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Dimensionare lo spazio

A arte Invernizzi, Milan

Wed 18 Sep 2024 to Thu 21 Nov 2024

Via Domenico Scarlatti 12, 20124 Dimensionare lo spazio

Mon-Fri 10am-1pm & 3pm-7pm, Sat by appointment

Artists: Gianni Asdrubali - Nicola Carrino - Gianni Colombo - Lesley Foxcroft - Igino Legnaghi - François Morellet - Arcangelo Sassolino - Mauro Staccioli - David Tremlett - Antonio Trotta - Grazia Varisco - Michel Verjux

The A arte Invernizzi gallery presents the exhibition Dimensionare lo spazio, curated by Lorenzo Madaro, which focuses on an idea of sculpture not understood in a classical sense but as a remodulation of physical space through works whose three-dimensionality stems from the alteration of visual perception.

Artworks

Grazia Varisco

Iron, 67 x 67 cm (each)

Gianni Asdrubali

Industrial painting on wall

1000 × 360 cm

David Tremlett

Pastel and graphite

620 × 160 cm

Igino Legnaghi

Black anodized anticorodal

40 × 270 cm

Gianni Colombo

Wood, lamps

François Morellet

White neon and acrylic on canvas on wood

201 × 246 cm

Michel Verjux

Projector

Nicola Carrino

Stainless steel grind

90 × 30 × 150 cm

Mauro Staccioli

Red concrete

143 × 257 × 40 cm

Arcangelo Sassolino

Concrete and steel

74 × 73.5 × 12 cm

Antonio Trotta

Marble (12 elements, 52 x 42 cm each)

198 × 176 cm

Lesley Foxcroft

Black mdf

210 × 350 × 17 cm

Installation Views

The exhibition focuses on the perimeters and areas of research of a sculpture capable of generating reflections on form and space. The artists involved in the exhibition project have worked and continue to work investigating the very roots of language, exploring light and dynamism, but also the relationship between the two-dimensionality of the wall and the expanded gaze of architecture, explicating the specificities that sculpture constantly encompasses.
Sculpture serves to recognise places, to experience them and to observe them.

Within this dichotomous and persistent relationship that exists between form and space, a destabilising and extraordinary debate extends, also on a strictly theoretical level. The artist who has played a leading role in this field in Italy - also from a theoretical point of view and in pioneering years - has been Nicola Carrino, from whom the title of the exhibition is borrowed and according to whom “Sculpture is an operation of change, an indispensable instrument of the continuous occupation and dimensioning of space”. As Franco Sossi points out in his Luce Spazio Strutture (1967), the presuppositions of these experiences can be traced back to the Constructivism of the 1910s.
Sculpture therefore becomes a generative language of experience, a prelude to an architecture that is further than the one it relates to, but it is also a language that only exists in relation to an environment. It is the work itself that contains the space, creating it. These theoretical lines are confirmed by the works on show and the paths taken by Gianni Asdrubali, Nicola Carrino, Gianni Colombo, Lesley Foxcroft, Igino Legnaghi, François Morellet, Arcangelo Sassolino, Mauro Staccioli, David Tremlett, Antonio Trotta, Grazia Varisco and Michel Verjux.

The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue - in Italian and English - with a text by Lorenzo Madaro, lecturer of History of Contemporary Art at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera of Milan, and the reproduction of the works on exhibit.

View of the exhibition Dimensionare lo spazio, A arte Invernizzi, Milano, 2024. Courtesy A arte Invernizzi, Milano. Photo: Bruno Bani, Milano

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