Curated by Martina Cavallarin

January 21 - March 17, 2012

The young New Zealand artist David Rickard works with different materials of which he investigates the point of collapse, the state of maximum tension, exasperation and an always frustrated but never unsuccessful attempt to order chaos. For his third solo show at the Michela Rizzo Gallery, Rickard creates site-specific installations as his work is closely correlated with the space and the field of action in which the conceptual battle of temperature changes that are forced to face the works takes place. . From the refined pencil and ink drawings that with a maniacal technique tell the path of Head, shoulders, knees and toes in dots joined in black and white graphics, to the wall tattoo that recalls the micro-texture of the texture of a carpet placed on the ground, the exhibition moves on to cylinders subjected to the corrosion of propane, to wooden shelves that reach the point of failure under the excessive weight of denim to arrive at recompositions of glass plates and the photographs of the performance Exhaust with which David Rickard participated in the collateral Round the Clock of the last Venice Biennale. Each of these projects has only one common denominator which lies in the challenge of understanding that infinitesimal area in which we pass from resistance to surrender through stress caused and exasperated by the obsessive practice of art.