Pietro Celesia – The j line
“J Line Music”, live jazz/electronica performance by Florian Menzel & jUzzy Gentle: February 12, 2015, 7 PM
February 2 – 15, 2015
We are pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Berlin of Italian artist Pietro Celesia. The exhibition, consisting of photography, video and sound installation by live musicians, represents a selection of Celesia’s artistic spectrum.
Based on an inspirational subway tour from legendary New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport to Wall Street, Pietro Celesia began exploring the different suburbs. The result of capturing the city on infrared film shows the city as in a dreamlike reality – a strong imagery rotating between spaces, energies and rhythms. While Miles Davis´ jazz was always accompanying his moves along the J line, he felt as he was being on a journey through time as well as stucked in a vibrant present of a melting pot; its streets and tunes linked the present and the past with the architecture and visions of the American dream, immortalized by photographers and avant-garde filmmakers a long time ago.
For the show at WHITECONCEPTS gallery Pietro’s photographs are additioned by a special soundtrack. Created by the young German jazz musicians Florian Menzel and Igor Spallati The J Line music reflects on mirrors and echoes, the daydream-feeling of the pictures. Usually in the band The Major Minors – which won the German Film Prize (Deutscher Filmpreis) for the soundtrack of German blockbuster “Oh Boy” in 2013 – both will be performing The J Line live at the opening night.
Understanding architecture as a narration of society The J line reflects on a city of immediacy, and of downright business, as well as on a space of urban intimacy, where one can feel at ease, free of fear or tensions.
Within the different media shown in this exhibition The J Line manifests ideas of inter-connections, coexistence and interdependence or as Pietro describes his project:”The whole, however, can only exist because of all the parts.”
Review by Nicoletta Fazio
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