Monday, July 09, 2012

Castello di Roncade – Andrea Salvatori – Un-Traditional exhibition




Castello di Roncade – Andrea Salvatori – Un-Traditional exhibition.  In the un-usual setting of the wine cellars of the Castello di Roncade north of Venice, The Pool NYC presented the exhibition Un-Traditional, until August 7, works past and present by Andrea Salvatori, curated by Chiara Cardinali.
Above. The sculpture, A Wonderful Fart, pottery, 2008.

 
Castello di Roncade – Andrea Salvatori – Un-Traditional exhibition. Andrea Salvatori is an un-traditional artist, he doesn’t question tradition but converse with it, lying bare it’s absurdities not with the intent of mockery but to laugh along with it.

  photo courtesy The Pool NYC

Castello di Roncade – Andrea Salvatori – Un-Traditional exhibition. Tradition for Salvatori is an elegant obelisk that a, flea market found porcelain cherub, tries to support, Obbellisco 2008. The Cherub manages it because he knows that this can be a source of inspiration and source of “detournement”.

 
Castello di Roncade – Andrea Salvatori – Un-Traditional exhibition. Luigi Franchin and Viola Romoli are two of the founders of the touring art gallery, The Pool NYC, which was founded in 2009 to promote avant-garde artists through a network of international exhibitions.
   
Castello di Roncade – Andrea Salvatori – Un-Traditional exhibition. Incubo, or nightmare, 2011, pottery.  Monsters and a frog scare a little boy in his pajamas while he hugs a teddy. As the title suggests, the awakening after a nightmare, in which the little boy remembers the grotesque characters with which he lived with while he slept.