The research of Giorgio Andreotta Calò gravitates around the idea of crossing, seen as a path of approach to the work, developed through a process of extraction of fragments from reality and appropriation of the landscape and its history.

Using abandoned spaces and buildings, salvaged materials and objects left at the mercy of the elements, Calò creates situations on the borderline between operations of participation and direct architectural intervention. Therefore the work shown to the audience is never an object made for the occasion or simply the result of a project, but the whole of a process and a time inserted in the physical character of the material, which takes “form” from the interaction with the context and the energies that are unleashed inside it.

In the case of the project for Peep-Hole, Calò interacts with the space and its architectural structure, inverting the everyday logic of viewing of the place and opening up an unexpected perspective. Te removal of the covering of a rectangular cut in the foor physically and visually connects the two levels of the building that houses the exhibition space. Te upper level, as the point of observation, establishes a dialogue with the lower level, not presently in use (once occupied by the Fonderia Battaglia), where Calò intervention creates a visual reversal, a reflection, a legacy of his place of origin, Venice, which always returns in his works in different ways.

Venice is also the source of the wooden material, which through the process of casting is transformed into bronze sculpture: an hourglass, a specular and "palindromic" object that measures a suspended, eternalized time, conveying the image of the process of corrosion caused by the oscillating action of water in its continuous shifts of level.

Sculpture and architectural intervention are placed in a direct relationship for the first time in the exhibit design, interpreting the same principle of symmetry and mutual refection.

Tus the space of the foundry, where the sculpture was cast, is reconnected to the exhibition space, almost as if to underline a fluidity and continuity in the process of identification of places and their functions.

Peep - Hole
Via Stilicone, 10
Milan 20154 Italy
Ph. + 39 02 87067410
info@peep-hole.org
www.peep-hole.org

Opening hours
Wednesday – Saturday
From 2.30pm to 7.00pm or by appointment

Related images

  1. Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Senza Titolo, 2010, site specific installation, Open Studios, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Courtesy Giorgio Andreotta Calò
  2. Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Volver, 2008, diapositiva, Courtesy Giorgio Andreotta Calò e ZERO..., Milano, Foto Davide Conconi
  3. Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Senza Titolo, 2010, site specific installation, Open Studios, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Courtesy Giorgio Andreotta Calò
  4. Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Clessidra (O), 2010, bronzo, 137 x 24 cm, Courtesy ZERO... Milano e Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam, Foto Yves Krol
  5. Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Senza titolo (Laguna Sud), 2007, stampa cibachrome montata su alluminio, Courtesy Giorgio Andreotta Calò e ZERO…, Milano (dettaglio)
  6. Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Volver, 2008, barca, acqua, neon, 400 x 400 cm, Courtesy ZERO..., Milano, Foto Cosimo Pichierri