… nothing of the pig goes wasted

Vernissage: Saturday 15 November at 6.00 p.m.

15 November - 22 December 2008

The Fumagalli Gallery is proud to present the first personal exhibition by Chiara Lecca (Modigliana, Forli-Cesena, 1977), entitled …nothing of the pig goes wasted.
The artist’s work analyses the role played by animals in contemporary society, using this reasoning as a vehicle for investigating man and his nature and dwelling in particular on the primary instincts and needs that are principally responsible for the bond between the two.
The artist creates close relations between everyday and childhood objects on the one hand and organically derived elements on the other. Playing with the ambiguity of their meanings, the latter are decontextualised in such a way as to disorient, then reinserted in contexts that are unusual or surreal, or whose socio-cultural function has been altered.
By engaging in ironic and at the same time critical thinking about mankind’s common relationship with the natural sphere, Chiara Lecca forges a bond as elementary as it is effective with observers, who are obliged to ask themselves some penetrating questions about their feelings.

The exhibition:
The gallery’s ground floor houses the installation JOY MACHINE #3, a musical box out of all proportion, complete with moving parts and sound effects.
The basement floor houses a project made especially for this exhibition, entitled WINTER LANDSCAPE, a landscape of the mind that was created by making a paradoxical reorganisation of elements found in nature (animal skin, bone, salt and marble dust). Next to it is the installation RABBIT CORPORATION, which invades the space physically. Dubbed “offspring of the culture of Romagna” is the artist’s latest video, also featured in this show and entitled COYPU PANTIES.
There is a grotesque joyfulness that transpires from the pagan dimension of the nature in which these elements are located.

Chiara Lecca lives and works in Modigliana (Forli-Cesena) and this year (2008) started taking part in the postgraduate contemporary art training courses at the Spinola Banna Foundation for the Arts in Poirino, near Turin. Also this year, she was invited to show in the group exhibition Fenstersprung at the PROGR Centre for Cultural Production in Bern, Switzerland. She is also taking part in the No location Relocation – AT Kearney Award, curated by Milovan Farronato at the company’s Milan office.

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