Milan Cardi Black Box in the course of the Porta Nuova 38, opening of the exhibition of Thomas Bayrly.
"Born in Berlin in 1937, lives and works in Frankfurt. Thomas Bayrle was one of the founders of the Pop movement in Germany along with Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter, and has influenced the Frankfurt School as both an artist and a teacher for more than thirty years.
Bayrle work in printmaking, photographic collage and drawing was called "Piranesi-esque" with its complex, micro / macro patterning that generates almost a visual synecdoche: a figure of speech to indicate where the whole appointment is a part, or vice versa . Different areas of knowledge, broadly defined, such as nanotechnology, cybernetics, pornography, advertising, and urban planning offer the foundation, the impulse and the matter before the practice of Bayrle. Through relationships and grid point or cell and the duct, the artist creates superstructures shown that analyze the social structures that we occupy. Bayrle builds architectural images, technically innovative disrupting the perception through the use of their iconoclastic forms. In addition to its work in two dimensions, the artist produces sculptures of cardboard models of bike trails that suggest some kind of superstructure of urban ecologies "(source WikiARTpediA)
Arrival at 20.00 approx. The gallery is full of people so it seems more waiting for a concert. Positive. The atmosphere is an international art and are interested in and not boring. Crossing the legendary Elio Fiorucci immediately at the entrance and, after a few photos of the ritual, I enter for a sneak peak of works that are beautiful and curious. To see the subject "external" (so to speak) you have to remove enough to see what "internal" (reproduced in the ordered set to compose the work) you get closer, a lot. In addition there are the colors, pop, acid, fluo ... very 60's. The subjects are micro cups, bottles, the cow (or bull) with the earrings laughs, microprofilo a woman, a telephone, a folded shirt, a pair of shoes for men. The macro subjects are portraits, a bottle, written, a woman lying sunbathing rimini (the caption says), a worker who works on cotton, a hammer, a goose. Besides the paintings there is a stand full of water-tight plastic molded and then a giant impermeabilone hung from the ceiling in red (always transparent plastic). Funny, conceptual, dynamic, poetic and ... inevitably Bayrle Pop. Upstairs are the dominant themes urbanism and eros. On the one hand (with small and large pictures made with strips of cardboard and intersected, as if they were magnified plots of tissue under a microscope) depicts cities, roads and buildings ... Across the room, however, the predominant theme of eros , what has most attracted my attention, which is a fellatio (as the subject extension) a micro phallus reproduced countless times. Sex has always been a great power of attraction, is evident in the faces of those who osserva.Ma who knows why! Present in the room a rather large double portrait (color and black and white) Condoleezza Rice, always done with the same technique with strips of cardboard, which surprised me.
I also hit the face of a woman making three quarters with a bun of hair down, virtually identical to what I did tonight. Moreover I am quite comfortable in my look Westwood, also for the choice of color and fantasy to the top of my lines. Fit in with the surrounding context ... I love this item!
Ariscendo downstairs and shoot myself in the only drink that is offered, I think vodka, but when I drink. And greet a bit 'of friends ... admiring from afar LIEBE BUTTER. Greeting finally Nicolo Cardi and I commend him for the really good shows, then discuss the article published that morning in the Corriere della Sera: absurd ... "the neighborhood of the Cardi Black Box will complain of the noise caused by the events of the Gallery, and the 'would have denounced this ". My God, now, in addition to concerts, nightlife, not even the most art shows are going well in Milan?!? And then ... it is 8 in the evening! Despair that this city! I hope that you transfer all in New York, London and Paris, Milan, condemned to a future gray, sad and completely devoid of creativity! But why, I say, instead of complaining about something and do not slip down to look a bit 'of beautiful pictures ... definitely would make him much good!