Pennacchio Argentato, Alternate Present #3, 2021 - ongoing, sculpture

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Pennacchio Argentato
Pennacchio Argentato, Alternate Present #3, 2021 - ongoing, sculpture
2011-ongoing

About the Item

"Alternate Present" is a further development of "Alternate Future", which is a series of sculptures begun in 2014. These sculptures, made of acrylic resin, all have the same repeated shape of a thick sheet of crumpled paper, but each has distinct color combinations. Colors, in fact, are applied to the rough surface of the sculptures using a 3D method, where color molecules overlap at various angles making different colors visible at different times, depending on the observer's position in space and changing types of light sources. This method of applying color gives the sculptures vibrant fluctuations of color, a natural and realistic quality that continually reacts to changing lights and makes the physical matter artificial, almost devoid of texture and substance, almost digital. The artists explore the systematic process of reproduction in a non-hierarchical order of equivalent forms, where color is used to investigate different spatial-temporal dimensions of a quantum physical reality where there is no preponderant logic but only a set of possible relationships. The "Alternate Future" series moves along a potentially infinite horizon of possibilities governed by probability and chance. Therefore, the series has no sequential numerical order, in fact it started with "Alternate Future 777#", to refer to the idea of a non-linear time, where different possible futures can coexist at the same time in different dimensions. The price is excluding VAT and shipping. Contact us for more informations and discover all possibilities of purchase and and new ways to collect and share contemporary art with WEM - Empowering Art Platform. Pennacchio Argentato is an artistic duo composed by Pasquale Pennacchio (Caserta, 1979) and Marisa Argentato (Naples, 1977). They work together since they met at Academy of Fine Arts in Naples and later, they studied together sculpture at Staatliche Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste of Frankfurt, where they get the chance to study with eminent artists, curators, and philosophers. Their works play with the idea of representation, property, and observation of our time and its social, economic, humanitarian, political and technological issues. Their artistic practice involves formal and visual strategies of abstraction, repetition, appropriation, enlargement, and fragmentation. The artists use a wide range of materials and techniques from performance materials such as titanium and carbon kevlar to more typical contemporary sculptural ones such as concrete and acrylic resins. Additionally, the artists assimilate video projections into their sculptures and experiment with 3D modeling techniques. They work a lot with series that usually tend to infinite and that never can be completed. They participated in many solo and collective shows, especially around Europe. The most notable one were at: Oval Lingotto, Turin, 2017; Museo d'arte contemporanea Villa Croce, Genoa, 2016; Banca Fideuram, Naples, 2016; Palazzo Reale, Milan, 2016; MUSAC - Museo di Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain, 2011; Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, 2010; MUHKA - Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium, 2014; Ausstellungraum Klingental, Basel, 2014 Autocenter, Berlin¸ Flip project space, Toronto, 2011; Landings Project Space, Vestfossen, Norway 2010; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2013; Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, 2011; Le Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, 2010; Pan - Naples and Palazzo Italia, Belgrade 2008; Progetto Radar, Venice, 2006;Villa delle Rose, Spazio Aperto, GAM di Bologna, Bologna; 2003; Ratti Foundation, Como, 2002; Viafarini, Milan, 2002.

Creator:
Pennacchio Argentato (Italian)
Creation Year:
2011-ongoing
Dimensions:
Height: 39.38 in (100 cm)Width: 27.56 in (70 cm)
Medium:
Steel,Fiberglass,Synthetic Resin,Acrylic
Movement & Style:
Conceptual
Period:
2010-
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Ornavasso, IT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU165629222122