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8/12/2011

Imaginary Landscapes

Heliopolis Project Space, New York

A group exhibition that brings together the work of four artists living and working in New York and Milan: Andrew Gosselin, Cameron Michel, Enrico Savi, Alessandro Simonetti.

The interpretation and the reconstruction of the experiences, storage in our memory as a testimony of the past or as a expectation for the future, take place according to an instant impulse. The process of recalling and remodeling the past in a narrative sequence is a creative act that stands on the composition of memories and mind patterns. This combination is settled on a variable network of knowledge based on experience and in relation to purposes.

According to the uncertainty relation, more exactly one property is determined, less exactly the other is known in this instant; therefore, it is neither possible to come into an accurate and unique definition of the phenomenon experienced, nor to predict the effects. If we apply two interpretations on the same event it might happen that one outweighs the other; but in some circumstances, two narrative themes come into being, and lead us into a different horizon that, rather then be a collision, plays a key role in understanding each single frame. The artists in the exhibition deconstruct the artificial boundaries of conventional form, escape the cliches of familiarity, and make each experience a discovery of detail and destination. Each work develops ideas of multiplicity, variation, cross-reference and simultaneity to convey the complexities of contemporary existence. Different micro worlds are captured to create multiple and independent storytelling. The overall effect is at once alluring, and disorienting.

Elusive faces, fantastic atmospheres, and evasive silhouettes uncover the unstable reality suggested in Alessandro Simonetti's work. His black and white photos, simultaneously set here and elsewhere, represents illusory surroundings and visionary, albeit, realistic situations. Andrew Gosselin creates geometric pictures composing together distinctive images of the same subject. By using three similar point and shoot cameras all loaded with the same black and white film stock, the artist discloses the multiplicity of the forms manipulated in accordance to a variable point of view. In his giclee printed canvas, the original data are re purposed tangled together and completely transformed. The collage by Cameron Michel is an intricate visual storytelling. Each incorporated element, flowing on a stream of interpretations, connects to the unitary picture through symbolism and correspondence, and transports us to a surreal place.

The complexity of reality is clearly suggested in Enrico Savi's architectures, where the artist obtains an illusive effect discomposing images directly while shooting. His work doesn't conform to a time or space frame, but rather it deconstructs the traditional perspective while recalling the infinite possibilities of our imaginary. CorAL is an original public art project committed to connecting with diverse art community across the Atlantic Ocean. Curators Gaia Conti (Venice) and Paola Omboni ( New York) cooperate from distance to enforce traveling ideas and traveling art in the super-modern era. The Heliopolis Project is a small storefront located in Greenpoint Brooklyn dedicated to fostering a dialogue across all disciplines of making - we are also the proud East Coast hub of Push Press.

Opening Reception, December 9th 7-10pm

Heliopolis Project Space
Huron Street Brooklyn, 154 - New York
Fridays 11-5 pm, Saturdays- Sundays 12-6 pm

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