EXHIBITION

THE SUN, A GOLD NUGGET AND SEVEN STAIRS

The RYDER, London, London, 10/09/2015 - 11/21/2015

19a Herald Street, London

ABOUT

Beyond the vast sorrows and all the vexations
That weigh upon our lives and obscure out vision,
Happy is he who can with his vigorous wing
Soar up towards those fields luminous and serene,

He whose thoughts, like skylarks,
Toward the morning sky take flight
Who hovers over life and understands with ease
The language of flowers and silent things!

- Charles Baudelaire, Elevation (1857)

The RYDER is pleased to present The Sun, a Gold Nugget and Seven Stairs, Andrea Galvani's first solo show in London. The exhibition is a reconfiguration of selected works from The End, an acclaimed international trilogy originally presented in PeruNew York, and Mexico. A complex, cross-disciplinary project, The Sun, a Gold Nugget and Seven Stairs includes photography, drawings, sculpture, and video, and introduces a new performance to European audiences.

Present in the dust of our solar system, gold has been at the center of the earth since the beginning of geological time. A gold nugget, accelerated to the speed of sound, is perched atop a concrete plinth in the center of the gallery. Juxtaposing object and image, a large-scale analogue photograph freezes an F-18 military aircraft in the moment it is crossing the sound barrier. Filmed at supersonic speeds, a never-ending sunset documents a segment of infinity. Drawings, derived from theories which altered scientific understanding, are extracted from historical context and suspended in silent dialogue.

Developed with institutional support and scientific rigor, The Sun, a Gold Nugget and Seven Stairsattempts to articulate and extend the limits of physicality and immateriality. During the inauguration and at certain times throughout the course of the exhibition, the artist will collaborate with physicists fromSpace and Atmospheric Physics at the Imperial College of London to stage an intervention - progressively transforming the space.

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APT ARTISTS ON VIEW

Andrea Galvani

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