Alessio delli Castelli
BOOKS, BOOKS GREW OF THEMSELVES
Opening Friday 16 October 2009
From 17 October 2009 through 13 November 2009

For the first opening of Alice Cannava’s space AC Galerie, Alessio delli Castelli presents a body of work linked by an obsessive and dual relationship with printed matter.

Many different kinds of imaginable books (novels, essays, catalogues, encyclopaedia, spoken words, compact disc, vinyl, dvd and video booklets et cetera) are used here in many different ways and relate to the different experiences that a book
ensues both as an object and for its content.

Part of the show is a reading room where the viewer can sit and enjoy three books by the artist.
The first book is entitled A Game in Phrase Making and was written by Alessio delli Castelli between 2001 and 2004. The novel is the non-story of the repetition of one’s own mistakes. As the book develops there arises a discrepancy between
written matter and the image the writing represents. There where words are insufficient, an image is added. The images that accompany the book are printed on acetates, which cast a coloured shadow on the page and complete its reading.
The manuscript of the book was bind to accompany A Game in Phrase Making. Mostly illegible, if not by the author, the manuscript presents as both a written and visual work.
The third book is purely visual. It is a collection of drawings and notes of projects that the artist has dismissed either because they failed or did not meet his expectations and is called He Was a Failure. They are different size drawings and notes which would and should not have been shown but which gain a form by their appearing together as the mark of a process of self-analysis.

The rest of the show is composed of a group of audio and paper collages. The work is entitled Inventing Differences and it is a ripping apart of the artist’s library which connecting unsuspected images and texts. The soundtrack of this piece is also made up of collages with a precise reference to the French musician and mathematician Parmigiani. Here, different musical pieces and more precisely popular and classical music which share something in common overlap and connect music and audio books.

Alessio delli Castelli’s work concentrates on the nature of sculpture and its implication in all artistic forms of different fashions and times. The method behind each work varies between that of a researcher, a writer, a visual artist and a musician
making it a point that each of these practices should not be exercised exclusively in the area of its expertise but also as a gnoseological method for the understanding of the others.


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