Fabienne Levy Gallery
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • Home
  • Artists
  • Exhibitions
  • Fairs
  • Shop
  • Contact
Menu

Artworks

Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Andrea Galvani, Llevando una pepita de oro a la velocidad del sonido #13, 2015 (first printed 2019)

Andrea Galvani Italy, b. 1973

Llevando una pepita de oro a la velocidad del sonido #13, 2015 (first printed 2019)
C-print mounted on aluminum dibond, white wood frame
188 x 273 x 7 cm, framed - Last edition available
Edition of 5
View on a Wall
Llevando una pepita de oro a la velocidad del sonido #13 is a large-scale analogue photograph that captures the moment an F-18 aircraft is crossing the sound bar- rier. It...
Read more
Llevando una pepita de oro a la velocidad del sonido #13 is a large-scale analogue photograph that captures the moment an F-18 aircraft is crossing the sound bar- rier. It is a new image (shot in 2015, first printed in 2019) from the internationally renown series that is part of the Permanent Collection at the Dallas Museum of Art, the Deutsche Bank Collection, and the Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, among others, a spectacular visualization of the separa- tion between sound and absolute silence. Training over the course of months and collaborating with engineers, producers, and pilots, Galvani flew parallel to military jets, orchestrating different actions oriented towards a new visionary perspective. In this body of work, boundaries are destabilized, describing the tension of in-between states. Freezing time at the cusp of separation, we are suspended between sound and silence. This project memorializes trace existence in constant flux—articulating and extending the limits of physicality and immateriality. Llevando una pepita de oro a la velocidad del sonido, in its placid yet powerful simplicity, suggests violent trans- formation from a painful process to a peaceful, if transient, state of being.

Boundaries change position, accumulate power, produce energy. They define topol- ogies and conditions of differential equations in mathematics. They govern the laws of physics. Boundaries can be political, geographical, or psychological territories. Llevando una pepita de oro a la velocidad del sonido extends our experience of spa- tial and temporal limits, articulating their physical and conceptual elasticity.
Close full details

Literature

Giorgio Verzotti, Anna Daneri and Andrea Galvani, Andrea Galvani, Italy, 2018, pp.54-55 (illustrated), p.347 (illustrated)
Previous
|
Next
14 
of  391

Avenue Louis-Ruchonnet 6
1003 Lausanne
Switzerland

+41 21 711 43 20

Rue des Vieux-Grenadiers 2

1205 Geneva

Switzerland

+41 22 320 10 85

Rämistrasse 27

8001 Zurich

Switzerland

+41 44 253 11 24

info@fabiennelevy.com

Please note we do not accept artist submissions or proposals. 

Instagram, opens in a new tab.
Join the mailing list
Send an email
Manage cookies
Copyright © 2025 Fabienne Levy Gallery
Site by Artlogic

This website uses cookies
This site uses cookies to help make it more useful to you. Please contact us to find out more about our Cookie Policy.

Manage cookies
Accept

Cookie preferences

Check the boxes for the cookie categories you allow our site to use

Cookie options
Required for the website to function and cannot be disabled.
Improve your experience on the website by storing choices you make about how it should function.
Allow us to collect anonymous usage data in order to improve the experience on our website.
Allow us to identify our visitors so that we can offer personalised, targeted marketing.
Save preferences
Close

Join our mailing list

Signup

* denotes required fields

We will process the personal data you have supplied in accordance with our privacy policy (available on request). You can unsubscribe or change your preferences at any time by clicking the link in our emails.