Último dia para conferir a exposição Pure Love, de Gabriele Porta, na Galeria Federica Schiavo, em Roma

Dando prosseguimento ao compartilhamento da viagem à Roma, segue o material relativo à exposição "Pure Love", de Gabriele Porta, que acontece até hoje na Galeria Federica Schiavo, em Roma.

A exposição reúne oito trabalhos do artista italiano em torno dos temas amor, sexo e morte. Particularmente inquietante é o video Untitled (My Wedding Will Be A Funeral), de 2014, realizado a partir de um filme amador queniano, encontrado pelo artista nos arquivos da BBC, em Londres. O filme apresenta cruamente um ritual violento que o título do trabalho vincula ao tradicional regime matrimonial de conjugalidade.

Gabriele Porta. Untitled (My Wedding Will Be A Funeral), 2014
video low fi, loop, no sound, 5 min 55 sec

Gabriele Porta. Untitled (My Wedding Will Be A Funeral), 2014
video low fi, loop, no sound, 5 min 55 sec

A tensão erótica entre a projeção e os demais trabalhos, indicada no press release abaixo, é extremamente bem construída pela montagem dos trabalhos nas três salas de exposição, no escritório e no corredor da galeria. A chegada à sala dois (a última que visitei), onde o vídeo citado está instalado, nos força a ressignificar tudo o que vimos nas demais salas (sobretudo a série de trabalhos sobre papel da sala 3, que leva o mesmo título do vídeo). No caminho de volta até a saída da galeria vemos os trabalhos diferentemente, o que parece indicar a potência plástica e significativa da produção deste jovem artista.

Gabriele Porta. The Long Impurification Has Begun, 2014
enamel on mdf board, walnut wood, 142,5 x 189 x 4 cm (142,5 x 92 x 4 cm each)

PURE LOVE
GABRIELE PORTA

21 November 2014 - 10 January 2015
Opening Reception, Friday 21 November, H 6:00-9:00 PM
Federica Schiavo Gallery, Piazza di Montevecchio 16, Rome

Federica Schiavo Gallery is delighted to present Pure Love, Gabriele Porta's first solo show in Rome. The exhibition is built around three main themes: love, sex and death, within the artist develops a wide range of shades such as tenderness, pornography, the cult of death.

In Porta's work these issues present the eternal dualism between opposites that however do not entail a real contrast but a mutual completion and it leads to a new territory where the visitor will experience a continuous oscillation between pleasure and disgust.

The exhibition includes a video on a monitor, a video projection, a new series of paintings on board, prints and drawings on sandpaper.

The cornerstone of the exhibition - even though decentralized in the gallery's space - is the connection of the video projection My Wedding Will Be A Funeral, a cruel amateur film shot in Kenya, to a series of works on paper whose lightness creates a powerful and disturbing contrast with the content of the video.

Gabriele Porta.  Untitled (My Funeral Will Be A Wedding), 2014
spray paint on arches paper, glitter,  51 x 35,5 cm (framed: 60 x 44,5 x 4 cm each)

Gabriele Porta.  Untitled (My Funeral Will Be A Wedding), 2014
spray paint on arches paper, glitter,  51 x 35,5 cm (framed: 60 x 44,5 x 4 cm each) 

The show Pure Love is prohibited to minors under the age of 18.

Gabriele Porta. Untitled (The Last Thought In Kids Lives Is Love), 2014
print on aluminum pet, spray paint, 62 x 42 cm each (framed: 72,5 x 52,7 x 4 cm each)

Gabriele Porta. Untitled (The Amazing Love In Someone Who Does Not Believe In The Possibility Of Genocide), 2014
print on sandpaper, fluo enamel, 28 x 21cm each (framed: 35,5 x 28,5 x 3 cm each)

Gabriele Porta was born in Monza in 1981. He lives and works in Arcore, Italy. After his studies at the Brera Fine Arts Academy in Milan, 2004, he won a scholarship at the Slade School of Fine Art - UCL of London where he had his MA Master Degree in Fine Arts Media in 2007. The artist has participated in many group exhibitions in Italy including The Milky Way, Galleria Lia Rumma, Naple 2014 (promoted by Pianoterra Onlus); La fioritura del bambù, Viafarini DOCVA, Milan 2009; The Inner Emotion of Being Alive, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome 2009. His work was exhibited in many european cities: London, UK; Paris, France; Locarno, Switzerland; Reyjavik, Iceland.