Exhibitions, Italy, Venezia, 15 April 2016
The group show "Concept Home" will take place in Venice from 15 to 29 of April, curated by Anna Mola, at the Made In.. Art Gallery, in Venice.
The project of the show “Concept Home” is inspired by the words of Alejandro Aravena, curator of the 15th Architecture Biennale: “We would like to learn from architectures that despite the scarcity of means intensify what is available instead of complaining about what is missing.”.
The show has the aim to illustrate the theme of the home through different styles and art forms. Eleven authors are protagonists of this event. The architecture, inserted in an urban context, is the subject chosen by the German photographer Florian Mueller. Interesting is the fact that the two images are so similar though belonging to two reality geographically very distant: Hong Kong and Manhattan. Both communicate a sense of overcrowding and lack of privacy, instead the house would be the emblem of the privacy. A little out of context seem to be the "Portraits of houses" made by Sara Moiola, describing some modular prefabricated, through general shots and close up on the details. Called "Finnish houses", they are located in the southern outskirts of Milan and show how the house can be "personified". Daily used items make known aspects of the inhabitants character: this is the theme on which focuses Emanuela Gregolin. With her four photographs in black and white, we enter in an apartment, to discover an intimate and lived reality, but we can only glimpse and then imagine. Marianna Paternoster told the story of someone who has abandoned the original home and now lives in a hidden retreat; probably a clandestine, who found temporary shelter in the abandoned warehouse of a construction site. Through her lens we can get on tiptoe in this precarious living reality, difficult but more and more frequently.
Two real miniature houses are submitted by Iraceia De Oliveira, Brazilian sculptress. The first one, white, stylized, is a starting point, something that must be built, maintained and refilled. The second one, colourful, is the realization of dreams and desires, some still unexpressed.
Express but secret is the garden painted by Lili Mascio, Slovenian architect and artist. Her works are made with strips of paper, wood, sometimes embellished with crystals and acrylic colours. In the exhibition she features a collage where a garden - an integral part of many homes - is fragmented, through the overlapping of clippings of newspapers and books pages. We remain in the imaginary kingdom, which becomes surreal, through the emerging Portuguese photographer Sejkko. His pictures, taken with the iPhone and initially shared on Instagram, portray homes, viewed frontally, on the free horizon background. In them we can find: his childhood memories, the views with whom he grew up, the dreams that distinguish himself. Equally as unreal and creative are the photographs of Giulia Bacchetta, young Piedmontese photographer. Her works merge multiple images, which can be easily found in a house. They become part of fantastic scenes, sometimes surreal.
Very conceptual - in line with the title of the exhibition - is the composition proposed by Marco Randazzo: 15 digital images of small size, produced by the video frames in which a decoding error has been added. Created, then, from the TV screen, definitely an
household item, they form the shape of a house of thoughts on the wall. The exhibition concludes with two authors who use the college to express their vision of the theme: Virpi Leinonen and Meral Agar. The first is a Finnish artist; for this exhibition she has prepared a printing with assembled images, in which natural and primitive elements are combined with other more contemporary, looking for a hypothetical collective abode of Jung's memory. Meral, finally, a Turkish author, offers a series of different situations, that take place in home, in which she reflects on the conditions of women and their different lifestyles.
The project of the show “Concept Home” is inspired by the words of Alejandro Aravena, curator of the 15th Architecture Biennale: “We would like to learn from architectures that despite the scarcity of means intensify what is available instead of complaining about what is missing.”.
The show has the aim to illustrate the theme of the home through different styles and art forms. Eleven authors are protagonists of this event. The architecture, inserted in an urban context, is the subject chosen by the German photographer Florian Mueller. Interesting is the fact that the two images are so similar though belonging to two reality geographically very distant: Hong Kong and Manhattan. Both communicate a sense of overcrowding and lack of privacy, instead the house would be the emblem of the privacy. A little out of context seem to be the "Portraits of houses" made by Sara Moiola, describing some modular prefabricated, through general shots and close up on the details. Called "Finnish houses", they are located in the southern outskirts of Milan and show how the house can be "personified". Daily used items make known aspects of the inhabitants character: this is the theme on which focuses Emanuela Gregolin. With her four photographs in black and white, we enter in an apartment, to discover an intimate and lived reality, but we can only glimpse and then imagine. Marianna Paternoster told the story of someone who has abandoned the original home and now lives in a hidden retreat; probably a clandestine, who found temporary shelter in the abandoned warehouse of a construction site. Through her lens we can get on tiptoe in this precarious living reality, difficult but more and more frequently.
Two real miniature houses are submitted by Iraceia De Oliveira, Brazilian sculptress. The first one, white, stylized, is a starting point, something that must be built, maintained and refilled. The second one, colourful, is the realization of dreams and desires, some still unexpressed.
Express but secret is the garden painted by Lili Mascio, Slovenian architect and artist. Her works are made with strips of paper, wood, sometimes embellished with crystals and acrylic colours. In the exhibition she features a collage where a garden - an integral part of many homes - is fragmented, through the overlapping of clippings of newspapers and books pages. We remain in the imaginary kingdom, which becomes surreal, through the emerging Portuguese photographer Sejkko. His pictures, taken with the iPhone and initially shared on Instagram, portray homes, viewed frontally, on the free horizon background. In them we can find: his childhood memories, the views with whom he grew up, the dreams that distinguish himself. Equally as unreal and creative are the photographs of Giulia Bacchetta, young Piedmontese photographer. Her works merge multiple images, which can be easily found in a house. They become part of fantastic scenes, sometimes surreal.
Very conceptual - in line with the title of the exhibition - is the composition proposed by Marco Randazzo: 15 digital images of small size, produced by the video frames in which a decoding error has been added. Created, then, from the TV screen, definitely an
household item, they form the shape of a house of thoughts on the wall. The exhibition concludes with two authors who use the college to express their vision of the theme: Virpi Leinonen and Meral Agar. The first is a Finnish artist; for this exhibition she has prepared a printing with assembled images, in which natural and primitive elements are combined with other more contemporary, looking for a hypothetical collective abode of Jung's memory. Meral, finally, a Turkish author, offers a series of different situations, that take place in home, in which she reflects on the conditions of women and their different lifestyles.
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