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EVENT HORIZON

 by CARLO BERNARDINI

supported by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space Program

5 Hanover Square, New York, NY

from Wednesday, September 19 to Sunday, September 30

Opening Reception Wednesday, September 19  6pm

Italian artist Carlo Bernardini inaugurates a new Swing Space at 5

Hanover Square with his installation "Event Horizon".  Working with a

unique system of fiber optics, Bernardini creates a shifting, illusory

network of illuminated lines that traverse the space in weblike

formations.  Viewers' processes of perception are challenged and

overturned as they enter the created environment, experiencing it from

within and without.

The title of this exhibit "Event Horizon" is inspired by the

astronomer's definition of the black holes' boundary line in the

cosmic space. Based on Bernardini's previous exhibits up to now, the

"permeable spaces" and their inner void, the viewer's processes of

perception of the black cosmic space and the "black holes" as "no

place", a "point of no return" become part of an experimental visual

challenge.

This life size installation consists of steel spheres of different

diameter, variously arranged and linked together by optic fibers. The

interaction of the spheres and optic fibers allow the light to become

the premier element for the visual language of this created

environment.

His is a form of creativity that works on the basis of a code of

modifications in space reflecting variants produced by light. So much

is confirmed by the present research of Carlo Bernardini, who handles

light and shade like materials and substances, using

electro-luminescent surfaces and optical fibers with internal lighting

in a context of total darkness.

In these works with interior and exterior environmental light

installations, the optical superimposition of lines traversing a space

and lines running along the planes of the same space, viewed from a

certain position, can produce two-dimensional visual conditions.

Closing one eye, transforming it into a single lens, the image becomes

two-dimensional; as soon as the viewpoint shifts volumetric changes

come about, generating mirror image-forms.

The first impression is not of the optical fibers themselves, but

rather of transparent plates of glass lit up along the sides.

The optical fibers only reveal the empty space they enclose in a

subsequent phase of perception.

The observer can enter into a sort of illusory space, experiencing the

installation from within and without.

CARLO BERNARDINI was born in Viterbo in 1966 and obtained his diploma

at the Fine Arts Academy in Rome in 1987. In 1997 he wrote the

theoretical essay on "The division of visual unity", which was

published by Stampa Alternativa. In 2000 and 2005 he received a grant

"Overseas Grantee" from the Pollock - Krasner Foundation of  New York,

and in 2002 the prize Targetti Art Light Collection "White Sculpture".

 He has created and installed permanent public sculptures in stainless

steel and optic fibres in various Italian cities. He currently teaches

at the Fine Arts Academy of "Brera" in Milan. He lives and works both

in Rome and Milan.

Among Bernardini's major exhibits of the past ten years, let us mention:

Solo exhibitions:

1998 Galleria Nazionale della Pilotta, Parma; 1999 Galleria

Spaziotemporaneo, Milan; Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea

Università "La Sapienza" Rome; "Light" Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok

(Poland); 2000 Galleria L'Isola, Trento; 2001 Galleria Fioretto,

Padova; 2003 Galleria del Naviglio, Milan; Galleria Spaziotemporaneo,

Milan; 2004 Museo Paso Imperial, Rio De Janeiro; Galleria Milano,

Milan; Galleria Bruna Soletti, Milan; Galleria Spazia, Bologna; 2005,

Galleria Les Chances de l'Art, Bolzano; Il Sole Arte Contemporanea,

Rome; Velan Centro Arte Contemporanea, Turin; 2006 Galleria Milly

Pozzi, Como.

Environmental light installations in outside of big dimensions:

1999 Reggio Emilia, S.Domenico Cloisters, "Permeable  Space"; Reggio

Emilia, Tower of Civic Museum, "Permeable Space". 2000 Padova, Palace

of Reason - via Fiume, "Light Accords". 2001 Mojàcar, Almerìa,

Fundaciòn Valparaìso, "Permeable Space"; Ancona, Cavour Square,

"Ancona Lights".

2003   Rome, Campidoglio Square, "Line of Light".

Group exhibitions:

1996 and 2003 XII and XIV National Quadriennial of Rome, Palazzo delle

Esposizioni, Rome and Palazzo Reale, Naples; 1997 "Arte a Roma"

Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome; 1998 "Nuove

Contaminazioni" Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Udine; 1999 "Translacje"

Collection De La Fin Du Siecle, Piotrkow Trybunalsky (Poland); 2000

"2000 Anni Luce" Galleria Parmiggiani, Reggio Emilia; "Thai - Italian

Art Space 2000" Art Gallery Silpakorn University, Bangkok;

2001"Oriente d'Occidente" Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome;

"Glimmers" Inner Spaces Multimedia, Poznan (Poland); "InPressione"

Bovisa, Officine del gas AEM, Milan; 2002 Sculpture Space, Utica, New

York; "Light Accords-East of West" Nacional Gallery of Contemporary

Art, Bangkok; XX Triennial of Milan, "Le città In/visibili", Palazzo

della Triennale, Milan; 2003 "Targetti Art Light Collection" Centre

for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Varsavia, Chelsea Art Museum,

New York; 2004 Barbara Behan Gallery, London; 2005 "FiloLuce" Museo

della Permanente, Milan; Sculpture Now, "Sculpture in the Public Arena

2005/06", Main Street, Great Barrington, (Massachusetts USA); 2006

"Filophilo", Hotel de ville de Montrouge, Paris; "Targetti Art Light

Collection", "White Sculpture", MUAR, Museo Nazionale di Architettura

Schusev, Moscow; "Light On", Artiscope, Bruxelles; 2007 "Come Along to

the Future", Vychodoslovenská Galéria, Kosice (Slovakia).

Event Horizon is made possible by Swing Space, a program of Lower

Manhattan Cultural Council,

generously supported by the September 11th Fund. Space is donated by

Swig Equities.

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Carlo Bernardini - Event Horizon 2007, environmental installation,

optic fibers, steel spheres.

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