All art is a memory in origin, it is in the dark, its fragments always live in the artist.
Paul Klee
Andrea Festa presents Where Forever Begins, a duo exhibition featuring new works by Corydon Cowansage and Matt Phillips, with a text written by Benedetta Monti.
Rothko’s use of colors can be associated with a finite series of calculations and formulas based on the same alphanumeric code. At the same time, the body of work presented in Where Forever Begins makes use of the ability to not respond to binding obligations, making the recombination of shape and color a rule. Following the example of the reigning Colour field champion, Matt Phillips (1979, Virginia) and Corydon Cowansage (1985, Philadelphia) reveal the results that can be achieved by the continuous reshuffling of the cards in play. In the two artists, the color mixes between the canvases reveal an executive order, similar profiles where the alternation of poses and tones is incessantly coordinated in a different way. The exhibition opens the door to a clear encounter with the pre-existing, the archaic, the becoming, letting the signs and signals left as clues by the artists speak.
