Andrea Galvani at the Milan Triennale with a monumental architectural installation
Eduardo Secci Gallery announces Andrea Galvani’s participation at Milan Triennale, Unknown Unknowns.
On the occasion of the Milan Triennale, which will be open until 11 December, Eduardo Secci Gallery announces the participation of Andrea Galvani. The artist will take part in this great artistic event, which aims to explore what ‘we don’t know we don’t know’.
Andrea Galvani is a world-renowned Italian artist who currently lives and works in New York and Mexico City. His approach to art is multidisciplinary and profound. He combines great scientific research with the use of different means of expression, creating monumental and architectural works that captivate the viewer. The artist documents collective actions, visionary experiments and physical phenomena whose spectacular monumentality is paradoxically unstable and ephemeral. To do this, Galvani expresses himself through the use of photography, video, drawing, sculpture, sound, architectural installation and performance.
The Triennial, curated by Ersilia Vaudo, astrophysicist and Chief Diversity Officer of the European Space Agency, will explore different areas. In particular, topics from astrophysics, genetics, environmental issues, mathematics and climate change will be covered. In this context, Andrea Galvani is invited to create a site-specific work in one of the nerve centres of the art world. The artist will be alongside internationally renowned artists such as Refik Anadol, Anish Kapoor, Bosco Sodi and Yuri Suzuki.
At the Galvani Triennale, he will exhibit a monumental architectural installation, consisting of five sculptures made of neon. The installation is immersive and all-encompassing, through the numerous materials used, from Murano glass, to metal structures, to concrete bases, the artist creates a true universe in which to immerse oneself during the visit. Because he wants to investigate the relationships between fragility and monumentality, between temporality and continuity, between visibility and invisibility. Galvani’s artistic practice is expressed in a varied and complex language. Human experience is placed within a temporal framework of cosmic change and social transformation. The light sculptures seem to float in space, illuminating human knowledge. Thus, his work extends our perspective from the individual to the collective, from the personal to the universal.
The artist’s work, as we have said, is based on great scientific study and insight. The work exhibited at the Triennale, in particular, was created in collaboration with researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Physics and La Sapienza University. Through this work of art, the artist tries to take us, using mathematics, towards the boundaries of human understanding. The resulting experience is overwhelming and the aesthetic effect absolutely pregnant.
The Eduardo Secci Gallery presented an artist who explores, with different materials and forms of expression, a scientific and complex world. Visiting the Triennale one cannot but be impressed by this monumental installation.
Andrea Galvani was born in Italy in 1973. He lives and works between New York and Mexico City. Adopting a cross-disciplinary approach that often draws upon scientific methodology, Galvani’s conceptual research informs his use of photography, video, drawing, sculpture, sound, architectural installation, and performance. His work seems to heighten awareness, articulate and extend the limits of sensory perception. Investigating relationships between fragility and monumentality, temporality and continuity, visibility and invisibility, his projects are documents of interventions orchestrated on site. Modifying and distorting natural surroundings, Galvani transforms the environment into a laboratory for physical experiments, cerebral observation, and collective action.
Galvani has exhibited internationally, including at the Whitney Museum, New York; the 4th Moscow Biennial for Contemporary Art; the Mediations Biennial, Poznań, Poland; 9th Biennial of Contemporary Art of Nicaragua; Art in General, New York; Aperture Foundation, New York; The Calder Foundation, New York; Pavilion – Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, Bucharest; Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Trento; Macro Museum, Rome; GAMeC, Bergamo; De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam; Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; Sculpture Center, New York; among others. His work is part of major public and private collections in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa, including: the Permanent Collection at the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; Deutsche Bank Collection, London; Artist Pension Trust, New York; the Contemporary Art Society, Aspen Collection, New York; the UniCredit Art Collection, Milan; the Permanent Collection of the United States Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC; the Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto; the 500 Capp Street Foundation, San Francisco; MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome; The Armory Show, New York and MACRO Testaccio, Rome. He was a visiting artist at New York University, and has completed several artist residencies in New York, including Location One International Artist Residency Program, the LMCC Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the MIA Artist Space Program/Columbia University School of the Arts. In 2011, he received the New York Exposure Prize and was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. In 2016, the Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto presented Galvani’s first mid-career retrospective in Europe. In 2017, his work was selected to represent the Deutsche Bank Collection at Frieze New York. In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Audemars Piguet Prize.
Andrea Galvani was born in Italy in 1973. He lives and works between New York and Mexico City. Adopting a cross-disciplinary approach that often draws upon scientific methodology, Galvani’s conceptual research informs his use of photography, video, drawing, sculpture, sound, architectural installation, and performance. His work seems to heighten awareness, articulate and extend the limits of sensory perception. Investigating relationships between fragility and monumentality, temporality and continuity, visibility and invisibility, his projects are documents of interventions orchestrated on site. Modifying and distorting natural surroundings, Galvani transforms the environment into a laboratory for physical experiments, cerebral observation, and collective action.
Galvani has exhibited internationally, including at the Whitney Museum, New York; the 4th Moscow Biennial for Contemporary Art; the Mediations Biennial, Poznań, Poland; 9th Biennial of Contemporary Art of Nicaragua; Art in General, New York; Aperture Foundation, New York; The Calder Foundation, New York; Pavilion – Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, Bucharest; Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Trento; Macro Museum, Rome; GAMeC, Bergamo; De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam; Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; Sculpture Center, New York; among others. His work is part of major public and private collections in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa, including: the Permanent Collection at the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; Deutsche Bank Collection, London; Artist Pension Trust, New York; the Contemporary Art Society, Aspen Collection, New York; the UniCredit Art Collection, Milan; the Permanent Collection of the United States Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC; the Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto; the 500 Capp Street Foundation, San Francisco; MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome; The Armory Show, New York and MACRO Testaccio, Rome. He was a visiting artist at New York University, and has completed several artist residencies in New York, including Location One International Artist Residency Program, the LMCC Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the MIA Artist Space Program/Columbia University School of the Arts. In 2011, he received the New York Exposure Prize and was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. In 2016, the Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto presented Galvani’s first mid-career retrospective in Europe. In 2017, his work was selected to represent the Deutsche Bank Collection at Frieze New York. In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Audemars Piguet Prize.
