Angelica Bergamini: From the City to the Cosmos
Meet the Artist: Sunday, May 19th, 3-6pm
Artist Reception: Friday, May 17, 5-9pm
Preview the exhibition HERE!
In honor of Earth Day and all things repurposed, we are pleased to announce artist Angelica Bergamini’s solo exhibition, “From the City to the Cosmos” which kicks off at the gallery on Earth Day – April 22nd!
Meet the Artist: Sunday, May 19th, 3-6pm
Save the Date for the Artist Reception: Friday, May 17th, 5-9pm
Artists based in New York City: we want all of your unwanted paper materials/discards for the show! Angelica will create collaborative paper sculptures from your donated paper scraps during the run of the exhibition. She will accept all forms of used, neglected or undesired paper: anything from your sketches and proofs to notes and failed drawings/paintings or any other paper product that you consider “garbage.” Please see submission details on our website “News” page.
We will gradually hang the new, collaborative paper sculptures Angelica creates from her fellow artists’ paper donations and reveal the full suite of works at the artist reception on Friday, May 10th, from 5-9pm! 10% of sales of unframed work will benefit 350.org: a nonprofit dedicated to fighting climate change.
The Artist’s Statement for the Exhibition, “From the City to the Cosmos”:
We are all connected: To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. And to the rest of the universe, atomically.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
From the Particular to the Universal.
From the Microcosmos to the Macrocosmos. From the City to the Cosmos.
My first NY was born in 2005 when I moved to New York City, a melting pot where people from all over the world coexist.
Made of scraps of paper (experiments, tests, etc.) I had been saving since my time at the Fine Art Academy in Florence, today this landscape takes shape again, but as a collaborative project, where scraps of other artists’ works become part of the piece I make while creating a conversation about ecology, community, interconnection.
Each work becomes a sort of collaboration, and it underlines the importance to care for the environment ( reuse, recycle and reduce).
My Originem series (Latin for Origin) represents a step further – from the City to the Cosmos – and the material is again repurposed/recycled paper since this body of work is made of discarded paper portions I saved from my last exhibition.
It represents my meditation on our origins, which go beyond the separation of borders, cultures, ethnicities, and religions. When we allow ourselves to contemplate the Cosmos- the primordial landscape and original place of birth- we rediscover and worship our oneness.