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23/6/2010

Alessandro D'Andrea

Aragon Contemporary Art Gallery, New York

Today’s public seems to regard the graffiti that marks our city walls as contemporary art rather than looking to the works on the walls of galleries or art museums. Alessandro D’Andrea’s art is derived from city walls rather than applied like the random repeated symbols of the current movement of graffiti . If you are looking to find his works alongside or posted as bills, pasted over the works of Space Invader, Mr. Brainwash, Shepard Fairey or Banksy… “You’ve never seen it.”

Here posted on the walls of the Aragon Gallery at the Angel Orensanz Foundation in NYC, are hist latest works , as well as those last shown at the Triennale of Milan, Italy, in an exhibition curated by Anna Fava, …“The aesthetic form and social concerns evident in the work are founded upon the photographic representation of an apparently insignificant ordinariness, found along our streets that would otherwise remain invisible. The expressive means become, therefore, the vehicle for conveying the urban desolation and emotional chaos of a contemporary Waste Land composed of metropolitan rush hours and crowded sidewalks. New York, with its arresting publicity posters and cosmopolitan multiculturalism, has molded and inspired this body of work. The city’s streets are a singular and irresistible set of human stories.

Here, the real estate boom of recent years has created a landscape of construction sites demarcated by sheets of plywood that are then encrusted with advertisements: a patchwork of colors and images destined to last perhaps little more than an afternoon. Against this temporary and shifting background we see the transitory figures of passersby, a human gallery of the hurried and out-of-breath, possessing an air of hopelessness, but also full of experience and poetry. Evocative and poignant, they become unknowing protagonists of a fleeting moment, interrupted by the artist in order to tell their stories and our own stories as spectators. Each work in this series is composed of three different photographs taken by the artist at different times and places. The images are superimposed over one another, glued down and then torn so as to expose the underlying layers. Fragments of past experience, they nonetheless interact with the present so that, in the created reality of the image, everything appears to occur simultaneously.”

In Alessandro D’Andrea’s art, the photographic portraits of passing-by protagonists captured against a background of billboards, are torn and collaged together, presenting the reflected image of our own daily lives, surrounded by an urban backdrop composed of metropolitan rush hours and crowded sidewalks.

Opening: june 24th

Aragon Contemporary Art Gallery
172 Norfolk Street - New York
Admission free

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