Part of the exhibition series that GAMeC has been dedicating for years to the most interesting emerging artists on the international scene, who are invited to present a site-specific project commissioned for the occasion, At the end of the line presents a body of unpublished works created by Andrea Mastrovito for the museum's Spazio Zero: a synthesis of expressive elements from the artist's research in recent years, in particular his personal and intimate reinterpretation of themes and issues relating to history, myth, society, and the relationship with space and the identity of exhibition venues.
The project unfolds through a series of frottages positioned across the entire floor of the exhibition space, like an archaeological find that runs beneath the visitor's feet.
History, not only the epic history of great heroes, but also the silent, everyday history of ordinary people, is brought to light and interpreted through the cyclical passage of time in nature and human life. Nature and man come together until they blend and finally merge into a large installation in which some statues inspired by classical sculpture are flattened and literally erased by the passage of the pencil, and incorporated into a large landscape drawing that absorbs and harmonizes everything.
The line separating life from death thus becomes more blurred, and the uncertain balance between the two is constantly renegotiated.
The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual monographic catalog featuring texts by Stefano Raimondi, Sara Fumagalli (exhibition curators), Robert Enright (independent curator, Canada), Nova Benway (assistant curator, Drawing Center, New York), Marie-Noëlle Farcy (chief curator of the collection, Mudam, Luxembourg), and Lorenzo Giusti (director of Man, Nuoro).
The catalog presents views of the exhibition installation at GAMeC and a wide and careful selection of previous works, providing exhaustive documentation of the artist's work.