Milano Art Bulletin | Focus on | Monica De Cardenas

Focus on: Monica De Cardenas Claudia Losi "Asking Shelter" Until 18 March Tuesday – Saturday, 3-7 pm #monicadecardenas #claudialosi www.monicadecardenas.com info@monicadecardenas.com T. +39 0229010068 Via F. Viganò 4, 20124 Milano View on the map Galleria Monica De Cardenas is pleased to announce the exhibition by Claudia Losi at the gallery in Milan, after her recent solo show at Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia and her participation in the Hangzhou Triennial in China. In this exhibition Claudia Losi presents a cycle of new works, creating a sort of open ecosystem inside the space of the gallery. The central nucleus is the project Asking Shelter: a series of sculptures that represent archaic, essential huts constructed with rose branches cast in bronze, that have shapes of shelters existing since thousands of years in different areas of the planet - highly symbolic and narrative forms.  They offer shelter and safety, but also oblige us to stay alert, they might also harbor danger. On some of the branches there are silver reproductions of small metamorphic insects that have backs backs like rose thorns (from the family of the Membracidae). At the entrance to the exhibition there is a photographic enlargement of a fertilized human ovum taken from a science textbook from the 1960s. It resembles a planetary system ready to receive something else, to multiply, to create a new body - ecosystem.  This composite image of a system that contains other systems returns in the globular silk sculpture suspended from the ceiling. In the following room we find silk fabrics colored with vegetal dyes, printed with images of animals juxtaposed by resemblance, recalling the caves where thousands of years ago our ancestors drew their own cosmologies, populating the spaces with beings who shared their habitat: here the animals become ethereal witnesses of the events of the world. The itinerary closes with a series of works about the metamorphic and fragile being par excellence: the butterfly. Wall projections and images of butterflies and moths etched on marble slabs show them as they feed, emerge from the chrysalis or seek the last autumn warmth. Once again, vulnerability and the search for protection become synonymous with the human desire to find comfort, to find meaning in the things that surround us. An open ecosystem that welcomes but can also repel, that changes its quality and can become something other than itself.

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