ROBERT BANGIOLA
53 Worth Avenue, Hudson, NY 12534 (Saturday only, 11am - 2pm)
Outdoor installation at The Dr. Oliver Bronson House & Estate
Robert Bangiola is a Hudson, New York-based artist working with two organic forms that have much in common. The first is elements of trees: from trunks to branches and twigs. The other is the human body; his expertise includes craniosacral therapy and the Bengston Energy Healing Method.
A veteran producer and arts manager at Bard College, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Walt Disney Company, and The U.S. State Department, Bangiola has been creating and showing his work in the Hudson Valley since 2017 in venues such as The Norman Rockwell Museum, Battle Brown, and Black Label Vintage, in addition to in private collections. His drawings have appeared in a variety of online magazines.
His inspiration emerged from childhood experiences playing in the woods near his family’s home and creating tiny imaginary landscapes out of bits of moss and twigs. His work is also informed by work with Louise Bourgeoise and other artists. His conclusions about balance and primitive shared-experience is derived from spending days, weeks, and months off-grid, in forests and nature on four continents.
Bangiola describes his semi-permanent outdoor installations as gateways between humans and the untamed outdoors. “People are always curious and find my pieces intriguing, approachable. When they stand inside one, they forget for a minute that they're in nature and they’re comfortable.”
Artist Statement
In my work, I aim to evoke our earliest ancestors, who were more deeply connected to nature. In those early days, how did they navigate ideas of the sacred, the safe, and the communal? How are those ideas relevant today? How does what they built, which still speaks to our souls, compare and contrast to what we are building now?
Wood is a malleable, familiar, and natural material. The trees it comes from are tenacious in their reach for resources, moving in a way our human bodies move in nature.
Whether alone or together, trees dance as humans. They inform my primitive emotional experience as I create.
This Installation
Three pieces: earlier work and new work.
One of the three pieces is interactive and can be touched.
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