Luca Francesconi. Pane pane pane vino canale di scolo

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Pane pane pane vino canale di scolo
exhibition view at Galleria Umberto Di Marino, Napoli

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Farmer I, II, 2014
iron, cotton, milkmachine, each 180 x 30 x 50 cm circa

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fish, dried abramis brama, resin

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fish, dried carassius, resin

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fish, dried carassius, resin

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Capo, 2014
machined steel, vegetable, 70 x 35 x 5 cm,

Cafone, 2014
machined steel, vegetable, 50 x 25 x 5 cm

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Pane pane pane vino canale di scolo
exhibition view at Galleria Umberto Di Marino, Napoli

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Pane pane pane vino canale di scolo
exhibition view at Galleria Umberto Di Marino, Napoli

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End of rivers, 2014
acciaio, dried silurus glanis, resin, variable dim.

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Potato Field, 2014
resin

all images courtesy of the artist, photo by D. DONZELLI

For his latest solo exhibition entitled pane pane pane vino canale di scolo, Italian artist LUCA FRANCESCONI presents a brand new group of three-dimensional works that connects objects and situations in both familiar and remote visual constellations.

Working with materials often sourced from the artist’s immediate environment such as stones, shells, vegetables, flowers but also dried fishes or reptiles, LUCA FRANCESCONI holds an intense fascination with the natural world and the countless manifestations of human culture within it. Uniting organic, artistic, and technological forms, FRANCESCONI makes the relationships between natural, found and modified forms imprecise while liberating marginalized materials and narratives. Through the process of his interventions and transformations, he not only raises complex questions about the identities of things and beings, but also invites the spectator to examine the very exhibition space.

‘Pane pane pane vino canale di scolo’ (‘bread bread bread wine, drainage canal’) is an exhibition that establishes itself as a field. A field that can be best described as being embedded in a chain of production, or embedded in nature. A field that extends out to encompass a latitudinous view, and by doing so elucidating a history that reaches back to when man directly cultivates that which sustains him and reaches forward to a potential of agriculture formed by an ability to manipulate all stages of its own process. From a one to one relationship with nature to an imperceptible and incomprehensible distance between production and consumption. This field is the ground, in which to cultivate a specific and local group of objects, and to introduce them as terms. An object or a sculpture existing as a potato or a dead fish or a human figure. They are placed in a room which is also a machine, a river and once again, a field. This (semantic) field expands further to include terms that have yet to be given meaning. It is here at this edge of comprehendible forms that a fertile ground might be found. – JASON HWANG, curator of the exhibition*

➝ the solo exhibition of LUCA FRANCESCONI, pane pane pane vino canale di scolo is on view at Galleria Umberto Di Marino in Napoli till May 20, 2014

text from the press release



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