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15/10/2003

Osvaldo Romberg

Universal Concepts Unlimited, New York

On October 16, conceptual artist Osvaldo Romberg unveils his multimedia installation 'From Paradise to Paradise (a hypertext about love in three parts)' at Universal Concepts Unlimited in New York..
It would great if you could join us for the opening reception on Thursday, Oct. 16th, 6-8PM, 507 W. 24th St.

This is the world-premier of the complete operatic film 'From Paradise to Paradise'. Part I, 'Besame Mucho,' was produced for the International Salzburg Music Festival (2000), and was presented at the 'Carolino Augusteum Museum,' and subsequently with Michael Snow and Carolee Schneeman in a series of video installations at White Box, NY in October 2000. Part II, 'Rondo Capricioso' and Part III, 'Es Brennt!' were completed in 2002. 'Es Brennt!' was presented in October 2002 at the opening of Slought Foundation in Philadelphia

After being exhibited at Universal Concepts Unlimited in New York, the work will be featured at Julie M. Gallery in Tel Aviv (January 2003) and at the new M'ARS Centre for Contemporary Art in Moscow (May 2003).

In the film transparent dolls are animated in a narrative about love and sexuality in an age of technological reproduction through an apocalyptic description of the history of human relations. The film juxtaposes high and low culture in the imagery as well as the music, which spans James Brown and John Cage, Miles Davis and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

The exhibition also includes several photographs embalmed in transparent polyester resin, mixed with fossils, shells, insects and other paraphernalia, reminding us of Romberg's ideas about art as a human secretion belonging to the natural sciences more than the social sciences.
In the rooms that comprise the exhibit, three television sets encapsulated in resin simultaneously show the three parts of the film. The songs and images together create a dramatic hypertext about love and betrayal, playing off of ancient, modern, and utopian motifs drenched in art's history of representation. These traditions are completely reconfigured and reshaped, introducing aspects of love, passion, indiscretion and modern technology going awry.

Romberg is aware of borderline states and his artistic approach reflects the creation of a layered reality where the demarcation between the synthetic and real are obscured and firm concepts of truth no longer exist. This conception of a personal artificial world articulates the confusion and collision between hard facts and fiction in all sectors of today's broader culture. In fact he advances the idea that what we call reality is indeed virtual reality.

Universal Concepts Unlimited
507 West 24h Street, NY 10011
New York

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