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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 artists 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
mankinds 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 gallerys 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 artists 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 companys Milan office.
with the support of:
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