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Andrea Bianconi - Mind over Mind Mind Over Mind, inchiostro su carta, 88 x 64 cm, 2011 PRESS RELEASE Avoiding a self-referential racking of the brain, in Mind Over Mind the intimism of Andrea Bianconi’s work is an observatory of the dynamics of introspection in relation to the observation of the other. Black is the element linking the works on display, which include drawings in pen and ink on paper and installations in painted wood and metal: it conceals what we do not know, while anxieties open up, touching an ambiguous sense of belonging and extraneousness. Both the installations and the drawings break down their formal unity. It would be better to speak of ‘drawn sculptures’ and ‘written drawings’, i.e. of the necessity for a nimble passage between languages that overcome their differences. Traps for Clouds hangs from the ceiling like a tangle of metallic lines, attempting to enclose what cannot be enclosed, placing itself farther along towards an exact opposite that expands constantly, as in Multiplicity of One, where the elements spread out like concentric circles, alluding to fragmentations and unstable boundaries. The installations are first of all mental constructions that call our attention back to human conflicts, to the certainties in which we take refuge, to the prejudices behind which we hide, but also to the way it is possible to go beyond the self and move towards the other, caught in the process of multiplication. The drawings, Hand and Home, trigger a continuity where one word calls to mind the other word and one image opens up to the other image, chaining sequences of thoughts to the sheet. It is impossible to establish whether everything takes place in the name of explosion or implosion, of protection or imprisonment (as in Face): all possibilities are open in a process that is cyclic, in a set of connected routes where the various subjects appear to be immersed in a single body, as in Hands Over Mind, Trip Over Mind and Air Over Mind. Andrea Bianconi (Arzignano - 1974, lives and works between New York and Vicenza). Selected solo-shows: 2011 Living (A Charmed Life), Ambasciata d’Italia a Washington D.C.; The Chinese Umbrella Hat Project (PartII), Piazza San Marco, durante la 54 Biennale di Venezia. 2010 The Chinese Umbrella Hat Project (PartI), performance a Wujiang Rd West NanJing Rd, Shanghai; A Charmed Life, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston TX; You Always Go Down Alone, Vernon Projekt, Prague 2009 Sapere non Sapere, Casa Gallo – Palazzo Brusarosco Zaccaria, Vicenza 2007 Pony Express – Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston TX 2005 Bodyguard, Furini Arte Contemporanea, Arezzo. Selected group shows: 2011 Cool Stories For When The Planet Gets Hot III, Swiss Architecture Museum (S AM), Basel, CH; AL-GHAIB, Aesthetics of the Disappearance, Maraya Art Center, Sharjah, Emirati Uniti; The Spring Exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen. 2010 Uno sguardo senza peso, Palazzo Piazzoni-Parravicini, Vittorio Veneto, TV, Italia; Elevated, Rottet Studio, Los Angeles; Cluster, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX. 2009 Istant Book – Italian Artists New York, ISCP, Brooklyn, NY; Sound of A charmed Life (performance) Tina B – The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague; Giorni Felici, Casa Testori, Novate Milanese (MI), Italia. 2008 Fresh Baked, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX. Andrea Bianconi | Mind Over Mind 22 September – 5 November 2011 opening: 22 September 6:30 pm Furini Arte Contemporanea Roma - Via Giulia, 8 The gallery is open: Wed-Fri 1/7 pm; Sat 3/7 pm info: t. +39 06 68307443, info@furiniartecontemporanea.it www.furiniartecontemporanea.it |