Spazio Leonardoopens its 2024 exhibition program with a wall intervention by artist Andrea Bocca (Crema, 1996), who will be presenting a new series of small wall sculptures.
Through a deep engagement with sculptural and installation practices, Bocca develops his work through a continuous dialogue with the forms of space and objects that surround him. The rural imagery from which he hails, merges with the industrial/modernist urban one, creating a database from which to draw upon and continually rework new forms. Finishes, paintings, artisanal and industrial processes become structural signs in the creation of a landscape and spaces in constant dialogue between interior and exterior.
For Spazio Leonardo, Andrea creates a site-specific intervention that references the architecture of Monte Amiata, a residential complex in the Gallarate district of Milan, designed by Carlo Aymonino with the collaboration of Aldo Rossi between 1967 and 1974. It was conceived as a utopian micro-city, disconnected from the surrounding environment of suburbs. The gallery wall is transformed through a wall painting: a large rectangle in red, yellow, and gray from which a series of panels emerges, painted in the same colors. The painted portion of the wall and the adjacent walls serve as a display for a series of small bronze sculptures embedded in the walls themselves. The series in question is ‘Maniglie’, already present in 2019 during the Ukiyo exhibition at FuturDome, Milan. The embedded forms are inspired from reworkings of some handles of the Imperial Villa of Katsura in Japan, and some frames from Jacques Tati’s film Playtime; these forms become graphic signs that draw a narrative flowing through the glimpses of space. The work aims to explore the value of architectural spaces and how they shape our perspectives, whether being sorted from an imperial villa, a film reel, a utopian residential complex on the outskirts of Milan, or a workspace we interact with on a daily basis.
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