15/1/2004
Marco Papa
VTO, London
VTO alias OTV. A unique site-specific installation. First solo show in London. His principal interests have always remained in exploring the precarious and often superficially constructed pillars of our contemporary western culture. Through his practice he aims to bridge and work towards a better understanding of the human and existence in general.
'VTO alias OTV'
Private View: Fri 16 January 2004
VTO alias OTV presents a unique site-specific installation.
This is Marco Papa's first solo show in London. His principal interests have
always remained in exploring the precarious and often superficially
constructed pillars of our contemporary western culture. Through his
practice he aims to bridge and work towards a better understanding of the
human and existence in general.
For VTO, Marco Papa has painted a kind of mirrored self-portrait of the
gallery. The walls, floor and windows are all over layered with vibrant,
ever fresh paint reproducing the gallery as a subject itself.
The aimed result is a virtual absence. Looking closer the work reveals
itself as an incessant mill metric metamorphosis of the existing gallery.
The painted surface is essentially there to record all traces left behind by
visitors and makes for a residual build up over the period of the show.
The very place where art is displayed has become the part of the act itself,
the questions that are addressed are: What are the confines that live
between memory and image? What relation exists in how our memory transforms
over time and reality may live through the changes in the same period?
According to Marco Papa painting represents an eternal state, a material
event capable of maintaining is own characteristic in time: a mirror of
eternal youth.
Along with the installation in the main gallery a selection of video-works,
created over the last years, is presented in the back-gallery. The artist
has preferred not to define them strictly as video art since they employ
techniques and production values that play with the language used for TV
commercials. Projected against the gallery wall, the artist's slogans slowly
manifest,
VTO would like to thank Matteo Boetti and his team at the Arte Autori Cambi
Gallery in Rome and Milovan Farronato for their helpful contributions.
Open: Friday to Sunday 12 am - 6pm or by appointment
For more information please contact
Jari Lager
VTO
96 Teesdale St.
London E2 6PU
Tel. 0777 09 14562
Fax. 0870 12 45382