Beijing News "It is best to go to this exhibition alone." This is the advice of the Italian artist Giovanni Ozzola to give the audience to see his exhibition Traces of the Wind. Recently, Giovanni Ozula's exhibition Traces of the Wind opened at the Evergreen Gallery in Beijing 798, which will be on display until April 24.
Giovanni Ozzula's exhibition Traces of the Wind. Courtesy of Evergreen Gallery
Born in Florence, Italy in 1982, Giovanni Ozula lives and works in the Canary Islands. Ozula is a cross-media artist who focuses on photography, but also works on video and sculpture installations. Ozula's work expresses the subtle emotions and physical representations of optical phenomena, and his main research direction is to conceptualize the "infinite" and "exploration"—both geographically and introspectively.
Giovanni Ozzurra transformed the Evergreen Gallery into an island and moved the starry sky and the Atlantic Ocean far away on Spain's Canary Islands to the three-story space of the Evergreen Gallery.
Giovanni Ozula, #1梦 - Annaza in Beijing, 2021, 150x61.3x1cm, glass color print. Artists and often galleries
Giovanni Ozzula has an obsession with the traces of life in time, whether it is graffiti on the empty walls of ruins or the blooming and withering of flowers, he can always present the existence and nothingness in these traces in the most appropriate poetic way. He likes to juxtapose things full of tension and contradiction, such as the sun and the moon shining in the same sky, such as writing "I love you" on mottled and abandoned walls.
Giovanni Ozula With Me #1, 2021, 45x60x1cm, glass color print. Artists and often galleries
The artist captures the most gripping moments in tension, making the audience realize that the preciousness and perishability of things are the same. The potential of the landscape is maximized, and the energy inside the thing fills the image, making it full and powerful, resisting the wear and tear of time and long-term gaze.
Red Curtains by Giovanni Ozzurra, 2021, 250x366cm, glass color print. Artists and often galleries
Giovanni Ozula is not so good at capturing the boundaries between humans and nature, whether it's the junction between ruins and the sea, or the indoor space where quicksand spreads, Giovanni Ozula is good at capturing moments where time stops. Gazing at the images he created, the real world seemed to suddenly shut down the noise of the noise, and his work was a passageway to what was happening inside the world, the things that were deep under the sea, the things that were deep in the sky, and the things that were deep in the soul.
What is touching is that Giovanni Ozula is still full of warmth in the face of eternity, such as the work "Counting the Stars with You", and distance is part of the work. The work is not cheap romance, but a deep thought of loneliness, awe and love for existence.
In this exhibition, Giovanni Ozzurra creates a theatrical space, an island full of light and wind. In the video theater created by Giovanni Ozzurra, visualize the world and feel the loneliness as ever.
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