![]() ![]() Their intention is to walk the fine line between the ordinary and the extraordinary, and the possible and impossible, as is the case with Lamppost. Spanning many media, their work investigates the idea that nothing is permanent but everything is in motion and changeable. Matt Irie (b.1977, Fort Wayne, IN) and Dominick Talvacchio (b.1976, Philadelphia, PA) have been working as a collaborative team since 2002. Matt Irie and Dominick Talvacchio, Lamppost Continuously transforming, Untitled (fences) evaporates into miniscule blocks of color to produce a portal into an abstract space. Shifting the grid’s alignment through movement, the design looks as if it is animated. The overlapping layers produce a moiré pattern, which activates the space within the cube and triggers a desire to view the work from multiple angles. Untitled (fences) is composed of thirteen panels of standard gauge chain-link fence spaced nine inches apart to create a twelve-foot square Minimalist cube. Styrofoam, shopping carts, mops, garbage cans, and-in this case-a chain-link fence, function as materials to determine form. Michael DeLucia (b.1978, Rochester, NY) uses ordinary objects to explore the nature of abstraction. The Gathering seems to be waiting for its spark, but in reality its spark has already been extinguished. Inherent in the process of its creation, the sculpture is both a prologue and epilogue to fire. Individually cast aluminum branches and logs are stacked in an ordered pile to form a nearly six-foot-tall bonfire. The Gathering brings de Vietri’s distinct flair for finish and craft to the ultimate ephemeral construction. Its intent may differ vastly, but its structure and function always remain the same: the bonfire is the centerpiece around which communities gather. A bonfire evokes a multitude of connotations, from the festive to the sinister. Often using a childlike sense of play to examine the materiality of objects, de Vietri inverts traditional patterns of behavior and characteristics of form. Christian de Vietri (b.1981, Kalgoorlie, Australia) looks for moments of wonder as they exist in the material world. ![]()
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