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From Print to Presence: An Exhibition of Inspiration: March 14 - May 11 in Geneva / March 15 - May 11 in Lausanne

Past exhibition
14 March - 11 May 2024
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Andrea Galvani, Study on Mach Waves Diagram, 2015

Andrea Galvani Italy, b. 1973

Study on Mach Waves Diagram, 2015
Ink on archival paper mounted on aluminium
71.5 x 51.5 x 5 cm, framed
Edition of 3
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Andrea Galvani’s Study on Mach Waves is a graphic study and neon sculpture translated from the linear diagram originally drawn by Dr. Ernst Mach in 1887. This minimal and abstract...
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Andrea Galvani’s Study on Mach Waves is a graphic study and neon sculpture translated from the linear diagram originally drawn by Dr. Ernst Mach in 1887. This minimal and abstract form describes the geometry that contains the door between two states: sound and absolute silence. Sound travels in all directions across an omnipresent yet invisible field. As an object accelerates from subsonic to supersonic speeds, sound waves compress and the atmosphere condenses in anomalous pock- ets of pressure. Upon superseding sonic velocity, the object is temporarily absorbed in a cone of vapor—a nebulous portal beyond the sonic frontier. To cross the thresh- old of sound is to enter a state of silence. The intensity of this moment sends tangible reverberations, Mach waves, radiating to the ground. Such rapid pressure disturbanc- es produce an explosion—the sonic boom.

Installed above the public in the second room of the gallery, this monumental neon sculpture builds a bridge between the large-scale photograph Llevando una pepita de oro a la velocidad del sonido #13 and the mathematical language expressed in the calculations of The Subtleties of Elevated Things live performance.

L’étude sur les ondes de Mach d’Andrea Galvani est une étude graphique et une sculpture au néon traduites du diagramme linéaire dessiné à l’origine par le Dr. Ernst Mach en 1887. Cette forme minimale et abstraite décrit la géométrie qui contient la porte entre deux états: le son et le silence absolu. Le son voyage dans toutes les directions sur un champ omniprésent mais invisible. Lorsqu'un objet accélère de vitesses subsoniques à supersoniques, les ondes sonores se compressent et l'atmosphère se condense sous des poches de pression anormales. Lors du remplacement de la vitesse sonique, l'objet est temporairement absorbé dans un cône de vapeur, une porte nébuleuse au-delà de la frontière sonique. Franchir le seuil du son, c'est entrer dans un état de silence. L'intensité de ce moment envoie des réverbérations tangibles, des ondes de Mach, irradiant vers le sol. Ces perturbations rapides de la pression produisent une explosion: le bang sonique.

Installée au-dessus du public dans la deuxième salle de la galerie, cette sculpture en néon monumentale jette un pont entre la photographie grand format Llevando une pepita de oro à la vélocité du son 13 et le langage mathématique exprimé dans les calculs de The Subtleties of Elevated Les choses vivent la performance.
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Exhibitions

Roma, Mart Museum | Galleria Civica di Trento, Andrea Galvani Selected Works 2006-2016, 14 October 2016 - 22 January 2017
London, The RYDER Projects, Andrea Galvani: The Sun, a Gold Nugget and Seven Stairs, 9 October - 5 December 2015

Literature

Giorgio Verzotti, Anna Daneri and Andrea Galvani, Andrea Galvani, Italy, 2018, p.27 (illustrated)
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