ZANELE MUHOLI
Somnyama Ngonyama
Curated by Francesca de’ Medici
PROMETEO GALLERY IDA PISANI
Via G. Ventura 6 - Via Massimiano 20134, Milan
Opening
Wednesday, September 27
from 6.00 PM until 9.00 PM
28.09 - 20.12.2023
Curated by Francesca de’ Medici
AN ONLINE EXHIBITION
UNTIL 8 JANUARY 2023
Viewings by appointment
GUIDO SILEONI
Angeli Concordi
Curated by Francesca de’ Medici
VUOTOPIENO
Via Pietro Cossa, 28 Roma
Opening
10-13 November 2023
GUIDO SILEONI
Alius Pulchritūdo
Curated by Francesca de’ Medici
Solo Exhibition
Sala del Frontone,
Orbetello
Tuscany
Italy
ZANELE MUHOLI & ROBERT HAMBLIN
Time Will Tell
“Time Will Tell is a project by Zanele Muholi and Robert Hamblin, two visual arts activists from South Africa, who have been fighting against race and gender discrimination for a long time. Their art provokes profound reflections on the subject of queerness, which today is more urgent and unavoidable than ever. Right now in Italy we need to give further strength to a movement for change through work of this nature.”
- Curator, Francesca de’ Medici, Tuscany, 2 October 2022
ROBERT HAMBLIN
Carry My Heart
Curated by Francesca de’ Medici
Hamblin returns to Rome for a second residency this time at Studio DFB - Creative, a space offered by artist Alberto Di Fabio.
WILLEMIEN DE VILLIERS
Willemien de Villiers is a multi-disciplinary artist who mainly uses needle and thread to create visual narratives that explore feminist themes in an intimate and personal way. Other mediums include painting and ceramics. She is a published author of two novels – Kitchen Casualties (Jacana, 2003) and Virgin in the Treehouse (Jacana, 2007) as well as several short stories. She lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.
FRANCESCA CASU
Francesca Casu’s work is profoundly influenced by the wildness of her native Sardinian landscape and its ancient cultural history. Working directly from nature she translates the experience of long meditative walks into the obsessive translation of sketchbooks and drawings. The fauna and flora find their space alongside the myths and legends of an ancient culture that even the Romans could not conquer. Casu’s language is a unique mix of Sardinian ancestral symbols and shamanic traditions searching for their voice amidst the challenges of contemporary civil society.
GABRIELE TOGNOLONI
“Looking for a limit means looking for measure, which Gabriele Tognoloni finds in the human body. The human body is classically understood, as the measure of all things and therefore ultimately and simultaneously a point of view on the world and part of it. Resulting from this investigation the body departs from the classic canons of perfection of balance and harmony and now finds its own tenet through a soulful journey capable of pivotal representations where nothing is left of a human figure, when in reality nothing is missing from it.”
Critical text by Cesare Coppari, in Neue Keramik no.5 2022
MICHAEL DAVIDSON
For several years Michael Davidson resided in European countries where he experienced historical and contemporary paintings, initiating what would become an abiding commitment to the development of a personal approach. He now resides in Toronto,with artist wife Nicole Collins and actor daughter Matilda Davidson. Davidson’s work can be found many international collections. He has exhibited in London, New York, Los Angeles and Singapore. His paintings have been widely published and in the book ‘26’ (2007) where he refers his abstraction, as the factual language of the invisible.
