Events/Openings

Galerie Mario Mazzoli is pleased to announce Alter-Egos, the second solo show by Guido Canziani-Jona.

Recently, Canziani-Jona's research has called our attention to the ambivalence between digital and handmade creation.
This tension between digital and analog characterizes all the works in this show, which consist of associations between hand-made paintings and sculptures, and their computer-made alter ego.
In Alter-Egos, Canziani-Jona invites us to reflect upon issues of representation.
The singular parts of his works, the analog and digital, do not represent anything specifically, but they do represent each other. At a first look, the choice of the iconographic content appears to be irrelevant.Academically trained as a painter, however, Canziani-Jona chooses to employ gestures that reference organic abstraction in order to concentrate on the digital/analog dualism through a known language, one that everyone may recognize as correlating to the history of modern art, and one that in itself embodies the natural dualism between order and chaos. In this way, the portrayed figure participates in highlighting the primary subject of the work, which is representation itself. Canziani-Jona is not seeking a representation of the physical world, but rather a meta-representation, namely the representation of representation. It is an investigation of the construction of a semiotic relation, and of how such construction can be influenced by the tools employed to create the sign.
The result reveals a positive search for a personal identity, one that expands both the boundaries of digital art and of classical painting.

Concurrently with this exhibition, the BeBeHo Lützowstr. GmbH will be presenting Carbon based Form (2016), a permanent outdoor sculpture that interacts with the environment.
The installation is open to the public from Monday to Friday, from 10 pm to 18 pm and by appointment. Address: Lützowstr. 71, 10785 Berlin im Hinterhof

Öffnungszeiten:
Di-Sa 12-18 Uhr und danch Verabredung