Opening Reception: Friday, June 10, 2016 from 5-8p
Exhibition Dates: June 10 – July 10, 2016
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, 12-6pm
Location: 120 Essex Street NY, NY 10002 (inside Essex Street Market)
Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space is thrilled to present on the subversion of opacity [About Practice#3], a two-person exhibition of recent work by Arianna Carossa and Beatrice Glow, curated by Alessandro Facente.
In his 1988 essay “Lightness,” published in the compendium Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Italo Calvino likens the writer’s creative act to an indirect gaze on the world; just as Perseus defeated Medusa by following her movement in the reflection of his shield, the strength of the literary imagination is in a writer’s ability to wade through the opacity of our literal world through the transformation of fact into fiction; subverting what Calvino describes as the “petrification” or “the weight” of ideas through the lightness of mythology and its visionary language.
Through site-specific installations, including sculpture and digital prints on silk, this exhibition considers the ways in which artists provide an indirect view of reality, representing it as a fictional mythology drawn from its facts, forms, or histories, but never reflecting them directly.
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