11–02–2019 / 23-04-2019
This exhibition was not conceived as an investigation of contemporary painting in itself. Such a complex and layered landscape cannot be summarized within the confines of a simple group show. Instead, the project seeks to focus on individuality, gathering a group of practitioners addressing specific questions. Issues that do not necessarily share a formal and intellectual approach but which look into diverse research strands including ideas of ecology, identity, the digital image, archetypes and simulacra, political discourse.
This project does not only articulate an exploration; instead, it is a test that transforms the statement “Silenzioso, mi ritiro a dipingere un quadro” (Quiet, I withdraw to paint) into a loosely formulated question, observing some ways in which this process – both private and public – might belong to painting (and its disintegration) today. The show aims to investigate the dimension of “making,” through the painterly medium as well as through installations and sculptures.
(Lorenzo Madaro)
Curated by Lorenzo Madaro