Liliana Moro: This Is the End

opening April 4, 2008, 6:00 pm

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Friday, the 4th of April 2008 Careof and Viafarini inaugurate their new venues and the DOCVA Documentation Center for Visual Arts in Milan with the solo show by Liliana Moro.

Liliana Moro, This Is the End Careof and Viafarini are pleased to announce the opening of their new exhibition spaces at Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, with a common exhibition dedicated to Liliana Moro, curated by Milovan Farronato. Moro, international artist particularly bound to the city of Milan, participated in the 45th Venice Biennale in 1993 and Documenta IX in Kassel in 1992, besides helding an important series of solo and group shows at prestigious institutions worldwide, among them Castello di Rivoli in Turin in 1994, Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 1998, Stichting De Appel in Amsterdam in 1999 and CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art in San Francisco in 2005.

This Is the End, provocative title chosen by Liliana Moro to evoke an end and a new beginning at the same time, gathers in a raw and minimal architecture a series of early sculptures and new installations, well-known and unseen. A selection not intended to give a retrospective view on the decennial career of the artist, but rather offering a special perspective and a particular interpretative horizon on her work.

Walls with sharp corners leave undefined perimeters, but enclose rooms which sometimes are accessible, sometimes not. They draw a clean structure, a sculpture in itself, providing the environment for the uncertain visitors moving around and for the five works coming into sight: sculptures, installations and a neon writing, in an even, but unpredictable, game of balance focusing around an ideal center. Dispersion and concentration, inside and outside, light and sound suggestions, ambiguous simulacra and mechanisms gone wild are the main ingredients.

The wall itself acquires a symbolic role, and turns from simple architectural element into quotation with multiple meanings; it is the image of the many obstacles that we run up against; it is the barrier to overcome if we want to go beyond and discover what is on the other side; it is the limit which we have to deal with in everyday life; the internal and external filter, the shell that protects us from the world or the screen that prevents us from communicating with the outside.

Liliana Moro
This Is the End