Until 31 st May, the visitor will be able to approach the present of the transalpine country’s creation through the work of three artists who do not leave anyone indifferent. The exhibition is promoted by Espacio Sin Título, Cano Estudio’s gallery, and the fair Drawing Room Madrid.
Danilo Buccella, Anna Turina and Gilberto Giovagnoli represent the present of Italian drawing on its most provocative and irreverent outline. For the first time, Linee forti gathers the free stroke of Gilberto Giovagnoli’s erotic figures (San Marino, 1954), Danilo Buccella’s grotesque, satirical nature (Liestel, 1974) and Anna Turina’s ironic and iconographic imagination (Lecco, 1973).
D R A W I N G P R O V O C A T I O N
The exhibition is an initiative of Espacio Sin Título, Cano Estudio’s gallery, and the fair Drawing Room Madrid, with the aim to approach the Italian contemporary creation.
The project has been curated by the Bolognese cultural manager Antonio de Falco, with the collaboration of three prestigious galleries, Federico Luger Gallery (Milan), Martina’s Gallery (Monza) and D406 Fedeli alla linea (Modena).
A B O U T E S P A C I O S I N T Í T U L O
Espacio Sin Título —Cano Estudio’s gallery— was born as meeting point and place for social upheaval. It is a platform to present unreleased international artists to the Spanish market. Its walls have exhibited, among others, Hedi Slimane, Yoshitomo Nara, John Pawson or Hussein Chalayan. Also, the space has made known specifically-created projects by Spanish authors —such as Juan Zamora or José Luis Cremades— and has been the place of revelation of young art talents, such as Blanca Gracia.
A R T I S T S
A N N A T U R I N A (Lecco, Italy, 1973) lives and works in Milan. Trained as stage designer in Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (Milan), she soon became interested in sculpture and installation, in addition to drawing, carrying out studies in Accademia di Carrara. The series of ink and watercolour paper drawings dedicated to pin-up girls is one of her most recent works. This series recreates the typical American iconography of magazine models, but with modified elements revealing the innermost presence of death faced by American soldiers during World War II. Nominated for the Celeste Award 2013, Anna Turina has exhibited in the Finland Festival of Hanko and in the Must Museum of Vimercate. In Italy, she regularly collaborates with stylists such as Simone Minonzio or Tom Rebl. In our country, in Barcelona, Anna Turina has exhibited in Palau Robert and in Espacio Julie Sohn.
D A N I L O B U C C E L L A Liestel, Switzerland, 1974). Born in Switzerland but based in Milan, Buccella is a ‘dark’ artist, a visionary who fascinates through gloomy and delirious ambiences. His paintings, of a symbolist nature, refer to the literary universe of tales by Poe, Le Fanu, Simenon or Roth. His last drawings depict grotesque characters who give life to small scenes on a place between reality and nightmare. He received the Bergamo Award 2009. His work is part of the collections of Deutsche Bank and Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, among others. His work has been exhibited in the Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in San Marino, in the Fondazione Durini and the Palazzo Reale in Milan, and he has participated in the Anteprima Quadriennale di Roma - Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna (GNAM) in Rome.
G I L B E R T O G I O V A G N O L I (San Marino, 1954). He lives and works in San Marino. Being an eclectic and self-critical artist, he considers that he has retired, but his provocative gaze is always active. His portrays of «illustrious» characters, from Warhol or Paul McCarthy to Adolf Hitler, are born from the energetic and chaotic lines of his pens, with an extreme style that recalls the Art Brut and challenges censorship limits with ironic violence, irreverent text and salacious desire. Giovagnoli participated in the Venice Biennale of 1982 and, recently, in the Biennale del Disegno di Rimini of 2016. In 2015, he presented the retrospective exhibition The Worst. Works 1983 - 2015 in the New York gallery Scaramouche.
He regularly collaborates with the D406 Gallery in Modena.
E X H I B I T I O N : L I N E E F O R T I . D I B U J A N D O L A P R O V O C A C I Ó N
D A T E S : F R O M F E B R U A R Y 2 2 N D T O M A Y 3 1 S T 2 0 1 7
A D D R E S S : A L A M E D A , 3 . 2 8 0 1 4 M A D R I D ( S P A I N )
C O N T A C T : W W W . C A N O E S T U D I O . C O M / E S P A C I O - S I N - T I T U L O /
The selection of works and artists is presented as an apparently varied set, able to collate the most diverse characteristics of drawing and works on paper, in general. According to Antonio de Falco, «drawing —as reasserted in this exhibition— is ultimately configured as a place, a symbolic space, where extreme, borderline reflections converge, giving life to grotesque or absurd characters of our visual culture, unchaining a personal universe that is revealed in the most immediate and automatically way, achieving a primary value, extremely close to ideas, but also a place of collective representation that gives life to challenging symbologies and iconographies of our contemporaneous culture».
A B O U T D R A W I N G R O O M M A D R I D
The second edition of Drawing Room Madrid will be held at the heart of the Salamanca neighbourhood of Madrid, from Wednesday, February 22nd, to Sunday, February 26th, coinciding with the most exciting week of contemporary art in the capital.
Drawing Room Madrid is a specialized event to discover the richness of contemporary drawing, gathering a new generation of artists who have taken over drawing as a preferential means of expression with the masters of art, who have shown an unquestionable devotion for this discipline.
The exhibition Linee forti. Drawing provocation, presented in Espacio Sin Título, has been conceived as a project to deepen in the Italian contemporary creation. This will be one of the leading wires of the second edition of Drawing Room Madrid, and will extend the Italian art’s presence in the city once the fair is concluded (22 – 26 February 2017 / www.drawingroom.es).
