In his first solo exhibition in an Italian gallery, Davide Balliano presents a series of new paintings on wood and ceramic sculptures.With several solo exhibitions in New York, Berlin, Paris and recently London, Balliano seems to consolidate its organic style approaching a new formal maturity.If previously the relationship with history, the ambivalent transparency of the glass, and the bare architectural references constituted the main body of his work, today we can see a further consolidation in the research of the artist which, started from photography, formed itself through painterly intervention on book pages, performances and installations.A research based on the use of different media aimed to achieve a minimal and organic composition, veined by transcendental suggestions and by the dialogue with a void that takes the form of intuited metaphysical subject.The almost poetic relationship with architecture, which in ruins finds a new monumental identity free from the original function, the use of geometry as a tool for translation, and the Romanic references, give to Balliano’s painting an almost sculptural scent.Plaster, gesso and lacquer builds the work as if it had been placed on a wall, and the surface of the paintings, profoundly flat, seems to rise from it only by the wooden support that distinguishes their elegant structure. Through a stratified coverage of geometric shapes, often born from the decomposition of archetypal forms as the circle and arc, Balliano’s searches for the perfect balance between absence and presence, between empty and full invisibly, and in this way he changes the gallery space transforming the floor in white as a sign of absence or nothing that gives a sense of floating to the objects in the exhibition.In the same way the ceramic sculptures feed from the tension of the encounter between the illusory solidity of the shape with the fragility of the material. Contrast that comes back in the dialogue with the physicality of objects, which seem to be containers of an emptiness, shelters for a silent presence, the cornerstones of an architecture questioningly votive.An icon that seeks identity in the dialogue between man and the universe around him.

The exhibition is about the suggestion of a song by Pete Yorn: Just Another. Music is often intertwined with other artistic disciplines, in a reciprocal exchange between images and sound waves. When we see a film accompanied by a special soundtrack our perception of time is multiplied through images and music: the hearing and sight are connected and the feeling is strengthened. The paintings on display seem to contain that sound that recalls our easier moments but also more intimate ones in which space and time seem to stop. Certain situations have a particular atmosphere and relate in a natural way with music. Similarly Just Another, the soundtrack of this exhibition, Is inspired by the passing of life, but can also refers to the turn of a page or simply moving on to another show. Pete Yorn reminds us that every moment can be special, in any place, he said “it is the ordinary becoming extraordinary” as in the alchemy of the exhibiting artists. "Silence in my opinion is a place where sound can start" says JPW3; in the silence of the gallery paintings allow us to attune with the song of Pete Yorn, which leads us to infinity, the great landscapes, the sea, the desert. As well as the works on display that suggest the idea of sound and thought in motion. Each of the five artists in the show has his musicality that unites him with the intimist spirit of Just Another. If you try to "listen" to paintings you'll see they possess a certain rythm  that can be a syncopated cadence as well as a gentle movement. It could be a road leading nowhere or the journey of a lifetime as in Ethan Greenbaum or David Balliano, or the deserts of Dustin Pevey with their flavor of aridity that opens up to infinity. Letting themselves go with the soundtrack, visitors can be part of the artists' journey. Everyone walking on his own road that doesn't need to be a long one since what matters is not the destination but the journey.Davide Balliano was born in 1983 in Turin, lives and works in Brooklyn. Selected exhibitions are: Room East, New York, Rolando Anselmi, Berlino, MoMA PS 1, Brooklyn, Michle Rein Gallery, Parigi, Tate Modern, Londra, Plymouth Art Center.Ethan Greenbaum was born in Tom's River, New Jersey, lives and works Brooklyn. Selected exhibitions are: Kansas Gallery, New York, Thierry Goldberg, New York, The Suburban, Chicago, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, Halsey Mackay, East Hampton.JPW3 lives and works in Los Angeles. Selected exhibitions are: Night Gallery, Los Angeles, Michael Jon Gallery, Miami, Samuel Friedman Gallery (con Sayre Gomez), Los Angeles, Robert Blumenthal, New York, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, The Suzanne Geiss Company, New York.Dustin Pevey was born in 1980 inTexas, vive e lavora a Brooklyn. Selected exhibitions are: Bill Brady, Miami, Retrospective Gallery, Hudson, Marfa Book Company, Marfa Texas, Galleria Massimo Audiello, Mexico City.Leif Ritchey was born in 1975 in Ann Arbour (MI) where lives and works. Selected exhibitions are: The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, Ltd Galery, Los Angeles, Martos Gallery, New York, ATM Gallery, New York, Canada Gallery, New York, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York.