Blind hole

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Thomas Brambilla gallery is proud to announce on Saturday 31 March 2012 the opening of the group show Blind hole, with William Anastasi, Lucio Fontana, Udomsak Krisanamis, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Nathan Peter, Grayson Revoir.

BLIND HOLE

In the latest history of art the obsession for void and chasm is a constant. Since Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni till the latter Anish Kapoor, absence and filling of void have always been main topics. It’s a necessity, for art and perhaps for humanity itself, to understand void and absence and shape it into an image, an encoding, a measure so this extension becomes less terrifying.

The notion of blind hole has a specific value in engineering. Indeed it means a duty excavation useful to succeed in the work more quickly, as in construction of undeground lines. This method often implies that the ground around the empty space is going to collapse, so normally a fast grip chemical treatment gets the ground stuck and self-standing.
While within the matter it’s possible to find a structural and actual solution to fix and somehow define the void, in spirituality and inner life the absence dimension has a tough connotation that in contemporary art turns into an endless range of shapes: dramatic, ironical, iconic, iconoclastic.

In fact the exhibition starts from this point to explore how the contemporary artist deals with what invariably becomes a spiritual void.
As in Anatoly Osmolovsky the vision of orthodox icon turns into an excavation of wooden depth lookin for a saving image, so in William Anastasi a completely grey surface becomes an empty abstraction, which remains just the graphic track.
Nathan Peter, cutting out the stars from the United States banner, through subtraction returns to the flag itself, that appears just an empty symbol, at least an aesthetic and artistic value.
Udomsak Krisanamis and Grayson Revoir instead work on detail and particular dimension. Revoir
tries to drill with screws and metal nails a table or a ladder, Krisanamis paints every single centimeter of the canvas with dry brush strokes to overlay all lines and text on the paper covering the canvas. Only the concave spaces of the round letters O, B, D, 9 remain, then, the blind holes.

William Anastasi

Born in 1933 in Philadelphia (U.S.A.), lives and works in New York.
He had exhibitions at the galleries Peter Blum, New York; Dwan Gallery, New York; Michael Benevento, Los Angeles; Emilio Mazzoli, Modena.
His artworks are part of the collections of renowned international museums: Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Getty Museum, Los Angeles; British Museum, London; Museum Ludwig, Köln; Musee Moderne, Stockholm; Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark.

Udomsak Krisanamis

Born in 1966 in Bangkok, Thailand, lives and works in Bangkok and New York.
He had exhibitions at the galleries Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York; Victoria Miro Gallery, London, and at P.S.1 New York; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Sydney Biennial; Villa Manin Centre for contemporary art, Codroipo (UD, Italy) and Foundation Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin.

Anatoly Osmolovsky

Born in 1969 in Moscow, where he lives and works.
He had exhibitions at the galleries Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow and Stella Art Gallery, Moscow. He joined two editions of Venice Biennial, in1993 and in 2003, and Documenta XII in Kassel in 2007. He had exhibitions in primary international museums: Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; III Moscow Biennial; New Museum, New York; Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; 25° Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil; Foundation Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw; MuHKA, Antwerp. Moreover, he realizes performances and publishing projects.

Nathan Peter

Born in 1978 in Minneapolis (U.S.A.), lives and works in Berlin.
He had exhibitions in many galleries: Program, Berlin; HOMEWORK, Berlin; PSM Gallery, Berlin; Schmidt & Handrup, Köln; Scheublein Fine Art, Zurich; City Radio Cars, London; Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles.

Grayson Revoir

Born in 1983 in California, lives and works in New York.
He had exhibitions at Martos Gallery, New York; West Street Gallery, New York; C.E.O gallery Malmo, Sweden and MOCA New Jersey.