exhibition view at gallery kenworthy-ball lange + pult, Zürich. February 2010

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details “o.T (Rasterbilder)”. 2010

silkscreen on aluminium, steel track, in six parts, each 150 x 215 cm

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exhibition view at gallery kenworthy-ball lange + pult, Zürich. February 2010

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Portrait of the artist as a young monkey. 2010.

silkscreen on mirror glass on wood base. 233 x 150 cm

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“o.T (Rasterbilder)”. 2010

silkscreen on aluminium, steel track, in six parts, each 150 x 215 cm

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view of the exhibition and details. “o.T (Rasterbilder)”. 2010

silkscreen on aluminium, steel track, in six parts, each 150 x 215 cm

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Last Saturday I had the chance to view the work of swiss artist PIETRO MATTIOLI at Gallery kenworthy-ball lange+pult in Zürich. For the exhibition entitled “Theorem”, he presents pictures from the collective memory of the Modernism via his unique approach.

The monumental work, “o.T (Rasterbilder)”, is described as the “pictograms of Modernism“: six hanging parts show increased pictures from newspapers depicting natural disasters, architecture elements (by GROPIUS), bunkers and in between, lost people from Filmstills by ANTONIONI, dancing all together on aluminium crumpled like a newspaper. Because newspapers belong to the garbage of modernity according to the artist.

PIETRO MATTIOLI graduated at the Kunstgewerbeschule department photography in Zürich. He is curator for “Raum für zeitgenössische Schweizer Fotografie” of the Coal Mine photo gallery in Winterthur (Switzerland). And since 1994, he works at Fotomuseum in Winterthur as co-curator of the exhibtions.

“Theorem” is on view until Saturday, 20 March, 2010  at Gallery kenworthy-ball lange+pult