Curated by Gaya Andreuzza
September 8 – October 22, 2016
Curated by Gaya Andreuzza
September 8 – October 22, 2016
2501 has been shifting his attention from painting to a new practice of negotiation with the city, closely bound up with the abstraction of the process. The final works, performance-oriented and situationist, presented to the public at Celaya Brothers Gallery are produced and processed through arguments that take place outdoors, turning actions into three corpus of permanent art pieces through an ephemeral setting process. The surrounding urban area is used as a true field of research in the open air, combining experiments, actions, and materials, such as ceramic, acid on metals, ink, and light.
2501 asked the Mexican curator to suggest where he could walk during his residency in Mexico City. By engaging in a dialogue with the context and following these paths as a guideline for some other nomadic experiments, 2501 radically undermines the dominance of the vertical axis of vision and allows people who actually live and know the city, to choose the physical shapes of the artworks. The result is a complex ensemble of sculpture, landscape, and paths, capable of producing “marked sites” in the form of monotypes, maps, and canvases.
The design of these experiments seems to be passing through a phase of experimentation with its formal, chromatic, tactile and other sensory qualities, drawing to aspects linked to the users’ perception of and interaction with space, and trying out – when all is said and done – an increasingly nomadic state: in theorizing about the modes of occupation of nomadic space, Deleuze and Guattari had in mind a field made up of small actions of contact and open to multiplicity, conceived to be experienced from inside rather than observed from a distance, following a rhizomic course like that of cracks in asphalt. The design of the ground as a support for this occupation is a central question that needs to be tackled with new tools today, without forgetting that “nomads make the desert no less than they are made by it.”
Text and concept by Gaya Andreuzza
Freedom of Choice – Devo
A victim of collision on the open sea
Nobody ever said that life was free
Sank, swam, go down with the ship
But use your freedom of choice
I’ll say it again in the land of the free
Use your freedom of choice
Your freedom of choice
In ancient Rome
There was a poem
About a dog
Who found two bones
He picked at one
He licked the other
He went in circles
He dropped dead
Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom of choice!
Then if you got it you don’t want it
Seems to be the rule of thumb
Don’t be tricked by what you see
You got two ways to go
I’ll say it again in the land of the free
Use your freedom of choice
Freedom…
Jacopo Ceccarelli “2501”
Milán, Italy, 1981
He began painting graffiti at 14 years old. Later, he studied Bachelor in Film Editing and a Master on Visual Communication. At the age of 20, he moved to São Paulo, Brazil, where he joined a project teaching children of the favelas to paint. There he got in contact with the South American graffiti school, represented by Os Gemeos, Herbert Baglione, Higraff and Zezao, among many others. That experience changed his approach to painting. In 2005 he decided to focus exclusively on his career as an artist.
First known as “Robot Inc” and later as “2501”, he has developed a new style which combines urban art, canvas, sculpture, installation, photography, video, and documentary. He uses wavy, black and white lines to create forms that go from figurative to abstract. His works, full of movement and energy, capture our imagination and give us the possibility of an introspective break from the visual monotony of urban life. The interdisciplinary character of his research truly mirrors his approach to life and knowledge.
He currently lives and works between Europe, USA, and South America.
Celaya Brothers Gallery (CBG) is a unique space that challenges the creative limits of the participating artists. A contemporary art gallery with a proactive offer that invites international artists to develop unique concepts and defy the parameters of their time.
CBG is based on the Celaya brothers’ involvement in the artists’ process and their absolute support in the creative freedom for all of their artworks. This is what shapes the spaces of the gallery.
Thus, CBG is involved in the artist’s professional development, guiding him to experiment, risk and explore innovative ways of expression, always maintaining the quality and aesthetic discourse of each style.
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