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10/5/2005

Two solo shows

Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York

Alfredo Cannata, Guys - Aaron Krach, End of the World

New York, NY – Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art is pleased to present a new exhibit featuring two solo shows of artists Alfredo Cannata from Milan, Italy, entitled “Guys”, and Aaron Krach from New York, entitled “End of the World”. The exhibit opens May 11 and runs through June 4.

The two artists look at life and love through different lenses that complement each other. Cannata offers oil paintings on linen with a meditative, dreamlike feel, while Krach offers a large room installation that brings the viewer to a romantic place at the edge of the world.

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Alfredo Cannata
Guys

Cannata presents stylized mysterious oil paintings of models who have posed for him in his studio in Milan, Italy. A part of the “new generation” of artists in Italy, Cannata is considered to be in the forefront of contemporary painting there. His careful application of paint, venerated tone, and unavoidably sexy images of men compose an ongoing series of stylized portraits of both clothed and nude models.

Cannata has exhibited and has been published widely in Italy. He has been presented in group shows at PSCA previously. This will be his first solo show in New York City.

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Aaron Krach
End of the World
The End of The World is many things to many people: physical, psychological, metaphorical, and fantastical. To some it is a religious notion, while others foresee an end to the planet due to environmental or political issues. Before the Age of Discovery, the world was thought to be flat and travelers ultimately could sail to the edge of the horizon and fall into the abyss. In the late Twentieth Century, the End Of The World was immortalized in R.E.M. songs and previously in the doomsday movies after the Second World War.

In Krach’s site-specific installation, which includes live-feed video, sculpture, printmaking, sound, and photography, the artist seeks to capture a conceptual notion of the end of the world. It is magical, romantic, perhaps sad, and mysterious. Incorporating mirrored and metallic surfaces, video, sound, and two- and three-dimensional objects, Krach transforms the front gallery at PSCA into another world. The gallery becomes the artist’s personal vision of Ushuia, the southernmost city on earth at the tip of Tierra del Fuego.

Accompanying the installation will be three “Activities” allowing the artist and viewer to interact in participatory art works. The first, “Activity #1, One For The Road”, will take place during the opening reception on May 11. The artist will serve beer from a keg covered in silver leaf. Giving, receiving, “low-brow brew” vs. “high art venue” in a celebration of taking a journey. The piece reenacts the traditional toast before someone departs. After the opening, the silver keg will remain behind as a sculpture, a memorial, and a totem of journeys large and small.

“Activity #2: Home, Again” will take place on Saturday May 21 (2-5 PM) and involve the baking of chocolate chip cookies inside the gallery. The artist will share something tangible with the viewer—physical yet ephemeral—something that is pleasing to the nose and palate.

The third, “Activity #3: If You Find Me” will take place on June 4 (2-5 PM). It will involve giving away silver helium-filled balloons that will be tagged with the gallery visitor’s address. When the visitor leaves the gallery, he/she is encouraged to let the balloon blow free. Whenever and wherever it lands, hopefully someone will find it and follow the instructions on the tag and contact the “original owner”, thereby continuing the piece even further into time and place.

Along with the presentation of “End Of The World” at PSCA, Krach will participate in the “HomoMuseum” exhibit at Exit Art. He is debuting a new installation called DANCEFLOOR, in which the artist is building a dance floor out of mirror inside the gallery.

Image: Aaron Krach, Gone #4, 2005, Color Photograph, 14 x 11 Inches

Gallery Opening: May 11, 2005, 6 – 9 PM

Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art
86 Walker Street, Floor Six, New York, NY 10013
(Walker is one block below Canal, between Broadway & Lafayette)
The gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday, Noon to 6 PM, and by appointment.

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