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| Image via avantgardengallery.com. |
ASSIOMA
Featuring Augustine
Kofie and Moneyless
March 21 – April 23, 2014
Via
Cadolini, 29
Milan,
Italy
Text by
Francesca Holsenn via avantgardengallery.com:
The ASSIOMA is the ultimate Starting Point.
By
definition and its nature it doesn’t require any arguments to unravel, there
are no secrets to uncover, no relativistic misunderstandings when you state it.
In Math it’s a self-evident concept, a postulate whose Truth is proven and
taken for granted in an immediate and intuitive way; an axiom is therefore
obviously indemonstrable and yet basically already demonstrated because it
comes with an irrefutable universal recognition, given its lack of mathematical
and narrative rhetorical connections.
What is an
axiom then, if not the Original and unquestionable concept from which all
theories flow like a waterfall? It’s the safe foundation on which we can
“gamble“ in order to give life to new variables, that are driven by ground
rules that turn hat’s necessary into something useful to analyze reality.
These two
artists met in San Francisco in 2010. They share a mutual respect, on a
personal and professional level, and a similar sensibility for Geometric
thinking a bond that will take them all the way to Milan, Italy where they
collaborate artistically for the first time.
With ASSIOMA Augustine Kofie and Moneyless meet at the Avantgarden Gallery
to explore a new theory, finding together all the similarities and differences
in their works, juxtaposing them. Moneyless takes care of building a solid
foundation and Kofie begins a process of research combing Geometric and
Hyperuranic Platonic perfection with the virus of reality. The work of
Augustine Kofie therefore becomes one of the possible variables directly connected
with Moneyless’ axiomatic purity.
The image
of a circle shown over and over in its perfection in Moneyless’ new works is a
mantra that doesn’t leave any space for questioning. Immediately one recognizes
its beauty and lives its perfections. The effect is overwhelming, complete and
totalizing. The thought process behind ASSIOMA
is complemented by Kofie’s approach that starts from architecture, from
everyday reality, and uses geometry to create futuristic scenarios that
encompass serial tastes and important analog incursions. The result is a
brilliant balance between abstract geometric shapes objects that belong to an
organic, warm, human reality.
Thanks to
both artists, Geometry, usually seen as an abstract model of reality and a dry
set of rules, theorems and demonstrations, brings its soul back to life, a soul
lost shortly after his origin when it was the source of inspiration and took on
a role of its own changing History.
Through ASSIOMA, Moneyless and Kofie work on a
joint experimental project. Avantagarden Gallery has in fact invited them for
ten days of collaboration where they are expected to conduct a sort of
“controlled improvisation”. Geometry defines lines and borders, deduction is
the basis of reasoning and in this particular case, of artistic expression.
ASSIOMA is a challenge that turns the method into the
primary source for creative inspiration. Art then relies on the typical
creativity of theoretical science, which comes up with news ideas always
starting from universal and fixed theories.
The axiom
of transitivity is, on the other hand, inferred from the theory of a consumer’s
preferences and it determines the logical coherence of the choices of a typical
consumer.
Moneyless’
mission has always been linked to reestablish a certain kind of order in
consuming materials and Kofie’s rationalistic approach is actually a simple
proposal for an unpretentious architectonic world that shouldn’t lose its
accessibility and its beauty in being relatable.
The
expressive needs and the preferential choices of the two artists start from
different backgrounds and independent paths but it becomes almost obvious,
self-evident, natural the fact that they complement each other so well. ASSIOMA is the point of encounter of two
very distinct paths that carry within them two very kindred spirits.
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| Artists Moneyless and Augustine Kofie at the opening of their collaborative exhibit ASSIOMA, AvantGarden Gallery, Milan, Italy. Image via arrestedmotion.com. |
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