Nel deserto cresce la ginestra
Renata Fabbri is pleased to present “Nel deserto cresce la ginestra”, a collective exhibition of five young artists from the MA in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, selected by the gallery owner and Vittorio Corsini, professor of the course.
The exhibition, as the title suggests, recalls Leopardi and is designed to break the boundaries of individualism and generate a collective consciousness, in order to create a human and artistic alliance. As the broom flower for Leopardi was the symbol of life, the flower that embellishes the dry and desert lands with its scent and color, so are the young artists today. They oppose to the aridity of the world, giving life through their art.
The exhibition is characterized by a game of references and alliances between artworks, even if they are produced by artists with very different approaches and techniques, but they rise together in the spaces of the gallery. The game is noticeable since the first room, where the spectator can see the dialogue between the works Rosetta by Sofia Bteibet, Movement Atom #15 by Kwangwoo Han and Pantone 286 c by Giuseppina Giordano.
Rosetta is an assemblage of images taken by the Rosetta spacecraft to the comet and used to create new routes through the manipulation with the cyanotype technique: an antique technique of photo printing where the photosensitive paper impresses on the sun, creating a connection with the universe. The paper surface is now blue, the color of distance, of deepness. The same color blue reflected on Pantone 286 c and with this work the artist wanted to pay tribute to Yves Klein through a framework made of glass, transparent, where the power of Blue Klein is stronger as it comes form the memory and imaginary of the spectator. Man, measure of everything, measure of space and mind, is in a tight relation with the work Movement Atom #15, a sculpture placed on the ground but connected to movement.
Continuing the visit, the spectator enters in a more intimate dimension where the artworks analyze the concept of life, memory, home. Home intended as a synonym of family, warmth, fireplace, reconciliation of elements that are first burnt and then compacted in Unità Famigliare I (100kg of wood: 12 days of combustion = 1,2kg of ash: 12 days of creation of the brick) by Lorenzo Zuccato.
Home seen as tension between protection and suffocation in I poeti hanno sempre ragione by Giuseppina Giordano. Lastly home as a symbol, home as air in 22/2/2014 – Via Fiori Chiari 16 by Sofia Bteibet.
At the gallery’s lower floor a series by Luisa Turuani narrates the attention that the artist has for tiny objects, detail, for everything in everyday’s life, for our emotions. Each work, even if reduced in size, exudes a strong intensity and generates reflections.
In the last room Luisa Turuani, with 00:00 (red pen on tissue paper), examines time and the multiple and random routes we can take and the absence of a a predefined design.
“Nel deserto cresce la ginestra” underlines the gallery’s wish to support the multiple languages of contemporary art, opening to the dialogue with young artists.
Renata Fabbri is pleased to present “Nel deserto cresce la ginestra”, a collective exhibition of five young artists from the MA in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, selected by the gallery owner and Vittorio Corsini, professor of the course.
The exhibition, as the title suggests, recalls Leopardi and is designed to break the boundaries of individualism and generate a collective consciousness, in order to create a human and artistic alliance. As the broom flower for Leopardi was the symbol of life, the flower that embellishes the dry and desert lands with its scent and color, so are the young artists today. They oppose to the aridity of the world, giving life through their art.
The exhibition is characterized by a game of references and alliances between artworks, even if they are produced by artists with very different approaches and techniques, but they rise together in the spaces of the gallery. The game is noticeable since the first room, where the spectator can see the dialogue between the works Rosetta by Sofia Bteibet, Movement Atom #15 by Kwangwoo Han and Pantone 286 c by Giuseppina Giordano.
Rosetta is an assemblage of images taken by the Rosetta spacecraft to the comet and used to create new routes through the manipulation with the cyanotype technique: an antique technique of photo printing where the photosensitive paper impresses on the sun, creating a connection with the universe. The paper surface is now blue, the color of distance, of deepness. The same color blue reflected on Pantone 286 c and with this work the artist wanted to pay tribute to Yves Klein through a framework made of glass, transparent, where the power of Blue Klein is stronger as it comes form the memory and imaginary of the spectator. Man, measure of everything, measure of space and mind, is in a tight relation with the work Movement Atom #15, a sculpture placed on the ground but connected to movement.
Continuing the visit, the spectator enters in a more intimate dimension where the artworks analyze the concept of life, memory, home. Home intended as a synonym of family, warmth, fireplace, reconciliation of elements that are first burnt and then compacted in Unità Famigliare I (100kg of wood: 12 days of combustion = 1,2kg of ash: 12 days of creation of the brick) by Lorenzo Zuccato.
Home seen as tension between protection and suffocation in I poeti hanno sempre ragione by Giuseppina Giordano. Lastly home as a symbol, home as air in 22/2/2014 – Via Fiori Chiari 16 by Sofia Bteibet.
At the gallery’s lower floor a series by Luisa Turuani narrates the attention that the artist has for tiny objects, detail, for everything in everyday’s life, for our emotions. Each work, even if reduced in size, exudes a strong intensity and generates reflections.
In the last room Luisa Turuani, with 00:00 (red pen on tissue paper), examines time and the multiple and random routes we can take and the absence of a a predefined design.
