Alina Frieske
DALLAS ART FAIR
Eduardo Secci Contemporary | Booth F12
11 - 14 November 2021
Featured artists: Stanley Casselman, Richard Dupont, Andrea Galvani, Kevin Francis Gray, José Carlos Martinat, Matthew Richie, and Levi van Veluw
THE CONTRADICTIONS OF FRAGILITY
Curated by Angel Moya Garcia
Eduardo Secci Contemporary | Piazza Carlo Goldoni 2, Florence
9 September - 6 November 2021
This exhibition explores the theme of fragility and different declinations surrounding it. Doing so, it excavates the contradictions that conceal behind its definition while analyzing the different contexts within which the term has been used: society, culture, economics, science and philosophy. A series of meanings and interpretations wherein fragility is investigated in its derogatory connotation inviting us to consider it as doubt and uncertainty, fail and its acceptance or weakness of our beliefs. This ancestral and hypothetical antagonism caused by the sharp opposition between fragility and stability or durability, is questioned by the show pointing out infinite possibilities of mistakes, superficiality of certain categorical reflections and prejudices of our principles in chasing an absolute objectivity that allows us to reach a definitive emotional, cognitive and identity stability. Participating artists include: Diana Al-Hadid, Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Andrea Galvani, José Carlos Martinat, and Matthew Ritchie
UN PIANETA, MOLTE VISIONI
Andrea Galvani in Conversation with Walter Guadagnini and Alessandro Isaia
CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Torino
8 October 2021, 6:30pm CET
Andrea Galvani in conversation with Walter Guadagnini, director of CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, and Alessandro Isaia, director of the Biennale Democrazia. Galvani’s image was chosen to represent the 7th edition of the Biennale Democrazia: Un pianeta, molti mondi for its spectacular capacity to incorporate a plurality of perspectives, a luminous unfolding of multiple worlds in the singular space of the shot. Death of an Image #4 is a large-scale analogue photograph produced by Andrea Galvani in 2005. In this work, a large tree in the center of a wheat field is transformed into a luminous body through the use of three mirrors to reflect sunlight, revealing the invisible and internal dimensions of the image.
THE FAMILIES OF MAN
Curated by Elio Grazioli and Walter Guadagnini
MAR - Museo Archeologico Regionale | Piazza Roncas 12, Aosta, Italy
29 May - 10 October 2021
Participating artists include: Gian Paolo Barbieri, Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Letizia Battaglia, Jacopo Benassi, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Paola De Pietri, Mario Dondero, Andrea Galvani, Francesco Jodice, Armin Linke, Adrian Paci, Antonio Rovaldi, Ferdinando Scianna, Oliviero Toscani, Toni Thorimbert, Franco Vaccari, Paolo Ventura, and Massimo Vitali
ANDREA GALVANI | SITE-SPECIFIC SOLO PRESENTATION
THE ARMORY SHOW 2021
Galería CURRO | Focus Section
Curated by Wassan Al-Khudhairi
9-12 September 2021
CURRO is proud to present a new body of work by Andrea Galvani – a complex site-specific installation especially developed for the Focus Section of the Armory Show 2021, curated by Wassan Al-Khudhairi. An illuminated forest is constituted by six neon sculptures installed on different levels of a modular geometrical platform. This project was generated by vanguard investigations the artist conducted in collaboration with scientists and mathematicians from the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich and La Sapienza Università di Roma. Galvani’s installation circumscribes the concept of the future through the lens of the most advanced international research, creating an immersive environment designed to be experienced by the public.
ARCOmadrid 2021
”Strange Bodies”
The RYDER Projects
7 - 11 July 2021
Featured artists : Saelia Aparicio, Miguel Benlloch, Andrea Galvani, Antoni Hervás, and Jonas Lund
TERREMOTO BENEFIT AUCTION
Curated by Dorothée Dupuis
Acequia, San Jerónimo 36, Centro, CDMX
11 March 2021, 7:30-11pm
ANDREA GALVANI IN CONVERSATION WITH VALENTINO CATRICALÁ
Del Contemporaneo. Linguaggi, Pratiche e Fenomeni dell’Arte del XXI Secolo
Curated by Laura Barreca | Presented by mudaC | museo delle arti Carrara
5 March 2021, 6pm
STASI FRENETICA | ARTISSIMA UNPLUGGED
Solo presentation with Fabienne Levy, Lausanne
Curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Valerio Del Baglivo
Fondazione Torino Musei | Palazzo Madama | Piazza Castello, Turin
7 November 2020 - 15 February 2021
TIME PRESENT: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE DEUTSCHE BANK COLLECTION
Curated by Friedhelm Hütte
PalaisPopulaire | Unter den Linden 5, 10117 Berlin
10 June 2020 - 22 February 2021
Deutsche Bank Collection LIVE
Andrea Galvani in Conversation with Britta Färber
21 October 2020, 7pm
Participating artists include: Shirin Aliabadi, Kader Attia, Yto Barrada, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Mohamad Camara, Susan Derges, Cao Fei, Samuel Fosso, Andrea Galvani, Andreas Gursky, Mathilde ter Heijne, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Martin Liebscher, Julio César Morales, Viviane Sassen, Tokihiro Sato, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Amalia Ulman, Wim Wenders, Miwa Yanagi, and more
UN NEGOCIO DE AFECTO Y AVERSIÓN (INEBRIATE OF AIR AM I)
Galería Curro | Andrés Terán 726, Col. Santa Teresita, Guadalajara
31 January - December 2020
Participating artists: Adam Parker Smith, Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Andrea Galvani, Claudia Peña Salinas, Cristina Garrido, Francisco Ugarte, Juan Capistrán, Mauricio Alejo, Octavio Abúndez, Richard T. Walker
ART BASEL OVR: MIAMI BEACH
Revolver Galería
2-6 December 2020
UNTITLED, ART | MIAMI BEACH OVR
Eduardo Secci Contemporary
2-6 December 2020
ANDREA GALVANI | LA SOTTIGLIEZZA DELLE COSE ELEVATE
Curated by Angel Moya Garcia
Mattatoio | MACRO Testaccio, Piazza Orazio Giustiniani 4, 00153 Roma
23 July - 1 November 2020
PUBLIC PROGRAMMING | TALKS, EVENTS, AND PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
La Sottigliezza delle cose elevate is an immersive interdisciplinary project by Andrea Galvani, designed especially for the monumental space of Pavilion 9B at the Mattatoio in Rome.
