Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

The film focuses on the New York's State Pavilion, an iconic building and one of the few surviving structures of the New York World`s Fair, held in Flashing Meadows in 1964. In Arancio's timeless abstract film, the camera slowly panning from the ground to the top end of the building, presents us a subjective reading of its architectural elements. Shot on Super 8 in one take, the film aims to juxtapose the construction's original utopian visionary aesthetics with Arancio's interest in apocalyptic representation and fascination for transient beauty.

Salvatore Arancio
 was born in Catania, Italy in 1974. He lives and works in London. He studied Photography at the Royal College of Art. His most recent exhibitions include: An Arrangement of the Materials Ejected, Spacex, UK, 2011; To See an Object to See a Light, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d?Alba, Italy, 2011; Shasta, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome; ?Sentinel - PPS//Meetings#4?, Palazzo Riso - Museo d`Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo, 2011; ?SI-Sindrome Italiana?, Le Magasin - Centre National d?Art contemporain de Grenoble, France, 2010; ?Catastrophe? Quelle Catastrophe!? Manif d?Art 5, The Quebec City Biennial, Engramme, Quebec City, Canada, 2010; ?An Account of the Composition of the Earth?s Crust: Dirt Cones and Lava Bombs?, Frame, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK, 2010; Prague Biennale 4, Karlin Hall, Prague, Czech Republic, 2009; ?I giovani che visitano le nostre rovine non vi vedono che uno stile?, GAM-Galleria d?Arte Moderna, Turin, 2009. Arancio was the recipient of the Art Omi Residency (New York) and a grant from The Elephant Trust (London) in 2011, and of the ?New York? Prize in 2009. He was selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2006.