Reid Wood / The mystery of the anxious object of utopia
Reid Wood / Il mistero dell’oggetto ansioso dell'utopia
Le utopie ansiose del reale:
“I'm often surprised by what emerges as I tweak the images”.
(Sono spesso sorpreso da ciò che emerge modificando le immagini).
Reid Wood opera con la fotografia insistentemente ai confini delle soglie disciplinari, in una sorta di fertile e felice contaminazione poetica incentrata sul dato progettuale. Lavori mentali, sulle tracce e sui reperti della memoria indagati per contaminazione e per associazioni im/possibili. Da diversi anni, ogni giorno crea e pubblica in rete un’opera che data con il giorno il mese e l’anno di esecuzione. Una proposta della marginalità attiva, della realtà trattata per frammenti e contaminazioni alla ricerca di un nuovo e originale orizzonte immaginario. Il tentativo di Reid Wood è di poter comprendere e mettere a fuoco la realtà del presente con contaminazioni di frammenti di paesaggio e di cose, artifici voluti alla ricerca di una utopia praticabile che possa rivelare al meglio ciò che consideriamo comunemente reale. Presenze trascorrenti dentro una temporaneità che prolifera e si associa in catene associative modificate e contraddette. Un utopia possibile, visionaria, lirica, capace di essere, visti i grandi risultati creativi prodotti in questi anni, strumento rigenerativo di nuove e possibili altre visioni. Sandro Bongiani
Sono presenti in questa sala dedicata a Reid Wood opere del periodo 2010 – 2018
The anxious utopias of reality
Reid Wood / The mystery of the anxious object of utopia
Reid Wood works with photography insistently on the boundaries of the disciplinary thresholds, in a sort of fertile and happy poetic contamination centered on the project data. Mental works, on the traces and on the findings of the memory investigated by contamination and by im / possible associations. For several years, every day creates and publishes a work in the network that dates the month and year of execution. A proposal of active marginality, of reality treated by fragments and contaminations in search of a new and original imaginary horizon. Reid Wood's attempt is to be able to understand and focus on the reality of the present with contaminations of fragments of landscape and things, artifices intended to find a viable utopia that can best reveal what we consider to be commonly real. Presences that are transcendent within a temporality that proliferates and is associated in modified and contradicted associative chains. A possible, visionary, lyrical utopia, capable of being, given the great creative results produced in these years, a regenerative tool for new and possible other visions. Sandro Bongiani
There are works in this room of the period 2010 - 2018
“L’oggetto Ansioso” di Reid Wood” / Biographie:
Reid Wood was born in 1948 in North Carolina (USA) and lives in Oberlin, Ohio (USA). He holds BA and MA degrees in studio art from Oberlin College. He works in a variety of media, including drawing, printmaking, collage, artists books, mail art, digital imaging, and performance art. He has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally in more than 145 venues since 1975. Examples of his work can be found in a number of public and private collections and archives, including MoMA (Franklin Furnace Archive), The Sackner Archive, The Avant Writing Collection (Ohio State University), Archives of American Art (John Held, Jr. Papers), The National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad, India), Lalit Kala Akademi (New Delhi, India), The National Postal Museum of Canada, The Emily Harvey Foundation (Venice), the King St. Stephen Museum of Hungary, Museo Minimo (Naples), and The National Museum El Reina Sofia, Madrid (Sztuka Fabryka Archive). Diverse opere sono presenti in permanenza nella Collezione Bongiani Art Museum di Salerno (Italy).
Reid Wood
Mail-Artist since: 1981
Website: http://havent-gardeart.blogspot.com
Why I am involved in Mail-Art:
Inertia (more than 25 years in the network), and I do love to see what arrives in the mail each day (and online).
Mail-Adress (snail and/or E-mail)
271 Elm St.
Oberlin, OH 44074, USA
reidwood@oberlin.net
Visit: http://part-to-whole.blogspot.it/