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AS YOU WERE, AS YOU ARE, AS YOU GO
Sandy Smith
Sandy Smith's installation for the facade of Casa Menotti is a hymn to human strength and resilience in the face of nature's unpredictability and precariousness. "The texts in my work often address temporal situations, especially in terms of interpersonal relationships, which are deeply connected today to the human tragedy triggered by the recent earthquakes. AS YOU WERE, AS YOU ARE, AS YOU GO, the short text that loops from one part of my installation to another, can be read as a response to history, combining both a nostalgic and a forward-looking vision; the desires and constructs of our culture exist in a bubble of human time, which can only have a fleeting existence when compared to planetary time or to those of geological eras." (Sandy Smith) The way these texts are presented-steel pylons spanning the façade-conveys a sense of architecture as protection or shield. At the same time, the pylons suggest architecture under construction, thus also of potential destruction.
information:
June 30-July 16, 2017
installation visible from outside Menotti House, Piazza Duomo
And designed to be observed even from inside the building
Menotti House schedules:
from at 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and at 3:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Every day, including the period when Music concerts will be held
free admission
meeting with the artist:
Sunday, July 2 at 5 p.m. - Menotti House
free participation without reservation
Mahler & LeWitt Studios Commission
for the facade of Casa Menotti
in collaboration with Monini Foundation
funded by the Goldstone Family Foundation
to edited by Federico Mattia Papi and Guy Robertson
with the assistance of Giovanni Rendina
special thanks to Mazzocchi Srl (mazzocchinet.com)
(1983, Dunbar, Scotland) He graduated from The Glasgow School of Art in 2005. His work consists of from installations and sculptures. In 2010 he moved to New York, a city in which he still lives and works. He completed a Master of Fine Art degree at Columbia University in 2012 and was the recipient of a Fulbright grant for his studies on perpetual growth. Describing his practice in his own words, "The data set is the reason for our times. The technological advancement of our generation comes from from two related ambitions: to invent and deploy tools that generate more and more data, and to organize and extract value (meaning) from such data. My practice focuses on making physical the interface points between these speculative and abstract data and ourselves. In my recent work I have explored the sensuality and psychedelic qualities of the data set: the resulting ecstatic feeling of possibility, as opposed to the stricter demands on our participation and/or submission. I am currently working with repetitive text, anti-echo tiles cut to by hand, concrete castings and wire mesh." Smith has widely presented his work in the United States and Europe, in solo exhibitions to Malraux's Place (US), Space In Between (UK), Young World (US), Infernoesque (GR), and SWG3 (SC). He was artist-in-residence at Mahler & LeWitt Studios, Spoleto, in 2016. He is currently represented by Space In Between gallery, London.