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The AFA 2 (2) group show is a Guest Project on at Marseille’s Art-O-Rama 2016 opening August 26 and running to the 28.
The show, led by nomadic ‘art project staircase’ 63rd-77th STEPS, will feature works by ÅYR, Jesse Darling, Louisa Gagliardi, Gregory Kalliche, Martin Kohout, Hannah Lees, Kareem Lotfy, Daniele Milvio, Yuri Pattison, Fabio Santacroce, Anna Solal, Diamond Stingily, Philipp Timischl, Zoe Williams and Bruno Zhu among many others.
AFA is an Italian term for ‘mugginess’ ; a reference to the exhausting weather condition and the title of the first instalment that happened in a deserted bank over three days in Italy’s Bari in 2014, and the second, AFA 2, on a public beach in 2014. The press release for AFA 2 (2) explains its used as “a metaphor of our social, political and artistic scenario, and turned by the artists into black & white artworks, digitally printed on microfiber.”
To support the exhibition program, beach towels designed by the artists will be on sale.
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Louisa Gagliardi is presenting an exhibition, Over and Under, featuring Adam Cruces + Greg Ito, at Brussels’ Mon Chéri, opening January 28 and running to March 5.
There’s no information on what the exhibition entails aside from a text by Laura Indorato Erba describing elements of French artist Henri Matisse’s practice for pinning cutouts to his studio walls. It carries on to relate this “perforation of the surface” to “a determined choice to form one’s physical identity these days”.
Drawing on ideas of body modification and home decorating as attempts to construct “an individual perception of a human being’s outer appearance” the wandering prose suggests a human modifies their environment to suit themselves, and not the other way around: “It has been turned into another form of expressing oneself through becoming a spatial ornament.”
See the FB event page for details.**