Chashama 112 is pleased to announce the upcoming two-person exhibition that presents Brooklyn-based artist Alex White Mazzarella (Mazza) and his renowned great grandfather Italian artist Giuseppe Andriani. The show is entitled “Beyond the Line” and not only exhibits the art works from two different centuries but celebrates the artistic blood passed down between generations. In “Beyond the Line”, Mazza reveals paintings from the recent body of work “Remixing Media to Remix Reality” alongside a retrospective of his great grandfather Andriani.

Building upon today’s street art and the neo-expressionism of the 80’s, Mazza mixed media paintings are fun yet provocative commentaries and assertions on today’s age and culture. They are abstract and spontaneous explosions of color and line that engage the viewer. In the 8×8 foot “Becoming Bubble Gum”, a seemingly punk baby morphed into an Alice in Wonderland type creature comes at the viewer alongside iconic language and provocative script. With mixed textures, photograph, paints and charcoal, Mazza creates imagery amidst raw and alive surfaces that look to communicate the life embedded in city walls and surfaces.

Giuseppe Andriani, who was born in Lecce (Puglia) in 1864 and died in Florence in 1948, dedicated his entire life to art. Influenced by Antonio Piccini, a famous engraver of 1800 in Italy, his repertoire of drawings, acqueforti (etchings), punte secche (dry point etchings) oil paintings and watercolors depicted scenes of his everyday life and surroundings. His sketches of the original Florence bridges which were destroyed during WWII, bring back to life Ponte alla Carraia, Ponte Santa Trinita and Ponte alla Vittoria. Rome’s Fine Arts Academy, the Florence Society of Fine Arts and the International Black and White Expo have honored Andriani’s work.

“Beyond the Line” is curated by Taiwanese and New York based curator NuNu Hung.