Mazzoleni is pleased to return to the Established section for the 28th Edition of Miart, entitled No Time No Space.
The presentation includes works by Italian and international artists from different generations, challenging traditional conventions of form and representation.Despite differing formal outcomes, the exhibited works condense significant symbolic meanings and references into tangible "objects."
In the centenary year of Carla Accardi's birth (1924 – 2014), Mazzoleni presents, among other works, Scacchiera verdeoro (1974). The 1970s free movement of the sign, enriched with colour and the result of a complex aesthetic elaboration, is found transformed into modules that punctuate and divide the surface of the work into a narrative chessboard, alternating positive and negative elements, where sign, space and rhythm create the artist's pictorial alphabet.
From a previous generation, Giuseppe Capogrossi (1900-1972) exhibited his Superfici at the Secolo Gallery in Rome in January 1950, where the sign that would become the emblematic symbol of all his subsequent research first appeared. In Superficie 279 (1952), the sign encounters the surface space in a dialectic of black and white played out in strict two-dimensionality.
In the 1970s, Alberto Burri (1915-1995) began to predominantly use Celotex, an industrial composite material produced in the late 1920s in the US. These years coincided with an introspective period in which the artist revisited motifs, materials and colours explored throughout his artistic journey, such as in Nero (1970).
Following the success of the exhibition __Agostino Bonalumi. Il Teatro delle Forze in 2023, a major retrospective marking the 10th anniversary of the artist's death, a selection of his "estroflessioni" is exhibited. Each work by Bonalumi (1935-2013) arises from a dialogue of internal and external pressures opposed by the surface of the canvas. Nero (1967) is no exception: pressures, tensions and pushes are the forces at play that lead the artist to conceive the canvas as a space-object, rejecting two-dimensionality as they project into the third dimension.
Forces of a different nature, but equally powerful, drive the research of Marinella Senatore (1977): the energies emanating from her work on communities through theSchool of Narrative Dance reverberate in all her works. Alongside a new luminous sculpture produced for the fair, a new collage I nuovi mostri (2024), will also be exhibited.
In the work of Salvatore Astore (1957) and Shigeru Saito (1974), the close relationship with material and its presence in space are united in their sculptural forms. Saito's ability to bend materials such as metal and light to the artist's will is unique in his research. He thus creates works that oscillate between the minimalism of composition and geometric virtuosity, as in the unpublished work Intellection(2023). Astore's work "aims to reconstruct a more direct relationship with the material and the organic processes that exist around us" (T. Trini, 1987). Flexible in technique, Astore proceeds with rigour and fine sensitivity, creating metallic sculptures like _Corpo Unico _(2024) alluding to living organic matter and humanforms reminiscent of our ancestral memory.
Andrea Francolino (1979) presents some new works from his concrete series. In his research, the sign fixed on the material shows the affinity between a small fracture close to us and the same patterns on a coastline or in the profile of a mountain range, as in the works M^2 ^(2024), in concrete and gold, lapis lazuli and earth dust.
Also showcased at the fair are two new works by David Reimondo (1973), whose solo exhibition, currently ongoing at the Turin gallery, investigates the "Cromofonetica", a personal theory of colour that combines phonetics and visual aspects.
An important work from the Cold As You Are thermal photography series by Rebecca Moccia (1992) will be presented, which was first exhibited in 2023 during the final award ceremony of the Cairo Prize.
12–14 April 2024
VIP preview April 11, 2024 upon invitation
Allianz MiCo, Pavilion 3
Viale Lodovico Scarampo
20149 Milano MI
Italy