Constructed in 1888-1891 by the celebrated architect Gioacchino Ersoch, the Mattatoio is considered one of the most important industrial landmarks in Rome. From 2002-2018, it was the second seat of the MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art, first known as MACRO Future and then MACRO Testaccio, with an expansive exhibition space of 6,000 sqm stretching across two pavilions. Today, under the direction of Azienda Speciale Palaexpo, the Mattatoio juxtaposes its iconic historical structure with some of the most ambitious, foreword-thinking and experimental exhibitions in the international contemporary art world.
Galvani’s La Sottigliezza delle cose elevate [The Subtleties of Elevated Things] is conceived as an open laboratory, an experiential environment in constant and continuous evolution. The exhibition comes to life through a series of intensive on-site interventions and three-month performance that gradually unfold over the entire duration of the show. Collaborating with the Departments of Physics, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Astrobiology, Molecular Medicine, Biochemical Science, and Electrical Engineering at the Sapienza University of Rome, as well as researchers at CERN and Virgo data analysis group, the artist brings the raw processes of scientific research, computation, and analysis to the center, exposing what is normally invisible to us. La Sottigliezza delle cose elevate manifests Galvani’s ongoing commitment to honoring the power of human knowledge while simultaneously emphasizing its limits, circumscribing a perimeter of action that moves forward—able to appear and generate itself from its own impossibility.
La Sottigliezza delle cose elevate by Andrea Galvani is the inaugural exhibition in Dispositivi sensibili [Sensitive Devices], a three-year program conceived by Angel Moya Garcia for Pavilion 9B of the Mattatoio, advancing projects by some of the most important international artists engaging performance in their work today.
LMCC: NEW YORK WE LOVE YOU BENEFIT AUCTION 2020
18 May - 2 June 2020
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council + Artsy are thrilled to present LMCC New York We Love You Benefit Auction 2020 featuring works by artists including Andrea Galvani, Julie Mehretu, Josephine Meckseper, Richard Mosse, Vik Muniz, Arlene Shechet and more. LMCC is committed to the notion that dialogue between artists and community can create a more just, equitable, and sustainable society. Founded in 1973, the organization has been a leading champion for independent artists and the cultural life force of Lower Manhattan, a local center of creativity with international impact. Through grants, residencies, and presentations, LMCC supports artists and engages audiences through programming that is always free and open to all. In 2019, LMCC opened the Arts Center at Governors Island, its first permanent space for artists and audiences, with 40,000 SF of dedicated exhibition and residency spaces, creating ever more opportunity for the public to engage with the visual arts. In this unprecedented moment, LMCC's efforts are more critical than ever to the wellbeing of individual artists and small arts groups that have been rendered vulnerable by the shutdown of the pandemic. With the “New York We Love You” benefit auction, LMCC will raise needed funds to continue providing resources for artists and the rebuilding of constituent communities.
WE ARE THE REVOLUTION
Curated by Alberto Fiz
XNL Piacenza Contemporanea | via Santa Franca 36, Piacenza, Italy
31 January - 24 May 2020
Participating artists: Eduardo Arroyo, Elizabeth Aro, Barry X Ball, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Clegg & Guttmann, Matteo Fato, Thorsten Kirchhoff, Luigi Mainolfi, Alessandro Mendini, Helmut Newton, Niki de Saint Phalle, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Alice Ronchi, Thomas Struth, Mario Airò, Ghada Amer, Paolo Canevari, Loris Cecchini, Wim Delvoye, Gintaras Didziapetris, Gloria Friedmann, Stefania Galegati, Petrit Halilaj, Huang Yong Ping, Yayoi Kusama, Aldo Mondino, Adrian Paci, Athena Papadopoulos, Pino Pascali, Bruno Peinado, Giulia Piscitelli, Paola Pivi, Martha Rosler, Sam Samore, Armando Testa, Richard Wentworth, Tom Wesselmann, Marina Abramović, Francesco Arena, Georg Baselitz, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Alberto Burri, Jimmie Durham, Lara Favaretto, Carsten Höller, Invernomuto, Teresa Margolles, Paul McCarthy, Mike Nelson, Katja Novitskova, Mimmo Rotella, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Sisley Xhafa, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Matthew Barney, Alighiero Boetti, Sophie Calle, Francesco Clemente, Giorgio de Chirico, Gino De Dominicis, Flavio Favelli, Dan Flavin, Andrea Galvani, Emilio Isgrò, Anish Kapoor, Joseph Kosuth, Osvaldo Licini, Allan McCollum, Marisa Merz, Giorgio Morandi, Robert Morris, Shirin Neshat, Ahmet Öğüt, Mimmo Paladino, Giulio Paolini, Alessandro Pessoli, Emilio Prini, Alexandre Singh, Gilberto Zorio, Vincenzo Agnetti, Vanessa Beecroft, Maurizio Cattelan, Mario Ceroli, Enzo Cucchi, Günther Förg, Francesco Gennari, Nan Goldin, Zhang Huan, Ilya Kabakov, Alex Katz, Mike Kelley, Barbara Kruger, Myriam Laplante, Sarah Lucas, Marcello Maloberti, Robert Mapplethorpe, Marzia Migliora, Yasumasa Morimura, Zanele Muholi, Luigi Ontani, Tony Oursler, Vettor Pisani, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jaume Plensa, Thomas Ruff, Julian Schnabel, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Franco Vaccari, Marcella Vanzo, Francesco Vezzoli, Bill Viola, Ben, Daniel Buren, Tony Cragg, Piero Fogliati, Lucio Fontana, Ellen Gallagher, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Jannis Kounellis, Sol LeWitt, Mario Merz, Tatsuo Miyajima, Fabrizio Plessi, Hisachika Takahashi, Giovanni Anselmo, Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Corrado Bonomi, Chiara Camoni, Roberto Cuoghi, Nicola De Maria, Luciano Fabro, Urs Fischer, Piero Gilardi, Andreas Gursky, Mona Hatoum, Francesco Jodice, William Kentridge, Richard Long, Claudia Losi, Fausto Melotti, Giuseppe Penone, Gianni Pettena, Gianni Piacentino, Tobias Rehberger, Gerhard Richter, Tomás Saraceno, Thomas Struth, Andy Warhol, Erwin Wurm, Andrea Zittel, Stefano Arienti, Marco Bagnoli, Barry X Ball, Domenico Bianchi, Enrico Castellani, Alberto Garutti, Wyatt Kahn, Mimmo Jodice, Wolfgang Laib, Piero Manzoni, Fabio Mauri, Pietro Roccasalva, Remo Salvadori, Gregor Schneider, Mario Schifano, Ettore Spalletti, Luca Vitone
