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19/1/2004

Maurizio Pellegrin

Esso Gallery, New York

"Works from the 80s to the present"

We are honoured to announce the opening of the solo exhibition by Italian artist Maurizio Pellegrin.

The exhibition features a group of six works collected from the early 80's to the present. It's a small survey and an homage to a good friend and a very eclectic artist.
An omnivorous collector, Maurizio Pellegrin arranges constellations of objects on the wall, he rigorously mounts series of similar objects in combination with other items apparently unrelated in term of style, material and size.
Through a personal process of cataloguing, compartmentalizing and juxtaposing these diverse elements within a geometric framework, Pellegrin imbues the materials he has gathered in his wide-ranging travels with a host of secret meanings. Each object in his installations has its own accent and dialect. "I use objects which have an aura. In my work each object has at the same time a material and a spiritual meaning. These objects express energy, positive as well as negative feelings, but always a human memory". His poetic encounter of objects frees them from specific time and place and the way he arranges and choses his series of objects trascends the idea of simple repetition, but are precisely disposed to create their own sense of rythhm and the viewer interpretation changes continuously with the tone of the work.
In a way he is a painter who uses three-dimensional items and walls instead of brushes and canvas.

"A rational voluptuary adheres with invariable respect to the temperate dictates of nature" - Edward Gibbon. Pellegrin is not merely rational but fastidious in the extreme. His greed is confined to the pleasure of thinking, of reading, of talking and above all of us using his eyes. What he sees and makes in art is the enhancement of life. As the eclectic artist he is, he explores and maps the foothills in order to intensify his understanding and enjoyment of the peaks and he responds with no less gusto and delicacy to the beauties of nature then to artifacts. This passion for the visible world underlay his aesthetic preferences and his fascination with symbolism. Everything is a metaphor, a key to interpretation, a form of some greater picture. Together, his fragments give birth to a landscape of desire, and as the voyager who he is, Maurizio Pellegrin brings back from his trips images of a new cosmology of seductive beauty.
Francesco del Deserto

Maurizio Pellegrin was born in Venice (Italy) in 1956 and lives in Venice and New York.
Maurizio Pellegrin’s work is represented in many important public and private collections around the world; most recently he has exhibited in The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College in Chicago, at the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art in Cleveland, OH, The Forbidden City in Beijing, P.R. China. His work has been seen in more than one hundred museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, CA, the Aldrich Museum, Connecticut, the Venice Biennale, Italy, the Kunsthalle in Darmstad and the Kunsthalle in Nürberg, Germany. Gallery exhibitions include Jack Shainman Gallery, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, John Gibson Gallery and Wessel O’Connor in New York, Mark Moore Gallery in Los Angeles, Feigen Incorporated and Carrie Secrist Gallery in Chicago, Lisa Sette in Scottsdale Arizona, John Stoller Gallery in Minneapolis, Barbara Krakow in Boston, Galerie Thomas in Munich, Galerie Eva Keppel in Düsseldorf in Germany, at Nuova Icona and Galleria il Capricorno in Venice, Studio 2RC and Paolo Vitolo in Rome among others.

Opening Reception: Tuesday, Januray 20th from 6 to 8 p.m.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Contact Information: Jennifer Bacon or Filippo Fossati

esso gallery
531 West 26th Street
New York NY 10001
tel. 212-560.9728 - fax 212-560.9729

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