z2o Sara Zanin is pleased to announce Fabrizio Prevedello's participation in the group show Fuori Porta, Saturday, June 10 at 5 p.m. at the Villa Pacchiani Exhibition Center in Santa Croce sull'Arno, an initiative of the City of Santa Croce sull'Arno curated by Ilaria Mariotti with Caterina Fondelli and Alessandra Ioalè.
The exhibition is produced with the collaboration of Crédit Agricole Italia.
"Fuori porta" is a term that designates everything that is outside the city gate and evokes trips to the countryside or otherwise outside the built-up area and overlaps with the concept of suburbia as a marginal zone of an area and, more specifically, of an urban agglomeration.
Santa Croce sull'Arno is a manufacturing center characterized by a strong industrialization that has, over time, designed urban planning, updated the social structure, and revised the relationship between the built-up area and its surroundings with a green and naturalistic vocation, hills and woods. Fuori porta is an exhibition involving eight artists-Oliviero Fiorenzi, Beatrice Gelmetti, Nicola Ghirardelli, Matteo Nuti, Francesco Pacelli, Phillippa Peckham, Fabrizio Prevedello, and Caterina Sbrana. Their research declines in different ways the concepts of landscape and of the way, for each different, of observing and exploring it. A landscape sometimes geographically close to that to which Santa Croce sull'Arno refers, sometimes far away. Researches that start from a naturalistic datum to transport it to an inner and existential dimension.
The research of Oliviero Fiorenzi (Osimo, 1992, lives and works between Osimo and Milan) focuses on the unpredictability of spaces and experiments with the work as a game, a construction of experience and an inscription of meaning. The artist presents a cycle of works through which he has experimented with techniques for making kites, thought of as subjects and states of mind, documenting their flight. Each kite corresponds to a landscape, to a sky.
In the paintings of Beatrice Gelmetti (Verona, 1991, lives and works in Mestre) the elements of different perspective planes - one linked to a landscape view the other to an abstract reality - dialogue to build narratives about places near and far, real or imaginary. In his landscapes trees, large brushstrokes and gestures arise from the same ground, and the swishing of his arms and the sedimentations of color castings in water or oil are subjects of an almost contemplative study.
In the sculpture of Nicola Ghirardelli (Como, 1994, lives and works between Milan and Tuscany) artifacts and natural objects become matrices for reorganizing existing images and forms. The reconfiguration, which is the result of metamorphosis and recomposition, occurs through fusion and reconnection, and the result is constantly poised between chaotic excess and harmonious order, between violence and new balance.
Francesco Pacelli (Perugia, 1988, lives and works in Milan) is present in the exhibition with sculptures that are concrete and magical at the same time manifesting the artist's research on the relationship of parallelism and interconnection between nature and artifice and between magic and technique. Pacelli relates the rationalist approach to the sphere of the unattainable, of that which can be intuited through one's personal and relativistic subjectivity but cannot be demonstrated according to scientific method.
Matteo Nuti (1979, Bientina where he lives and works) brings back to the center of his own pictorial research, the three-dimensional experience of the body of the painting, conceiving it as the landscape-environment of the pictorial subject on the surface. Nuti goes so far as to compromise its usual fruition in order to stimulate, instead, a new plastic experience through experimentation with different liguistic-visual modes that deconstruct the stereotype of the landscape genre but at the same time enrich and revitalize its tradition.
In the body of works by Phillippa Peckham (Iserlohn 1957, lives and works in Fosdinovo) presented in the exhibition (woodcuts and monotypes), the garden - typically English, seemingly haphazard and random but weighed in the alternation of blooms and the coexistence of local and more exotic plants - that surrounds her home and studio in the hills near Sarzana, the neighboring fields are configured as priority subjects explored through the practice of walking and observing.
Fabrizio Prevedello (Padua, 1972, lives and works in Versilia) traverses the landscape by capturing graphic signs and natural phenomena. His sculptures, made with materials of both industrial production and natural origin, are a continuous evocation of places, mainly the mountains, traversed and inhabited by man.
Brutalist cultural references with regard to forms and materials, reference to great twentieth-century sculpture, a point of view that places us in a time and space but also the continuous fascination with what happens to be found (slates, stones) also inform Prevedello's work in a hybrid and surprising accumulation of images and signs.
Caterina Sbrana's research is an investigation poised between primordial materials, traditional techniques and a contemporary vision contaminated by technology. The collection of materials, traces, residues, and textures, and the relationship with the landscape are at the center of her work, which makes use of different media: drawing, painting, and ceramics. Poppies become a tracing tool for large maps, soils, coals, and vegetables are the material for painting landscapes and inspired by digital visions. In parallel, in recent years he has also devoted himself to design and making art objects.
organized in collaboration with Crédit Agricole Italia
opening hours: from Friday to Sunday, h. 5-8pm.
