Luca Pancrazzi's New York Solo Show at Totah

Luca Pancrazzi presents new works at David Totah's gallery in New York, stemming from a residency program on a Native American reservation north of the city. The artist's photographic surveys of the wild landscape informed paintings of varying formats. The exhibition, titled 'Big Bang Gang Bang,' explores dualities between city and travel, metropolis and nature, with graphic signs that sometimes abstract architectural profiles and natural elements. A new development in Pancrazzi's practice is the use of enamel on digital prints with grid inserts, small cages that condense image fragments and chromatic overlays in his signature blacks and grays. Pancrazzi, who first came to New York between 1985 and 1986 as an assistant to Alighiero Boetti and collaborated with Sol LeWitt's print studio, reflects on the city's enduring energy from artists rather than institutions. He comments on the Italian contemporary art scene, noting a lack of reference figures for art and artists, a situation he says can be understood even from Chiasso. The exhibition runs until December 20, 2018.