Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck: All the Lands from Sunrise to Sunset @ Galerie Martin Janda, Wien

Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck: All the Lands from Sunrise to Sunset
@Galerie Martin Janda
Eschenbachgasse 11
1010 Wien
Austria
17.01.–29.02.2020

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Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck
[e-mail]., From the series All the Lands from Sunrise to Sunset, 2018
paper collage on wood
118 x 164 cm


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


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


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


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


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


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


Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck
[e-mail], 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