WHITE LAB

Eléonore De Lardemelle, Andrea Facco, Alessandro Gioiello, Nikola Uzunovski

October 26 – December 20 2007
Agenzia04 is very pleased to announce White Lab, a group show featuring four among the most interesting young artists of the contemporary panorama working on the topic of white and perception: Eléonore De Lardemelle, Andrea Facco, Alessandro Gioiello, Nikola Uzunovski.
Through the leading thread of white color, the works on show (installations, videos, paintings and photos) investigate in a conceptual area some universal aspects of nature and human’s mind.
From the digitally elaborated and thought-provoking photographic landscapes of Alessandro Gioiello, to the paintings of Andrea Facco that cross-refer to a multiplicity of visual sceneries between “micro” and “macro” and a reality that is perfect but veiled by a white and unreal aura. From the fictitious and precarious scenographies of Eléonore de Lardemelle that surrounds video installations about tale world, to the photos and videos of Nikola Uzunovski that through fascinating metaphors offer to the spectator a reflection about the notion of perception starting from his own particular experience. The relations with the world, the nature, and several aspects of the human society take place through a sort of experimentations in subsequent stages in which the spectator become protagonist itself. Using different expressive means the artists aim their attention to the perceptive abilities to observe, comprehend and reflect about interpreting the reality and the world surrounding us.

Alessandro Gioiello, born in Savigliano (CN),1982. Lives and works in Venice.
“Natura morta -ancora vivo-" consists in a still life where the elements do not mention explicitly the classical and overused iconography and symbolic of this genre. A set-up table placed in a dark studio is replaced by a bright photo of a little portion of a mountain’s landscape covered by snow. The tend with floral motives (patchwork of a XVIIth century Dutch painting), as well the snow itself and the tools just abandoned, used to create this intimate place of refuge, want to suggest the precarious and continuous unstable situations and realities who everyone find himself to confront with daily.

Andrea Facco, born in Verona, 1973. Lives and works in Bologna.
Andrea Facco investigates different aspects of the reality’s perception with a multiplicity of pictorial sceneries that dual one another in a focus continually suspended between “micro” and “macro”, fluctuating between minimum details and immense spaciousness. His work leave us uncertain face the reality or the illusion of the narrate events, despite every details reveal the next. This perspective, hanging between the taste for arcane and technical experimentalisms, open Facco’s work to a multiplicity of interpretations where temporality and spaciousness dialog in a sort of “another” reality.

Eléonore De Lardemelle, born in Nancy (France),1979. Lives and works in Paris.
The work of Eléonore De Lardemelle consists in a series of theatrical “mise en scène” where classical ingredients of “divertissement”, mute film and childhood’s tales coexist with humor. Unique protagonist: the artist, but every featured character succeeds in creating different codes and interrogates himself about the functioning of human being. With the “mise en abîme” of the cult of the personality, sometimes the research leads progressively to the verge of hysteria. White scenographies made with paperboard cover up video installations in which the spectator become “voyeur” of a playful interaction between myth, derision and a burlesque demystification.

Nikola Uzunovski, born in Zemun, Belgrade (Serbia),1979. Lives and works in Venice and Helsinki.
“Snowflakes” is a flash animation where snow crystals appear and disappear; every crystal is different from the other and their combination multiply itself according to statistic’s rules. Representing the chaos of the world? Or try, as in a physical experiment, to arrive to demonstrate the never-ended, that every single thing change but remain also the same? In the series of photos “Snow” different countries’ landscapes covered by snow have been captured, but the over-exposure of the film makes every photo become completely white. In fact the artist try to divert the attention from the artistic object in a classical sense to involve the spectator in the creative process as an active character. The experience of the artist wants to be only the starting point that refers to thousand of other experiences and to the reflections about what happens in the universe.

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