Peter Soriano "dimensions variable"

Frederico Sève Gallery/latincollector

poster for Peter Soriano "dimensions variable"

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This is the latest in a new series of installations for interior spaces in which Soriano continues to substitute contemporary manufacturing materials such as the resin and plywood of his well known sculptures for lighter, more fluid materials—spray-paint, aluminum pipe and wire. The show comprises eight “situations”, a term that he uses to describe the new installations, coalescing sculptural, painted and conceptual forms. Vivid symbols sprayed directly onto the wall anchor tautly drawn cable, while an aluminum pipe provides a point to lift the cable away from the wall, suspending the straight lines into a tangible albeit indeterminate space. The pipe also becomes a conjunction of rupture where the angle of the cable-line can change course or end on its trajectories away from the pipe’s center. Soriano began this new body of work in 2007. Using a limited vocabulary of a few spray-painted symbols, cables and aluminum pipe to articulate space and time, Soriano has succeeded in dematerializing sculpture. His daily practice is based on the translation of experience through systems of organization meant for other disciplines, through a cross-disciplining of language and measuring systems both formal and informal.

In his working process, Soriano continuously locates new centers through his engagement of rupture. A continuous mapping of the location of new dislocations, his is a engagement of the emblematic frontier of conceptual progress of contemporary life. Soriano’s prolific production is achieved by forging a path that demands lighter, more efficient modes of distribution given the demands of globalization and economy. Moving away from the heavy mass of material reality of his early sculptures, such as "Koolman" (1997) & "Zugunruhe" (2006), which are derived from psychological objects and embodied in polyester resin, the new Other Side series embraces disembodiment as a methodology for production that is at once conceptual & sculptural without weight. Soriano’s exploratory use of simultaneous multiple perspectives both in his “sprays”, the installations, and his drawings, make use of: macro and micro views, birds-eye and one-point perspective, transparent and opaque information, and interior vs. exteriority to confound reasons insistence on objective truth.

[Image: Peter Soriano "Other Side #75" (2010) spray paint, pipe & cable, dimensions variable]

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Schedule

from September 24, 2010 to November 06, 2010

Opening Reception on 2010-09-23 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Peter Soriano

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