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Zürich Contemporary Art Weekend.
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Zürich Contemporary Art Weekend.
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VITELLOTONNATO: Sergio Breviario,
David Casini,
T-yong Chung,
Marta Pierobon
Part of The Zürich Galleries Contemporary art weekend.
Press Release: History, tradition, abstraction, contemporaneity, hybridity, classical
sculpture, craftsmanship, digital environment, information technologies,
reality, fiction, renaissance, identity, Italy, art, sculpture,
installation, mineral, hands, death, spirituality, community – they all
become a starting point of an artistic exploration that instigates
action, creates distance, layers the heterogeneous amalgam of actions
and new meanings. This unexpected mixture of indexes, in the same vein
as veal and tuna, creates an elegant, provoking and tempting cultural
sediment. Folded together, enmeshed into forms and volumes, this
artistic body of work shows that events, very far from each other in
chronology and narration, sometimes act as contemporaneous inmates. Time
and history are not linear for them; they follow many dynamics and
chaotic processes, they have many linearities which provide a
consistency. This consistency we call vitellotonnato.
Through Sergio Breviario,
one explores sculptural responsibility that produces not knowledge, but
rather the ability to response to things, visible in his seminal work
La sposa ha la testa fra le nuvole. Series Ritardo di vetro evokes a
renaissance study in shapes and patterns by overlapping layers of glass
with a decorative pattern and thus creating an illusion of texture.
On the other hand, David Casini’s
latest works are metaphorical portraits referencing Francesco Caroto or
Raphael. They establish a dialogue between contemporaneity and
historicity, abstraction and reality, filigree and digitality. Here, he
uses the innuendo of sprezzatura, an ideal of studied carelessness,
while simultaneously making gestures that are archaic, modern and
futuristic. It is a perplexing and pronounced perception of the world,
which leads us to the discovery of its content and invisible parts. It
is a play of coincidence that shows how moments and layers of the past
help shape the future without assuming the shape of its representation.
With T-yong Chung,
one erases the boundaries between figuration and abstraction, classical
and modern, physical and metaphysical. Clear, geometrical cuts on
classical busts, show the necessity of unmaking in order to create.
Large format photographs showing portraits of objects in nature, subtly
invoke Giuseppe Penone’s ideal of re-establishing the severed connection
between man and nature.
In searching of the origins of human existence, Marta Pierobon
grasps for every proof that might mean something in this process. Her
works are treated with light and minimal gestures, endowed with
intuition; concerned with memory, death, spirituality and identity. They
involve investigations that often refer to locality or temporality in
which to act. The anti-monumental volumes are stressed with the use of
primal materials such as plaster and clay, indicating thresholds from
classical sculptural tradition to Medardo Rosso.
In
Vitellotonnato, Sergio Breviario, David Casini, T-yong Chung and Marta
Pierobon construct a tangible representation of reality through a line
of parallel narratives which have surrounded them. Their story of
history is a densely interwoven mass inside which many different “times”
are coexisting and the possibilities of interconnections are endless.
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| Marta Pierobon |
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| Sergio Breviario |
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| T-yong Chung |
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| David Casini |
Press Release:-
all is porous - Vanessa Billy
9th June – 13th August 2016
Informed by reflections on the way we humans treat and interact with
our environment, Vanessa Billy’s new body of work looks at the
consequences even the most insignificant actions might have. The
gallery’s second exhibition in its refurbished space is in part the
result of Billy’s engagement with alchemical processes where trial and
error define the final outcome and new materials are tested and
exploited to serve the artist’s purpose.
Vanessa Billy’ s strong fascination with energy was at the center of her last BolteLang exhibition Clean Cold Fire (2013) where works such as Smells like electricity (rampant) (2013) gave the invisible power that all our lives depend on a shape by connecting it to its results.
In all is porous her subject of investigation is much more the
energy that evades. What happens to all that energy created by us going
about our lives – when we take a train, send data, cook, make a phone
call, make babies? What are the by-products and side-effects that we do
not consciously account for?
Where for her previous exhibition at BolteLang sculpted and cast lemons came to symbolise energy (Refresh Refresh (2013)) for all is porous,
Billy has turned her attention to their rind, more specifically the
fact that under a microscope the pitted and pocked skin of a lemon
resembles our own in both its literal and metaphorical permeability. She
scrutinises this porosity or permeability again and again with a series
of works executed in bronze, bio-resin, and food grade silicon –
circling the paradox that the skin is that which joins us and separates
us from the world.
Vanessa Billy was born 1978 in Geneva, Switzerland and lives and works in Zurich.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions include:
solo: Kunsthalle St. Gallen (2016, upcoming); Where is Wild?, c-o-m-p-o-s-i-t-e, Brussels; Stranded, Limoncello, London (both 2015); Sustain, Sustain, Collective Gallery Edinburgh (2014); Dear Energy, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin; Vider la terre pour remplir le ciel, Piano Nobile, Geneva (both 2013).
group:
Project 1049, LUMA Foundation, Gstaad (forthcoming); Demain dans la bataille, pense à moi, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne; WAR II, Mostyn, Llandudno; Waterbound, Kallmann Museum, Ismaning (all 2015)
This weekend, before it all kicks off in Basel, is the Zürich Contemporary Art Weekend.
Organised by 'THE ZURICH GALLERIES',
which was founded on April 1, 2001, the association represents 64 of the most renowned
galleries in the field of contemporary art in the city of Zürich.
Click here for a map.
This coincides with my show still on view at Jedlitschka Gallery (Seefeldstrasse 52).
The gallery will be open Saturday and Sunday from 11-5 with refreshment provided by Haveabreak Catering and both myself and fellow artist, Antonio Zecca present.
