Exhibition Samples

Alberto Borea/Giancarlo Scaglia

The exhibition Alberto Borea presents in The Red House Gallery is related to memory, memory as the maps of a civilization, or the still image of a city in continuous movement. It's a mapping of the distance, a gesture of solitude within an urban environment.

However, they are also maps of the whole experience of the local precariousness. They're the traces of the history behind this distorted version of urban growth, a personal learning experience nurtured among its residues and fissures. And of course, they are the marks of an identity built (sometimes in a literal way, in these spaces and materials) on the discontinuity and heterogeneous character of the whole process.

The U.S. maps cut in tear shapes, mixed and assembled slowly as a collage, form a new geography, a new order of thought, almost as if it was a great ideological rupture, the conceptual anticipation of a new territory. Hence, the highways are the points of escape, the city's ebb and flow formed by unused frames which are reassembled as architectonic remains, and also as stars, as the earth and sky's constant mirror.

The bodies abandoned around different areas within the city are the coordinates, the bodies that cease to be in order to truly be, the antithesis of the city, functionality and order.

In this exhibition, Borea inserts a gesture, a personal and aerial vision of the world. As if it was a satellite portrait, or the personal configuration of a new continent.

Exhibition opens Wednesday, September 17th at 8:30pm, and runs through October 16th.

Red House Gallery
1224 Abbot Kinney Blvd.
Venice, CA 90291
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