Current
YIA | Rudy Cremonini e Enrico Pitzianti.
Opening: Thursday 9th of February 2012, 7.00 PM
February 10 - March 30, 2012.
The gallery Glenda Cinquegrana: The Studio is proud to present the exhibit of Rudy Cremonini and Enrico Pitzianti, at their first show in Milan. The acronym which represents the title of the show stands for Young Italian Artists, marks the opening of an exhibitions cycle at the gallery devoted to Italian art under- 30-years-old in its most relevant and revealing expressions.
The two artists, who are working by means of different medias like painting and collage, both have in common an artistic research that is characterized by a deliberate obscurity in their languages. Like in the famous poem by Montale Non chiederci Parola, their artistic practices find their own identities by means of putting through a reflection over the concept of denial: for Cremonini it represents a condition of of living; for Pitzianti, who works operating in the realm of the graphic language of the collage, it turns out to be realized in the communication aspects of the image. Like what Montale was declaring poetically only one thing we can say firmly today, what we are not and what we do not want.
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2011
I’LL BE YOUR MIRROR | Gianluigi Colin, Maurizio Galimberti, Nan Goldin, Federico Lombardo, Arash Radpour, Nathalie Rebholz, Pipilotti Rist, Persefone Zubcic.
Opening: Tuesday 15th of November 2011, 7.00 PM.
November 16 - January 25, 2012.
The gallery Glenda Cinquegrana: The Studio is proud to present I’LL BE YOUR MIRROR, a collective show on the subject of portraiture. The exhibition includes the works of Gianluigi Colin, Maurizio Galimberti, Nan Goldin, Federico Lombardo, Arash Radpour, Nathalie Rebholz, Pipilotti Rist, Persefone Zubcic, artists who have established themselves, in very different ways, in the genre of portraiture and self-portraiture. The exhibition offers an ample perspective on a classic genre of both ancient and contemporary art by means of an optic embracing of Italian and international art, the theme developing itself in the contrast among diverse media: from photography to digital painting, video, collage on paper, and even Polaroid.
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Persefone Zubcic | C/Orpo
Opening Reception: Thrusday 19th of May 2011, 7:00 PM
May 20 - June 30, 2011.
Persefone Zubcic, Croatian artist, born in 1982, was discovered by the famous curator Harald Szeemann, who invites her, when she was only twenty years old, to take part to two subsequent exhibitions in 2002 and 2003.
C/Orpo is her first solo show in Milan, where she is exhibiting 14 black and white photographs, which are summoning up the main part of her latest research. For Persefone Zubcic C/Orpo represents both the subject and the object of her camera, when her research is running between the classical practice of photography and the performative attitude. Whether she depicts herself, or she’s capturing the others, the body is for her a great mistery to investigate, because the human being is revealed in it entirely.
First of all her pictures talk about her personal intimacies, which include her family members, as her father, her mother and her mother’s partner. Freaks and mad people are considered also as main focuses of her research: those are the friends pertaining to her circle, who pose for her as models caught in the situations that she builds, in which they wear the guises of Christian characters, or are depicted as ascetics and fools in Christ.
Press Release (ENG - PDF - 112 KB) - On-line Catalogue
PAESAGGIO ITALIANO | Marco Campanini e Fernando Zaccaria
Opening Reception: Friday 8th of April 2011, 7:00 -10:00 PM
April 9 - May 6, 2011.
Paesaggio italiano is a selection of the works of two italian photographers Marco Campanini e Fernando Zaccaria, engaged in a photographic research on the topic of the cities, including personal representation, transfigured reality and imagination. The title, inspired by the famous work of documentation produced by Luigi Ghirri in the Eighties, is a cultural reference point for the two artists who, although commited to extend their photografic eye to the world stage, retain, from this reference, a photographic array which is strictly italian.
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2010
Marco Campanini | ANTHOLOGICA
Opening: Tuesday 27th of April 2010, 7:00 PM
April 28 - June 15, 2010.
The exhibition offers an ideal synthesis of the body of the photografic work of the artist for the 2005 - 2010 period: ANTHOLOGICA represents the perfect chance to set up the last resarches conducted by the artist, where the listing attitude though enciclopedically and anthologically is considered by the artist himself as a tool to make up some new visual knowledge.
Marco Campanini’s works are finding their own origin in already existing images: in the Grand Tour series, for example, the paysages selected by the artist are landscapes or fragments of landascapes taken from the classic and ancient iconography of the 18th Century.
The choice of using already existing images in Campanini’s work is moving, as Luigi Fassi wrote, from the awereness that the alleged ‘revelatory’ and ‘absolute’ nature of an image was a proof of a virgin territory, one created by the relationship between reality and its capture by photography, a relation now stale or reduced to mere industrial repetition by cameras of mass consumption.
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2009 - 2010
Opening: Thursday 3th of December 2009, 7:00 pm
December 4, 2009 - January 15, 2010
OUT-let is an exhibition – auction, an ironical allusion to the jolting economic transformations we are currently experiencing, the goal of which is to stimulate an overall reconsideration of the values and prices of works of art.
OUT-let is offering at auction some of the works that were included in the exhibition programme of the gallery Glenda Cinquegrana: The Studio this year, along with some other works made spacifically by the gallery artists for this occasion.
Bidding on the works on display will be possible for the entire duration of the exhibition, both at the gallery itself and on a website especially constructed for the occasion by means of its online bidding system.
The pieces will be awarded at the conclusion of the exhibition.
