Exhibitions, Italy, Brescia, 04 October 2019
L’Ultimo Amore
WOC
@ ualuba.org Art Educational Center
street Tosio 1G Brescia
Friday 4 october 2019
inauguration h.7 pm
Curated by Federico Palumbo and Francesca Disconzi
Starting from the hagiographic booklet on Silvio Berlusconi's "Una Storia Italiana", sent to the Italians' home during the 2001 electoral campaign, WOC selects and elaborates heirloom texts and images, uncritically and apolitically. An exhibition without flags and banners: the figure of Silvio Berlusconi is used merely as a ploy.
A pinch of nostalgia - a reference to the imagery of the 1990s -, a kitsch- camp romanticism that flows into trash and stereotype together with a subtle and sharp irony that permeate all the works in the exhibition and is present in much of the artist's production. The title of the exhibition - The Last Love - is a quote from the 2006 eponymous album by musician Mariano Apicella, to whom Silvio Berlusconi has extensively collaborated writing the lyrics.
WOC, born in 1995, works by selecting and re-elaborating images with the spray painting technique, creating collages of meanings and fragmented narratives that show different faces of Italian and international customs and culture.
The curators, Federico Palumbo and Francesca Disconzi, both born in March 1996, share with the artist the same scholastic path: a high school in the southern suburbs of Turin and the Albertina Academy.
Both have graduated in the summer of 2018 and have taken different paths: Francesca attends a Master of management at the Bicocca University of Milan and Federico continues the two-year specialized course at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Visual Cultures and curatorial practices.
The exhibition will be open until Saturday 7 December 2019.
The exhbition’s cataogue contain the historiographical deepening curated by Federico Palumbo and the interview between Francesca Disconzi and Giulio Alvigini the creator of the IG page “Make italian art great again”; It will be possible to buy it on site and online on the gallery website.
Federico Palumbo
Francesca Disconzi
Press kit
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JKST5s3hX9-38itqqT9UFHbK8Gs1GNoI?usp=sharing
- ualuba.org_comunicato stampa_WOC_IT.pdf
- ualuba.org_press kit_WOC_EN.pdf
- ualuba.org_cartolina_WOC.pdf
- ualuba.org_biografia_WOC_IT.pdf
- ualuba.org_biography_WOC_EN.pdf
- ualuba.org_rassegna stampa_WOC.pdf
The exhibition catalog is published by ualuba.org, and collects the texts of Davide Anni, Francesca Disconzi, Anna Guzzi, Federico Palumbo and Giulio Alvigini.
ISBN 9788890128288
Opening - free entry
- inauguration: Friday 4 October 2019 h.7 pm
- 4/10-7/12: Saturday 3-6.30 pm / Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday 3-6 pm / or by appointment
WOC
@ ualuba.org Art Educational Center
street Tosio 1G Brescia
Friday 4 october 2019
inauguration h.7 pm
Curated by Federico Palumbo and Francesca Disconzi
Starting from the hagiographic booklet on Silvio Berlusconi's "Una Storia Italiana", sent to the Italians' home during the 2001 electoral campaign, WOC selects and elaborates heirloom texts and images, uncritically and apolitically. An exhibition without flags and banners: the figure of Silvio Berlusconi is used merely as a ploy.
A pinch of nostalgia - a reference to the imagery of the 1990s -, a kitsch- camp romanticism that flows into trash and stereotype together with a subtle and sharp irony that permeate all the works in the exhibition and is present in much of the artist's production. The title of the exhibition - The Last Love - is a quote from the 2006 eponymous album by musician Mariano Apicella, to whom Silvio Berlusconi has extensively collaborated writing the lyrics.
WOC, born in 1995, works by selecting and re-elaborating images with the spray painting technique, creating collages of meanings and fragmented narratives that show different faces of Italian and international customs and culture.
The curators, Federico Palumbo and Francesca Disconzi, both born in March 1996, share with the artist the same scholastic path: a high school in the southern suburbs of Turin and the Albertina Academy.
Both have graduated in the summer of 2018 and have taken different paths: Francesca attends a Master of management at the Bicocca University of Milan and Federico continues the two-year specialized course at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Visual Cultures and curatorial practices.
The exhibition will be open until Saturday 7 December 2019.
The exhbition’s cataogue contain the historiographical deepening curated by Federico Palumbo and the interview between Francesca Disconzi and Giulio Alvigini the creator of the IG page “Make italian art great again”; It will be possible to buy it on site and online on the gallery website.
Federico Palumbo
Francesca Disconzi
Press kit
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JKST5s3hX9-38itqqT9UFHbK8Gs1GNoI?usp=sharing
- ualuba.org_comunicato stampa_WOC_IT.pdf
- ualuba.org_press kit_WOC_EN.pdf
- ualuba.org_cartolina_WOC.pdf
- ualuba.org_biografia_WOC_IT.pdf
- ualuba.org_biography_WOC_EN.pdf
- ualuba.org_rassegna stampa_WOC.pdf
The exhibition catalog is published by ualuba.org, and collects the texts of Davide Anni, Francesca Disconzi, Anna Guzzi, Federico Palumbo and Giulio Alvigini.
ISBN 9788890128288
Opening - free entry
- inauguration: Friday 4 October 2019 h.7 pm
- 4/10-7/12: Saturday 3-6.30 pm / Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday 3-6 pm / or by appointment
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