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may 05, 2015 - ANTONIO COLOMBO ARTE CONTEMPORANEA
' The Artists' Famous Invasion Of Milan', curated by Luca Beatrice and Ivan Quaroni at Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea Gallery
In a key moment for Milan, for the second time location of the Universal Exposition after the historic edition of 1906, artists, designers and writers are called to interpret, through their works, splendour and misery of a constantly evolving city. Middle earth of the subalpine plain and crossing point between the Mediterranean and the European continent, Milan has always functioned as an important melting pot of cultures, marking, with its development, the course of History. Founded by the Celts in the IV century B.C., the city, surrounded by the rivers Olona, Lambro and Seveso, already capital of the Roman Empire, of the Lombard Kingdom and of the Cisalpine Republic, wasn't just one of the landmarks of the Risorgimento, but also the epicenter of the Futurism movement and of the Industrial Revolution.
During the Twentieth Century Milan was a place of radical socio-cultural transformations, a workshop producing thoughts and contemporary art, from the Ritorno All'Ordine of the 1900s to the optical and kinetic experimentations of Azimuth and Group N. Furthermore, in the shadow of the Madonnina, grew the myth of the hard-working, somber city, but also the myth of the Milano Da Bere of the Eighties, which became the emblem of the Hedonism. Crucial center for fashion and design, today Milan is a global city, the third largest in Europe after London and Paris, and the most visited Italian one.
While the Expo tackles a broader theme, such as the agro-alimentary resources matter, this exhibition investigates the current identity of the city hosting it. The question is whether the geographical and territorial centrality inherent to Milan's own toponym (Mediolanum – middle earth) still coincides with a main and strategic role. By now, none of the artists is able to make such a judgment, because only their vision, hanging in the balance between fantasy and design, between nostalgia and utopia, is able to finally give a face and an image to a dynamic reality, ceaselessly progressing.
The show, inspired by the title of a well-known novel by Dino Buzzati (The Bears' Famous Invasion Of Sicily), is divided in two exhibition grounds, the Sala Delle Colonne at the Fabbrica Del Vapore and the gallery Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea in Via Solferino.
Making a comparison between the works of renowned artists and designers – from Marco Cingolani to Alessandro Mendini, from Salvo to Barnaba Fornasetti, to Giovanni Frangi and Aldo Damioli – and the works of emerging artists and street artists, The Artists' Famous Invasion Of Milan proposes to sound out the different souls of the city in a random space-temporal dimension, which alternates past and present, dream and reality, lowbrow and intellectual culture, to reconstruct, for better or worse, the identikit of a city more and more prismatic and unfathomable.
Exhibition period:
From June 3 to July 24, 2015 c/o Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea
From June 3 to June 27, 2015 c/o Sala Delle Colonne - Fabbrica Del Vapore
Opening: June 3, 2015 from 6 to 9 p.m. (to 11 p.m. c/o Fabbrica del Vapore)
Addresses:
ANTONIO COLOMBO ARTE CONTEMPORANEA - Via Solferino 44 - MILAN
Opening times: Tuesday / Friday 10 a.m. / 1 p.m. and 3 / 7 p.m. - Saturday 3 / 7 p.m.
SALA DELLE COLONNE c/o FABBRICA DEL VAPORE - Via Procaccini 4 - MILAN
Opening times: Tuesday / Friday 10 a.m. / 1 p.m. and 3 / 7 p.m. - Saturday 3 / 7 p.m.
Artists
108 | Aka B | Silvia Argiolas | Anthony Ausgang | Alberto Biagetti | Walter Bortolossi | Arduino Cantafora | Gianni Cella | Andrea Chiesi | Marco Cingolani | Clayton Brothers | Vanni Cuoghi | Aldo Damioli | Paolo De Biasi | Dem | Nathalie Du Pasquier | El Gato Chimney | Marco Ferreri | Enzo Forese | Giovanni Frangi | Daniele Galliano | Massimo Giacon | Alessandro Gottardo | Matteo Guarnaccia | Giuliano Guatta | Ryan Heshka | Hurricane | Massimo Kaufmann | Memphis | Alessandro Mendini | Fulvia Mendini | Valerio Melchiotti | Olinsky | Tullio Pericoli | Marco Petrus | Giuliano Sale | Andrea Salvino | Salvo | Marta Sesana | Squaz | Fred Stonehouse | Toni Thorimbert | Mark Todd | Paolo Ventura | Nicola Verlato | Esther Pearl Watson | Zio Ziegler
Curators
Luca Beatrice
Luca Beatrice was born in 1961 in Turin, where he lives and works. Art critic and teacher at the Accademia Albertina and at the IAAD in Turin, in 2009 he curated the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennial. He published books and essays about young Italian art, including Nuova Scena (G. Mondadori, 1995), Nuova Arte Italiana (Castelvecchi,1998), and a monograph dedicated to Renato Zero, titled Zero (Baldini Castoldi Dalai, 2007). He wrote Da Che Arte Stai? Una Storia Revisionista Dell'Arte Italiana (Rizzoli, 2010), and the book focusing on the relationship between art and music Visioni Di Suoni (Arcana, 2010), while in 2011 he curated, along with Marco Bazzini, Live! (Rizzoli), and Gli Uomini Della Signora (Dalai). In 2012, he published for Rizzoli Pop. L'Invenzione Dell'Artista Come Star, and in 2013 Sex. Erotismi Nell'Arte Da Courbet A YouPorn. At the end of 2014, he published for Barney the collection Write On The Wild Side. Articoli Di Critica Militante 2007-2014, and in March 2015 his latest essay Nati Sotto Il Biscione. L'Arte Ai Tempi Di Silvio Berlusconi. He collaborates with Il Giornale and writes for the magazines Arte and Riders. He's the president of the Circolo Dei Lettori in Turin.
Ivan Quaroni
Art critic, curator and journalist, he collaborated with the magazines Flash Art and Arte. In 2003, he published the book Laboratorio Italia. Nuove Tendenze In Pittura (Johan & Levi Editore, Milan). In 2009, he curated the section «Italian Newbrow» at the IV Prague Biennale. In the same year, he was one of the curators of «SerrOne Biennale Giovani Di Monza». In 2010, he published the book Italian Newbrow (Giancarlo Politi Editore, Milano). In 2012, he published the book Italian Newbrow. Cattive Compagnie (Umberto Allemandi, Torino). In 2012, he curated the Biennial Italy – China at the Villa Reale in Monza. Furthermore, he curated many exhibitions in public spaces and private art galleries, writing for important artists, such as Allen Jones, Ronnie Cutrone, Ben Patterson, Victor Vasarely, Alberto Biasi, Aldo Mondino, Turi Simeti, Paolo Icaro, Marco Lodola, Salvo, and Arcangelo. He was one of the first Italians to broadcast Pop Surrealism and Lowbrow Art, writing about artists such as Gary Baseman, Clayton Bros, Eric White, and Zio Ziegler. Since 2009, he teaches seminars and workshops about the contemporary art's system and, at the same time, primly looks for new young Italian painters.
www.colomboarte.com
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