Johannes Girardoni / La Biennale di Venezia
Karlyn de Jongh & Sarah Gold
Karlyn de Jongh & Sarah Gold
Johannes Girardoni
LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 2011
Cornerhouse Publications
ISBN: 978-3-941763-08-1
LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 2011
Cornerhouse Publications
ISBN: 978-3-941763-08-1
Among Girardoni’s recent works are site-specific sculptures and installations that blur the boundary between the disciplines of architecture and sculpture, re-orchestrate the “materials” of light and sound, and manipulate presence and representation. After spending time in West Africa on a research expedition with architects and scientists three years ago, Girardoni’s focus shifted into a critical inquiry of contemporary culture. The core of this discourse takes place at the intersection of digital information and analog material. The works draw attention to how our understanding of reality in the digital age increasingly appears at the interface of real and virtual content. Girardoni’s new over-painted, photo-based works titled Exposed Icons question the integrity of the photograph as a carrier of archived information by deconstructing imagery of advertising billboards and using both digital pigment and material paint, to compress the virtual information of the photograph and the physical structure of the paint into a single pictorial architecture.