EPÍLOGO

MARSO is proud to present Epílogo — the third exhibition from The End trilogy by Andrea Galvani — on view September 18 - October 31, 2015. During the opening reception on Friday, September 18th, the artist has invited Eloy Ayón-Beato, Theoretical Physicist and expert in black holes, for a collaborative intervention in the space.

Epílogo introduces viewers to the psychological landscape that serves as the foundation for The End, presenting three new site-specific installations. Following shows in Lima and New York, Epílogo completes the exhibition series of complex, cross-disciplinary works including photography, drawings, installation, video, audio, and performance. Expanding the project's scope, this show extends the timeline of The End in both directions, from its theoretical origins to the genesis of a new stage in the continuum.

Epílogo inverts the artistic process, allowing access to the conceptual and scientific universe that generated the work. Exhibiting primary source material compiled through Galvani's intensive research, viewers can travel inside the artist's mind to the intelligible space where creation begins. A new dimension is thus exposed as an architectonic blueprint, a schematic portrait of the project's evolution.

Presented for the first time, The End [Action #9] builds upon The End [Action #1], a multichannel video installation of a never-ending sunrise conceived as an homage to Galileo Galilei, the Art in General New Commission originally presented in New York City. With Action #9, Galvani redirects our focus to the night sky: an extended vision of Galileo's cosmology. Generated by an action produced in over 100 locations around the globe, Action #9 represents the artist's attempt to chart infinity — to quantify the unquantifiable. The resulting installation manifests as a kaleidoscope of images, a fragmented topology of celestial geometry.

Epílogo seems to fluctuate between light and dark, absence and presence. Exploring the instability of form, the project exists in a perpetually transformative state: changing shape with each manifestation, each passing phase is no more definitive than another. Simultaneously a whole as well as individual modular parts, Epílogo is a paradox, both ephemeral and atemporal, perhaps better understood as fluctuation, volatility itself — a metaphysical study of being and becoming.