THE END

Art in General is pleased to present The End - a New Commission by Andrea Galvani on the 6th floor. Please join us for the opening reception on Saturday, May 16th, 6 to 8 pm, followed by an afterparty at the W Hotel with the launch of Galvani’s new limited edition.

The End is a trilogy that will unfold in multiple manifestations. Art in General unveils a unique stage of The End - a multichannel video installation documenting one collective action, an homage to the heliocentric model of our solar system championed by Galileo Galilei, father of modern cosmology.

Over the course of months, Andrea Galvani coordinated with local cameramen to film the sunrise along the eastern coastlines of five different Central American countries. On January 8th, the anniversary of Galileo’s death in 1642, the event was filmed in over 30 different locations simultaneously. Discrepancies between atmospheric conditions, the sensitivity of 16mm film technology, and the movements of each individual manifest as a prism of time and space. The resulting video installation juxtaposes a multiplicity of perspectives, expanding the horizon into a unified visual field. Subjective perception is thus transformed into a new, singular vision.

Geological time began with the first sunrise: a recurring event representing the primordial chronography of our planet’s movement around the sun. We are part of this continuum for a brief moment, a single oscillation in the pendulum of cosmic existence. The End presents the opportunity to witness the sunrise ad infinitum.

Andrea Galvani’s work seems to defy distinctions between visible and invisible, continuity and temporality. The End challenges the idea of boundaries as points of separation, instead suggesting points of contact. Boundaries change position, accumulate power, produce energy. They define topologies and conditions of differential equations in mathematics; they govern the laws of thermodynamics. Boundaries can be political, geographical, or psychological territories. Horizons are the perimeters of perception, both sensitive and cognitive. With The End, Galvani seeks to extend our experience of the horizon’s spatial and temporal limits, articulating their physical and conceptual elasticity.