NYAB Event - Peter Mallo "Recent Works [2006-2008]"

Peter Mallo "Recent Works [2006-2008]"

Walter Randel Gallery

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Walter Randel Gallery presents sculptor Peter Mallo’s inaugural one-man show in New York City. This exhibition features recent sculptures, both large and intimate in scale, which focus on tales of trespass and their consequences. Accompanying the sculpture are drawings and watercolors investigating movement, freedom and transformation.

For Mallo, sculpture tells a story that is real, tangible, and a testament of the truth. His works compose a compelling visual odyssey for the spectator, who is reminded of his own “stories” as he is skillfully pulled into the artist’s own narrative.

Most artists define “craft” as a fine finish or a pleasing appearance, but Mallo takes the concept much farther, seeing his own definition of the term which, interestingly, encompasses ugliness as a legitimate aesthetic. Mallo questions how artists bend their individual understanding of the language of material into a unique response. The artist “looks for the grain of the axiom within the archetype, and I amplify it into something of immediacy and relevance. The object resonates as something both familiar and fantastic. The result is most interesting through the delicate manipulation of transparent iconography and the opacity of my aesthetic.”

Mallo’s objects inspire touch and in some cases there are scars from usage. He designs his sculpture like prototypes of tools or devices. The seat of the works’ appeal lies within their allusion of interaction. Through the process of making them into sculpture they become estranged from their initial function. The sculptures emerge embellished, peculiar, and on occasion even mythical. There is an agreement between the spectator and the piece: your body becomes collateral for the work. Great responsibility and even greater consequence comes if the spectator chooses to take the initiative.