Anna Boghiguian: A Clown Jumped into the Arena

Galleria Franco Noero presents A Clown Jumped into the Arena, Anna Boghiguian’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, which takes place both indoors, in the spaces of Via Mottalciata, and outdoors, in a garden set into a former industrial site a few steps away from the indoor premises of the gallery. A multifaceted artist and an inveterate traveler, Boghiguian is best known for her drawings, paintings, collages, and large-scale complex installations. Her practice, which on the one hand can be seen as an attempt to map the world that surrounds us, more often combines figuration and writing through a spontaneous, almost immediate act and the use of saturated and vivid colours. The narratives constructed and displayed by Boghiguian are dense with the artists’s personal thoughts, historical and political references, poetry and critique, depicting a world in constant movement and resulting in an eminently unique interpretation of the modern era. The exhibition brings together a selection of works that focus on some of the themes that are most dear to the artist forming an intense dialogue between recent works and others made specially for the occasion. Encompassing a wide heterogeneity of materials such as cast iron, bronze, glass, resin, fabric and papier-mâché, the new bodies of work find their expression in numerous techniques that simultaneously represent the distinctive characteristic of Boghiguian’s oeuvre and in turn complement it, reflecting her personal interpretation and outlook of a world in ceaseless transformation.