December 01, 2010
06:00 pm

"The Floating Sistine Chapel", Angel Orensanz in Italy

Italian Cultural Institute of New York
686 Park Avenue
10065 New York, NY
United States

A lecture by Frank Gerard Godlewski and Angel Orensanz about Angel Orensanz's intallation."The Floating Sistine Chapel" was conceptually created around Achille Bonito Oliva's theme "The Joyous Instability of Art", written for the Palermo exhibition where Angel Orensanz participates in 2008."Instability is the true essence of contemporary art... Orensanz's works never reveal their beginning and end. The concept does not prevail over the object. It is the fruit of the web which weaves together the memory of culture and the memory of nature.. This is the essence of Orensanz's topicality: with his vibrant clarity he anticipated various forms of awareness among which also those of the Transavanguardia with regard to art's interior nature." - Achille Bonito Oliva, on Angel Orensanz