Non esistono oggetti brutti, 26 Nov 2015 — 09 Jan 2016
Exhibitions

Non esistono oggetti brutti

Bianconi, Via Lecco 20, Milan, Italy

Galleria Bianconi presents the project “Non esistono oggetti brutti” (there are no bad objects) that places in dialogue the languages and practices of artistic-Curatorial Thanos Zakopoulos and Alberto Zanchetta. “There are no bad objects, need to be able to expose” is a sentence from Franco Albini, taken to magisterium of this project. An artist-designer, Thanos Zakopoulos, and a critic-curator, Alberto Zanchetta, have decided to select a nucleus of works stored in the vault of Galleria Bianconi, in an attempt to retrace the history of the exhibition space and the artists involved over the years (Alexandre Arrechea, Vasco Bendini, Mario Davičo, Maria Elvira Escallon, Winfred Gaul, Via Lewandowsky, H.H. Lim, Cheryl Pope, Davide Tranchina, Nanni Valentini, Daniele Veronesi). The set up will, however, be enriched by works, objects and materials provided directly from Zakopoulos and Zanchetta or requested on loan to other artists and designers (Agostino Bergamaschi, Sergio Breviary, Martina Brugnara, Mario Council, Lorenzo Damiani, Oppy de Bernardo, Riccardo Fabbiani, Silvia Hell, Silvia Mariotti, Katia Meneghini, Gianni Moretti, Alberto Mugnaini, Simone Pilgrims, Alessandro Zambelli), proposing different keys of reading of the gallery. If actually “need to be able to expose”, as Albino says, it is also true that a good subject is harming themselves if it is presented in a hurry, maybe a sloppy, even foolish way. The concept of good and bad, so thin and interchangeable in the arts of the last century, highlights the problem on the presentation. Conceived as a hybrid between the storage and the cabinet of curiosities, the show is in the form of great “Assembly” that takes advantage of the materials and of furniture included in the gallery. Not simply a collective, but a project on the attitude of appropriation and on the need to produce new knowledge. More than an exercise in style bound to curatorial methodologies, which are limited to give instructions for the assembly, the exposure is addressed and accepted even in its errors, second thoughts, uncertainties and weaknesses. The works, organized in unconventional ways, comply with taste, moods, attitudes and style elements, in an attempt to show better (or otherwise) things have already been seen. Even more than of a show, it can be called an “intention” that wants to verify its effectiveness, without asking the dilemma of what is right or wrong, if anything, brainstorming with what is likely and equally plausible. Otherwise, it might be called a project “undisciplined” (rather than interdisciplinary), or a “Pantomania” (that is the opposite of the one part, that is to say a “setting on everything”). The final aim is to discover, know, assess, organize, configure, reconcile, create, think and define for a second time works, objects, spaces, stories, situations . In this sense, Zakopoulos and Zanchetta take the risks related to the role of valuing the identity of the gallery, even if destabilizing it, overcoming the predictable standard of the contemporary.

Contacts & Details
OPENING TIMES:
Mon – Fri 10am – 1am, 2:30pm – 7pm
T: +39 02 2222 8336
M: office@galleriabianconi.com
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Bianconi, Via Lecco 20, Milan, Italy

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