IN BETWEEN
24|10|2014
IN BETWEEN
Simone Bergantini, Michele Buda, Martina Della Valle, Annabel Elgar,
Eeva Hannula, Sanna Kannisto, Lisa Kereszi, Filippo Luini, Esther
Mathis, Melissa Moore, Marco Signorini, Valentina Sommariva, The Cool Couple.
On the occasion of the second edition of Generazione Critica, a three-days workshop and panel
talk dedicated to contemporary photography, Metronom opens In Between, a group show that
collects the works realised by a series of Italian and international artists, already part of the
gallery's collection.
The central theme of the exhibition is a reflection about the gesture, conceived as an intentional
human act and a communication medium that eludes the verbal language, although charged with
meanings. The gesture can, therefore, leave its traces in the act of covering an image, similarly
to the process behind Martina Della Valle's pictures; it can recall a specific moment within the
historical memory, to which The Cool Couple's work refers; or, as taught by psychoanalysis, it
can be situated half-way between reality and fiction, language and body, images and words
— something that is reflected in Eeva Hannula's artworks. Gestuality, an element that has been
depicted by a number of different artists, is essentially linked to the human body, to the fulfillment
of an act or even, on the contrary, to the total lack of movement. The action can be rendered also
through the choice of the artist, like Marco Signorini, of "undoing" the image; or, from a different
perspective, with a result that is almost a performance, as in Esther Mathis' video Schnee, a poetic
representation of the silent dialogue between the human being and the nature. Indeed, the idea of
an action depicted through art inevitably reminds of performances, or of conceptual
photography. These artists, then, merge gestures, art, and memory in a unique outcome that
testifies the act in its specific moment; from this starting point, the show proposes an inspection of
the way the artists who produce images nowadays are influenced by this central theme and
operate, whether intentionally or not, within the fusion of gestuality and art.
24 October - 20 December 2014
Tue - Sat: 3 - 7 PM and by appointment
METRONOM | viale G. Amendola 142 | Modena
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