“Nel deserto cresce la ginestra” underlines the gallery’s wish to support the multiple languages of contemporary art, opening to the dialogue with young artists.
Giuseppina Giordano, Pantone 286 C, 2015Plexiglass, 78x56x2 cm
Sofia Bteibet, Rosetta, 2015Assembly of cyanotypes on paper, 105x113 cm
Kwangwoo Han, Movement Atom #15 – Anti – Equilibrium, 2015Plaster 65x65x65
Lorenzo Zuccato, Unità famigliare I, 2015Ash, paper and ink, 6x22x11 cm
Lorenzo Zuccato, Concrete Timeline, 2015Multicolored concrete cemento policromo, 182x∅ 10 cm
Giuseppina Giordano, I poeti hanno sempre ragione, 2015Crystal, 78x56x2 cm
Sofia Bteibet, 22/2/2014, via Fiori Chiari 16, 2014Soap bubbles on paper, 21x15 cm (each)
Luisa Turuani, L’ultima onda sfuggita alla conta, 2015Candoglia marble, 10x7x1 cm
Luisa Turuani, 00:00, 2015Red pen on tissue paper, variable dimensions (detail)
Luisa Turuani, Trappola per il cielo, 2015Grass blades, variable dimensions (detail)
Giuseppina Giordano (Mazara del Vallo, Italy, 1987) is an interdependent artist.
She is one of the winning artist of Cantica21, Italian Contemporary Art Everywhere, the project funded by The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation – MAECI (DGSP – directorate general, country system and autonomous territorial entities) and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism – MiBACT (DGCC – directorate general of contemporary creativity.)
She is the creator of #10cents – ART AT THE SUPERMARKET , The supportive art r-evolution.
EDUCATION: 2021 Innovation Entrepreneurship Program SDA Bocconi, Fondazione Social Venture GDA, Milan; 2016 MFA with Honors in Visual Arts, Sculpture course, Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan; 2012 BFA with Honors in Painting, Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan.
Giuseppina Giordano (Mazara del Vallo, Italy, 1987) is an interdependent artist.
She is one of the winning artist of Cantica21, Italian Contemporary Art Everywhere, the project funded by The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation – MAECI (DGSP – directorate general, country system and autonomous territorial entities) and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism – MiBACT (DGCC – directorate general of contemporary creativity.)
She is the creator of #10cents – ART AT THE SUPERMARKET , The supportive art r-evolution.
EDUCATION: 2021 Innovation Entrepreneurship Program SDA Bocconi, Fondazione Social Venture GDA, Milan; 2016 MFA with Honors in Visual Arts, Sculpture course, Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan; 2012 BFA with Honors in Painting, Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan.
Kwangwoo Han was born in Seoul, South Korea. He attended Chung-Ang University where, in 2007, he received a B.F.A. in Sculpture. In 2009, he received his M.E. in Art Education from the University Graduate School of Kook-Min. In 2012, he received his B.F.A. in Sculpture from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts.
In his work, the artist depicts life as a continuous movement, using the human figure – which is twirled – to symbolize life and its continuous movements for survival.
His installations consist of candid plaster sculptures characterized by similar, essential, abstract forms, juxtaposed together in modular patterns and resting on circular pedestals that force them into unstable balance. The movement of the pedestal reflects the repetitiveness of daily rhythms and activities in human life.
Kwangwoo Han was born in Seoul, South Korea. He attended Chung-Ang University where, in 2007, he received a B.F.A. in Sculpture. In 2009, he received his M.E. in Art Education from the University Graduate School of Kook-Min. In 2012, he received his B.F.A. in Sculpture from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts.
In his work, the artist depicts life as a continuous movement, using the human figure – which is twirled – to symbolize life and its continuous movements for survival.
His installations consist of candid plaster sculptures characterized by similar, essential, abstract forms, juxtaposed together in modular patterns and resting on circular pedestals that force them into unstable balance. The movement of the pedestal reflects the repetitiveness of daily rhythms and activities in human life.
Lorenzo Zuccato (Magenta, 1991) attended Academy of Fine Art of Brera in Milan where he got an MA with honors in Sculpture with a thesis titled: From space to limit. Geography of domestic experiences. In 2013 he graduated with honors in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera with a thesis titled: Antropomorphism of trees and greening of men.
Solo Show: Fondazione Granata Braghieri, Imbersago, LC (2014)
Group Exhibitions: Museo della Permanente, Milan (2014); Biblioteca comunale, Imbersago, LC (2013); La Fuente Foundation, London, UK (2009)
Residency: Vico Morcote, Lugano, CH (2013)
Workshop: Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera Milano, in collaborazione con Arte Sella, Val di Sella, Borgo Valsugana, TN (2012)
Statement: Natural objects found in that instant, in that precise situation, in that precise here and now, go throughout the whole artistic research.
Going in hidden situations, particular situations or so common and simple to rise curiosity just to observe them from another point of view.
