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Sometimes, it’s easy to walk into an art gallery, fall in love with a piece, buy it, have it wrapped and bring it home to meet the family.
For someone who likes purchases on the impulsive side, adding Marc-Anthony Polizzi’s Moving Day to permanent collection would present a challenge. For starters, it would take several contractors, an understanding mover (ideally, one with an advanced degree in physics from Miskatonic University), and an extremely detailed set of panoramic photographs.
Polizzi’s multimedia, monochromatic sculpture installation doesn’t take up the back room at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center. It takes over.
Moving Day takes the walls and central pillar and presses them into service. They’re now surfaces for bright red paint and backdrops for three-dimensional doodles executed in long strands of electrical cord. (This does not excuse them from their regular duty of preventing the ceiling from becoming one with the floor.)
The focal point is an impossibly inverted pyramid of furniture (all in the same shade of scarlet) in one corner of the gallery. An upended chest of drawers “supports” a table, which holds up another table, which holds up — Go see for yourself. Don’t stand too close, though. That stack looks as though a sneeze within a six-foot radius could bring the whole thing crashing down on the sneezer.
Polizzi’s website provides an excellent series of 3-D video mockups of his installations. It also gives this explanation:
These pieces consist of a loose narrative based on both my physical and emotional state. Personal situations and thought processes create a jumping-off point for these sometimes whimsical, often overbearing installations. The objects used in the Monochromatic series are stripped of their material, leaving only shape, size, placement and texture to influence the viewer. Each item is chosen for its relevance and emotional impact to the underlying narrative.
At first, it’s difficult to find emotional content in Moving Day. But if one takes the cord doodles as a child’s drawing, the image of a house on one wall provides insight. There are deeper jitters here: those that come with pulling up stakes and moving not only your stuff, but your life, into a new space.
You can’t pack up Moving Day and replicate it in your garage, just as you can’t recreate every detail of a previous life in a new home. No matter how close you get to the original, something’s bound to be different: the light, the ambient sounds, the smell of the air.
Best to enjoy Moving Day where it is, then. You can’t take it with you.