Andrea De Stefani, Smash-up at Fluxia

De Stefani was born in Arzignano, an industrial city near Vicenza, a territory whose original identity was lost. What if nature reinvented itself through the hands of this young artist? Tar piles look like shapes of an empty hole, or like something coming out of the ground, popping up or blooming. Different materials caught from that place and arranged in a human order, a cold geometry, warmer than it could seem. The other lights of the day, flooding Fluxia Gallery, do the rest. It may sound – literally – weird that a garden could be made from the waste objects De Stefani found around. But that’s “Smash-up!”

Andrea De Stefani, Smash-up at Fluxia, Milan, through June 25, 2013

Andrea De Stefani, Smash-up, 2013, Installation view at Fluxia, Milan (courtesy Fluxia – credits Andrea Rossetti)

Andrea De Stefani, Smash-up, 2013, Installation view at Fluxia, Milan (courtesy Fluxia – credits Andrea Rossetti)

Andrea De Stefani, Smash-Up, 2013 (wood, car paint, 102x76x60 cm). Smash-up, Fluxia, Milan (courtesy Fluxia – credits Andrea Rossetti)

Andrea De Stefani, Holes (My Niggaz), (detail), 2013 (asphalt, iron; 167x204x123 cm and 95x170x95 cm). Smash-up, Fluxia, Milan (courtesy Fluxia – credits Andrea Rossetti)

Andrea De Stefani, Jackson Stain, 2013 (chromite sand, variable dimensions). Smash-up, Fluxia, Milan (courtesy Fluxia – credits Marco Scoppetta)