IN THE AFTERGLOW
FF Projects Frieze Week LA Pop-Up
2347 E 8th St. Los Angeles, CA
15 February 2020, 4 PM
Featured Artists: Stefan Bruggermann, Aldo Chaparro, Pablo Davila, Brian Eno, Matthew Feyld, Andrea Galvani, Mario Garcia Torres, Alessandro Moroder, Gonzalo Lebrija, Dan Lissvik, Jose de Sancristobal, Francisco Ugarte
ZONA MACO 2020
Galería Curro | Booth E112
Eduardo Secci Contemporary | Booth E106
5-9 February 2020
Galería Curro Featured Artists: Octavio Abúndez, Mauricio Alejo, Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Juan Capistrán, Andrea Galvani, Cristina Garrido, Adam Parker Smith, Claudia Peña Salinas, and Francisco Ugarte
Eduardo Secci Contemporary Featured Artists: Andrea Galvani, Kevin Francis Gray, Terry Haggerty, Jon Kessler, Gerold Miller, Tim Plamper, Michael Staniak, Levi van Veluw
ARTGENÉVE 2020
Fabienne Levy | Booth C47
29 January - 2 February 2020
Featured Artists: Andrea Galvani, Vikenti Komitski
UNTITLED Art Fair, Miami Beach
CURRO | Booth B17
Eduardo Secci Contemporary | Booth B30
3-8 December 2019
CURRO Featured Artists: Octavio Abúndez, Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Andrea Galvani, Adam Parker Smith, Francisco Ugarte
Eduardo Secci Contemporary Featured Artists: Maurizio Donzelli, Richard Dupont, Michele Gabriele, Andrea Galvani, Kevin Francis Gray, Terry Haggerty, Gerold Miller, Giuseppe Stampone, Michael Staniak, Theo Triantafyllidis, Levi van Veluw
ANDREA GALVANI | ELEVATION
Fabienne Levy | Avenue Louis-Ruchonnet 6, Lausanne
27 September - 23 November 2019
VIP Openings and Performance: 24-26 Sept
Public Opening and Performance: 27 Sept, 5-7:30pm
Fabienne Levy is pleased to present Elevation, a solo show by Andrea Galvani that marks the gallery’s inauguration and the premier presentation of the international artist in Switzerland. Through a curated selection of photography, sculpture, video, neon, architectural installation, and live performance, this show will reveal the range of rigorous research, scientific methodology, and philosophical thought that underscore Galvani’s work. Elevation articulates and defies gravity’s force. We experience its contours on mountain peaks and the smooth embrace of valleys. It is lightness, levitation, sublimation—the act of ascension, the weightlessness of spirit. Elevation by Andrea Galvani brings us to the edge of human knowledge, where the physical and metaphysical converge. At certain times during the show, the exhibition is activated by a series of performances, transforming the gallery into a vibrant space of endless flux.
STRINGS. LIGHT AND VISION
Curated by Maria Abramenko
White Noise Gallery | via della Seggiola 9, Rome
28 September - 26 October 2019
Opening Reception: 28 Sept, 7 PM
Featured artists: Isabel Alonso Vega, Duskmann, Andrea Galvani, Sali Muller, Mareo Rodriguez, Alessandro Simonini
ARTBO Bogotá | SOLO PRESENTATION
Revolver Galería | Proyectos Section, Performance en práctica
Curated by Aaron Cezar
19-22 September 2019
Andrea Galvani’s The Subtleties of Elevated Things is a live performance taking place at ARTBO, occupying the entire booth of Revolver Galería at the fair. Produced in collaboration with physicists from the Universidad de los Andes, Andrea Galvani invites a group of PhD students to calculate complex astrophysical phenomena on-site. Writing directly on the walls of the booth, the space is progressively transformed into a living laboratory open to the public. Throughout the course of the art fair, the calculations expand Galvani’s research, creating a cross-disciplinary dialogue around the same complex physical phenomena explored by the artist. Within these calculations, there is a Universe. They preserve the work of the past, orient our knowledge in the present, and point towards the future. They allow the magical richness of scientific theories to unfold, opening new languages and touching the nature of the phenomena they express. Behind each calculation is a constellation, thousands of steps in ongoing processes of scientific inquiry, mathematically mapping the meandering paths of relentless minds that sometimes triumph and often fail.
EXPO Chicago
CURRO | Booth 101
Eduardo Secci Contemporary
19-22 September 2019
CURRO Featured Artists: Octavio Abúndez , Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Andrea Galvani, Adam Parker Smith
Eduardo Secci Featured Artists: Richard Dupont, Andrea Galvani, Gerola Miller, Alfredo Pirri, Marco Tirelli
CURVATURE | Andrea Galvani and Cristian Chironi
Curated by Efisio Carbone
Galleria Macca | via Lamarmora 136, Castello, Cagliari
27 July - 20 September 2019
Opening Reception and Performance: 26 July, 7-9 PM
Curvature is a project by Andrea Galvani and Cristian Chironi. This two-person show was born as a unified intervention specifically designed for Galleria Macca. In this exhibition, their cross-disciplinary research enters into a brilliant dialogue. Suggesting different points of contact, the artists’ interpretations of words and absolute concepts are transformed into real architectures of knowledge—engines that express meaning and investigate concepts such as fragility and temporality, matter and universal space.
