COMUNICATO STAMPA
CorAL is pleased to present
IMAGINARY LANDSCAPES
a group exhibition that brings together the work of four artists living and working in
New York and Milan.
Andrew Gosselin
Cameron Michel
Enrico Savi
Alessandro Simonetti
The exhibition, free and open to the public
Fridays 11-5 pm, Saturdays- Sundays 12-6 pm,
runs until December 30th
Opening Reception is December 9th 7-10 pm.
The interpretation and the reconstruction of the experiences, storage in our memory as
a testimony of the past or as a expectation for the future, take place according to an
instant impulse. The process of recalling and remodeling the past in a narrative
sequence is a creative act that stands on the composition of memories and mind
patterns. This combination is settled on a variable network of knowledge based on
experience and in relation to purposes.
According to the uncertainty relation, more exactly one property is determined, less
exactly the other is known in this instant; therefore, it is neither possible to come into an
accurate and unique definition of the phenomenon experienced, nor to predict the
effects.
If we apply two interpretations on the same event it might happen that one outweighs
the other; but in some circumstances, two narrative themes come into being, and lead
us into a different horizon that, rather then be a collision, plays a key role in
understanding each single frame.
The artists in the exhibition deconstruct the artificial boundaries of conventional form,
escape the cliches of familiarity, and make each experience a discovery of detail and
destination. Each work develops ideas of multiplicity, variation, cross-reference and
simultaneity to convey the complexities of contemporary existence. Different micro
worlds are captured to create multiple and independent storytelling. The overall effect is
at once alluring, and disorienting.
Elusive faces, fantastic atmospheres, and evasive silhouettes uncover the unstable
reality suggested in Alessandro Simonetti's work. His black and white photos,
simultaneously set here and elsewhere, represents illusory surroundings and visionary,
albeit, realistic situations.
Andrew Gosselin creates geometric pictures composing together distinctive images of
the same subject. By using three similar point and shoot cameras all loaded with the
same black and white film stock, the artist discloses the multiplicity of the forms
manipulated in accordance to a variable point of view. In his giclee printed canvas, the
original data are re purposed tangled together and completely transformed.
The collage by Cameron Michel is an intricate visual storytelling. Each incorporated
element, flowing on a stream of interpretations, connects to the unitary picture through
symbolism and correspondence, and transports us to a surreal place.
The complexity of reality is clearly suggested in Enrico Savi's architectures, where the
artist obtains an illusive effect discomposing images directly while shooting. His work
doesn't conform to a time or space frame, but rather it deconstructs the traditional
perspective while recalling the infinite possibilities of our imaginary.
CorAL is an original public art project committed to connecting with diverse art
community across the Atlantic Ocean. Curators Gaia Conti (Venice) and Paola Omboni
( New York) cooperate from distance to enforce traveling ideas and traveling art in the
The Heliopolis Project is a small storefront located in Greenpoint Brooklyn dedicated to fostering
a dialogue across all disciplines of making - we are also the proud East Coast hub of Push Press.
