Piero Atchugarry Gallery presents Revealing, an immersive exhibition of sound art, poetry and installation by Richard Garet and Andres Michelena.

Richard Garet and Andres Michelena’s first collaborative exhibition, Revealing meditates upon the subtle nuances of space, matter and subjectivity from a phenomenological yet poetic point of view.

Piero Atchugarry Gallery is pleased to announce Revealing, a dual exhibition of interwoven text, image, movement and sound, by Richard Garet (b. 1972, Montevideo, Uruguay) and Andres Michelena (b. 1963, Caracas, Venezuela). Garet and Michelena have shared a friendship dating back to 2006, marked by mutual respect and a common interest in the concept of emptiness. Garets’s materials emerge from ontological investigations of background noise and the decadence-and-decay of technological utilities. He seeks to invert the normative function of background noise from unconscious status to active presence. In 2013 he was one of 16 artists to participate in “Soundings: A Contemporary Score”—the MoMA's first major exhibition of sound art. Garet’s works are present in private and public collections of Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Merchant Logo Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Sayago & Pardon, Julian Navarro, Alex Slato, Robert Bielecki, Michael Cohn, and Steve Comford, to name a few. If art is a language, what interests Andrés Michelena the most are its punctuation marks, its pauses, and its silences. In 2020 Michelena presented . . . the two—a solo exhibition at Piero Atchugarry Gallery—which, emblematic of his practice, was a mixture of poetry and installation generated from repurposed found materials. Michelena’s works are present in private and public collections like Estrellita Brodsky’s Collection, Brillembourg-Capriles Collection, Arturo Filio, Arturo Mosquera, Lothar Muller, Miami Dade College’s Collection, JCMAC, and MoLAA’s Permanent Collection, among others.

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