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Formal Void I, acrylic, spary paint and found billboard paper mounted to canvas 60" x 48", 2008 |
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Formal Void II,
acrylic, spary paint and found billboard paper mounted to canvas, 72" x 72", 2008 |
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Formal Void III,
acrylic, spary paint and found billboard paper mounted to canvas, 60" x 48", 2008 |
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Flare,
acrylic, spary paint and found billboard paper on wood panel, 30" x 18", 2008 |
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Point Zero, acrylic, spary paint and found billboard paper
on wood panel, 20" x 20", 2008 |
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Vibration,
acrylic, spary paint and found billboard paper mounted paper, 22" x 18", 2008 |
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Balance,
acrylic, spary paint and found billboard paper on wood panel, 20" x 20", 2008 |
OPPOSITE ORDER (2006-2007) Cataloge Essay by Daniel Coffeen Timely Materials Surveying the room, we are confronted with two dominant gestures. There are the bright—even garish—lines streaming and ricocheting with an inhuman geometry, at an impossible speed. And there is the sluggish but persistent drift of decay, tinged with the whiff of this world, with humanity, urbanity, rust, and weather. We can even make out the traces of information as ghostly letters wink at us from the midst of their demise. These are the materials Piziali works with: the impossibly swift angularity of the colored trajectories and the slow, sprawling patina of urban detritus. Piziali, then, does not work with line, form, shape, or even abstraction; he does not work with canvas, paint, paper, tape, wood. He works with these two speeds, these modes of movement. His materials are these figurations, these moving architectures, of time. We see the drift of decay and zooming, refracted light and the way the two, sometimes, interact. Upon closer inspection, there is a third gesture: paint. But this paint does not constrain the other two speeds, the hand of the artist coming to lend order or meaning. Rather, paint joins in, proffering a third possibility of movement, a third figuration of time: viscosity. In this paint, there is no stroke, no trace of the artist's hand—just the heavy drip of paint attempting to forge a form, only to find that it, too, is a shaping of time. Neither abstract nor figural (without any fanfare or didacticism, Piziali erases this banal dichotomy), these works—for surely they are just that, works and not paintings—are not depictions, representations, or renderings of the world. There is no neutral canvas on which things happen; the containers of these works—metal, wood, paper—are themselves temporal figurations of decay. What we see are not renderings of, but simply renderings, these shapes of time and how they go. Daniel Coffeen, PhD, is a San Francisco based rhetorician and theorist, tending to matters visual and linguistic. He presently a professor of rhetoric at UC Berkeley. |
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My Town,
found billboard paper, tape, latex paint, rust on steel mounted to wood panel, 36" x 36", 2006 |
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3-point Perspective,
found billoard paper, paint and tape on wood panel, 36" x 36", 2006 |
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All Systems
Go, found billboard
paper, tape, latex paint on wood, panel, 15" x 24", 2006 |
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New World,
found billboard paper, rust, tape, latex paint on steel mounted to
wood panel, 36" x 36", 2006 |
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Refraction,
found billboard paper and tape on wood panel, 18" x 36", 2006 |
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Nuwa' Blossom,
tape, latex paint, rust on steel mounted to wood panel, 36" x 36", 2006 |
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Perspectively
Speaking, There Are Many Ways to Nirvana, found billboard
paper, latex paint, tape on wood panel, 18" x 18", 2006 |
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Simply Being,
found billboard paper on wood panel, 18" x 18", 2006 |
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Blue Perspective,
found billboard paper, tape, latex paint on wood panel, 36" x 36", 2006 |
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We Are What
We Create, tape, latex paint, rust on steel mounted to wood panel, 72" x 144", 2006 (diptych) |
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Indra'a Arrow,
found billboard paper, tape on wood panel, 18" x 18", 2006 |
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Indigenous
Dream,
found billboard paper, tape, latex paint on wood panel, 15" x 22", 2006 |
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Sun Diamond,
tape, latex paint, rust on steel mounted to wood panel, 36" x 72", 2006 |
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OW, found
billboard paper, tape, latex paint on wood panel, 18" x 18", 2006 |
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Horizontal
Thought Process, found billboard paper, tape, latex paint
on wood panel, 18" x 18", 2006 |
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Pedro Point,
found billboard paper, latex paint, spray enamel, rust on wood panel, 36" x 72", 2006 |
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What's Up is
Down, found billboard paper and tape on wood panel, 15" x 12", 2006 |
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Zoom,
found billboard paper, tape, latex paint on wood panel, 15" x 12", 2006 |
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Reaching,
found billboard paper, tape, latex paint on wood panel, 15" x 12", 2006 |
Works on Paper |
Works of Paper from top to bottom: 1. My Father's an Engineer, My Mother's an Artist, ink on paper, 9" x 7", 2006 2. Found Crystal, found billboard paper, acrylic and tape on paper, 14" x 10", 2006 3. Nuwa's Bud, acrylic, pencil on paper, 9" x 7", 2006 |