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Elisa Sighicelli

The Party Is Over

January 14–March 6, 2010
980 Madison Avenue, New York

Elisa Sighicelli: The Party Is Over Installation view

Elisa Sighicelli: The Party Is Over

Installation view

Elisa Sighicelli: The Party Is Over Installation view

Elisa Sighicelli: The Party Is Over

Installation view

Elisa Sighicelli: The Party Is Over Installation view

Elisa Sighicelli: The Party Is Over

Installation view

Elisa Sighicelli: The Party Is Over Installation view

Elisa Sighicelli: The Party Is Over

Installation view

Elisa Sighicelli: The Party Is Over Installation view

Elisa Sighicelli: The Party Is Over

Installation view

Elisa Sighicelli: The Party Is Over Installation view

Elisa Sighicelli: The Party Is Over

Installation view

Elisa Sighicelli: The Party Is Over Installation view

Elisa Sighicelli: The Party Is Over

Installation view

Elisa Sighicelli: The Party Is Over Installation view

Elisa Sighicelli: The Party Is Over

Installation view

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Works Exhibited

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (Triangle), 2009 Partially backlit C-print on lightbox, 48 ½ × 48 ½ × 2 ¼ inches (123.2 × 123.2 × 5.7 cm), edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (Triangle), 2009

Partially backlit C-print on lightbox, 48 ½ × 48 ½ × 2 ¼ inches (123.2 × 123.2 × 5.7 cm), edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (Prop), 2009 Partially backlit C-print on lightbox, 48 ½ × 48 ½ × 2 ¼ inches (123.2 × 123.2 × 5.7 cm), edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (Prop), 2009

Partially backlit C-print on lightbox, 48 ½ × 48 ½ × 2 ¼ inches (123.2 × 123.2 × 5.7 cm), edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (Empty Square), 2009 Partially backlit C-print on lightbox, 48 ½ × 48 ½ × 2 ¼ inches (123.2 × 123.2 × 5.7 cm), edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (Empty Square), 2009

Partially backlit C-print on lightbox, 48 ½ × 48 ½ × 2 ¼ inches (123.2 × 123.2 × 5.7 cm), edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (Double Triangle), 2009 Partially backlit C-print on lightbox, 23 ½ × 23 ½ × 2 ¼ inches (59.7 × 59.7 × 5.7 cm), edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (Double Triangle), 2009

Partially backlit C-print on lightbox, 23 ½ × 23 ½ × 2 ¼ inches (59.7 × 59.7 × 5.7 cm), edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (Sphere), 2009 Partially backlit C-print on lightbox, 48 ½ × 48 ½ × 2 ¼ inches (123.2 × 123.2 × 5.7 cm), edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (Sphere), 2009

Partially backlit C-print on lightbox, 48 ½ × 48 ½ × 2 ¼ inches (123.2 × 123.2 × 5.7 cm), edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (Objectless Composition), 2009 Partially backlit C-print on lightbox, Diptych: 48 ½ × 48 ½ × 2 ¼ inches each (123.2 × 123.2 cm), edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (Objectless Composition), 2009

Partially backlit C-print on lightbox, Diptych: 48 ½ × 48 ½ × 2 ¼ inches each (123.2 × 123.2 cm), edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (Objectless Composition no. 3), 2009 Partially backlit C-print on lightbox, 48 ½ × 48 ½ × 2 ¼ inches (123.2 × 123.2 × 5.7 cm), edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (Objectless Composition no. 3), 2009

Partially backlit C-print on lightbox, 48 ½ × 48 ½ × 2 ¼ inches (123.2 × 123.2 × 5.7 cm), edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (Objectless Composition no. 4), 2009 Partially backlit C-print on lightbox, 48 ½ × 48 ½ × 2 ¼ inches (123.2 × 123.2 × 5.7 cm), edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (Objectless Composition no. 4), 2009

Partially backlit C-print on lightbox, 48 ½ × 48 ½ × 2 ¼ inches (123.2 × 123.2 × 5.7 cm), edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (Objectless Composition no. 5), 2009 Partially backlit C-print on lightbox, 48 ½ × 48 ½ × 2 ¼ inches (123.2 × 123.2 × 5.7 cm), edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (Objectless Composition no. 5), 2009

Partially backlit C-print on lightbox, 48 ½ × 48 ½ × 2 ¼ inches (123.2 × 123.2 × 5.7 cm), edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (Void), 2009 Partially backlit C-print on lightbox, 48 ½ × 48 ½ × 2 ¼ inches (123.2 × 123.2 × 5.7 cm), edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (Void), 2009

Partially backlit C-print on lightbox, 48 ½ × 48 ½ × 2 ¼ inches (123.2 × 123.2 × 5.7 cm), edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (Grid), 2009 Partially backlit C-print on lightbox, Polyptych: 48 ½ × 48 ½ × 2 ¼ inches each (123.2 × 123.2 × 5.7 cm), edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (Grid), 2009

Partially backlit C-print on lightbox, Polyptych: 48 ½ × 48 ½ × 2 ¼ inches each (123.2 × 123.2 × 5.7 cm), edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (The Party Is Over), 2009 (view 1) Video projection, 7:24 loop, color, silent, Dimensions variable, edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (The Party Is Over), 2009 (view 1)

Video projection, 7:24 loop, color, silent, Dimensions variable, edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (The Party Is Over), 2009 (view 2) Video projection, 7:24 loop, color, silent, Dimensions variable, edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (The Party Is Over), 2009 (view 2)

Video projection, 7:24 loop, color, silent, Dimensions variable, edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (The Party Is Over), 2009 (view 3) Video projection, 7:24 loop, color, silent, Dimensions variable, edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (The Party Is Over), 2009 (view 3)

Video projection, 7:24 loop, color, silent, Dimensions variable, edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Phi Building, 2009 (view 1) Video projection, 2:23 loop, color, sound, Dimensions variable, edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Phi Building, 2009 (view 1)

Video projection, 2:23 loop, color, sound, Dimensions variable, edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Phi Building, 2009 (view 2) Video projection, 2:23 loop, color, sound, Dimensions variable, edition of 3

Elisa Sighicelli, Phi Building, 2009 (view 2)

Video projection, 2:23 loop, color, sound, Dimensions variable, edition of 3

About

My works are mute and time is suspended, but light indicates a wish to communicate. It keeps a moment belonging to the past continually alive and present.
—Elisa Sighicelli

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new photographic works and videos by Elisa Sighicelli.

Using photography and video to oscillate between stillness and motion, Sighicelli scrutinizes ordinary things and incidental architectural details, heightening their intrinsic qualities to the level of near-abstraction. Her works explore, in metaphysical sense, places suspended in time and the spatial dynamics of architecture in cities around the world, while deliberately avoiding narrative structure. Combining elements from the material and immaterial worlds, Sighicelli's works reveal themselves both as still lifes and enigmatic apparitions.

Light is the real protagonist of the latest works. Used like a painter's palette, it acquires an almost sculptural quality that possesses the power of otherworldly revelations or minor epiphanies. The carefully crafted light boxes depict high-contrast compositions that recall the luminous details of Renaissance paintings. A photograph is printed by hand on matte paper rather than on the customary transparent film, then it is mounted onto a Plexiglas structure. Certain areas of the image are masked out by applying black paint to the reverse side while back-lighting other areas so as to manipulate light and shadow. Thus a distinct sculptural object eventuates in which light unites its second and third dimensions.

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