Fondazione MACC | International Artist Residency Program
Calasetta, Sardinia
Fondazione MACC is pleased to announce the participation of Andrea Galvani, an internationally renowned artist, in the residency program. Between 2005 and 2006, Galvani developed and produced some extraordinary images which became one of his most famous photographic series known throughout the world, Death of an Image, working in some abandoned mines in Sulcis Iglesiente. Fondazione MACC has invited the artist to return to Sardinia, and is now honored and proud to announce his residence. During this residency, Galvani will continue his work in the same places and at the same period of the year in which, almost 15 years ago, an important development of his research took place.
Lectio Magistralis and Book Signing
Fondazione MACC via Savola 2, Calasetta
Sunday 11 August 2019, 8 PM
Fondazione MACC celebrates the summer with an extraordinary evening dedicated to the work of Andrea Galvani. The artist will be in conversation with Dr. Cristian Galbiati, Professor of Physics at Princeton University, coordinator of the #DarkSide Experiment, and member of the MAX collaboration at Fermi Lab; Dr. Walter Bonivento Professor of Physics at the Università di Cagliari; Efisio Carbone, Director of Museo MACC; and Claude Corongiu, Director of Galleria Macca and the MACC Residency Program. The conversation will be followed by a book signing of Andrea Galvani Monograph.
EX3, Andrea Galvani and Andrea Naccarritti
Curated by Carmen Lorenzetti
Opificio Golinelli | via Paolo Nanni Costa 14, Bologna
19 June - 18 July 2019
Opening Reception, Introduction and Conversation with the artists and Prof. Sergio Bertolucci: 18 June, 5:30 PM
The EX project is dedicated to ex-students of the Bologna Academy who have now become internationally-recognized artists. For the 2019 edition of EX3, Andrea Galvani and Andrea Nacciarriti have each developed a site-specific intervention, designed especially for Fondazione Golinelli. The exhibition will open to the public with a conference at the Opificio Golinelli Auditorium in which Prof. Sergio Bertolucci, particle physicist, professor at the University of Nuclear Physics of Bologna, and Director of Research and Scientific Computing at CERN, will meet the artists in an interdisciplinary conversation.
Over the course of his career, Andrea Galvani has been collaborating with scientists, universities and major research institutions worldwide. For this exhibition, Galvani will present, for the first time in Italy, a reconfiguration of his spectacular installation Instruments for Inquiring into the Wind and the Shaking Earth. Designed specifically for Opificio Golinelli, the artist has chosen to present a selection of ten sculptures, an illuminated mathematical landscape. Suspended several meters high above the main corridor, the equations welcome and accompany visitors as they enter the Foundation, illuminating space and intrinsically indicating the important role of bridging between art, science, and technology, which is the mission of the Foundation itself and the essential activity of the Arts and Sciences Center—a vision oriented towards the future of research.
Instruments for Inquiring into the Wind and the Shaking Earth
Workshop at Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, Aula Magna
10-14 June 2019
Closing Lecture and Performance with students: Friday, June 14 at 6PM
Andrea Galvani and James Beacham in Conversation
LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura
MASI Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana
Lugano, Switzerland
Tuesday, 4 June 2019, 6 PM
On June 4th, Andrea Galvani will be in conversation with Dr. James Beacham, one of the world’s leading high energy particle physicists, renown researcher at CERN, and member of the ATLAS team that discovered the Higgs boson in 2012. This dialogue offers the chance to weave together the experiences, paths, and visions of two pioneers—deepening connections between the worlds of art and science through cross-disciplinary engagement. This marks the fifth meeting of the “La Scienza a regola d’Arte” series, a production of the collaboration between MASI and the IBSA Foundation for Scientific Research. Previous speakers include Thomas Struth, Tony Cragg, Armin Linke, and Wolfgang Laib. The event will bee followed by a book signing.
Study on Movement and Force | Artist Residency Program
Residencia Tito Rebaza, Lima
April - May 2019
Andrea Galvani Monograph Book Signing
BABEL
Calle Coronel Inclán 300, Miraflores, Lima
Tuesday, 28 May 2019, 7:00 PM
Please join us for a special presentation and book signing of Andrea Galvani monograph. The artist will be present to discuss his work with Bruno Villavisencio of Revolver Galería, and meet with the public in the intimate environment of BABEL Librería.
PArC 2019, Lima
Revolver Galería
25-28 April 2019
ARTEBA 2019, Buenos Aires
Revolver Galería | Booth E8
11-14 April 2019
Featured artists: Carlos Alonso, Marlon de Azambuja, Alberto Borea, Elena Damiani, Juan Dolhare, Andrea Galvani, Marco di Giovanni, Vicente Grondona, Jerry B. Martin, Jose Carlos Martinat, Luna Paiva, Martina Quesada, Ishmael Randall-Weeks, and Giancarlo Scaglia
DALLAS ART FAIR 2019
Eduardo Secci Contemporary | Booth F12
11-14 April 2019
Art Lima 2019
Revolver Galería | Booth F17
4-7 April 2019
Featured artists: Elena Damiani, Andrea Galvani, Jose Carlos Martinat, Ishmael Randall-Weeks, Giancarlo Scaglia, Luis Enrique Zela-Koort
Miart 2019, Milan
Revolver Galería | Booth D18 3
5-7 April 2019
Featured artists: Miguel Andrade, Marco di Giovanni, Jorge Eielson, Andrea Galvani, Jose Carlos Martinat, Luna Paiva, G.T. Pellizzi, and Giancarlo Scaglia
VII AUDEMARS PIGUET PRIZE
ARCOmadrid 2019
Revolver Galería
27 February - 3 March 2019
Andrea Galvani has been awarded the prestigious Audemars Piguet Prize for the production of a work of art at ARCOmadrid 2019. His project, presented by Revolver Galería, will be exhibited at the Audemars Piguet stand at the fair. The jury, composed of Javier Mulins, art critic; Lucía Casani, director of La Casa Encendida; Pilar Lladó, collector; Eduardo Rivero, collector; Enric Pastor, director of AD; Eloy Martínez de la Pera, art consultant at Audemars Piguet Iberia; Winka Angelrath, director of exhibitions at Audemars Piguet; Brian Lavio, general director of Audemars Piguet, and Carlos Urroz, director of ARCOmadrid, emphasize the alignment of his proposal with the spirit of the brand founded upon “complexity and precision.” The scientific foundation of the award merges with the powerful visual and conceptual experience of Galvani’s work, which includes a performance that will activate the entire space of the installation at certain times during the fair.