Lorenzo Zuccato (Magenta, 1991) attended Academy of Fine Art of Brera in Milan where he got an MA with honors in Sculpture with a thesis titled: From space to limit. Geography of domestic experiences. In 2013 he graduated with honors in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera with a thesis titled: Antropomorphism of trees and greening of men.
Solo Show: Fondazione Granata Braghieri, Imbersago, LC (2014)
Group Exhibitions: Museo della Permanente, Milan (2014); Biblioteca comunale, Imbersago, LC (2013); La Fuente Foundation, London, UK (2009)
Residency: Vico Morcote, Lugano, CH (2013)
Workshop: Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera Milano, in collaborazione con Arte Sella, Val di Sella, Borgo Valsugana, TN (2012)
Statement: Natural objects found in that instant, in that precise situation, in that precise here and now, go throughout the whole artistic research.
Going in hidden situations, particular situations or so common and simple to rise curiosity just to observe them from another point of view.
Luisa Turuani’s (Milan, 1992) work prompts new ways of looking at our relationship with everyday life. The artist draws analogies between human, animal, daily objects features and proposes possible interactions between human and other bodies. Turuani investigates the attempts of giving birth to dead things and so she produces artworks which live and die, cry and fall, kiss and reject the observer. So, the artworks are characterized by precariousness and lightness; in the balance between irony and drama, they expose themselves during their dissolution. From this point of view things seem to escape from the observer’s perception during a metamorphic transformation. The artist’s process of giving birth to the inanimate objects is inspired by children playing with their toys. Turuani’s artworks are living beings, unique and unrepeatable, and not inanimate objects. So, the observer can identify himself with the breakable life of the artworks and thus looks closer to the nature of life and death.
Turuani completed her MFA at Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan in 2017.
Recent exhibitions include: Villa Radet, Paris (2019); Cardi Galley, Milan (2019); BienNoLo, Milan (2019); Biennial UKYA City Take Over, Nottingham (2019); t-space studio, Milan (2018); P420 Gallery, Bologna (2017). She won Combat Prize X Edition in video art; she also was one of the winners of ORA Prize in 2019; in the same year she won AccadeMibac Prize and she was finalist at Laguna Prize XIII Edition in performance section. She won Nocivelli Prize X Edition in 2018 and she presented her solo exhibition titled Non sto più nella pelle in 2019. She was also finalist at Combat Prize, Francesco Fabbri Prize, Arteam Prize in 2018.
Luisa Turuani’s (Milan, 1992) work prompts new ways of looking at our relationship with everyday life. The artist draws analogies between human, animal, daily objects features and proposes possible interactions between human and other bodies. Turuani investigates the attempts of giving birth to dead things and so she produces artworks which live and die, cry and fall, kiss and reject the observer. So, the artworks are characterized by precariousness and lightness; in the balance between irony and drama, they expose themselves during their dissolution. From this point of view things seem to escape from the observer’s perception during a metamorphic transformation. The artist’s process of giving birth to the inanimate objects is inspired by children playing with their toys. Turuani’s artworks are living beings, unique and unrepeatable, and not inanimate objects. So, the observer can identify himself with the breakable life of the artworks and thus looks closer to the nature of life and death.
Turuani completed her MFA at Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan in 2017.
Recent exhibitions include: Villa Radet, Paris (2019); Cardi Galley, Milan (2019); BienNoLo, Milan (2019); Biennial UKYA City Take Over, Nottingham (2019); t-space studio, Milan (2018); P420 Gallery, Bologna (2017). She won Combat Prize X Edition in video art; she also was one of the winners of ORA Prize in 2019; in the same year she won AccadeMibac Prize and she was finalist at Laguna Prize XIII Edition in performance section. She won Nocivelli Prize X Edition in 2018 and she presented her solo exhibition titled Non sto più nella pelle in 2019. She was also finalist at Combat Prize, Francesco Fabbri Prize, Arteam Prize in 2018.
Sofia Bteibet was born in Milan in 1990 to a Palestinian father and Italian-Greek mother. She received her diploma in sculpture in Milan with high honors in 2013 and is currently enrolled in the program of Specialization in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera. In 2011 she pursued a course of study with Erasmus in Lisbon, Portugal.
Her works are often reflections on social issues and problems. She works with materials that are very fragile and ephemeral, using time as an element of her work. She plays with illusion to imagine different realities and rules. Precariousness and deception are the tools she uses to tell her stories and those of others.
She has had the opportunity to participate in several group exhibitions in Italy, Spain and Portugal. In 2013 she was selected among the artists Under 25 for the Arte Laguna Award.
Sofia Bteibet was born in Milan in 1990 to a Palestinian father and Italian-Greek mother. She received her diploma in sculpture in Milan with high honors in 2013 and is currently enrolled in the program of Specialization in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera. In 2011 she pursued a course of study with Erasmus in Lisbon, Portugal.
Her works are often reflections on social issues and problems. She works with materials that are very fragile and ephemeral, using time as an element of her work. She plays with illusion to imagine different realities and rules. Precariousness and deception are the tools she uses to tell her stories and those of others.
She has had the opportunity to participate in several group exhibitions in Italy, Spain and Portugal. In 2013 she was selected among the artists Under 25 for the Arte Laguna Award.
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