SCULPTING LIGHT & SPACE
Gianluca Bianchino’s Mixed Media Works at NJCU Artist’s “Unchartered Spaces” On View at Visual Arts Gallery By Sally Deering Umbrella frames, tripods, video projections and colored lights are all part of Gianluca Bianchino’s new solo show at New Jersey City University’s (NJCU) Visual Arts Gallery on Culver Avenue. Bianchino is an alumni of NJCU’S BFA program. UNCHARTERED SPACES, which runs through Mar. 27, is an immersive exhibition of light and sculpture. Bianchino invites visitors to interact with the works “to contemplate their positions in the universe as well as to explore traditional and new media processes employed in the art, such as, metal casting, laser cutting, optics, and hand-craftsmanship.” “These installations are a result of my interest in space – in pictorial space and astronomy space,” Bianchino says, “There’s a dialogue there with a greater question. This is a combination of work I’ve been making in my studio the past two years, and two large-scale sitespecific installations that were conceived for the space.” A self-described mixed-media sculptor, Bianchino has shown his work at the Suzhou Art Center (Suzhou, China), Governor’s Island Art Fair, The Islip Museum, and The Hunterdon Museum
Artist Gianluca Bianchino
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“I was a painter, and I was always interested in outer space as a theme for my paintings,” Bianchino says. “When I started playing with three-dimensional things, I think that theme came across a
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