Kinetic Artist Juan Fontanive Exhibits at MOCA Jacksonville

Through February 18, 2018

This Winter the atrium of the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville hosted Movement 4, a multi-level kinetic installation by Brooklyn-based sculptor Juan Fontanive. It is his largest project to date and his first solo exhibition in a major museum.

Fontanive created a work formed by pieces of rods, discs, screws, and timing belts. Seemingly weightless yet constructed of steel, Movement 4 is a site-specific interconnected system of rotating bars and painted metal circles, or “dots,” that are built to flip at synchronized intervals. The dots are white on one side and brightly colored on the other. As the double-sided circles flip, Movement 4 presents an ongoing cycle of liveliness and emptiness.

“Fontanive’s practice-part sculptural and part mechanical-expands the lineage of the Project Atrium series,” said Curator Jaime DeSimone. “Movement 4 is the first time a kinetic sculpture is featured in the cavernous Atrium Gallery.”

© Juan Fontanive, Movement 4, 2017, site-specific installation at MOCA Jacksonville. Photo: Doug Eng.

“We hope viewers will be mystified by its complex systems as visible in its continuous movements of discs,” DeSimone adds. “For the artist, the piece also expresses states of emotion as it moves before our eyes.”

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As with all of Fontanive’s kinetic work, viewers are invited in to look and listen. The installation hovers in space, and repeatedly changes its state as its parts flip, rotate, and chime. “Juan Fontanive’s Movement 4 brings life to the museum in a way like no other Project Atrium,” MOCA Jacksonville Director Caitlín Doherty expresses. “The incredible audio-visual experience of this installation is sure to engage and inspire.”

© Juan Fontanive, Movement 4, 2017, site-specific installation at MOCA Jacksonville. Photo: Doug Eng.

Fontanive grew up in Cleveland, OH in a family of visual artists. He drew machines at Montessori school and made claymations in high school. At Syracuse University he majored in English and Textual Studies while making 16mm experimental films. In 2004, while attending the Royal College of Art, London, he invented machines that breathe spirits into Victorian clocks. He was the 2010 recipient of the Jerwood Painting Prize. He has had solo exhibitions at Danese/Corey Gallery, NY, NY (2016); Carbono Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil (2015); Savernack Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2014); Riflemaker Gallery, London, UK (2014); Volta 6, Basel, Switzerland (2010). Currently, Fontanive has his studio in a buzzing factory in Bushwick, NYC. www.mocajacksonville.unf.edu.