Português
Pivô presents the installation ‘The Monolith and the Sentinel’ by visual artist Ana Mazzei, inaugurating the program ‘Hello. Again’, for which artists occupy the ground floor with newly commissioned projects.
The central column of Pivô’s reception –one of the supporting bases for Copan building – is the point of departure for the artist to construct a ‘monolith’ similar to a stage set object.
These large blocks of stone invariably have a mythic aura and are associated with a notion of permanence; its materiality cannot be unnoticed. The monolith, being a monument or a mystical element, involves and fascinates those who approach it.
This ‘fundamental stone’ constructed by the artist will be guarded daily by a ‘sentinel’. A figure that protects and keeps the monolith, contributes to the creation of a mysterious environment in her surroundings. By composing these two characters – the monolith and the sentinel – Mazzei disarticulates the habitual dynamics of the reception space.
As one enters this kind of portal between the streets and Pivô, the visitor is intrigued to let go of their daily experience inasmuch as they approximate themselves to this rock, which the artist attributes ‘transcendental properties’. Passers by in the inner streets of Copan and Pivô’s public are invited to an exercise of fantastic narrative creation proposed by Ana Mazzei.
The monolith is only a front door.
Ana Mazzei completed her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts at Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP) and her master’s degree in Visual Poetics at UNICAMP. In 2011/2012, she participated in the Independent Program of Escola São Paulo (PIESP), directed by Adriano Pedrosa. In 2013/2014, she was selected for a residency at Cité des Arts in Paris, supported by a scholarship from FAAP.
