15 Kg, 2016-ongoing
15 Kg, 2016
acrylic, oil, fire, dust and spray paint on canvas, 6 canvases, 140x200cm each, suitcase, studio view, Rome
acrylic, oil, fire, dust and spray paint on canvas, 6 canvases, 140x200cm each, suitcase, studio view, Rome
15 Kg, 2016, [2,5 Kg each (Ragnar, Claudio, Giulio) ]
installation view, 2018, Everard Read - Circa, Cape Town
installation view, 2018, Everard Read - Circa, Cape Town
15 Kg, 2016, [2,5 Kg each (Giulio) ]
La superficie accidentata, installation view, 2018, Fourteen Artellaro, Tellaro (SP)
La superficie accidentata, installation view, 2018, Fourteen Artellaro, Tellaro (SP)
ENG
15 Kg is an ongoing series of un-stretched foldable paintings that have been shipped in suitcases and exhibited between London, Italy and Cape Town.
The series’ title refers to the maximum weight to be carried on low-cost airlines such as Ryanair. The paintings are visual enquiries about the connections between freedom, gesture and mental structures, outcome of an ongoing re- search on late-capitalist rituals and obsessions about food, body, spirituality, accumulation, consumption and waste. Painted on both sides, the canvases retain the marks of a process of stretching, un-stretching, folding and burning as well as the traces of their displacement.
ITA
15 Kg è una serie iniziata nel 2016 e tuttora in corso, di tele stelaiate e ripiegabili, trasporate in una valigia ed esposte tra Londra, l’Italia e Città del Capo.
Il titolo della serie evoca il peso massimo consentito per il bagaglio in stiva sulle compagnie low-cost come Ryan Air. Le tele sono delle interrogazioni visive sulla connessione tra libertà, gesto e strutture mentali, risultato di una ricerca in corso sui rituali e le ossessioni tardo-capitaliste legate a cibo, corpo, spiritualità, accumulo, consumo e spreco. Dipinti su entrmbi i lati, i quadri conservano le tracce di un processo di intelaiatura, stelaiatura, piegature e bruciature così come i segni del loro spostamento.