PrintCOLUMBIA
UNIVERSITY
THE ITALIAN ACADEMY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN AMERICA
OUT
OF SYNC
PAINTINGS,
DIGITAL PRINTS AND VIDEO BY
GIORGIO
BROGI
OPENING RECEPTION:
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2008 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Gallery
hours:
Monday - Friday, 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM
October 23 - November 20, 2008
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New York, NY— October 23, 2008— The Italian Academy for Advanced
Studies in America, Columbia University, presents an exhibition of paintings,
digital prints and video works by Giorgio Brogi. The exhibition will be open to
the public from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM each weekday from October 23 to November 20.
"The Italian painter Giorgio Brogi sets up arresting vibrations between shapes and chromatics. The works are composed of jauntily placed hard-edged forms: bars, rectangles, bands and squares, basic schemes in which lines often veer slightly from the straight. ...The sharp color contrasts and slightly eccentric geometries suggest a sophisticated semaphore system that roundly fulfills its first duty of catching the eye."
– Grace Glueck, The New York
Times
This
exhibition – curated by Gianni Romano – marks the first US showing
of a series of works, both digital prints and canvases, inspired by the "Out of
Sync" concept which has been at the hub of the artist's activity in recent
years.
The works displayed in New York are
accompanied by a loop using four short films made by four illustrious
directors. These shorts, by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Carlo
Lizzani, and Jean-Luc Godard, are chosen by Giorgio Brogi to explain – in
cinematic language – the correspondence between his vision and the vision of these directors.
The video-episodes and Brogi's own
video, "Out of Sync," will be projected at the same time, setting up an
interpretative dialogue of exchange and comparison on themes that concern us
but fail to touch us, such as indifference, agony, poetry, and love.
The
"Out of Sync" project is constantly refreshed with new material and the locations
it inhabits: it is a play of mirrors, a book, an environmental video show, a
video-painting and performance; it concludes with the works presented in New
York, and will be presented in other forms and sequences in Milan and Naples in
the course of 2009.
Giorgio
Brogi was born in
Tuscany and works there and in Milan, Italy. He studied at the Institute of Art
of Florence. Brogi has since collaborated with Massimo Carboni, Raffaele
Gavarro, Valeria Bruni, and Lily Wei. He has had two personal exhibitions in
New York at Denise Bibro Fine Art, and has recently created site-specific works
in Milan, Florence, and Naples with "The Inside Open," in collaboration with
Marco Meneguzzo, Giuliano Serafini, and Eduardo Cicelyn, and installations such
as "Crescita" in Camaiore and "My Land" in San Miniato. The "Out of Sync"
project developed in Paris with an important one-man show at the Centre d'Art
et d'Essais Mercedes Benz, and a book launch at the Maison Rouge, Foundation
Antoine de Galbert, followed by the AT Kearney show in Place de Ièna (Paris).
In 2007 he had another show called "BaBa" at the Lyon Biennal of Arts. His
work is in private collections in America and Europe and in the permanent
collection of the Albright
- Knox Museum in Buffalo, NY.
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