| GIORDANO POZZI gazebo Dal 5 maggio al 30 giugno 2007 Please scroll down for english version |
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Il lavoro di Giordano Pozzi (New York 1968) circola attorno all’idea di manipolare porzioni di spazio. Spazio percepito come luogo della memoria nella quale creare delle strutture scultoree. L’artista racconta una microstoria, non dichiarata e non definita, nata dalla propria struttura mnemorica e trasportata nello spazio attraverso differenti materiali in rapporto di coordinazione e interdipendenza. Il lavoro nasce quasi tradizionalmente dall’astrazione di una realtà preesistente, astrazione che in seguito torna ad essere realtà ed a ricordare strutture architettoniche esistenti. Elementi portanti di possibili edifici o modelli di costruzioni. Le sculture ci ricordano il Sin Center di Archigram, guardano alle teorie architettoniche di Lebbeus Woods e alle sue visioni apocalittiche per le città di Sarajevo, l'Havana e San Francisco. Osservano il movimento e il dinamismo interno della forma architettonica contemporanea. La scultura è qui la contaminazione e la sovrapposizione memorica d’edifici preesistenti, delle emozioni che si associano a luoghi o fatti, e delle architetture utopiche. Il presupposto è che lo spazio sia il fattore essenziale dell’architettura e che quindi non si può immaginare lo spazio se non lo si confronta con altro spazio. Le sculture sono costruite con materiali comuni: c’è spesso il ferro che nella saldatura lascia piccole cicatrici o materiali plastici dai bordi imperfetti; ma anche il legno, la balsa, il polistirolo, il colore e il gesso. C’è sempre un elemento precario, differente, come semplice rapporto di una diversa visione di completezza. I lavori sono pensati come delle strutture self-generated che sono sculture, architetture, ma anche monumenti. The work of Giordano Pozzi (New York, 1968) revolves around the idea of manipulating portions of space. Space is perceived as a place in our memory, where sculptural structures can be created. The artist tells a micro-story, which is neither declared nor defined but born of its own mnemonic structure and transported into three dimentional space using different materials in a relationship of coordination and interdependence. The work comes about in an almost traditional way from the abstraction of a pre-existing reality, an abstraction that then becomes reality once more and reminds us of existing architectural structures. We see the load-bearing elements of potential buildings or construction models; the sculptures are reminiscent of Archigram’s Sin Center, with a nod to the architectural theories of Lebbeus Woods and his apocalyptic visions for the cities of Sarajevo, Havana and San Francisco. They observe the movement and internal dynamism of contemporary architectural form. Here, sculpture means the contamination and memoric layering of pre-existing buildings, of the emotions associated with places or facts, and of Utopian architecture. The assumption is that space is the essential factor in architecture and therefore you cannot imagine space unless in relation to other space. The sculptures are built using everyday materials: there is often metal with little scars left by welding or pieces of plastic with imperfect edges, as well as wood, balsa, polystyrene, paint and chalk. There is always a precarious, different element, as a simple indication of an alternative vision of completeness. The pieces are conceived as self-generated structures that are sculptures and architecture but monuments too. The exhibition (Gazebo) brings together a group of pieces presenting the new facets of his work and radiating towards different visions. The main idea is to create a construction in order to have a point of view; from which to observe and perhaps even transmit. On show is a structure that follows the topographic surface lines of any place, where the inter-related sculptures are positioned. The sculpture entitled Radar Station towers above the rest with its high position the ideal reference point for the whole panorama. It is an installation whose elements are all independent and unique yet at the same time they are connected and communicate with one another. Giordano Pozzi’s research leads him to explore space in two-dimensional terms too. The video entitled Gazebo shows a performance with a sequence of hand-built constructions that only exist in the space and time of the video. The work leads the viewer into the performance process of the construction while at the same time denying the physical nature of both the object (which does not exist outside the video) and space (which does not exist without the object). Also on display is a series of drawings of imaginary villas with modern reminiscences, collected and put together mnemonically then reconstructed in an environment-free space. |
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