ANDREA BIANCONI: SIT DOWN TO HAVE AN IDEA II
July 08 - September 01,2022
From Barbara Davis Gallery: "Barbara Davis Gallery is excited to announce Sit Down To Have an Idea II, an upcoming exhibition by one of Italy’s most acclaimed contemporary artists, Andrea Bianconi. This exhibition will be unveiling the 'Sit Down To Have an Idea' limited edition BIGA and ITALIA chair produced by LUXY, Milan. The exhibition will include drawings, sculptures, projections, photographs and performance. The Sit Down To Have an Idea series first began in the artist's studio in 2016 at a very important moment in Andrea's life. No ideas were coming to him that day, looking over at his grandmother's chair that was sitting in his studio, he impulsively wrote on the chair 'Sit Down To Have an Idea'. Instinctively, he sat down in the chair and at that moment, he immediately had the predisposition to have an idea. Thus was born the manifesto chair, an idea that has touched many places. "My goal was to reinterpret the role of the chair", says Bianconi,"and to give it a specific function: the task of stimulating creativity. In a moment of closure, thought and creativity was the greatest form of freedom I had at my disposal." ~Andrea Bianconi The continuing journey of Sit Down and Have an Idea II: Opens July 8th, 2022 at Barbara Davis Gallery Andrea Bianconi's Sit Down To Have an Idea series further developed in 2022, where his upcoming second activation draws inspiration from the BIGA and ITALIA chairs, produced by LUXY, as the continuation of his series. Bianconi chose the pink BIGA chair because he was inspired by its historical form reminiscent of the grand Roman chariots with their wheels. A chair with wheels, Andrea says, can be moved from one place to another. It is a chair that contains the idea of travel and displacement. He then chose the ITALIA, the gray chair, "with wheels, a chair that is part of our daily life, our workplace, our daily decisions“. The artist's inspiration lies in this very dynamism and transience of the human condition. "The journey of Bianconi's idea chair centers around the notion of the human experience as it relates to being a thinker. The chair becomes a metaphorical object and is representative of the birthplace of ideas; it is where one returns to imagine, think, create." The idea behind the exhibition is precisely that of the journey of both the chair and ourselves in the search of the greatest idea. A journey into our desires, a journey into our daily life."
Reception: July 08, 2022 | 7-9 pm
Performance at 8pm
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