Andrea Mastrovito

Fondazione Bullukian, Lyon, France

September 18, 2019 - January 05, 2020

On the occasion of the exhibition Le Monde Est Une Invention Sans Futur at the Bullukian Foundation, the official event of the Fifteenth Lyon Biennale, Mastrovito has conceived a path that summarizes the traits of his research that have persistently emerged over the last few years, studying a site -specific precisely for this location.

The title of the exhibition takes up the definition with which cinema was signed by the inventors themselves, the Lumière Brothers, and revolves around a thought on the circularity of life, the perpetual motion in which nature develops its most destructive part by contrasting it with the life cycle in which is reconstructed: on the one hand the darkness, the heaviness, the degenerative madness; on the other, a sense of lightness, light, regeneration. In the middle, a large garden to cross. The contrast between death and life, that is the whole process that constantly involves nature in all its manifestations, is highlighted in the two distinct sections of the exhibition.

The exhibition is clearly divided into two sections: a darker one, in which the works refer to the main themes of the artist's research by moving characters from the past, real or fictional, into contemporary situations.
The second part, characterized by more gaudy colors, tells how from the waste of our society - the book out of production, the ruler as an anachronistic tool - a new life can be born, thanks to the constant struggle to regenerate itself that characterizes nature itself.

The exhibition therefore starts from the darkest and densest part, to emerge slowly towards that spontaneous and luminous rebirth that characterizes natural cycles and the history of the world.