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14/5/2014

Alessandro Gioiello

Kosmos Gallery, Moscow

Kosmos Gallery is pleased to present Blow Up N°2, an exhibition of work by Alessandro Gioiello (1982, lives and works in Turin).

Taking its title from the film by Michelangelo Antonioni, the exhibition reflects on the power of images, the distinction between reality and illusion, and our need to understand, examine, and categorize our surroundings. In photography, a blow up is a magnification of an image that results in a loss of sharpness and information.
Taking the idea of magnification as a starting point, the work of Alessandro Gioiello combines images found online and in catalogs, newspapers, and magazines. These images range from obscured, blurry masterpiece of art history (from Giotto to Jacques-Louis David, from Courbet to Picasso), diffuse representations of current events, to depictions of real and virtual objects. These blow ups are recreated using a technique in which colored wool dust is adhered to the surface of Velcro.

With a sharp wit and a keen perception, Alessandro Gioiello’s work simultaneously pinpoints and erodes. The patina or blurred vision of the blow up serves as a metaphor for the contemporary viewer’s lack of sensitivity. This is exemplified in Gioiello’s early works using powdered wool, many of which did not use fixatives and as a result continue to slowly fade away, causing a further dispersion of image and meaning—a physical manifestation of the image’s role in this era.

Echoing the modern media milieu in which millions of images are consumed daily (Facebook alone averaging 200 million uploads), Gioiello’s work creates a dichotomy between the big picture and the microscopic, in which image and meaning are lost. Rather than providing an answer, Gioiello’s work proposes a question: at what distance may the truth be seen? His images defy both the quick glance and the meticulous analysis, giving as answer neither the correct distance nor the truth. Magnification and meticulous detail offer the viewer only a vanishing meaning. Like the photograph of the murder taken by a character named Thomas in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up, Gioiello’s work also leaves the viewer with an image that appears to reveal a clue but on closer inspection, breaks down and disappears.

Born in Savigliano (Cn) in 1982, Alessandro Gioiello lives and works in Turin. He graduated in Painting at the Albertina Academy in Turin, and began his exhibition career here in 2005 at New Arrivals 11 - "Real like a dream, true like a memory", curated by Olga Gambari. His work was acquired by the scientific committee of the UniCredit bank for their private collection and he is the recipient of the Prize thanks to which he spent a period of residence at the Karl Hofer Gesellschaft in Berlin. In 2006 he studied at the Academie Minerva in Groningen. Between 2007 and 2008, he participated in workshops held by Stefano Arienti, Tobias Rehberger, and Milovan Farronato at the Fondazione Spinola Banna per l'Arte Poirino (Turin). During the same period he also spent time at the studio of the artist Turin Nicus Lucà, an important period in his training. In 2009 he spent a period of residence in the areas of DMT Loods of ' s Hertogenbosch, where he had his first solo exhibition,
“Make yourself at home”. The following year he participated in the IM Festival of Visual Arts in Glasgow and with Dario Costa realized TURN (your ) BACK (on) , a two person show held at the gallery Glance in Turin. In 2011 he was among the finalists for the Cairo award and the related exhibition held at the Palazzo della Permanente in Milan. He also exhibited at the 54th Venice Biennale. From 2007 to 2011 he was a tutor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan.

Opening reception 19 - 21

Kosmos Gallery
Balstiyskaya street, 9 Moscow
tuesday - saturday 15 - 19 30
Admission free

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