Angelo Bellobono
dal 29/7/2010 al 14/9/2010
Segnalato da
Changing Role Move Over Gallery
29/7/2010
Angelo Bellobono
Biasa Artspace, Bali
Eastside | the journey. Artist's portraits thus convey a sense of dramatic irony, lost in a blinding whiteness or in a dark sea of crude oil, at once liquid and solid, conceptually unstable and temporary, dependent on their chemical sense of biological precariousness.
BIASA ArtSpace, will present the first solo show in Asia for the
Italian artist Angelo Bellobono on Friday, July 30, 2010 at 6 pm.
Angelo has always placed humanity and the territory at the centre of
his artistic research, stressing the difficult relations of belonging
and identity, understood not simply in the socio-cultural sense but
also in a biological sense. The mechanisms by which biochemistry
translates into behaviours and emotions is the thread running through
all his paintings, videos and performances, taking the emphasis away
from the presumed spirituality animating human existence.
His portraits thus convey a sense of dramatic irony, lost in a
blinding whiteness or in a dark sea of crude oil, at once liquid and
solid, conceptually unstable and temporary, dependent on their
chemical sense of biological precariousness. They reveal the constant
efforts made to seek out an identity and a place in which to belong,
a constant freezing and unfreezing of hidden or denied existences and
of an ideal well-being. Bellobono gives form and consistency to a
sampler of emotions experienced by all human beings; in his most
recent works, which also probe the drive to immigrate, this
investigation once again coiled painting with performance and video art.
Indonesia, located south of China and east of India is the heart of
Southeast Asia, a crossroads of new economies. Eastside - the journey
exhibition at the BIASA ArtSpace is a raw and direct analysis, at
which it’s necessary to create a gap in an apparently logical system
passively accepted. Once again the author invites us not to give up
and force us to face the ambiguity of our “being human and
biologically unresolved”.
The artist, who takes up different media, including painting,
drawing, animation and performance, continues his journey of
contemporary anthropologists in recent years, at which it has led him
to carry out projects with a strong social impact. Thus antagonistic
cultures reveal their glamorous and ephemeral side, or migrants
reveal the effort to reposition their lives, or armies of plasticine
face off each other across the icebergs obstinately and in decay to
defend ephemeral borders. The journey is outlined through the works
from previous projects together with new works conceived in
Indonesia, which will be featured at the BIASA ArtSpace until
September 15, 2010.
Opening on Friday, July 30, 2010 at 6 pm
BIASA ArtSpace
jalan raya seminyak 34, Kuta, Bali, Indonesia