Angelina Gualdoni, It is Happening Again: Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607

Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present the second solo exhibition of Chicago based artist Angelina Gualdoni. Gualdoni's previous series of paintings was based on the 1999 demolition of the Horizons Pavilion, in Future World at Disney's Epcot Center. Horizons was a ridethrough attraction that brought viewers on a journey through the history of premonitions of the future including underwater cities, a desert farming community and a space colony. Gualdoni portrayed the destruction of the building as an organic process as it fell back into the earth to begin the cycle again. It is Happening Again titles Angelina Gualdoni's new series of work which describes an ominous shifting world that is constantly changing yet never indicating its motives as a benevolent or malevolent force. This idea of the unknown which exists under many guises - God, progress, entropy, weather, natural phenomena, violence, magic - is the change that is inherent and integral in our environment. Buildings are demolished, churches peak through a dirty skyline, parking garages seep into the ground, strip malls decay and concrete barriers are discarded becoming the subjects of Gualdoni's paintings. These structures and symbols mingle comfortably with spills, drips, and stains on the canvas reiterating the role chance plays in all of this.