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15/5/2015

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Art in General, New York

Andrea Galvani: The End

Art in General is pleased to present The End, a New Commission by Andrea Galvani in the 6th floor gallery.

Developed over two years of research conducted in the United States and Mexico, The End is a cross-disciplinary trilogy of multimedia works. Art in General will present a unique stage of this project – a multichannel, synchronized video installation documenting one collective action. The End is an homage to the heliocentric model of our solar system championed by Galileo Galilei, father of modern cosmology.

Over the course of months, Andrea Galvani coordinated with local camera operators to film the sunrise along the eastern coastlines of five different Central American countries. On January 8, the anniversary of Galileo’s death in 1642, the event was filmed in over 30 different locations simultaneously. In the resulting installation, the horizon line where the sky meets the sea becomes continuous and seemingly infinite, extending our perceptions of time and space. Concurrently, the simultaneous temporal actions are made distinguishable by discrepancies in atmospheric conditions, the sensitivity of 16mm film, and the movements of each hand held camera. The resulting installation juxtaposes a multiplicity of subjective perspectives, expanding the horizon into a unified visual field.

The End challenges the idea of boundaries as points of separation, instead suggesting points of contact. Boundaries change position, accumulate power, produce energy. They define topologies and conditions of differential equations in mathematics; they govern the laws of thermodynamics. Boundaries can be political, geographical, or psychological territories. Horizons are the perimeters of perception, both sensitive and cognitive. With The End, Galvani seeks to extend our experience of the horizon’s spatial and temporal limits, articulating their physical and conceptual elasticity.

Geological time began with the first sunrise: a recurring event representing the primordial chronography of our planet’s movement around the sun. We are part of this continuum for a brief moment, a single oscillation in the pendulum of cosmic existence. The End presents the opportunity to witness the sunrise ad infinitum.

Andrea Galvani is an Italian artist living and working in New York and Mexico City. He earned a BFA in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna in 1999 and his MFA in Visual Art from Bilbao University in 2002. His work has been exhibited at international venues including the Whitney Museum, New York; 4th Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art; the Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland; 9th Biennale of Contemporary Art of Nicaragua; Aperture Foundation, New York; The Calder Foundation, New York; Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy; Macro Museum, Rome; GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy; De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam; Oslo Plads, Copenhagen, among others. In 2011, he received the New York Exposure Prize and was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. He has been a visiting artist at NYU (2009-10) and has completed artist residencies at Location One International Artist Residency Program New York (2008), LMCC Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2009), M.I.A. Artist Space Program/Columbia University School of the Arts, Brooklyn, NY (2010). From 2006 to 2009, he was a professor of Photographic Language and the History of Contemporary Photography at the University of Carrara for Fine Arts in Bergamo, Italy.

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Katie Torn: Myopia’s Toil
Curated by Kristen Chappa

Art in General is pleased to present Myopia’s Toil with Katie Torn in the Musée Minuscule.

New York-based artist Katie Torn integrates animation, 3D computer graphics, and video to model virtually simulated scenes out of the detritus of internet and consumer culture. Collecting elements available online, Torn’s digital assemblages carry traces of web browsing histories. Referencing the Modernist traditions of Cubism and Futurism in her avatars and abstractions, fantasy worlds and sci-fi simulations are conflated with 20th century investigations into pictorial space.

Torn’s hybrids offer a vision of new forms and substances that fuse organic and synthetic materials. Female cyborgs are presented as Frankenstein-like monoliths; the surface of their bodies smooth like plastic dolls or skin treated by reconstructive surgery. Elements comingle in an uncomfortable conflation of innocence and adulteration—playful, childhood toys rendered in soft pastels reside in toxic, apocalyptic environments. Operating in close relation to the “natural” world, biomorphic forms excrete and ingest brightly colored liquid into and from their surrounds, suggesting a life-force akin to oil or blood.

Myopia’s Toil features a newly created digital sculpture for Art in General’s Musée Minuscule to be viewed through 3D glasses. Combining built and found 3D models, Torn collages disparate items: plant foliage, derricks, and anime characters with exaggerated features. In an alien landscape reminiscent of video game environments, a looping narrative unfolds of evolution, self-destruction, and regeneration.

Katie Torn has exhibited her work at national and international locations including XPO Gallery, Paris (2015); NUTUREart, Brooklyn (2014); Postmasters, New York (2014); Upfor Gallery, Portland (2014); MOMA PS1, New York (2014); Roots & Cultures Contemporary Art Center, Chicago (2013); MOCA, Los Angeles (2013); and Bitforms Gallery, New York (2013). She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2012) and BA from Hunter College (2007). Torn was a 2013 Fellow at the Eyebeam Art & Technology Center and a 2014 Artist in Residence at IEA Alfred University. Upcoming exhibitions include the Window Display at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, FILE Electronic Language International Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Black Box New Media Festival in Seattle.

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Halmos: INCUBATORACCELERATOR
Curated by Kristen Chappa

Art in General is pleased to present INCUBATORACCELERATOR, a New Commission in the Storefront Project Space. Halmos is a collaborative distribution platform and publisher that facilitates new writing and works by contemporary artists. Most recently, it has produced non-print publications exploring time as a syntactic medium. For its New Commission in Art in General’s Storefront Project Space, Halmos will co-opt the Silicon Valley notion of the “incubator” or “accelerator” as a mode of art production. The storefront will be adapted as a space to develop work on a daily basis, where past and future Halmos contributors will be invited for discussion, work, and window display design. Art in General’s storefront will serve to display the visible output of the incubator, rotating on a bi-weekly basis with presentations created on-site.

Areas of inquiry during Halmos’ residency will include the future of publishing in the age of the internet, Block Chain publishing, texting the future, walled gardens, publishing objects, and digital object libraries. Participating artists, either in-person or via cloud hosting, will include Cara Benedetto, Gareth James, KAYA (Kerstin Brätsch and Debo Eilers), Tobias Madison, Jeff Nagy, Rachel Rose, and John Russell.

Founded by New York-based artist Erik Wysocan, Halmos has been operating since 2010. It has facilitated new writing and works by numerous artists including Tobias Madison, Dexter Sinister, Mark von Schlegell, Ed Atkins, Tauba Auerbach and many others. It’s most resent book, The Machine Stops, will be released this spring with writings by Julieta Aranada, Fia Backström, R. Lyon, Ed Atkins, Ian Cheng, Melanie Gilligan, Tobias Madison, Pedro Neves Marques, Jeff Nagy, Rachel Rose, Bea Schlingelhoff and Mariana Silva. Past publications include: Société Populaire, D.A.F. de Sade (2012) with contributions by Paul Chan, Claire Fontaine, Gareth James, Sam Lewitt, Pratchaya Phinthong, Pamela Rosenkranz, John Russell, and Antek Walczak, ed. Erik Wysocan, trans. Robin Mackay; and Memoirs of the Twentieth Century by Samuel Madden; Prevision, Should the Future Help the Past? (2010) by Liam Gillick. Halmos projects have manifested nationally and internationally, at locations including the Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (2014); Artists Space (2014); ICA, Philadelphia (2013); Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2012); and Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp (2012).

Image: Katie Torn: Myopia’s Toil

Press contact:
Lindsey Berfond, lindsey@artingeneral.org

Opening reception: Saturday, May 16, 6–8pm

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79 Walker Street
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