Luminous Terrain
Guendalina Cerruti, Yulia Iosilzon & Grace Mattingly
27 May - 27 July 2023
From Saturday May 27th to Thursday July 27th 2023, Atipografia hosts the exhibition LUMINOUS TERRAIN, a group show by young artists Yulia Iosilzon (Israel, 1992), Grace Mattingly (Chicago, USA, 1991) and Guendalina Cerruti (Milan, 1992).
The works presented dialogue with each other in the gallery space, through some themes dealt with that the artists share and that each one addresses with her own language: images related to the world of fairy tales, the fantastic, enchantment, childhood, the invention of stories and then fiction.
At the same time, the exhibition aims to broaden the observer's gaze by bringing the narration beyond the purely fairy-tale aspect represented in the works, giving the individual individual researches of the artists a broader interpretative and visionary breath. Does the imaginative degree present in the works manage to lead the visitor back to experiences lived in "reality"?
Guendalina Cerruti's installations represent interior monologues, micro-universes full of feeling and sarcasm, situated between reality, representation and imagination. The artist's subjectivity and popular culture merge, returning a deeply personal narrative, expressed through an enigmatic aesthetic, in which the subjects express an existential and social malaise, a product of contemporary society linked to consumerism and glamorous lifestyles. Grace Mattingly's paintings are bright and playful, populated by female and gender-neutral figures who mingle with animals and creatures in a fantastical universe. The works exude warmth and coziness through a bright, attention-grabbing, full-scale palette. The artist reflects on the themes of gender and sexuality, play and improvisation, fantasy and the unconscious. Yulia Iosilzon is inspired by children's illustrations, fashion and theater to propose fragmentary narratives in large works. The initial legibility of his work is challenged by the persistent use of techniques that interrupt the image, breaking up previous impressions one has of the work in its visual fullness. To create his scenarios, the artist uses scenes from everyday life and then resorts to burlesque, grotesque, irony and humour.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog and a curatorial text by Irene Sofia Comi.