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3/6/2003

Boggio Sella, Golia e Simeone

Cosmic Galerie, Paris

Marco Boggio Sella, The Unity of the Real;
Piero Golia, Maybe Not Even a Nation of Millions;
Marcello Simeone, Untitled

Born in 1972, Marco BOGGIO SELLA defines himself as a classical artist, whose formal approach reflects his concern about the visual and psychological impact of the artwork. Mixing styles and media he is interested first and foremost in the confrontation between twisted, distorted or oversized objects and the viewer's subjectivity. The installation The Unity of the Real is literally the manifesto of this will through its mise en scène. In the tradition of Gino DE DOMINICIS' living sculptures, an elderly person in a wheelchair sits as the link between two unanimated sculptures. Through the distorting prism of the silent protagonist's mind, a Nazi helmet appears at the same time monumental and rusty, reflecting the weight of the historical period it recalls. On the other hand Pacman, as intimidating as it is incomprehensible for the same character, becomes an oversized sculpture looking blurred and expressionist.
The Unity of the Realis also the title of the canvas completing the installation. Divided into four parts, each of them in a different technique, and representing a cat, it is an exact metaphor for the whole mental construction, where each fragment is linked to the others by a common denominator: reality itself.

Born in 1974, of course in Naples, Piero GOLIA endeavours through his actions and installations to build his own legend, handling artfulness and generosity, humour and poetry. His works cultivate a great immediacy and aim to reach the biggest number; thus they are told about as much as they are looked at. Between folie des grandeurs et folie douce he stages his aspiration to posterity in a way that is at the same time spectacular and derisory.
With Piero GOLIA art becomes the place where everything is possible: an artistic proposition can move mountains, or, as it happens for this exhibition, the whole façade of a building. Dismounted for the occasion in Amsterdam and hanged as a painting on a wall of the gallery, it overcomes the rules of painting, architecture, and even physics. Entitled It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, in reference to the mythical album of the rap band Public Enemy, it demonstrates that nothing, or almost, can stop the artist.
Sitting nearby and responding to the façade's monumentality, a skeleton adorned with Piero GOLIA's attributes (diamond inlaid into a tooth,rings) seems to add that art is not only the place of all possible, but also the place where to engrave one's own presence in history and not disappear. Maybe not Even a Nation of Millions Is Enough to Hold Us Back : afterall there may be nothing, really nothing, that can stop Piero GOLIA.

Napolitan as well, born in 1973, Marcello SIMEONE illustrates in his pictures, videos and installations the meeting of the private sphere with a collective imaginary. Art and life, reality and fiction closely mingle, often linked to the multifaceted character of his native town: "The streets of Naples are full of stories only waiting to be translated". Marcello SIMEONE stages his urban cartography, sensitive and dark. He takes the visitor wandering through the streets of Naples, just coming out of a club, between late night and early morning, in a mix of real life and dreams of another life. A museum showcase displays spoons with a hole, relic of the fight against drugs in Neapolitan bars at the beginning of the 90's. Farther, fragments of everyday life, a mirror and a beheaded crucifix have been abandoned in the streets, next to a pile of silent speakers. As an echo, on the upper floor, Marcello SIMEONE, former DJ, recreates the decorum of a club (darkness, jerky and violent stroboscope light, face of a woman glimpsed between two lightnings), flash of a night almost ended.
He thereby draws the outlines of a personal universe at the same time elegant and melancholy, rough and sensual, where the ordinary becomes intimate poetry.

Cosmic Galerie also features a bookshop in collaboration in collaboration with Ofr and a video program by BdV (Bureau des Vidéos), which will display until July 19th Cigarettesanswich (2001) by Ugo RONDINONE and the trilogy Healing (2002), Dolphin Father (2003) et Spirit Animal: Pelican (2003) by Alex HUBBARD.

Exhibition from June 5th until July 19th, 2003, Tuesday to Saturday from 12am to 7pm Opening Wednesday June 4th, 2003, from 6pm to 9pm

Cosmic Galerie
76 Rue de Turenne
Paris

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