If you missed Paolo Salvagione’s tour de force open studio installation in 2010 at Headlands Center for the Arts, you can see new work and a version of his installation, Missing Window, this Friday, 4 November at Aggregate Space, in West Oakland. The opening is from 5–8pm (part of Oakland’s Art Murmur). Aggregate Space is located at 801 West Grand Avenue (Entrance on West Street). Show announcement is below. Salvagione will be debuting a new edition, entitled Blackwork — and as with other pieces, we have made an A5 card especially for the edition, with an essay from our friend Marc Weidenbaum at disquiet.

A vacuum inside darkness, a void inside a shadow—each piece embodies a double negative. The emptiness of pure black space is given shape when something is cut from it. This double inversion fuels the viewer’s sense of disorientation. The artist acknowledges the disorientation by suggesting the works have no specified top, bottom, or sides—that they can be displayed on a wall in any alignment, or flat on a horizontal surface for that matter. However they are displayed, their sense of scale goes in and out, undulating like the naked speaker cones whose tar-paper material they resemble—as well as that of a field camera’s crinkling bellows. They veer in the mind’s retina from macro to micro, from architectural to textural, from lunar landing to Petri dish, and then back again, and again. — Excerpted from Dark Side of a Pixel Moon by Marc Weidenbaum

In October, Boon collaborated with our frequent and talented partner, futureprüf to create, build, and deploy salvagione.com. Don’t forget to use your arrow keys to navigate through galleries and projects.