Exhibition
Andrea Mastrovito. The Disparates
27 Aug 2015 – 26 Sep 2015
Address
- 515 West 26th Street
- New York
New York - 10001
- United States
RYAN LEE is pleased to present The Disparates, an ambitious installation project created expressly for RLWindow by Andrea Mastrovito.
About
Over the course of four weeks, Mastrovito will stage a series of “nonsense” actions by characters that he has created with cutout life-size photocopies and animated by several industrial fans. Each day a new character emerges, resulting in more than 20 separate installations.
Inspired by Francisco Goya’s Los Proverbios etching portfolio, a series of 80 works decrying 18th-century Spanish society, The Disparates are simple, bizarre images that examine contemporary life through allegorical scenes. From a Palestinian boy endlessly twirling his sling against the moon to a lion tamer tirelessly whipping a dead lion skin, these characters are brought to life by industrial fans as a funny and cruel commentary on the state of our times in regards to human, social, and political conditions.
Mastrovito employs a practice that reinvents painting, drawing, and collage as well as their structural supports to consider the cycle of life. A continuous dialogue occurs through the unraveling of his work from the studio to public spaces in an open confrontation with communities.
