Installation view
Giorgio Andreotta Calò’s recent solo exhibition 5122.65 Miles at Depart Foundation, curated by Luca Lo Pinto, was named for the distance between Venice, Italy and Venice, California. Calò’s work explores these two places, melding them until they start to feel as one. This body of work includes pinhole polaroid photographs that possess a washed-out quality, totemic sculptures arranged in the middle of the gallery, and a 13-minute video of various types of light exposure. There’s a dreamy quality here that makes the viewer feel as if they are gently journeying with the artist.
Included in the exhibition was Calò’s video, “In Girum Imus Nocte” (2015). In it, bursting bulbs, jagged smoldering flames, headlights in the distance, exposed flashes, end-of-a-tunnel explosive lights, and others appeared on the screen. It’s curious to have begun the viewing experience here, following the light until one eventually arrived back at the gallery door where they entered. The series of Polaroids on the wall adjacent to the video offered still views of the video’s moving images.
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