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27/6/2001

Tattoo

I-20 Gallery, New York

For this year's summer exhibition, I-20 Gallery will present an installation by Italian artist Piero Golia.

It's difficult to locate a basic code to understand Piero Golia's work for it escapes interpretation. He is playing on contradictions, announcing easy deductions, denying them in advance and eliminating all the clichés.

For this show Piero persuaded a pretty girl that he met on the street to get his face tattooed on her back for an image that will last forever.

Golia's exhibition will consist of three floor-to-ceiling vinyl prints showing different stages of the tattooing process. The final result is a photograph that shows the tattoo completed - a life-size portrait of the artist's face on the woman's back.

Playing ironically with the idea of the artistic ego and the universal longing to be immortalized, Golia touches on classical issues of the artistic myth: What I dreamed to be, I'll be forever. Golia's irony becomes real if one considers how tangible the concept of eternity can be on someone's back..

In the back room another work is presented "Giraffe with no title, but with a pedestal so high that make her head bangs on the ceiling": this title says everything.

Piero Golia was born in Naples, Italy, in 1974, where he lives and works. He has had solo exhibitions at Studio Morra in Naples and at Maze Gallery in Torino. His work was included in group exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Gallery of Siracusa, at Museo di Castel S. Elmo in Naples and at Open Space in Milan. In 2001 Golia will have a solo exhibition at Viafarini, Milan, and will also be included in the Biennale di Tirana at the Albanian National Gallery.

Opening: Thursday, July 12, 6-8

Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10 - 5

For further information or visuals, please contact I-20 at (212) 645-1100, fax: (212) 645-0198;

I-20 Gallery
West 20th Street until at least 2007, Chelsea
NY City
T: (212) 645-1100

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