ARCOmadrid 2019 | SOLO PRESENTATION
The RYDER Projects | Opening Section, Stand 9OP21
27 February - 3 March 2019
The RYDER Projects presents a solo exhibition with Andrea Galvani in the Opening section of ARCOmadrid. Constituted by a selection of the artist's most ambitious and acclaimed projects in recent years, this curated survey includes photography, sculpture, video, neon, and live performance. Like a black stalagmite that rises from the floor, a column of scientific books fundamental for the development of human knowledge throughout the centuries becomes a monolithic platform upon which new ideas can be shared and tested. Mathematical equations written in blown Murano glass measure the distance between our planet and the Sun through radiation; and a diagram in white neon illuminates the different gravitational trajectories of objects falling on Mars, the Moon, and the Earth. On the central wall of the booth, a large-scale analogue photograph freezes an F-18 military aircraft in the moment it is crossing the sound barrier, a spectacular visualization of the separation between sound and absolute silence. In the center of the space above a cement pedestal, a gold laptop presents a video of a never-ending sunset filmed in 16mm at supersonic speeds traveling opposite the Earth's rotation. At specific times during the fair, physicists from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid calculate complex astrophysical phenomena on-site, progressively transforming the installation into a living laboratory open to the public.
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LATINOAMÉRICA: VOLVER AL FUTURO
Curated by Federico Baeza
MACBA Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Buenos Aires
6 April 2018 - 3 March 2019
Latinoamérica: volver al futuro ["Latin America: Back to the Future"] presents a topography of unexpected connections between regional modernizing projects and contemporary artistic practices. From the concrete works of the 1950s to re-readings of that legacy in the present, the exhibition articulates a vast geographical and temporal threshold in which systems of survival emerge and return, exploding any linear conception of temporal passage.
Featured artists: Roberto Aizenberg, Manuel Álvarez, Sergio Avello, Amadeo Azar, Carla Bertone, Gabriela Böer, Erica Bohm, Martha Boto, Juan Sebastián Bruno, Valeria Calvo, Ulises Carrión, Emilio Chapela, Lothar Charoux, Marta Chilindrón, Marcelo Cidade, Marcos Coelho Benjamim, Elías Crespín, Carlos Cruz Diez, João José Da Silva Costa, Mariano dal Verme, José Dávila, Marcolina Di Pierro, Verónica Di Toro, Lucio Dorr, Manuel Espinosa, Maria Freire, Marcius Galan, Andrea Galvani, Silvia Gurfein, Graciela Hasper, Carlos Huffman, Enio Iommi, Daniel Joglar, Irina Kirchuk, Gyula Kosice, Marlena Kudlicka, Guillermo Kuitca, Silvana Lacarra, Estefanía Landesmann, Federico Lanzi, Lux Linder, Los Carpinteros, Raúl Lozza, Macaparaná, Víctor Magariños, Marco Maggi, María Martorell, Nicolás Mastracchio, Julia Masvernat, Miguel Mitlag, Ascânio MMM, Iván Navarro, Marie Oresnanz, Damián Ortega, Alejandro Otero, Matilde Pérez, Gilda Picabea, Rogelio Polesello, Déborah Pruden, Martina Quesada, Inés Raitieri, Kazuya Sakai, Zilia Sánchez, Tomás Saraceno, Mariela Scafati, Mira Schendel, Analía Segal, Gabriel Sierra, Pablo Siquier, Juan Sorrentino, Julián Terán, Ana Tiscornia, and Osias Yanov.
EASY RIDER
Curated by Luca Beatrice, Arnaldo Colasanti, and Stefano Fassone
La Venaria Reale, Torino
18 July 2018 - 24 February 2019
Featured artists: Alighiero Boetti, Paolo Canevari, Mircea Cantor, Tom Of Finland, Andrea Galvani, Mike Giant, Robert Indiana, Emilio Isgrò, Antonio Ligabue, Servane Mary, Mario Merz, Ida Tursic & Wilfred Mille, Pino Pascali, Gianni Piacentino, Andy Rementer, Glen Rubsamen, Mario Schifano, Paul Simonon, Giuliano Vangi, Aaron Young, and others
ZONA MACO 2019 | SOLO PRESENTATION
Eduardo Secci Contemporary | Zona Maco Sur, Mexico City | ZMS22
6-10 February 2019
We tend to ignore what we cannot see. On the scale of microscopic structures, we are virtually blind. We can see the Moon, but we can’t see our own cells. We see stars, but not molecules; galaxies, but not atoms. The Last Universal Common Ancestor, Andrea Galvani’s architectural neon installation, was generated by looking into the unseen, the infinitely small. Gathering archival images collected from microscopes and petri dishes, the artist meticulously scanned and redrew the microbial forms he found. Radiating root structures, geometric shapes with centripetal force, and abstract biomorphs are suspended like a microcosmic jungle—magnified and illuminated.
INSTRUMENTS FOR INQUIRING INTO THE WIND AND THE SHAKING EARTH
Revolver Galería, Buenos Aires
Art Basel Cities | Gallery Weekend Buenos Aires
8 September 2018 - 1 January 2019
Instruments for Inquiring into the Wind and the Shaking Earth is both a proclamation of the power and failure of human knowledge—our desire to understand, to regulate what is abstract, to impose order upon an unpredictable world. The title is translated from 候风地动仪 [Houfeng Didong Yi], the name of the first seismoscope invented by visionary mathematician and scholar Zhang Heng (78-139 CE). According to ancient Chinese records, in the year 138 the device detected an earthquake 600 kilometers away. The original version has since been lost: its mechanism remains a mystery.
