august 31, 2023 - Fondazione Ica Milano
Fondazione ICA Milano presents Leda Catunda Euforia Curated by Alberto Salvadori 29th September – 25th November 2023 Via Orobia 26, Milan
From Friday 29 September to Saturday 25 November 2023, #fondazioneicamilano presents Euforia, a solo show by Brazilian artist Leda Catunda (São Paulo, 1961). The exhibition, curated by Alberto Salvadori, builds the impression of the contemporary era, crossed by continuous uncertainties and tensions, which the artist is called to interpret. Leda Catunda's research is rooted in a visual lexicon that oscillates between mass culture and craftsmanship. The artist's works are characterized by a strongly manual approach that result in true sculptural installations where colors, materials and forms are combined to narrate our current society from the artist’s perspective.
Leda Catunda explains, "It seems that the most appropriate choice for an artist is to continue to tell the story of his own era through his works. As it has always happened, quite naturally: every art form and every artist, even in the uncertainty of intention at the moment of creation, makes his or her contribution by nurturing a shared memory, witnessing and documenting the yearnings and desires of his or her time."
The exhibition project conceived for Euforia takes off from the work Gotas transparentes (Transparent Drops), created during the period of isolation due to the 2020-2021 global pandemic. Conceived specifically for the spaces of the Fondazione, the piece took shape in a historical moment marked by waiting and suspended time. The witness of such a specific historical condition is mixed with the hope of an ideal future, tinged with green, red and golden atmospheres, and is permeated with the euphoria that gives the exhibition its title.
In the bright spaces of #fondazioneicamilano, Gotas transparentes extends beyond its limits by casting colorful shadows on the space and on the other works in the exhibition, giving the
impression of an immense collage. The saturated colors and strong tones take the visitor through a path based on emotions and memories, where each sculptural installation is conceived to narrate a fragment of collective memory intertwined with the desire to imagine a future filled with expectations.
We thank Fortes D`Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo / Rio de Janeiro and Bortolami, New York for their generous support of the project.
We thank Banca Intesa Sanpaolo, the official sponsor of the Foundation, for supporting Fondazione ICA Milano's programming and activities.
Fondazione ICA Milano presents, from Friday, 29th September to Saturday, 25th November 2023, the exhibition Jus d'Orange, featuring artist Camille Henrot (France, 1978) and writer and art critic Estelle Hoy (Australia, 1983). In Jus d'Orange, words and images run after the themes of melancholy, failure, injustice, and hope in a unique exhibition display conceived specifically for the first floor of #fondazioneicamilano in the shape of a kaleidoscopic installation. Back and forth, to-and-fro, text and image inspire one another—ongoing and unending—intoxicated by life’s many interferences.
The exhibition is realised by the artists in collaboration with #fondazioneicamilano and is curated by Chiara Nuzzi. The show creates a path of mutual and continual contamination emerging from a dialogue between Camille Henrot's images and Estelle Hoy's texts, amalgamated through dense, examining conversation between the artists.
Jus d’Orange presents a selection of new paintings by Henrot inspired by Hoy’s texts and vice versa, the result of over five hundred images and thousands of messages that the artists, united by deep friendship, have exchanged via WhatsApp, Instagram, shared Google Docs, voice messages, and live conversations since late 2021.
The collaboration takes as its starting point Estelle Hoy's text Venetian Waters of Jus d'Orange, inspired by the circumstance of a friend of the artist witnessing the collapse of the roof of her home after numerous sacrifices made over the years to buy it. The themes of failure and hope, represented by the
cultivation of an orange grove on the ruins of the destroyed house, inspired Henrot to create a series of watercolours and paintings on canvas, including A Thrill or a Spill (2022); Cool Nights (2022); A Mountain of Oranges (2023); Fruitful Labor (2023), and constitute the starting point of an uninterrupted dialogue between the two artists. From literature they read to lived experiences, from exhibitions visited to psychoanalytic theories, from current social issues to dreams and personal aspirations, Camille Henrot and Estelle Hoy create an intimate journey.
The exhibition design sees Hoy's texts framing Henrot's paintings in a graphic layout by La Tigre, creating a coherent and continuous flow that traces the conversation between the two artists.
Pivotal to the textual and visual narrations is the artists’ reflection on the humorous implications of the depicted subjects. The figures captured on Henrot's canvases meet Hoy's sharp and prophetic words in a game of cross-references where humor is vital and where each work dialogues with the next, opening up individual and collective readings within the space. The atmosphere of intimacy that characterizes the exhibition is further accentuated by a moment of sharing, represented by the fortune cookies offered to the public that carry unconventional and prophetic messages referring to the show’s playful and irrational component.
The exhibition is enriched by a dedicated artist book co-published by Fondazione and NERO, available on the publisher's website or for purchase at ICA Milano in Via Orobia 26 in a limited number of copies.
The art direction for the exhibition design is realized by La Tigre; design: Lidia Ginga Cozzupoli.
The exhibition Jus d'Orange and the accompanying publication are realised with the support of: Hauser & Wirth and Mennour, Paris, Beatrice Bulgari, Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation, MaFo Collection, Daniela Memmo, Carlo and Polissena Perrone; Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati.
We thank Banca Intesa Sanpaolo, the official sponsor of #fondazioneicamilano, for its support of the programming and activities.
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