Adrian Paci : Lights to Serve the Night

Paci, Adrian (ART)

ISBN 10: 8836638368 / ISBN 13: 9788836638369

Published by Silvana Editoriale, 2018

Seller Inventory # 32699627-n

Synopsis:

• Alabanian-born artist Adrian Paci uses a straight-forward language - lacking rhetoric to investigate the human condition with refined formal synthesis

Dark room. The frame of a boat hangs, suspended. A cascade of light fibres flows downwards, and the wires are arranged on the ground, like the tentacles of a motionless Medusa, beyond time's limits.

Among the protagonists of the international art scene, Adrian Paci uses a straight-forward language - lacking rhetoric to investigate the human condition with refined formal synthesis. In his works, migration, which he experienced in the first person, is sublimated into universal research on the indefinite nature of the human being, and on the complexity of social, political and cultural dynamics intrinsic to contemporary life. The project Di queste luci si serviraÌ la notte (Lights to Serve the Night) underlines his ability to narrate our times and describe the perpetual transit of man, assimilated to the continuous flow of water and its cathartic power.

From the Back Cover: “Water as a metaphor for movement and flow, but also an opportunity for action and reaction”. This is the idea developed by Adrian Paci for his Lights to Serve the Night, the solo exhibition by the Albanian artist at the Museo Novecento and Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea venues in Florence and sites in the municipalities of Pelago and Montelupo Fiorentino. A many-faceted corpus of works offering intense, poetic interrogations centering on the themes of migration, identity and movement as flow. Tracking individual stories and calling to mind facts and transformations which have made recent history, Paci transcends his personal experience and addresses migration and mobility as ontological conditions, a highly-topical enquiry at a moment in history in which the very concepts of ‘home’ and ‘identity’ (cultural, political and social) are continually brought to the fore and questioned. Existence is interpreted as a continual search, as unceasing movement, and water is the taken as metaphor for human drifts and flows.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Adrian Paci : Lights to Serve the Night
Publisher: Silvana Editoriale
Publication Date: 2018
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New