PAST EXHIBITIONS:

MASSIMO GRIMALDI, DEBORAH LIGORIO, DAVIDE MINUTI

November 20, 2003 - January 20, 2004

curated by LAURA GARBARINO

Defrag: A fragmented perception of reality as seen through the works of three Italian artists, Massimo Grimaldi, Deborah Ligorio, Davide Minuti.

The application of a mental grid - a matrix that re-designs thoughts following a hierarchy of values - is assumed by each of the artist.

Deborah Ligorio actualizes art, architecture and design through her videos, photography and web projects. Her videos play with a quasi-pop oriented graphic reflecting a mental perception and physical construction of reality. Sizescape presents a virtual vision of reality by deconstructing and ultimately reconstructing her position in relation to the world, eliminating any distance between the general and the details.

The contrast between the private and the public is less striking in Massimo Grimaldi’s work, in which the image never reveals itself at first glance. The appropriation of the images in his works comes from and attitude that reminisces the 80's ecstatic consumer, a "user of forms: an intelligent and subversive consumer," reflecting Nicholas Bourriaud's thoughts. The result still applies to the natural world, but portrays ambiguities and abstractions. By taking an image from the Hubble Telescope, Grimaldi produces a virtual 3-D installation by duplicating and adapting it to a structure the original image. The result is "Double Hubble Deep Field," an inscrutable image of space's vastness.

Davide Minuti seems to be floating in an undefined limbic space waiting for a determined development. Update 2 is a flexible installation defining the contours of space with 35 metallic white bars, combining a wheel and a brake at their base that work in unison to re-establish their stability in a precarious state of tension.

Defrag is pure aesthetic without errors or imperfections, is a minimal discourse in which the graphical or technological surface reveals conscious emotion beneath the perfect appearance.