The Art Must Go On – the journey in contemporary art

Cardi Gallery in Pietrasanta is pleased to present the exhibition “The Art Must Go On – the journey in contemporary art”, a selection of artists that come from a different geographical areas, united by sperimental languages and the gestation of an imagination critical, communicative, uninhibited and based on the theme of the journey. The “travel” in this exposition, is designed as a parallel dimension; an accumulation of contingent entities, utopian, ideological, subversive and illusory. A multiverse of languages and a variety of different skills. The gallery spaces takes the form of a global rise, a place where different experiences of each artist transcend geographical boundaries, ethnic, class, religious and ideoligici. Each work interacts with the other by relating what is universal with what is local, the dialogue between them is primordial source of creativity and exchange.
The gallery spaces takes the form of a global rise, a place where different experiences of each artist transcend geographical boundaries, ethnic, class, religious and ideoligic. Each work interacts with the other by relating what is universal with what is local, the dialogue between them is primordial source of creativity and exchange. The theme of this exhibition is the journey that every artist present with own sensitivity and own artistic language.

Some of them use versatile subject and way of expression, such as spanish Bernardì Roig presenting his work in the “White Devil” made in polyester resin, wood and neon, neon and glass are also materials used by the Chilean artist Ivan Navarro for his “Red / Yellow / Blue table”, as well as for the Italian Vitttorio Corsini, with his “Italian Still Life”.
Paolo Canevari, shows clearly the theme of the trip with his “Olympic Circles”: a composition of five pneumatic tire casings, the quintessential symbol of speed and road journeys, which here rise to the role of the olympic symbol. Wood, metal, rubber and cords are the elements of sculpture suspended by the cuban Kcho, a delicate wooden house floating on a network structure, like a barge on the river by the current drag. Wim Delvoye, a belgian artist, with his two paintings: “Noran Archipel and Utisch Pan- Archipel” invents geographic maps and imagines to discover new lands.
The Swiss Peter Wuthrich with “Tropic of Butterfly” creates a display case of butterflies made entirely of covers of books and “Literary food” puts on a shelf a number of jars also made of covers of travel books, which bring to mind the messages in a bottle transported by sea.

The travel for the Dutch Michael Raedecker is instead a subtle pattern directly sewn on the canvas in his work “Dissociation (best for the future)”. The American Greg Colson exorcised some of our times fears, with a work that tells of possible alien incursions on our planet; and the newyorkese Tom Sachs played with the technology and the obsessive monitoring of the compliance with rules in his work “Test Module Eight”. Irreverent and cynical are also Bertozzi and Casoni works, “Barile con pappagallo”, a dazed but elegant parrot is forced to roam on a dirt scrapped barrel of oil, “Le bugie dell’arte” a golden skull with a long nose as Pinocchio mocks another precoius skeletal figure protagonist of “For the Love of God, Laugh”, a Damien Hirst work who mocks in a sarcastic laugh, the last trip.