Storm of Life

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Photo by Nicholas J. Reid

by Staff

Liberation from superstitions

If driving around Los Angeles over the past month, you could be excused for wondering just what all the rows of Black umbrellas were meant to signify atop the likes of the Paul Smith bright purple facade along Melrose Avenue, along the way to the swanky store (omit) 20th store on Beverly Blvd or the 100ft street art installation gracing the wall to the Barracuda Gym on Melrose & Fairfax.

Wonder no more. It was all a pre cursor to the latest offering from Italian born artist Mattia Biagi , who's installation "Storm of Life" opened to much fanfare on July 13th inside the former farmers & Merchant Bank building in Downtown Los Angeles' Historic core

The show, Presented by Satacci online, is the latest presentation from Biagi in Los Angeles. Formations of opened, black umbrellas were strategically placed in piles and meticulous arrangements surrounding the Art sculptures and art works created from the same form. Biagi holds little back in his show dedicated to the superstitions the show would overcome. On entering this fully Blacked out space , the floor covered in a hovering mystic fog with music pounding, the room felt benefiting of a the knife music video one of three presentations by visual artist Trine Lise Nedreaas that accompanied works presented by Biagi. This former bank had been transformed into a dark, inspiring exhibit dissecting our unfounded, and often-illogical superstitions that steer our actions. Biagi attempts to liberate both himself and the viewer from the confines of these superstitions.

Biagi's art is be defined as symbolic. The expression of ideas by means of forms follows the synthesis & the reduction in the essence of the symbols they represent. In this case the Gilmore property seemed aptly to welcome this installation and feel quite perfectly at home, superstitions overcome.

 

www.mattiabiagi.com

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