NETES MAI, Maurizio Donzelli solo show curated by Jessica Tanghetti, will take place from April to July 2024, with the support of Cortesi Gallery.
Conceptual and debtful to a long artistic history, Maurizio Donzelli's works, and particularly his tapestries, are the result of the combination of the Jacquard loom technique and modern technology. This creates a unique textile and kaleidoscopic narrative structure, based on mirrors, duplications and overlapping of elements. Tradition and contemporaneity combine in a metamorphosis of details and references from other eras, which become patterns orchestrators of the artist's work. With a tribute to the city of Milan, the exhibition dwells in particular on the visual citation of Bramantino's Trivulzio Tapestries, preserved today at the Castello Sforzesco, a metaphor for the artist's tangible closeness to the territory and iconography of the past.
The intimate exploration of cultural concepts and their transformation into visual quotes guide through a path of visual rethinking, celebrated in the installation of tapestries in which cultural references, colors and forms dance with the frescoes and architecture of the place, becoming timeless imaginative reflection and messengers of another world where optical illusions, visual ambiguities along with spatial distortions, constitute gateways to infinite new worlds. The variation of details, depending on the angle of observation with which one interfaces, suggests how there is no absolute truth or perspective, but rather an ever-changing multiplicity of viewpoints that reflect the complexity of reality and its chameleonic colors.
Donzelli's artworks lead the viewer to reflect on the nature of vision and observation in which each of us is encouraged to actively consider our own role and position in space.
This approach, which privileges the individual intimate investigation between stable references of the past and the infinite possibilities of the future, leaves room for the imagination of the viewer, inviting them to that “Netes Mai”, motto of the Trivulzio tapestries and, once again, pattern repeated here celebrated: an exhortation not to fear, always seeking new and personal perspectives in consideration of a continuous evolution.
ALQUIMIA
ALQUIMIA exhibits LADIO Ceramics works, by Laura De Grinyo, which will be present from April and permanently inside the LDR22 spaces.
Laura de Grinyo was born and raised in Ibiza. She is the artisan behind LADIO Ceramics. Her work stems from the origins of Ibiza's pottery tradition while nature is her main source of inspiration with its fractals and golden ratio. She is also incredibly fascinated by metaphysical studies, astronomy, alchemy and frequencies. It’s a search process of the universal order where light and darkness connect and where everything find its place, time, vibration and reason for being.
She learned the craft from the master Adrián Ribas in his Sa Teulera studio (Ibiza) founded in 1945 by Juan Planells – “Daifa” - one of the most popular representatives of the island's pottery culture. During the time she has spent with him, Laura was able to inherit the different steps of this incredible millenary art. She discovered the four elements - earth, water, air and fire - by creating pieces that allowed her to deepen the knowledge of the elements and her capabilities.
"In ceramics you are constantly working on patience, acceptance of failure, metamorphosis and trusting the process. Something that seems as simple as clay, can go beyond physical, transcending its earthly value to remind us of where we come from" Laura says.
ALQUIMIA is a selection of Laura’s recent works composed by vases of various sizes and shapes created with different techniques and finishes. It is a work of exploration and transformation of traditional pottery pieces.
