Giuseppe Penone
".....TRA ....."
Partial view of the show
October 2009
Courtesy Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
Courtesy Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
Marisa Argentato Pasquale Pennacchio
"The Great White Hope", 2009
mixed media, 560x400x280 cm
Photos Polly Braden
Courtesy T293, Naples
Noli foras ire, in te ipsum redi, in inner homine habitat veritas
(St. Augustine)
"Do you know what that sign says? - The Latin phrase 'Temet Nosce', written on a wooden panel - "Know thyself." I want to tell you a little secret: being the Chosen One is like being in love. No one can tell if you're in love, only you know. You know it by instinct. " Thus, in "Matrix" the movie, the Oracle explains to Neo what being the Chosen One in a world made of images specious deceptive. Neo is pulled into a dimension where the intensity of the perceptions and the psychological and emotional reactions, resulting from the events, do not correspond to a horizon-fledged reality. A little as it is today, in front of the TV. The suggestion is the medium through which this operation takes place which leads to confusion between reality and imagination. New technologies has changed our every day life by creating alternative learning opportunities and transforming the human mind. Art as artifice develops a parallel path to the spread of these new cognitive mode. A fake that perfectly mimics real life.
A sort of deja veux - society of the spectacle that mix reality and fiction up continuously. This issue has prompted me to combine the research of some artists who, in different ways, describe an evolution in this direction. As in a virtual exhibition, I try to identify the texture which defines the classic epistemological dualism of Western philosophy between 'noumenon', or thing in itself, and 'phenomenon'. From Kant, this issue has produced a slow and irreversible impairment of an ontological system. A process that in Schopenhauer’s vision put the existence of the world in a deep relation with its representation. The only way to grasp the truth and to reach the noumenal being, is to go deep inside human mind. This is the only way to discover another dimension of man and the world: the will. The self-analysis from human person is a way to capture the essence of things, even to create it.
Giuseppe Penone’s artworks (Garessio, 3 April 1947, lives and works in Turin) are full of this idea. In the exhibition "... Tra ..." ( …between…) designed for Alfonso Artiaco gallery in Naples, the artist presented a bronze installation, that imitate a pine tree’ trunk split in half. Probably struck by lightning or broken by its very top. The trunk is raised from the floor by a parallel structure. The flu-like trunk is broken in the center and upright to the fracture, on the gray platform that supports the work, are carved some prints, superimposed on each other. Similar to the wrinkles on the bark of the tree, this prints identify the traces of passing time. The relationship between man and technology is at the heart of the poetics of the artist. From this it opens the infinite possibilities of man and his destiny.
thought among others,
between earth and heaven,
between day and night,
between ear and ear,
between the feet and hair,
between white and black,
between twowalls.
So Giuseppe Penone writes. Pendant the installation, two large panels are shown to reproduce the bark’ s surface, charcoal plant. A track that repeats identical to itself and yet unique at the same time. Similar to fingerprints they mark the life or the fate of a man. Human action in a real dimension is mediated by technology. A strong, radical and subtle battle.
This intervention becomes a part of the reality in the work of Hany Armanious (Egypt, 1962, lives and works in Sydney, Australia), presented for the first time in Italy at the Galleria Raucci / Santamaria in Naples. The artist created sculptures in resin that reproduce every detail of real objects. False indistinguishable to the eye, even expert.
Everything is fake: the painted white in the back, the table with the sponge, polystyrene foam and the stone of quartz, bamboo, the table covered with sawdust. But the reaction that causes into the viewer’s mind is true. The feeling that objects give is more convincing than the material. In this misinterpretation is jumped any distinction between noumenon, thing or concept in itself, and the thing as it looks like, perception of perception.
The Truth is replaced by a new reality that coincides with the continuous learning of it. The compositions, generated by an array surrealist, are Vanitas made of elements that seem worn by time, formally unconnected. In the exhibition at the gallery in Naples are shown combinations that match together objects in resin blend-is to be said! – with some others in silver: a silver foil ball that seems stuck to the fake mustache and bamboo cane.
The Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone (Berne, Switzerland, 1964, lives and works in New York), pursues the complex relationship between reality and fiction. Sculptures lead imitate fruits, wooden doors, routes and time-worn pieces of white polystyrene. Lead substitute material that originally density are radically different. The process of Rondinone, unlike in Armanious, takes place in opposition dialectic. Heaviness and lightness, order and disorder are opposites that attract inevitably, in a process that inscribes the book into a metaphysical horizon. The essence of time is the limit concept that Rondinone seeks to capture in his works, while in the work of Armanious things flow naturally.
But the path of art is not like any other method of knowing. Tends not only to the truth, but directly to it. Artistic research conceptual matrix operates on a horizon that concerns the context in which the work is implemented and its standardization.
Marisa Argentato (Naples, 1977) & Pasquale Pennacchio (Caserta, 1979) - live and work between Naples and Frankfurt - made the stand of the gallery that represents them T293 of Naples, on the occasion of 2009 edition of the international fair of contemporary art Frieze in London. "The Great White Hope" was the stand: completely empty, white and deserted is a place of transition. The space emptied of all goods from the beginning of the fair disorienting. In fact the site coincides with the work of art. The content and the container are in harmony, but in a place assigned for the exchange and trade opens a new possibility for the horizon of contemporary art. It’s an experiment on the re-dimensioning of places for art. Parameters and predetermined roles change within the context of use of the work. So, we could find a vision of a bug in the figure of the artist, related to the artwork and the recipient. A complex set that has infinite solutions.
Hany Armanious
"Pot Black", 2009
resin, silver
80 ø, 93 cm + 8 ø h, 131 h cm
work 9 shares
Photo E. Velo
C.sy Raucci / Santamaria Gallery Naples
Installation's view of Ugo Rondinone's show
"Turn back time. Let's start this day again "
Galleria Raucci / Santamaria, Naples 2008
Photo E. Velo
C.sy Raucci / Santamaria Gallery Naples
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