ART CITIES:Milan-Nicolás Lamas
In his multidimensional work, Nicolás Lamas offers
set of objects and installations that questions notions of order and chaos, nature and culture, primitive and civilized. His interventions weirdly if elegantly mix rocks, books, sounds, images and references that become actors of an ideological and metaphysical battleground.
By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Brand New Gallery Archive
“The Structure of the Wild” is Nicolas Lamas’ first solo exhibition in Italy and is on presentation at Brand New Gallery in Milan. His artistic research can be seen as a series of speculative exercises where everything is part of a cyclical process of transmission of information and energy. The artist carefully manipulates images, sounds and other elements that are associated with the construction and transmission of information. Through this he attempts to somehow put into evidence the relativity, malleability and the level of indetermination in all of which we attempt to comprehend by linking ourselves to something through our rationality. It is important to think of Lamas´ practice as the result of a production process in constant flux, where intuition, chance, play and physics determine his connection with objects and images within specific contexts. As the artist said: “I’m obsessed by the relativity of things and by how everything seems to foster relationships according to different parameters, which usually cannot be perceived. I constantly think about how a dynamic chain of cause and effect permeates all aspects of reality. I am interested in the potentiality of things, this latent state where an object can be anything and loses its essence, its meaning, its value. In the symbolic, psychological, cultural, or economic value assigned to specific objects, and in how these values are relative to their state of transformation”. Offering the visitor a generous space for his or her own thoughts, the artist combines three-dimensional works and spatial explorations that affect the comprehension of space and its representation as well as the construction of information and its transmission.
Info: Brand New Gallery, via Carlo Farini 32, Milan, Duration: 30/6-10/9/16, Days & Hours: July: Mon-Fri 14:00-19:30, August-September Tue-Sat 11:00-13:00, 14:30-19:00, www.brandnew-gallery.com