Elements in this show excavate into the frontiers of the unknown—a living memorial to the temporality of theories and attempts to transform the uncertain into the absolute. Building upon Galvani’s rigorous research and developed in collaboration with physicists at UNAM, NASA, and the Imperial College of London, Instruments for Inquiring into the Wind and the Shaking Earth was conceived as an experiential environment. Viewers are immersed in a bright cloud of numbers, navigating through a constellation of white blown glass and metal structures. Mathematical calculations illuminate the symmetry of physical laws: from the undulating movement of waves, to the nature of time; the generation of a lightning storm, to the regulation of ocean tides; the rate at which the cosmos expands, and the possibility of life on other planets.
UNTITLED MIAMI BEACH
Eduardo Secci Contemporary
5-9 December 2018
Featured artists: Alberto Borea, Richard Dupont, Andrea Galvani, Sergio Lombardo, Luca Pozzi, Giuseppe Stampone, Michael Staniak, Massimo Vitali
ANDREA GALVANI MONOGRAPH EUROPEAN BOOK LAUNCH
Spazio Gamma
Via Pastrengo, 7, Milan
Thursday, 6 December 2018, 7:00 PM
Spazio Gamma, in collaboration with Mousse Publishing, is happy to host international artist Andrea Galvani, who will join via Skype from New York. Galvani will be in conversation with Giorgio Verzotti, curator, art critic, and author of the introductory text of Andrea Galvani Monograph, and Stefano Non, founder of Spazio Gamma, exploring the formal and procedural dynamics of his artistic production, beginning with the monograph that contains over a decade of his work. With over 400 pages of color images, drawings, archival research, essays and interviews by critics and curators, this publication moves between artist’s book, scientific magazine, and historical encyclopedia, systematically combining fragments collected and synthesized through different phases of Galvani’s prolific career.
VS. CRAVAN
Curated by Elisabetta Longari
Palestra Visconti, Arci Bellezza, Milan
29 November - 6 December 2018
VS. CRAVAN is presented to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the mysterious disappearance of the legendary artist-boxer Arthur Cravan, who was idolized by Dada artists and Surrealists. Cravan was last seen in Salina Cruz, Mexico in 1918, and is said to have drowned off the coast in November of the same year. VS. CRAVAN is more than just an art exhibition because it highlights the deep connections between boxing, art and life.
Featured artists: Ivo Bonacorsi, Petr Bystrov, Mimmo Capurso, Luigi Castiglioni, Gianluigi Colin, Andrea Contin, Nino Crociani, Franko B, Cesare Fullone, Andrea Galvani, Omar Hassan, Elena Kovylina, Mimmo Lombezzi, Antonio Marras, Paul Pfeiffer, Camilla Rocchi, Michael Rotondi, Riiko Sakkinen, Arianna Summo, Giovanni Testori, Maria Cristina Vimercati
CHI UTOPIA MANGIA LE MELE
Curated by Adriana Polveroni and Gabriele Tosi
Ex Dogana di terra, Verona
12 October - 2 December 2018
Featuring artists: Nanni Balestrini, Maurizio Cattelan, Cristian Chironi, Danilo Correale, Vittorio Corsini, Cuoghi Corsello, Gino De Dominicis, Ceal Floyer, Claire Fontaine, Cyprien Gaillard, Andrea Galvani, Carlos Garaicoa, Christian Jankowski, Thomas Kuijpers, Ugo La Pietra, Maria Lai, Lisa Dalfino e Sacha Kanah, Robin Hewlett e Ben Kinsley, Glenn Ligon, Davide Mancini Zanchi, Masbedo, Elena Mazzi, Adrián Melis Sosa, Luciano Ori, Adrian Paci, Gina Pane, Pino Pascali, Beatrice Pediconi, Diego Perrone, Gianni Pettena, Paola Pivi, Andrea Santarlasci, Tomás Saraceno, Marinella Senatore, Stefano Serretta, Caterina Erica Shanta, Mauro Staccioli, Kyle Thompson, Piotr Uklansky, Ben Vautier, and Vedovamazzei
FERIA CH.ACO 2018
Revolver Galería | Main M18
22-26 November 2018
Featured artists: Marlon de Azambuja, Andrea Galvani, Vicente Grondona, Jerry B. Martin, Ivan Navarro, and Martina Quesada
THE UNIVERSAL ONE
The RYDER Projects, London
28 September - 24 November 2018
Opening Reception: 27 September, 7-9 PM
Live Performance: 7:15 PM
The Universal One is a site-specific installation designed for The RYDER as an experiential environment—an immersion into the singular and fluid force that animates and colors the world, opens flowers, breathes oxygen into the air, gives cells their primal intelligence, liberates energy through combustion. Conceived as a reflection on life itself, the exhibition illustrates cycles of integration and disintegration: from units of energy into atoms, to the architecture of phenomena that brings all things into existence, moves them, disassembles and transforms. All creation is embedded in this cycle—the elements that comprise the stars and the sky are exactly the same as those that come together to form life on Earth.
LOOP BARCELONA
The RYDER Projects
12-22 November 2018
PRIMA MATERIA
Curated by Viridiana Mayagoitia
Organized by PEANA and Adrián S. Bará
LaCasaPark Art Residency, Gardiner, NY
22 September - 26 October 2018
Featured artists: Owen Armour, Peter Brock, Adrián S. Bará, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Tomás Díaz Cedeño, Faivovich & Goldberg, Andrea Galvani, Alison Kudlow, Gonzalo Lebrija, Pedro Martínez-Negrete, Ana Montiel, Mario Navarro, Diego Orendain, Barb Smith, Bosco Sodi, Ernesto Solana, Tove Storch, Casey Tang, Tezontle, and Liat Yossifor
FRIEZE LONDON
Revolver Galería | Focus Section, Booth H17
3-7 October 2018
EXPO CHICAGO 2018
Eduardo Secci Contemporary | A1-127
27-30 September 2018
Featured artists: Maurizio Donzelli, Andrea Galvani, Gerold Miller, Luca Pozzi, Giuseppe Stampone, and Michael Staniak
CONTEMPORARY ISTANBUL
Eduardo Secci Contemporary | A1-127
19-23 September 2018
Featured artists: Andrea Galvani, Gerold Miller, Luca Pozzi, Giuseppe Stampone, Michael Staniak
OLDER THAN SATAN
Revolver Galería, Lima
3 August - 16 September 2018
On 27 June 2008, Revolver Galería opened its doors to the public as a platform for the internationalization of contemporary Peruvian art.
