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MAX COPPETA
INFINITY , 2015, crystallized liquid on PVC, cm 100x20 each
installation view @ART IN Gallery
Max Coppeta (b. 1980, Italy) lives and works in Bellona, Italy.
Completed his education in Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples between 2002 and 2006. After graduating in Scenography and Performative Arts, he got the Masters degree in Interaction Design from The Institue of Design of Turin.
His works have been included in solo and group presentations in Italy, Tokyo, Singapore, Houston and Los Angeles.
LONG DROP, 2014, crystallized liquid on glass, 240x48 cm
exhibition view @ART IN Gallery
Synthetic Rain is a visual score of a natural event artificially reproduced.
Fiction replaces the reality by creating a credible deception: an artifact against nature.
Art invokes magic to redesign new spatial rules.
Rain: no more liquid, no more elusive.
LONG DROP
exhibition view @The Venice Arsenale
Strongly linked to the Kinetic Art, Coppeta draws an heterocosmic vision that engages light as a totalizing ingredient, as a privileged bond between the work and the space.
Max Coppeta elaborates a discourse made of rule and case , of moveable or immovable assets, the processes that turn their gaze unsymmetrical and symmetrical form cadence, to develop a visual puzzle that comes to terms with the unstable logic of everyday.
His recent works show a pronounced form of ataraxy that is not only the absence of agitation or tranquility, but also a signal of cleanliness, a precision, a predisposition to the rule that, under the blows of the light, turns towards the unexpected, random.
*curatoria text by Antonello Tolve
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GERDA RITZMANN
Gerda Ritzmann (b. 1946, Dornbrin, Austria) lives and works in Switzerland.
After graduating from the Textilfachschule of Dornbirn, moves to Birmingham (England) in 1964, where declines drawing of an academic matrix. Later, attends the course of three-dimensional art at the Europäischen Kunstakademie in Trier (Germany). In 1970 moves to Switzerland, where attends the Academy of Fine Arts in Zurich (1987–1991) and the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst.
Exponent of Paper Art, Gerda has refined an artistic language and developed an unique technique, masterfully mastering the material she manipulates, thanks to sophisticated craftsmanship refined in years of research.
Member of SSAA, the Swiss Society of Plastic and Figurative Art Artists, and of the Swiss Institute of Art Studies. Member of the IAPMA, the International Association of Papermaker and Artists, her works are present in many private collections in Italy and abroad.
GERDA RITZMANN exhibition view @ ART IN Gallery
Gerda's works explore the sculptural potential of the paper, adding to this fragile material, emotional contents such as reflections on the vulnerability of the existence and its resilience. Through the printed, decontested and re-created pages, the artist addresses universal themes, emphasizing the concept of transformation and mutation.
In the hands of the artist, material undergoes radical transformation from time to time, shunning itself from its mere graphic support to become more. Paper and cardboard evolve through games of contrasts with varnishes, colors, cut and broken materials to create new geometric shapes, interlacing, moving shapes. In this technique reflects the Avant-Garde of the twentieth century, especially the revolutionaries Papiers Collés of the cubist Picasso, Braque and Gris, and the Collages of the Second World War, from the NeoDada to Pop Art.
*curatorial text by Raffaella Turatti
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KWANGWOO HAN
Kwangwoo Han (b. 1980, Seoul, S. Korea)
Scholar of human and urban relationships, observer of the phenomena of society and metropolis, Han's installations are made up of candid plaster sculptures; similar shapes, modular, every singular piece support the other in a tacit collaboration, and in a precarious balance.
The artist focuses on the question of whether the social system is functional and useful to the contemporary man or, if on the contrary, exploits it.
The abstract silhouettes become self-portraits of both the artist and the viewer, also by virtue of the uniqueness and of the unrepeatability with which they are modeled.
*curatorial text >> ITALIAN
by Maria Chiara Wang
