Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck: All the Lands from Sunrise to Sunset

17.01.–29.02.2020

  1. Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck - Exhibition view, Galerie Martin Janda, 2020 - Photo: Anna Konrath
  2. Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck - Pharoh@AllThatSunEncircles.eg., From the series All the Lands from Sunrise to Sunset, 2018 - paper collage on wood - 118 x 164 cm
  3. Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck - Exhibition view, Galerie Martin Janda, 2020 - Photo: Anna Konrath
  4. Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck in collaboration with Attilio Napolitano (b. Modica 1936) - Nail polish 3000 BC, From the series All the Lands from Sunrise to Sunset, 2018 - Acrylic nail polish on centenary olive wood, rabbit skin collagen-glue, insect-based shellac - 56,5 x 34,5 x 17 cm
  5. Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck - Exhibition view, Galerie Martin Janda, 2020 - Photo: Anna Konrath
  6. Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck - Exhibition view, Galerie Martin Janda, 2020 - Photo: Anna Konrath
  7. Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck in collaboration with Attilio Napolitano (b. Modica 1936) - Carving coal since 4000 BC. From the series All the Lands from Sunrise to Sunset, 2018 - Acrylic paint on centenary olive wood carving over a coal pile - carving: 20 x 17 x 17 cm; coal pile installation dimensions variable
  8. Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck - Comfort. From the series In Advance of the broken Model, 2019 - Structure of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's MR Adjustable Chaise Longe (designed ca. 1927) intervened with solar panels and electronic components connecting to Ikea Frosta-hack as Alvar Aalto stool 60 (designed 1933) and narrative label - dimensions variable; approx. 80 x 120 x 178 cm
  9. Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck - Are Machines smarter than me? From the series Know Your Company, 2011–2015 - alternative casket (corrugated cardboard box), framed vintage ad (lithograph) and narrative wall label
  10. Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck - Ian's Gulf (maps version). From the series All the Lands from Sunrise to Sunset, 2018 - Cardamom and rose pepper glued on maps (four pages, lithographic print, Fortune magazine 1951) custom mounted on conservation mat board, individually framed - 2 parts, each 45,5 x 38,5 x 3,5 cm
  11. Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck - Exhibition view, Galerie Martin Janda, 2020 - Photo: Anna Konrath
  12. Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck in collaboration with unknown Warao artisan and Holger Niehaus - Exhibition view, Galerie Martin Janda, 2020 - Photo: Anna Konrath
  13. Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck in collaboration with unknown Warao artisan and Holger Niehaus - Warao Chinchorro / Hammock, (water-oil), From the series Modern Entanglements-Sovereignty, 2004–2014 - installation of Hand-woven Moriche Palm fiber hammock, framed archival pigment print by Holger Niehaus (Untitled, 2010) - ca. 300 x 400 x 300 cm
  14. Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck - Dominion@Planet.com, 2018, From the series All the Lands from Sunrise to Sunset (Detail) - paper collage on wood, commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation - 75 x 157 cm