The Andy Warhol Museum To Present An Installation By Joseph La Piana In
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA September 19, 2011
The Andy Warhol Museum is pleased to announce the presentation of Joseph La Piana’s The Los Angeles Text Project 2. This site-specific installation, to be shown at the Dilettante Exhibition Space, at 120 South Santa Fe Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, is curated by The Warhol’s Director, Eric Shiner.
The work will be on view from September 30th to October 2nd from 11-6 p.m. with a cocktail reception for the artist on Friday, September 30 from 5-8 p.m. hosted by Kevin Huvane, George Augusto, and Lisa Anastos. What started as two tower sculptures, coasts, poets, mindsets, voices, personas, histories and countries that converged in a single gesture on San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy during this year's Venice Biennale has now resurfaced in Los Angeles as a deconstructive series of four sculptures, retitled, The Los Angeles Text Project2. New York City-based artist Joseph La Piana’s 10-foot-tall work continues the narrative initiated in Venice, Italy by bringing together the poetry of Whitman and Ginsberg and analyzing the American condition over the ebb and flow of time. La Piana layers text, which references the constant wars that rage within and without.
For La Piana, these sculptures become repositories of meaning and markers of both hope and despair. The work invokes the fallen Twin Towers, as well as figures engaged in deep dialogue, exploring the potential for miscommunication, isolation, and the inability to distinguish perception over reality.
Joseph La Piana was born in Brooklyn in 1966 and received his BA from Florida State University in 1988. He has been represented by the Robert Miller Gallery since 2008. La Piana’s work is included in numerous public and private collections worldwide.