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24/1/2002

Rizzoli and Drake

Esso Gallery, New York

Giovanni Rizzoli "The Time Out Drawings 1996-2002"
James Drake "The Hummingbird's Equation"

Jennifer Bacon and Filippo Fossati are pleased to announce the opening Friday, January 25, 2002, of the solo exhibition in the book room by Giovanni Rizzoli, together with James Drake's The Hummingbird's Equation in the main gallery.

Giovanni Rizzoli
"The Time Out Drawings 1996-2002"

Giovanni Rizzoli has chosen to present in the book room of the Esso Gallery the Time Out Drawings, a series of drawings he composed in Chamber Street, N.Y. in 1996 and some new drawings he has made in New York after the 11th of September. The drawings, that from the beginning had the purpose to leave a personal sign on a matter that was the time map of what was going on in New York, have now acquired a new social and historical dimension.

These drawings are now for Giovanni Rizzoli symbols of a society that has expressed in its very inner code the idea of freedom as a flag at all costs. A multiracial society, a multiethnic society where all religions, sex habits and political ideas live together to create America, a complex melting pot full of problems and contradictions but still the greatest example of the possibility of making people from all over the world live together peacefully within the values of personal freedom, respect and trust. Now America and New York have lost the feeling of invulnerability and the recent drawings of Giovanni convey this new state of mind but also the hope for a new dignity which is that of those that are fighting for ideals that are crucial to the maintenance of the very essence of America and Europe but also of the possibility of a better life for those that are not part of the Western world.

Giovanni Rizzoli was born in Venice, Italy, in 1963. He had his first studio in a room he rented in New York in 1988, after having lived and studied in Italy, Canada, Switzerland and Belgium.
He studied at the Architectural Association in London and got his MA in Medieval Art History at Ca' Foscari University, Venice.
After many shows in galleries and museums he was invited to participate to the 48th edition of the Venice Biennale in 1999. He was also the visiting scholar to New York University, New York, and was invited to lecture in the NYU Venice program. He lives with his mind and soul mainly in Venice and in New York.
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James Drake
The Hummingbird's Equation

The Hummingbird's Equation is a project realized by James Drake in collaboration with physicist Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel Prize Laureate for his studies on elementary particles and discovering the quark.
Together the artist and the physicist have worked on what they agreed is one of the more astonishing aspects of the hummingbird: the hummingbird can fly over six hundred miles non-stop consuming 2.1 grams of nectar. This amazing feat defies the laws of conservation of energy and physics. Nevertheless, it happens and yet, no one has fully explained this incredible phenomenon. Our life, evolution, and existence is just as mysterious and unexplainable.

James Drake created 30 works on paper and Murray Gell-Mann provided the equations and additional resources and information relating to the hummingbird's flight.

A color catalogue published by Esso Gallery and Paolo Torti degli Alberti will accompany the exhibition.

Born in Lubbock, Texas in 1946, James Drake received his BFA and MFA from Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. He is the recent recipient of both the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the Nancy Graves Foundation Grant for Visual Artists. His work has been exhibited in numerous shows in galleries and museums throughout the U.S., including the 2000 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; the Alternative Museum, New York; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago among others. He received the SECA Art Award in 1989 and he is a three-time recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work can be found in such prestigious collections such as the Whitney Museum, the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas and the Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona among others.

Professor Murray Gell-Mann was born in New York City in 1929 and entered Yale University at age 15. After receiving his B. S. there in 1948 and his Ph. D. in 1951 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1952 he became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, and from 1952 to 1956 he worked at the University of Chicago. In 1954 he was appointed Associate Professor for research on dispersion relations. In this period he developed the strangeness theory and the eightfold way theory. In 1969 he received the Nobel prize in physics for his work in the theory of elementary particles and for discovering the "quark". He has been a professor of physics and theoretical physics at California Institute of Technology and at the present he is also professor and co-chairman of the Science Board of the Santa Fé Institute in New Mexico. He has been writing extensively and still publishing books and articles world wide. Murray Gell-Mann has been awarded honorary doctoral degrees from Yale University, Boston, USA; the University of Chicago, Illinois, USA; the University of Turin, Turin, Italy; Cambridge and Oxford Universities, England. He is a fellow of the Nobel Prize society and a member of the American Academy of Sciences.

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Opening Friday, January 25, 2002 from 6 to 8 p.m.

Hours: Tuesday thru Saturday, 11 am - 6 pm

Contact Information: Jennifer Bacon or Filippo Fossati
tel. (212) 560-9728 o fax (212) 560-9729

ESSO Gallery
211 West 28th Street
New York NY 10001
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fax (212) 560-9729

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