Gavin Russom
10 Feb - 10 Apr 2012
GAVIN RUSSOM
Zombi (scratch mix)
10 February - 10 April, 2012
Galleria Fonti is pleased to present “Zombi (scratch mix)”, Gavin Russom’first solo show.
The artist in 2005 at Galleria Fonti Naples and in 2007 at Art Basel Statements, has already showed in collaboration with artist Delia Gonzalez.
Gavin Russom’s new project starts from the opening scene of “Zombi 2”, the Lucio Fulci movie of 1979. The scene shows an apparently abandoned yacht drifts into New York Harbor with the sight of the still existing Twin Towers in the background.
The main idea of the show is this contrasting vision of the big industrial city, particularly the Twin Towers which remain the symbol of corporate money and power, and the damaged boat which is coming from the jungle carrying zombies.
«I am making a show that lives in this space, the space between these two symbols. I'm going to make two sculptural pieces from found cardboard and other simple materials. The sculptures are really handmade and rough, and make a sharp contrast with the hyper clean and cool aesthetic of the gallery itself.
One sculpture, showed in the second room of the gallery, is of a boat (referred to the first scene of Fulci’s movie).
The other sculpture, placed in the first room of the gallery, reimagines the Twin Towers as a native American Indian and a traditional European witch.
I also realized drawings which suggest the spirit of the jungle within the urban space. The drawings will be heavily layered, psychedelic, showing multiple perspectives at the same time. The theme of the exhibition evokes a new energy in the contemporary city, related to all those things in harmony with the natural world, rising up through magic, spirit and radical movement».
Gavin Russom was born in Providence, 1974, lives and works in New York.
Is a musician, producer, DJ and visual artist. His work across various media explores the ways in which sound, vision and space can transform consciousness and connect the individual with the vital energy present in all earthly things. Russom began experimenting with sound and noise as early as his teen years, but his first recorded output resulted from his intense 1998-2007 collaboration with co-visionary Delia Gonzalez. That multimedia partnership yielded expansive electronic compositions largely built upon Russom's self-designed analog synthesizers, as well as sound installations blurring the lines between music and visual art that exhibited in several international museums and galleries. Delia & Gavin – just one of many names under which the duo performed and recorded – produced the critically hailed 2005 album The Days of Mars, a vivid psychedelic epic that draws upon disparate fields of influence including ritual drumming, devotional chants, spiritual jazz, 20th century minimalist composition, kosmische musik, European disco and Detroit techno. Following that groundbreaking release, Russom’s musical explorations continued with Black Meteoric Star, a solo project through which he produced a series of three narratively-conjoined 12" singles inspired by the use of trance-inducing repetition in early electronic dance music and psychedelic rock. In 2009, he began working with performance artist and filmmaker Viva Ruiz in The Crystal Ark, an ongoing musical endeavor focused on rhythm, physicality and movement.
Zombi (scratch mix)
10 February - 10 April, 2012
Galleria Fonti is pleased to present “Zombi (scratch mix)”, Gavin Russom’first solo show.
The artist in 2005 at Galleria Fonti Naples and in 2007 at Art Basel Statements, has already showed in collaboration with artist Delia Gonzalez.
Gavin Russom’s new project starts from the opening scene of “Zombi 2”, the Lucio Fulci movie of 1979. The scene shows an apparently abandoned yacht drifts into New York Harbor with the sight of the still existing Twin Towers in the background.
The main idea of the show is this contrasting vision of the big industrial city, particularly the Twin Towers which remain the symbol of corporate money and power, and the damaged boat which is coming from the jungle carrying zombies.
«I am making a show that lives in this space, the space between these two symbols. I'm going to make two sculptural pieces from found cardboard and other simple materials. The sculptures are really handmade and rough, and make a sharp contrast with the hyper clean and cool aesthetic of the gallery itself.
One sculpture, showed in the second room of the gallery, is of a boat (referred to the first scene of Fulci’s movie).
The other sculpture, placed in the first room of the gallery, reimagines the Twin Towers as a native American Indian and a traditional European witch.
I also realized drawings which suggest the spirit of the jungle within the urban space. The drawings will be heavily layered, psychedelic, showing multiple perspectives at the same time. The theme of the exhibition evokes a new energy in the contemporary city, related to all those things in harmony with the natural world, rising up through magic, spirit and radical movement».
Gavin Russom was born in Providence, 1974, lives and works in New York.
Is a musician, producer, DJ and visual artist. His work across various media explores the ways in which sound, vision and space can transform consciousness and connect the individual with the vital energy present in all earthly things. Russom began experimenting with sound and noise as early as his teen years, but his first recorded output resulted from his intense 1998-2007 collaboration with co-visionary Delia Gonzalez. That multimedia partnership yielded expansive electronic compositions largely built upon Russom's self-designed analog synthesizers, as well as sound installations blurring the lines between music and visual art that exhibited in several international museums and galleries. Delia & Gavin – just one of many names under which the duo performed and recorded – produced the critically hailed 2005 album The Days of Mars, a vivid psychedelic epic that draws upon disparate fields of influence including ritual drumming, devotional chants, spiritual jazz, 20th century minimalist composition, kosmische musik, European disco and Detroit techno. Following that groundbreaking release, Russom’s musical explorations continued with Black Meteoric Star, a solo project through which he produced a series of three narratively-conjoined 12" singles inspired by the use of trance-inducing repetition in early electronic dance music and psychedelic rock. In 2009, he began working with performance artist and filmmaker Viva Ruiz in The Crystal Ark, an ongoing musical endeavor focused on rhythm, physicality and movement.