Paola Pivi

Shanghai

RockbundArt Museum currently presents Paola Pivi: Share, but it’s not fair, the first major solo show in China of the Italian artist Paola Pivi.

Born in Italy in 1971, the artist Paola Pivi works and lives in Anchorage, Alaska. Very productive in the international contemporary art scene since 1995, her paintings, installations, performances, photographs, videos are all inspired by an art of making upside down situations.
The artist produces works that comes from pre-existing ordinary materials and living creatures but the way she puts them into conjunction creates very extraordinary situations, unusual and enigmatic environments: paintings blooming into amazing colored pearls sculptures, ribbons standing as powerful minimalist installations,everyday liquids such as coffee or inkforming monochromatic paintings and sculptures.

Criticality in Pivi’s work does not come out from a direct sociological or political attitude but it is powerfully activated through the permanent question of how picture has the power to subvert what we name reality – society, gender, and cultural identity – into an alienated space for representation. So the artist does not pretend to represent neither to comment the existing world, she really wants to subvert the world into anomalistic situations that could open to more critical approaches about our daily representations and to our potential for more powerful and creative visions.

With the show Paola Pivi: Share, but it’s not fair, she cleverly captivates the eyes and the cultural backgrounds of any Asian and Western viewer by putting into question any pretentiousness of Truth about our general representations of the contemporary world.

Rockbund Art Museum

July 7th – September 9th, 2012
20 Huqiu Road
Shanghai 200002
China

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