Check out the auction-online website
2009
The Soul Cages | Maurizio Galimberti, Andrea Garuti, Ilaria Turba, Nicola Vinci, Fernando Zaccaria | Curator Alessandro Trabucco
Opening: Thursday, 24th of September 2009, 7:00 PM
September 25 - November 21, 2009
The gallery Glenda Cinquegrana: The Studio is pleased to present The Soul Cages, a collective exhibition organised by Alessandro Trabucco, and including works by Maurizio Galimberti, Andrea Garuti, Ilaria Turba, Nicola Vinci and Fernando Zaccaria. The exhibition, a variation on the theme of the contemporary city through the lens of the traditional genre of architectural photography, offers a unique, in-perspective point of view by means of an expert amalgam of photography and installation.
The Soul Cages, concludes Trabucco, provides a demystified vision of the city and its aspects that only art, by passing unobserved through the frenzy and repetitiveness of daily gestures and habits and grasping what is most urgent among them, is capable of capturing.
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Corrado Zeni | Bird’s Eye
Opening: Thursday, 28th of May 2009, 7:00 PM
May 29 - September 11, 2009
The gallery Glenda Cinquegrana: The Studio is pleased to present Bird’s Eye, Genovese artist Corrado Zeni’s first personal exhibition in Milan, a site-specific display of new works and an installation of drawings.
In the words of Luca Beatrice, Zeni’s painting is fully in line with recent investigations in contemporary art, understood in essence to be a form of relationship:
Zeni’s painting is [...] a “form of relationship,” one which is capable of establishing, as with other contemporary languages, connections and systems, finding completion by means of an “active” intervention on the part both of the spectator and the object represented.
For the Bird’s eye project, Zeni undertakes a deeper exploration of the contours of his genuinely unique poetics, developing the verticalism of his vision from a new perspective: from a bird’s eye view.
Press Release (ENG - PDF 156 KB) - Press Notes (ITA - PDF 176 KB)
2008
MARCO DEMIS | Rag dolls
Opening: Thursday 18th of September 2008, 7:00 pm
September 19 - October 24, 2008
Rag dolls is the first exhibition by Marco Demis at the gallery Glenda Cinquegrana: The Studio.
Marco Demis is a young Milanese artist from the class of 1982, making his debut exhibition. The show, produced by the gallery Glenda Cinquegrana: The Studio, illustrates the artist’s work both through his canvases and through an audacious, full-wall installation of designs.
The show’s title, Rag Dolls, is an allusion to a painting whose main subject is childhood: the dolls – girls in Demis’ painting are made of rags, understood to be a primary substance. The girls constitute archetypical images of childhood itself, seen as the primordial condition of every individual, or rather as a pure, unconditioned dimension: in Latin, the word ingenuous means ‘original’, ‘natural’.
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SIMON HADDOCK & STUART CHUBB | WE’re in construction!
Opening: Wednesday 18th of June 2008, h 7:00 pm
June 19 - September 10, 2008
WE’re In Construction! is the site-specific installational project that Simon Haddock & Stuart Chubb created for their first solo show in Italy, at Glenda Cinquegrana: The Studio gallery.
The title WE’re in construction! which Haddock&Chubb have chosen for their first Italian project makes reference to a programmatic act of construction. In the case of the two artists – from whom one is a painter, and the other one is a sculptor – this is the result of the experience they developed while constructing the displays for the most important temporary exhibitions of the major museums and galleries in London.
The installation works that compose this exhibition are entirely made of the panels, normally used as main supports for the blockbuster shows: the works are a free rethinking product of those temporary materials, rejected by those institutions - which range from the Tate Modern to the Serpentine - after the use.
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SIGNS | 108, Abbominevole, Nicola Di Caprio, Bartolomeo Migliore, Michael Rotondi | Curator Ivan Quaroni
Opening: Wednesday April 2nd, 2008, 7:00 pm
April 3 - May 20, 2008
In what Zygmunt Bauman calls “liquid modernity,” individuals group themselves into new clans and tribes based upon shared political ideals, religious faiths, spiritual disciplines, musical tastes or simply hobbies. Each group uses its own system of signs, an encrypted language that other individuals have difficulty in understanding. Decoding the sign systems becomes, thus, the key to “read” contemporary life.
The portrayal of signs is the essence of the work of the five artists presented in this exhibition, each of them engaged in the analysis and decoding of a particular code or language, from one linked to aesthetics and lettering (Bartolomeo Migliore) to one with mythological allusions (Nicola Di Caprio), from one matured in the sphere of writing and urban muralism (Abbominevole e 108) to another obtained by the grafting of biographical elements onto an underground of imagination (Michael Rotondi). [from Ivan Quaroni's text]
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2007
URBAN_CODES | 108, FaltaUno, Weng Fen, Andrea Garuti
Opening: Thursday November 22, 2007, 7:00 pm
November 23 - January 16, 2008
Urban_Codes is a selection of artists brought together by their choice of urbanity - understood as both the subject and object of reflection. Architecture constitutes, at the same time, the starting and arrival point of an ideal intellectual discourse carried out in circular fashion within contemporary urban culture and civilization.
In Urban Codes, the stimulus represented by the architectural object - chosen as a code of expression - allows for a reflection on the disjointedness of the modern-day city. Fragments of different artistic discourses are recomposed in ideal fashion within their very frame of reference: the city, in its historical, cultural and social dimensions, emerges as a many-sided and fragmentary condition of modernity itself.
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ABSOLUTE ZERO
September 22 - 23, 2007
Cocktail on invitation only h 7:00 PM - from 7:00 to 0:00 PM
Absolute Zero is the ground zero of the season at Glenda Cinquegrana: The Studio: an event which takes place in the completely-empty space of the gallery, cleared of works of art.
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GARO KESHISHIAN
Opening: Wednesday May 16, 2007, 7:00 pm
May 17 - June 25, 2007
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2006
JOSEPH BEUYS - Interview
Opening: Thursday November 30, 2006
December 1st - January 16, 2007