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21/1/2006

Object Cast

Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo

An immersive installation of Objects and Sound. Andrea Gotti + fm3 (Christiaan Virant & Zhang Jian)

Curated by Beatrice Leanza

Object Cast is a project for an in situ installation realized inside the unique frame of the BTAP gallery, and conceived as an interactive work whose conceptual volume embraces multilayered readings and integrates diverse concepts of aesthetic operation.

The installation is build around the object of the billiard, “immobile machine" and metaphorical space through which Andrea Gotti orchestrates an unpredictable theatre of objet trouve' (electric transformers, cables, industrial waste, welded crafts…), a live body of matter that is ‘reanimated’ in the synaesthesia of material relationships withdrawn from an oxymoronic urban imagery and further forged by arcane mysticisms revealed through the sound architecture composed by fm3.

Grounding the stage of the installation the billiard becomes the site for the congregation of different and multiple objects, simulacra of interconnected stories and identities, which are presented as a spirited cast from an undetected time, and connected to the central table green by means of light and power circuiting.

The aesthetic mechanism reanimating the reality concealed into these everyday objects, life-ware and materials, departs from a conceptual closeness to the Chinese philosophical envisioning of Time as a cyclical continuum of patterning and completion - as opposed to a linear one, while rescuing the fragmentary existence of the ‘10.000 Things’ (the manifested world) into a breathing cast of life samples, processes and journeys.

By encapsulating the audience in a suspended and insulated zone of pause and reflection the sound installation will integrate with the proposed concept, as metaphor and building material in a translated reconstruction of the permanent disappearing of existence, a commentary of/from life and its disarticulated times.

Conceived as an integral part of the project, a unique Artist Book will be produced consisting of 3 parts: the visual files (3 different series of photos, archive material of past journeys with a maximalist recurrence of the billiard table around China, a time-line of the work in progress together with “pictorial" still-lives), the written files (texts from the curator and from philosopher Gianni Vattimo) and the sound files (a data card planted inside the book with the sonic architecture by fm3).

The exhibition will develop into the main space of the gallery, while a selection of studio works such as small oil on canvases, photos and sketches will be shown inside the entrance space as a recorded journey of this a-temporal process.

Opening Reception: 22th Jan 15 at BTAP

Tokyo Gallery
7F, 8-10-5 Ginza Chuo-ku - Tokyo

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