LEONORA BISAGNO - JACOPO MILIANI
Double solo exhibitions
curated by Paolo Emilio Antognoli Viti.
Opening: Saturday, February 13, 6 pm
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LEONORA BISAGNO (Zurigo 1977)
“Da desiderio a desiderio”
A personal exhibition
“Da desiderio a desiderio” (“From desire to desire”) was chosen by Leonora as a title for her exhibition. A title found on the spot, based on extemporary associations: the feminist literature plus the book containing the acts of a conference in 1987, whose cover image, as an image trouvée, takes place inside the project, thanks to the fascinating title, rich in suggestions.
The cover of the book, purposedly reproduced in a blurred image, introduces an athmosphere of expectation and desire (recalling the title) wich is gradually populated by objects trouvées and collected items, gathered according to a memory of feminism and surrealism.
Jacopo Miliani's work (hosted in the same space as Leonora's) rejects the identification with the audience, in an attempt to investigate the power and the nature of the representation, deviating from any predefined process. Contrarily, Leonora brings the audience with her, pushing them in a universe which has completely lost its points of reference, as they would have never existed before.
The visitors have to rely on their own intelligence, associations, presently available pieces of information: they're allowed to exert on Leonora's art an enormous power. However, they are in her wishing universe, expanding free from borders, of which they participate, without knowing the protocol to be followed to be part of it. This is a cosmic dérèglement, a complete reshuffling of the rules of the world, an act of liberation from the vision of knowledge as a set of norms: space and time lose their conventional meaning.
In this world in never ending transformation, the chance is Leonora's spouse. Even those who do not believe in chance can see in Leonora's work an artistic carelessness, a cultivated rhetoric stemming from a sort of no saber, a fortunate afasia, an original forgiveness.
Leonora follows a personal ars combinatoria, she's not only owned by the chance, but she owns it as well, programming unexpected epiphanies and casual discoveries.
The past, the recollections, the objects trouvées are invented anew: they are inserted in a process which makes them not dead or abstract anymore. What is archived in the past, is brought backdeparting from any logic.
Small things, images, pictures, repêchages from intimate memories are awaken by sudden flashes of light, newly born to a state of ecstasy and excess, in a liberating metamorphosis.
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JACOPO MILIANI (Firenze 1979)
“Parallel words, irrelevant worlds”
A personal exhibition curated by Paolo Emilio Antognoli Viti.
Opening: saturday the 13th of February, 6 pm
at P38 space, via del Battistero 38 Lucca.
Tel.: +39 0583-491104
www.p38.it - info@p38.it
Jacopo Miliani presents his work through the items for a project about multiverse theory, an artistic elaboration of the findings of the quantum physics and the string theory. The exhibition collects materials Jacopo asked to various artists and scientists during the last OuUnPo (Ouvroir d’Univers Potentiel) convention in Rome, on the theme of parallel universes. The multiverse theory allows the subjectivity of knowledge: given that it is possible to hypothesize multiple physical dimensions, would it be possible to re-think to the dimensions opened by artistic research?
Miliani joins to this material his own artistic works, plus objects borrowed from the antique dealers on Via del Battistero and Via del Gallo. These objects come from the past, scattered in front of the eyes of tourists, clients, passersby. They are things seemingly with no history, deprived of their relational context, placed in this environment as new marks on a white page. Their past life is only hypothesized, imagined, reinvented as in a smashed mirror reflecting multifaceted visions.
The object becomes the personal perspective of the collector, of the visitor, of anyone who is willing to give it a personal (anthropocentrical) interpretation, collocating it in the space of imagination.
Jacopo has collected those objects in a single space, associating items and images together. Consequently, he creates
new spatio-temporal paths, specific interpretations, and raises disorientating questions.
He uses objects trouvées, images, quotations, creating a personal archive which resemble a decadent scenography, a fake catalogue, a copied brand.
The audience cannot identify with any of the items, visitors are left alone among the works.
Jacopo wants to make conventional parameters fall: not only the ones connected to the disposition of his works in the gallery space, but to the entire organization of the world, which he observes with a point of view critical to any form of representation.
“Parallel words, irrelevant worlds"
A project by Jacopo Miliani
Contributions of:
Alessio Ascari, Antonia Ciani, Caroline Corbetta, Giulia di Leonarda, Piersandra di Matteo and Snejanka Mihaylova, George Henry Longly, Nazli Gurlek, Luigi Iandoli, Teresa Macrì, Federica Matelli, Marco Mazzoni, Francesca Pagliuca, Peep-Hole, Caterina Riva, Annalisa Rosso, Alessandra Sandrolini, Fatos Ustek, Veronica Valentini, Jonas Žakaitis, Lorenzo Bruni
Special thanks to 1:1 Projects, Vision Forum and OuUnPo, Corrado Bergamaschi, Benedetta Di Grazia, Galleria Kraag, Orlando Giorgi.