From the beginning, this new generation agreed upon basic ideas: working from the local scene, redirected towards the exchange and connection with the rest of the world, proving that active trade and a committed discourse will articulate treater development. This common background crystallized in the objectives of exposure, promotion, and management of Revolver, giving shape to methods of work, and remaining to this day one of the pillars of the project.
Following that initial premise, and faithful to a spirit of constant evolution, in 2017 Revolver inaugurated a new space in Buenos Aires, multiplying its capacity of action from one of the most active and vibrant focuses in Latin America. From the beginning to the present, the gallery has produced more than 100 exhibitions locally and internationally, collaborating with the most relevant artists and institutions on the current scene, and continues to with the same commitment and intensity.
Celebrating their 10-year trajectory, Revolver inaugurates Older than Satan, presenting itself in its most essential form. The show, although it is a journey in time through some of the most iconic moments in the history of the gallery, does not cease to reaffirm Revolver's commitments since the beginning. As a nod to that immutable element, the title refers to what we were then, to the road traveled, and to the continuity of the initial impulse.
Featured artists: Artemio, Miguel Andrade, Alberto Borea, Olaf Breuning, Elena Damiani, Matías Duville, Jorge Eielson, Radames "Juni" Figueroa, Andrea Galvani, Philippe Gruenberg, Jerry B. Martin, Jose Carlos Martinat, Yoshua Okon, Ishmael Randall-Weeks, Emilio Rodríguez-Larraín, Juan Salas Carreño, Giancarlo Scaglia
ANDREA GALVANI MONOGRAPH BOOK LAUNCH
MACBA - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires
Av. San Juan 328
Wednesday, 12 September 2018, 5:00 PM
The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires | Fundación Aldo Rubino is pleased to announce the international launch of Andrea Galvani monograph, and the premier book signing in Latin America. The artist, whose work is part of the exhibition Latinoamérica: Volver al Futuro at the museum, will share his work and process through a dialogue with the show’s curator Federico Baeza that will be open to the public. Under the auspices of Art Basel Cities, Galvani is simultaneously presenting Instruments for Inquiring into the Wind and the Shaking Earth, an ambitious project developed in the space of Revolver Galería.
L'IMMAGINE E IL SUO DOPPIO
Curated by Domenico De Chirico
Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Firenze
19 May - 30 June 2018
Doubles are the perennial interest of philosophers, especially those focused on aesthetics. The search for something concealed behind or within an image is an ancient study, one that has more recently been explored in the dialectics of Jean-Pierre Vernant and Antonin Artaud. For Vernant, the double is something absent or unreachable to present, an unveiling of the image as a constant gift. For Artaud, the double allows us to touch the essence of things, a way to break the separation between representation and reality. Perhaps the double is best understood by merging these two approaches, a manifestation of the image which thus becomes elevated, repeated. This circle seems to cross all works in the exhibition, each one carrying an internal conflict between pairs of different nature, and which passionately seek to show the complex stratifications from which they were generated.
Featured artists: Sara Barker, Andrea Galvani, Sanam Khatibi, David Noonan, and Margo Wolowiec
arteBA
Revolver Galería | Main Section, B4
24-27 May 2018
Featured artists: Olaf Breuning, Elena Damiani, Matías Duville, Jorge Eielson, Andrea Galvani, Natalia Iguiñiz, Marlena Kudlicka, José Carlos Martinat, G.T. Pellizzi, Martina Quesada, Ishmael Randall-Weeks, Emilio Rodríguez Larraín
ART BRUSSELS 2018
SOLO Presentation
Eduardo Secci Contemporary | Booth C09
19-22 April 2018
Andrea Galvani | TOP 10
"La fiera Art Brussels compie 50 anni. I migliori 10 stand di questa edizione"
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DALLAS ART FAIR 2018
Eduardo Secci Contemporary
13-15 April 2018
ARCO MADRID 2018
Fundación Otazu | Pabellón Hall 9 Stand H34
VIP Program Opening at Colección Otazu
Señorío de Otazu / 31174 Pamplona, Navarra
17 February 2018
ZONA MACO 2018
Eduardo Secci Contemporary | H214
Fifi Projects | E211
7-11 February 2018
ART ROTTERDAM 2018
Eduardo Secci Contemporary | C9 Commonities
Curated by Lorenzo Benedetti
7-11 February 2018
UNTITLED. ART FAIR SAN FRANCISCO 2018
Eduardo Secci Contemporary | B04
11-14 January 2018
ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH 2017
Revolver Galería | Nova Section N11
6-10 December 2017
ART MIAMI 2017
Eduardo Secci Contemporary | A131
5-10 December 2017
UNTITLED ART FAIR MIAMI BEACH 2017
Y Gallery | A19
5-10 December 2017
FRIEZE NEW YORK 2017
Deutsche Bank Wealth Management Lounge
4-7 May 2017
APPROACHING THE END
Rebecca Rose Cuomo in Conversation with Andrea Galvani
Saturday, May 6 at 12:30 PM
ANDREA GALVANI SELECTED WORKS 2006 | 2016
Curated by Margherita de Pilati
Mart Museum | Galleria Civica di Trento
14 October 2016 - 22 January 2017
The Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto proudly directs its focus to the research of Andrea Galvani (Verona, 1973), one of the most important Italian artists of his generation in the international field, with an unprecedented survey exhibition of work produced in the last decade. The museum is transformed into a laboratory for exploration and analysis with a number of Galvani's most acclaimed international investigations: The End Trilogy (2013-2016), A Few Invisible Sculptures (2012-2016), Higgs Ocean (2008-2011), and Deconstruction of a Mountain (2004-2005) engage in dialogue for the first time. Projects exist in a perpetually transformative state: documenting collective actions and visionary experiments; the instability of physical phenomena, paradoxically monumental and ephemeral. Through a compact, interdisciplinary itinerary including photography, sculpture, drawing, performance, video and audio installations, this exhibition deconstructs distinctions between visible and invisible, continuity and temporality - freeing a space where limits are distorted and boundaries expanded, elements of a more profound and complex existence. Audiences are cast into a dimension that is both conceptually dense and emotionally charged, concrete yet metaphysical. Through an extraordinary selection of works, many of which have never been seen before in Italy, the path continues on the gallery’s lower level, revealing the strength and coherence of Galvani’s effort in the last ten years.
