Otto Zoo

Follow Me

    Close

    I Eat Lunch Between Two Highways
    SERENA VESTRUCCI

    October 7 – November 30, 2013
    • Serena Vestrucci, I eat lunch between two highways, Srappo Quadro, 2013, installation view. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • Serena Vestrucci, I eat lunch between two highways, Srappo Quadro, 2013, installation view. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • Serena Vestrucci, I eat lunch between two highways, Srappo Quadro, 2013, installation view. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • Serena Vestrucci, I eat lunch between two highways, Srappo Quadro, 2013, installation view. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • Serena Vestrucci, I eat lunch between two highways, Srappo Quadro, 2013, installation view. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • Serena Vestrucci, I eat lunch between two highways, Srappo Quadro, 2013, installation view. Courtesy Otto Zoo

    Works

    • Serena Vestrucci, Strappo alla regola,2013,European flag canvas,cotton thread,three months,18x5 m. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • Serena Vestrucci, Strappo alla regola, N°1,2013,European flag canvas,cotton thread mounted on wood,200x150 cm. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • Serena Vestrucci, Ritagli di tempo,2013,paper,eight parts,variable dimensions,three months. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • Serena Vestrucci, Ritagli di tempo,2013,detail. Courtesy Otto Zoo
    • Serena Vestrucci, Collezione di dubbi d’artista,2013,colored pencil on wall,variable dimensions and times. Courtesy Otto Zoo

    OTTO ZOO presents I Eat Lunch Between Two Highways, Serena Vestrucci’s first solo show at the gallery. The artist, who was born in Milan in 1986, has already had numerous shows in Italy and abroad. OTTO ZOO opens the new season choosing to dedicate a solo show to a young Italian artist, inviting her to work and reinterpret the space of the gallery with a new site specific project.

    The exhibition will open Monday, October 7th (until November 30th, 2013) and will consist of three groups of unreleased works, which together constitute one whole organism. These pieces radiate from a theme – central in Vestrucci’s work – of the passage of time, connected to the artist’s continual reflections on the artist ‘s practice and on its contextual implications. The result is a work which investigates the matter of color and of manual skill emptied of its functional purpose, which makes use of paper and other fragile materials. All this refers to a complex web of contrasts and references that are typical of Vestrucci’s work.

    The head of the project presented at OTTO ZOO is made of an atlas of free time (Ritagli di tempo / Spare Time, 2013), a collection of tablets literally created by cutting pieces of paper during the artist’s spare time in the summer of 2013. Day after day, these chronicles start revealing contradictions: the piece, because of its creation during spare time, becomes an image of working time.

    At the center of the organism, an 85 sq m canvas takes shape from the attempt to transform one thing into another through a minute change: the simple gesture of cutting a flag into pieces, rearranging it, can create a night sky. A potentially never-ending operation, a drawing which transforms itself through simple displacement (Strappo alla regola/Bending the Rules, 2013). The slow gesture of sewing and embroidering  the canvas, recalls the origins of the  gallery space, which was previously a textile warehouse and  initiates a dialogue with its past history. The tail of the artistic organism stretches into a space usually not used for exhibitions. Here, a “collection of doubts” tries to hide in the gallery’s storeroom, unsure about whether to reveal itself. (Collezione di dubbi d’artista/Collection of an Artist’s Doubts, 2013).