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ANDREA GALVANI LLEVANDO UNA PEPITA A LA VELOCIDAD DEL SONIDO Andrea Galvani © 2015, Llevando una pepita de oro a la velocidad del sonido #7 (detail) Archival C-Print mounted on aluminum, white wood frame, UV glass. 188 x 208 cm framed Courtesy of the artist and Revolver Galería, Lima Revolver Galería is pleased to present the first stage of a cross-disciplinary project by Andrea Galvani, Llevando una pepita de oro a la velocidad del sonido, premiering in Lima, Wednesday April 22. The gallery is proud to announce representation of Galvani with his debut solo exhibition in Peru. The End is a trilogy of exhibitions that will unfold in multiple manifestations — first in Lima, followed by New York, then Mexico City — a complex body of work which includes an 11 channel video installation, a simulta- neous sound project, drawings, objects, and a performance that will take place at specific times as an extension of the exhibition. Developed with institutional support and scientific rigor, The End seems to articulate and extend the limit between physicality and immateriality. Collaborating with producers, pilots, engineers, cameramen, the artist orchestrated different actions oriented towards a new visionary perspective. Training over the course of months, he flew parallel to military jets, shooting a specific event from an F-18 aircraft. In The End, the horizon becomes a unifying visual field: our subjective perception disappears, expanding into a singular vision. Galvani’s work suggests violent transformation from a painful process to a peaceful, if transient, state of being. Boundaries change position, accumulate power, produce energy. In mathematics, they define continuity, derivation, and integration. Boundaries can be political, geographical, or psychological territories — often the most significant boundaries are invisible. These are some elements of investigation present in The End, a new body of work by Galvani, resulting from two years of research conducted in the Unite States and Mexico. A gold nugget accelerating at the speed of sound. An action produced simultaneously in more than 30 locations. A 16mm video of a never-ending sunset recorded from a military aircraft and a series of large scale analogue photographs documenting the physical manifestation of the sound barrier from a unique perspective. Andrea Galvani © 2015, Llevando una pepita de oro a la velocidad del sonido #6 (detail) C-Print mounted on aluminum, white wood frame, UV glass. 188 x 208 cm framed Courtesy of the artist and Revolver Galería, Lima Andrea Galvani (b. Italy 1973) lives and works in New York and Mexico City. Drawing from other disciplines and often assuming scientific metho- dologies, his conceptual research informs his use of photography, video, drawing, and installation. Galvani’s work has been exhibited internationally, including the Whitney Museum, New York; 4th Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art; the Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland; 9th Biennal of Contemporary Art of Nicaragua; Aperture Foundation, New York; The Calder Foundation, New York; Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy; Macro Museum, Rome; GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy; De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam; Oslo Plads, Copenhagen, among others. In 2011, he received the New York Exposure Prize and was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. He earned a BFA in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna in 1999, and his MFA in Visual Art from Bilbao University in 2002. He has been a visiting artist at NYU (2009-10) and has completed artist residencies at Location One International Artist Residency Program New York (2008), LMCC Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2009), M.I.A. Artist Space Program/Columbia University School of the Arts, Brooklyn, NY (2010). From 2006 to 2009, he was a professor of Photographic Language and the History of Contemporary Photography at the University of Carrara for Fine Arts in Bergamo, Italy. The End Trilogy Forthcoming Exhibitions: Llevando una pepita de oro a la velocidad del sonido on view April 22 - June 4, 2015 at Revolver Galería, Calle General Recavarren, 261, Miraflores 18, Peru www.revolvergaleria.com The End, curated by Kristen Chappa May 16 - June 28, 2015 at Art in General, 79 Walker St., #6, New York, NY www.artingeneral.org The End, curated by Sofia Mariscal on view September 18 - October 2015 at Marso Galería Arte Contemporáneo, Berlín 37, Cuauhtémoc, Ciudad de México, D.F., Mexico www.marso.com.mx WWW.REVOLVERGALERIA.COM Calle General Recavarren 26. Miraflores, Lima, Perú Andrea Galvani © 2015, The End (Action #5) Still from 16 mm film transfer to HD Courtesy of the artist and Revolver Galería, Lima Andrea Galvani © 2015, Llevando una pepita de oro a la velocidad del sonido #0 California gold nugget, 12 x 15 x 8mm, 9 grams, 24 karats on concrete pedestal Courtesy of the artist and Revolver Galería, Lim Andrea Galvani © 2015, The End (Action #5) 16 mm film transfer to HD projected on silk, steel and concrete structure, 180 x 151 x 32 cm Courtesy of the artist and Revolver Galería, Lima Andrea Galvani © 2015, The End #9 (Study on NASA document) Print on Archival paper, black wood frame 55 x 75 cm framed Courtesy of the artist and Revolver Galería, Lima Andrea Galvani © 2015 (Left) The End #10 (Study on Galileo Galilei Diagram), (Right) The End #11 (Study on Mach Wave Diagram), Both Black Ink on Archival paper, white wood frame with museum glass, 50 x 70 cm each Courtesy of the artist and Revolver Galería, Lima Andrea Galvani, Llevando una pepita de oro a la velocidad del sonido, 2015 Partial installation view at Revolver Galería Andrea Galvani © 2015, Llevando una pepita de oro a la velocidad del sonido #0 California gold nugget, 12 x 15 x 8mm, 9 grams, 24 karats Courtesy of the artist and Revolver Galería, Lima Andrea Galvani © 2015, Llevando una pepita de oro a la velocidad del sonido #9 C-Print mounted on aluminum, grey wood frame, UV glass. 188 x 208 cm framed Courtesy of the artist and Revolver Galería, Lima [email protected] | Teléfono: (+511) 255 8571
