Stefania Bortolami on Spotting & Nurturing Talent
Piero Golia
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Unconcerned with traditional formal issues of creating art, Piero Golia is interested in altering reality and making the viewer his witness. What at first appears to be a chaotic series of events is actually a perfectly orchestrated time machine. By exploring various methods of counting time, both visually and audibly, the artist forces us into an environment where we are continuously aware of the marking off of seconds, minutes and hours.
Golia expresses the heroic poetry of the extreme gesture–the challenge of completing a nearly impossible feat or legendary action, something between the romantic hero of tragedies and an alchemist. The artist once moved the façade of a building from Amsterdam to hang it on a gallery wall in Paris, he climbed a palm tree and refused to come down until someone bought his work eight hours later and he has convinced a woman to tattoo his image on her back. His works create a sensory experience for the viewer where anxiety, anticipation, and expectation all play a role.
He has had solo exhibitions at Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. His work has been included in group exhibitions at institutions such as P.S.1 in New …
Unconcerned with traditional formal issues of creating art, Piero Golia is interested in altering reality and making the viewer his witness. What at first appears to be a chaotic series of events is actually a perfectly orchestrated time machine. By exploring various methods of counting time, both visually and audibly, the artist forces us into an environment where we are continuously aware of the marking off of seconds, minutes and hours.
Golia expresses the heroic poetry of the extreme gesture–the challenge of completing a nearly impossible feat or legendary action, something between the romantic hero of tragedies and an alchemist. The artist once moved the façade of a building from Amsterdam to hang it on a gallery wall in Paris, he climbed a palm tree and refused to come down until someone bought his work eight hours later and he has convinced a woman to tattoo his image on her back. His works create a sensory experience for the viewer where anxiety, anticipation, and expectation all play a role.
He has had solo exhibitions at Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. His work has been included in group exhibitions at institutions such as P.S.1 in New York, Serpentine Gallery in London, Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson.
Courtesy of Bortolami Gallery
Born 1974
Hometown Naples, Italy
Lives and Works Los Angeles, CA
Works Available for Purchase
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