NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Pedro Alberti in Spatial Fluidity. The exhibition opens April 1, 2017 and runs through April 21, 2017 with an opening reception on Thursday, April 6 from 6-8 pm.
Pedro Alberti builds subtle composite images, layering boxes and canvases with rough, ghost like forms. The patchwork at times comes together to form entire landscapes. With organic hues and raw canvas, Alberti builds up each image, resolving and connecting figures even as they lie on rifts between sections. The geometry of each composition serves as a rigid reminder of the fragility of the abstracted images which lay over top. Part painting and part assemblage, Alberti’s work is exploratory and immersive, allowing viewers to experience shifting interiors and exteriors in multidimensional dimensional space. The mixed media and acrylic work is both schematic and representational. Each painting is part drawing, almost like hand writing on the canvas. Lines of white paint and objects protruding from the canvas articulate layers of reality as Alberti explores his thoughts. He channels an interest in philosophy, history, and current events into each work, creating pieces that reflect on and react to the world.
Born in Argentina, Alberti lives and works in the United States. He creates with the motto “I write paints and paint philosophy.”
Exhibition Dates: April 1, 2017 – April 21, 2017
Reception: Thursday, April 6, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11:00am – 6:00pm
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, Chelsea, New York
Event URL: http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Pedro_Alberti.aspx
Featured Artists:
Spatial Fluidity
Sheree Friedman | Erin Cooke | Pedro Alberti | Nello Petrucci | Isabelita | Annika Carlsson | GIDJA | Ian A. Matthews | Birsen Yurdaer
About the Exhibition
Spatial Fluidity: Interacting With Art
Some of the most innovative artists working outside the picture place will come together this April at Agora Gallery in Spatial Fluidity, a new collective exhibition. A celebration of three-dimensionality in all its forms, Spatial Fluidity interrogates how a piece of art should exist in the world. Is it purely a visual entity? Does it enter the viewer's space? Is it static or does it change as the viewer moves?
The exhibition includes nine artists. There is a wide range of mixed-media work, ranging from pieces that are subtly textured to canvases that forcefully protrude and recede into so-called "real" space. There are collages that intermingle newspaper clippings and photographs, or defy expectations by coating everything in a reflective glaze. There are also single-media paintings that emphasize the physical aspects of their material, such as the plastic quality of acrylic. Much of the art is abstract, so that the viewer may focus on broader visual sensations rather than put together three-dimensionality with a representational narrative.
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