ARTISSIMA 2015
Artericambi | Main Section, Booth Lilac 8
Marso Galería | Main Section, Booth Lilac 6
6-8 November 2015
THE SUN, A GOLD NUGGET AND SEVEN STAIRS
The RYDER Projects, London
9 October 2015 - 5 December 2015
Beyond the vast sorrows and all the vexations
That weigh upon our lives and obscure our vision,
Happy is he who can with his vigorous wing
Soar up towards those fields luminous and serene,
He whose thoughts, like skylarks,
Toward the morning sky take flight
– Who hovers over life and understands with ease
The language of flowers and silent things!
– Charles Baudelaire, "Elevation"
EPÍLOGO
Marso Galería, México City
18 September - 31 October 2015
Epílogo introduces viewers to the psychological landscape that serves as the foundation for The End Trilogy, presenting three new site-specific installations. Following shows in Lima and New York, Epílogo completes the exhibition series of complex, cross-disciplinary works including photography, drawings, installation, video, audio, and performance. Expanding the project's scope, this show extends the timeline of The End in both directions, from its theoretical origins to the genesis of a new stage in the continuum. Epílogo inverts the artistic process, allowing access to the conceptual and scientific universe that generated the work. Exhibiting primary source material compiled through Galvani's intensive research, viewers can travel inside the artist's mind to the intelligible space where creation begins. During the opening reception, the artist invited Eloy Ayón-Beato, theoretical physicist and expert in black holes, for a collaborative intervention in the space. A new dimension is thus exposed as an architectonic blueprint, a schematic portrait of the project's evolution.
LANDSCAPE AS A BRAIN: MIMESI DE UN ANTI-MONUMENTO
Galería Curro, Guadalajara
18 July - 25 September 2015
Landscapes pierced, fractured, deconstructed, and exploded into thousands of pieces. Landscapes used as weapons, protective shields, habitable structures. Contorted landscapes, reassembled and restored, divided into new archaeological remains.
Landscape as a Brain is a retrospective reconfiguration of projects produced by the artist from 2005 to the present. An interdisciplinary survey of Galvani’s work, the exhibition includes photography, sculpture, and collage. Suspended in remote and dilated time, sites in the show seem perturbed by the artist, whose actions and structural interventions investigate the relationship between visible and invisible space. Modifying and distorting natural surroundings, Galvani transforms the landscape into a laboratory for cerebral observation and mysterious physical experiments. The central installation is a reconstruction of one of the first actions of the artist's career, in which he lived illegally for over a month in a desolate and forbidden military area. In an act of geopolitical defiance, Galvani transposed a mimetic landscape within the original scene, camouflaging himself in his environment. The landscape thus became a sort of armor against itself, simultaneously revealing the fragility of artificially imposed boundaries. Constructing geometric geographies that regenerate and document violent physical phenomena, the artist creates works that heighten our senses, articulate and extend the limits of perception. Monuments are paradoxically ephemeral, collapsed and condensed as anti-monuments in non-Euclidean space. Organic geometry acquires dimensional multiplicity, undergoing disruptive projective transformations. Galvani seems to open a realm of hyper-reality, a manifold topology beyond the perimeter of physicality.
TEXAS CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR
"The Other Mexico"
MARSO Galería Arte Contemporáneo | Booth 709
1-4 October 2015
THE END: AN ART IN GENERAL NEW COMMISSION
Art in General, New York
16 May - 27 June 2015
Art in General unveils a unique stage of The End — a multichannel video installation documenting one collective action, an homage to the heliocentric model of our solar system championed by Galileo Galilei, father of modern cosmology. Over the course of months, Andrea Galvani coordinated with local cameramen to film the sunrise along the eastern coastlines of five different Central American countries. On January 8, the anniversary of Galileo’s death in 1642, the event was filmed in over 30 different locations simultaneously. Discrepancies between atmospheric conditions, the sensitivity of 16mm film technology, and the movements of each individual manifest as a prism of time and space. The resulting video installation juxtaposes a multiplicity of perspectives, expanding the horizon into a unified visual field. Subjective perception is thus transformed into a new, singular vision. Geological time began with the first sunrise: a recurring event representing the primordial chronography of our planet’s movement around the sun. We are part of this continuum for a brief moment, a single oscillation in the pendulum of cosmic existence. The End presents the opportunity to witness the sunrise ad infinitum.
LLEVANDO UNA PEPITA DE ORO A LA VELOCIDAD DEL SONIDO
Revolver Galería, Lima
22 April - 4 June 2015
Revolver Galería is pleased to present the first stage of a cross-disciplinary project by Andrea Galvani, Llevando una pepita de oro a la velocidad del sonido, premiering in Lima, Wednesday April 22. The gallery is proud to announce representation of Galvani with his debut solo exhibition in Peru.
The End is a trilogy of exhibitions that will unfold in multiple manifestations — first in Lima, followed by New York, then Mexico City — a complex body of work which includes an 11 channel video installation, a simultaneous sound project, drawings, objects, and a performance that will take place at specific times as an extension of the exhibition.
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.