Two Zero Zero Nine

What will the new year bring? what has the past year provided?

2009 could have been one of the most life changing years I have lived. Many different formats of knowledge, an abundant amounts of wonderful and life changing people, all had a significant impact on me.

The period of time from 2000 to 2010 has provided an interesting outlook on what the future could bring. Technology has been increasing on more of a personal level than a global level. We have the iphone, and of the greatest pieces of hand held technology to be put into the consumers hand. But we don’t have strong enough batteries or capacitors to store energy from wind and solar energies. I find the line between the technology that makes humans feel good and the technology thats good for humans needs to be blurred.

As an artist I have a duty to reflected upon society. Personally I feel that the way I choose to work and everything related to my art practice should reflect a coherent ideal about what i am trying to provide. Reworking these problems and objects in different ways to try and question there purpose and what they have to offer. There are great similarities between the heart of the forest and the center of a dilapidated city. In 2010 I will continue to work toward unifying the conceptual aesthetics of obsolescence.


Vincent Alexander Finazzo

An apple pie with one of each apple.

The paths of hard science’s has led to a one sided approach’s to the worlds environments. “Things” as in everything that happens anywhere anytime, occur naturally with out the aid of general human understanding. To put it more clearly, the world spins weather “we” are here or not. Instances happen without predictions and are carried out beyond our understandings.

As humans we have a need to understand every aspect of “why”. By asking why, we start to approach the subject from a human perspective. Using the tools we have gathered through our cultural experiences. There is nothing wrong with this way of coming about an understanding, but it is far from the only way to understand a subject. We use our human systems such as math to plunge into the depths of given subject, but, for a second, open up your mind and think about the other systems that have not been utilized by our race. Systems that have yet to be discovered or utilized by man.

Naturally, everything happens all the time, everywhere, all at once. Creativity is everywhere all the time, all at once. In the end, or should I say beginning everything is here, all the time, all at once.


Vincent Alexander Finazzo
December 30 2009

Meden Agan.

Meden Agan was one of three commands carved into the

ancient Greek temple of the Oracle at Delphi.

It means nothing in excess or everything in moderation.

Installation shot.

This was an installation using only found objects to address

what we leave behind as humans. The work begins as a tiny pebble and

works its way up the wall to a shelf so high

that its contents are un-viewable.

Text created with scrap paper and a found can of spray paint.

Combine of found objects 25" x 15" for each.

This piece used the dialectics of man made by-products and

natural by-products to question the idea of waste.

Detail: From left, Bag with fruit peels, rock salt, sugar,

seeds (various), leaves and flower bud.

Detail: From right, Bag with rubber band, razor blade, cigarette butt,

nail, paper scraps, dust from subway car.

Plastic bags fused together. 9' x 6'.

Meden Agan was a solo show

by Vincent Alexander Finazzo

at the Happy Collaborationist Exhibition Space

in March of 2009.

Night Sky.

Night Sky is a performance about controlling a specific location,

in this case the dark, star filled sky.

Night Sky. By Vincent Alexander Finazzo, Fall 2008

As the simple but forceful action takes place,

slowly the image of the sky fades out. The environmental responses to human interactions is the drive behind this work.

Installation Kit #1

Installation Kit #1 was a performative sculpture that

provided basic materials to the viewers to

be installed in the space provided.

A blank chart was attached to the back wall for participants to document

themselves and the time they interacted with the sculpture.

Every viewer was encourage to interact with the objects

provided in any way they wished.

Over the course of the night the sculpture evolved into an impromptu installation that provided more information about the participants, than the sculpture itself. Instead of people interacting with the materials provided in a Duchampion weaving of the space like manner, people were mostly destructive. Through out the night a digital camera was cut in half, a whole roll of tape was un-raveled and gathered into a ball, and a radio was disassembled. What does this say about people when they are given complete freedom to interact in any way they choose?

After understanding the energy of the crowed through out the

night I decided to end the sculpture with abrasive action.

Installation Kit #1 was performed

at "12". An exhibition at the Happy Collaborations

Exhibition Space in December of 2008

By Vincent Alexander Finazzo

Store.

Store is a performative sculpture that addresses the idea of value

in obsolescent objects. In experimenting with

placement and the natural aesthetics of the found material,

different degrees of value become projected onto each item.

Store. panoramic view

By the use of shelf's to physically "lift" the objects off the ground and

up to eye level. Here they can be examined much like a

new watch or can of un-opened soup. After the investigation takes place

a viewer can determine a value they see appropriate for the object.

Then they pick up receipt and complete it.

Receipt: silkscreen on pages of found encyclopedia from 1968, Volume P.

Found jigsaw blade preserved in found mason jar.

East Shelf. various found materials

West Shelf. various found materials.

Front Desk with Receipts.

Store was executed in

March of 2009

by Vincent Alexander Finazzo

November 29th 2008

November 29th 2008 is a performance,

which deals with deals with dead objects. Objects

that have lost their previous meaning. The

piece exercises the idea of RE:energizing detritus

by personal interaction