New Code

Group shows have the ambition to answer questions. Sometimes these are distant from the political, economical and social reality we are thrown into every day but tend to a more intimate and ethical form of life. “NEW CODE” fits perfectly into this ideal even if the theme of the show is the gallery or, better, the future of the gallery.

This show is a developed extension of our presentation at “Anteprima”, the under 35 section of MiArt, that we participated in with the motto “+35-35”, playing with the age of the gallery and the artists, all born after the gallery was started in 1969; a serious challenge for an established gallery and an interesting excercise to question oneself on the future rather than looking back on successes and achievements. This show slides out of that tight braket of age imposed by the fair and goes on inserting the works of other artists that the gallery has recently included in the programme.

In the complex contemporary art scenario is it still possible for a gallery to follow a line of thought rather than a line of market? Can this line be solid enough to resist the passing of time and determine the programme of the gallery though its entire life remaining coherent in its assumptions and unexpected in its conclusions? Brian Alfred with these painted landscapes between digital and analog, Eelco Brand with his recreations of nature only so virtual made of video and still images, Arthur Duff with the string installations and writings playing with vocabolary and perspectives, Michael Light photographer of true landscapes that seem not so, Tracey Snelling, reproducing an American reality made of scenarios mixing souve! nir, curiosity and voyerism, Timothy Tompkins with those enamel paintings that long the thin boundary between photography and painting, Mikhael Subotzky with a 360° work on South African prisons filled with humanity and confrontation, Pablo Zuleta- Zahr with the constant re-organization of populations.

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New Code

mit Brian Alfred, Eelco Brand, Arthur Duff, Michael Light, Tracey Snelling, Timothy Tompkins, Mikhael Subotzky, Pablo Zuleta-Zahr