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21/11/2014

Alvaro Urbano

Pavillon social, Lucca

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Nei primi giorni di settembre Alvaro Urbano presenta al secondo piano di Villa Romana a Firenze una camera da letto per gli ospiti simile a una cripta onirica di calce bianca. Il letto si eleva da terra come levitasse. Vecchie sculture di pietra e terracotta, teche e reperti archeologici scavati nel giardino sembrano emergere a fianco del letto come vasi comunicanti in un sogno ermetico. La Psiche di Capua riemersa dal giardino vigila il dormiente e ne assiste il risveglio. Dal soffitto inclinato si apre una finestra da cui si intravedono fili d’erba di un giardino pensile sul tetto lassù in alto. Nel giardino in basso della villa scava un letto notturno e inclinato come l’accesso a una tomba richiusa da vetri trasparenti (Osservatorio). L’Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Böcklin, Edgar Allan Poe, Ebdòmero, Bréton, Dalì, Buñuel, Tatì, Jodorowski, il cinema horror, et cetera, restano solo associazioni ancora seppellite nel giardino. Ciò che si vede, tangibili come specchi (o come in Poltergeist dove le ante di un armadio possono aprirsi a un cimitero d’ombre o a un limbo intermedio), non sono che eterotopie, varchi reali, vere connessioni - in ultima analisi materializzazioni non utopiche della creatività artistica, vero capitale sociale.

Pavillon social è lieto di annunciare ”The Ghost & the Host", titolo del nuovo progetto di Alvaro Urbano a Lucca, in cui sarà visibile per la prima volta un suo film appena girato e un environment fantasmatico e perturbante creato ex novo in una piega remota di Via Mordini. The Ghost & the Host prosegue e sviluppa in modo interamente nuovo e visionario il lavoro precedente, come il prodotto onirico di un sognatore che da quella prima stanza si materializ- zasse in un altro luogo distante, una nuova dimensione accessibile ed esperibile all’ombra della torre alberata. Attraverso le opere in mostra si propone un itinerario notturno dove insistiti e continui barlumi d’illusionismo si ripresentano allo spettatore. Alvaro Urbano was born in Madrid in 1983. He studied at the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectu- ra, Madrid and the Institut für Raumexperimente with Olafur Eliasson at Universität der Künste in Berlin. Solo shows included "Utopias are for Birds" at Chert Berlin , "Expanding Univereses (an ongoing map)" at Kunstverein Arnsberg . Group shows include "Future Nows" at Neues Nationalgale- rie, "Without Destination" at the Reykjavik Art Museum,"BERLIN 2000-2011 Playing Among Ruins" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, "Past Futures, Present, Futures" at Storefront for Art and Architecture N.Y. he had been doing different residencies like HANGAR / Smart Project Space Amster- dam and in 2014 he got the VILLA ROMANA - Fellowship.

Urbano had been curating different venues in Berlin like the symposium "Performing Politics" at The World Is Not Fair – Die Grosse Weltausstellung 2012 and initiated with Martin Enoch the experimental platform HOST in Berlin. He is co-editor of the small publication "Kushtetuta". Pavillon social è un nuovo Kunstverein per l’arte contemporanea, fondato a Lucca nel 2011. I Kunstve- rein sono associazioni culturali private senza fini di lucro per la diffusione dell’arte. Pavillon social, no-profit e autofinanziato, diversamente da queste istituzioni d’oltralpe, non percepisce alcun soste- gno pubblico né privato avvalendosi del solo contributo dei propri associati.

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On the first days of September, Alvaro Urbano presents, on the second floor of Villa Romana in Florence, a host bedroom similar to an oniric whitelimed crypt. The bed rises from the ground as if it levitating. Old stone and terracotta sculptures, reliquaries and archaeological finds excavated in the garden seem to emerge at the bedside looking like communicating vessels of a hermetic dream. The Capua Psyche resurfaced from the garden watches over the sleepers and assists to his awakening. From the tilted ceiling a window opens, giving us a glimpse of blades of grass of a hanging garden on the roof up there. In the low garden of the villa, a nocturnal, tilted bed digs like the entrance of a tomb closed by transparent glass (Observatory). With Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Böcklin, Edgar Allan Poe, Ebdòmero, Bréton, Dalì, Buñuel, Tatì, Jodorowski, the horror cinema etc. remain just associations still buried in the garden.

The things we see, tangible as mirrors (or as in Poltergeist where closet's doors can open to a shadows' graveyard or to an intermediate limbo), are nothing but eterotopies, real passa- ges, true connections - on final analysis, a non utopian materialization of artistic creativity, true social capital.

Pavillon Social is pleased to announce "The Ghost & the Host", that’s the title of the new project by Alvaro Urbano in Lucca, in which, for the first time, it will be shown together to a ghostly, perturbed environment created ex novo in a secluded fold of Via Mordini. The ‘Ghost & the Host” goes on and develops in an entirely new and visionary way the previous work, such as the dreamlike product of a dreamer who from that first room materiali- zes himself in another distant place, a new dimension accessible and testable in the shadow of the tree-full tower. Through the works of art exhibited here, the show proposes a nocturnal itinerary where persistent and continuous sparks of illusionisms present themselves again to the bystander.

Alvaro Urbano was born in Madrid in 1983. He studied at the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectu- ra, Madrid and the Institut für Raumexperimente with Olafur Eliasson at Universität der Künste in Berlin. Solo shows included "Utopias are for Birds" at Chert Berlin , "Expanding Univereses (an ongoing map)" at Kunstverein Arnsberg . Group shows include "Future Nows" at Neues Nationalgale- rie, "Without Destination" at the Reykjavik Art Museum,"BERLIN 2000-2011 Playing Among Ruins" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, "Past Futures, Present, Futures" at Storefront for Art and Architecture N.Y. he had been doing different residencies like HANGAR / Smart Project Space Amster- dam and in 2014 he got the VILLA ROMANA - Fellowship. Urbano had been curating different venues in Berlin like the symposium "Performing Politics" at The World Is Not Fair – Die Grosse Weltausstellung 2012 and initiated with Martin Enoch the experimental platform HOST in Berlin. He is co-editor of the small publication "Kushtetuta". Pavillon social is a new Kunstverein for contemporary art, established in Lucca in 2011. The Kunstve- reins are cultural, private, non profit associations for art spread. Pavillon social, non profit and self financed, unlike these transalpine institutions, it is not supported by any public or private financing. It is only availing itself of the contribution of its own associates.

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T. mob. Paolo +39 342 5829365
T. mob. Alessandro +39 328 7447981

Inaugurazione: Sabato 22 Novembre 2014

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