The carpets are made from strips of Colony velvet (Rome), woven on jacquard and backstrap looms, and cut and edged with precision tools to highlight the warp and weft weave in a reference to time punctuated by working hands.
As well as the collection for the gallery, Anastasio’s solo exhibition features some previous works, including a series of trays in bisque porcelain showing a single-material landscape-still life.
The positive space occupied by objects also generates a negative one made of the gaps in between that ask to be filled with more objects, wedged between those present. There is also a series of vases centred on the concept of protection and fragility. Made from seemingly hard materials such as glass which are actually breakable, they are saved by soft parts that envelope them like an airbag.
untill 21 March 2015
Andrea Anastasio
Galleria O, Rome