Peter Halley / Giorgio Di Salvo

Mostra doppia personale: “Blue Prison” di Peter Halley e “Radiant Works” di Giorgio Di Salvo

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We are pleased to present Blue Prison, a special edition project by the renowned American artist Peter Halley. A key figure in the neo-conceptualist movement of the 1980s, Halley is known for his use of geometry to express the physical and psychological realities of contemporary urban life. The artist constructs his rigorous geometric abstractions by redefining the square not as an ideal form, but as a unit of confinement. By labeling the geometric forms in his works as either “cells” or “prisons,” connected by colored lines that he refers to as “conduits,” he explores the technologically-determined spaces and pathways that regulate daily life. His work is an attempt to transcend mere form. Blue Prison, created with vibrant felt and published by Noire, is produced in an edition of fourteen. The work makes use of Halley’s iconic prison here rendered in low-relief layers of laminated felt. The three-dimensional presence of the work establishes a connection between abstract geometry and our compartmentalized existence, highlighting the conditions that permeate our lives. Peter Halley lives in New York City. He is also known for his essays on art and culture, written in the 1980s and 1990s, in which he explores themes from French critical theory and the impact of burgeoning digital technology. From 1996 to 2005, Halley published INDEX Magazine. He served as professor and director of the MFA painting program at the Yale School of Art from 2002 to 2011. In 2023, the Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM), Luxembourg, presented a survey of Peter Halley’s paintings from the 1980s. Halley currently has a retrospective of his paintings in Spanish collections at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.

We are pleased to present Radiant Works, the first solo exhibition by Italian creative Giorgio Di Salvo. The exhibition showcases the first body of work resulting from Di Salvo’s last ten years of research in the world of audio. A lifelong music enthusiast and fascinated by multimedia technologies, Giorgio Di Salvo began his professional journey in the underground culture of the 1990s. This background led him to work as a designer on independent projects in the fields of graphic design, fashion, and product design. Radiant Works is a site-specific adaptive sound installation and marks the culmination of his research on sound. The pursuit of audio perfection merges with radical design, employing non-standard technologies and materials. The sound medium becomes the essence of the work, not a compendium or a secondary element, just as the author's will to create a spatialized sound composition in which the purity of the sound becomes a dynamic and totally immersive architecture is decisive.Spatial and acoustic coordinates take on a new investigative perspective.

Siamo lieti di presentare Radiant Works, la prima mostra personale del creativo italiano Giorgio Di Salvo. La mostra presenta il primo corpus di opere derivanti dagli ultimi dieci anni di ricerca di Di Salvo nel mondo dell'audio. Appassionato di musica da sempre e affascinato dalle tecnologie multimediali, Giorgio Di Salvo ha iniziato il suo percorso professionale nella cultura underground degli anni ’90. Questo background lo ha portato a lavorare come designer su progetti indipendenti nei campi della grafica, della moda e del product design. Radiant Works è un’installazione sonora adattiva site-specific e segna il culmine della sua ricerca sul suono. La ricerca della perfezione audio si fonde con un design radicale, utilizzando tecnologie e materiali non standard. Il mezzo sonoro diventa l’essenza dell’opera, non un compendio o un elemento secondario, così come è decisiva la volontà dell’autore di realizzare una composizione sonora spazializzata in cui la purezza del suono diventa un’architettura dinamica e di immersione totale. Le coordinate spaziali e acustiche acquisiscono una nuova prospettiva di indagine.