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Preview: Alessandro Gallo’s “Strani Incontri” at Jonathan LeVine Gallery

Italian artist Alessandro Gallo (featured in HF Vol. 24) presents a disorienting series of sculptures for his upcoming solo show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, "Strani Incontri." The show's title translates to "strange encounters," which is an apt summary of the experience of coming upon one of Gallo's large-scale clay figures. Expertly reproducing human and animal anatomy, Gallo blends the two to create convincing hybrids of man and beast. The works produce an almost eerie sense of unheimliche, as Freud put it: when the familiar becomes uncomfortably strange.

Italian artist Alessandro Gallo (featured in HF Vol. 24) presents a disorienting series of sculptures for his upcoming solo show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, “Strani Incontri.” The show’s title translates to “strange encounters,” which is an apt summary of the experience of coming upon one of Gallo’s large-scale clay figures. Expertly reproducing human and animal anatomy, Gallo blends the two to create convincing hybrids of man and beast. The works produce an almost eerie sense of unheimliche, as Freud put it: when the familiar becomes uncomfortably strange.

“Strani Incontri” opens at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York City on September 6 and will be on view through October 4.

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Alessandro Gallo, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, sculpture, Strani Incontri

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polymer clay, Qixuan Lim, sculpture

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The New Sculptural Interventions of Alex Chinneck

Alex Chinneck, interventions, sculpture

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figurative, Mu Boyan, sculpture

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Preview: Alessandro Gallo’s “Strani Incontri” at Jonathan LeVine Gallery

Ana Bidart: Making Art out of Residues

Qixuan Lim’s Endearing, Disconcerting Sculptures

The New Sculptural Interventions of Alex Chinneck

Mu Boyan’s Sculptures Examine Views of Obesity

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