Past
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Anticamere
Norberto Spina 1 Apr - 23 May 2025 Toying with a sense of hermetic foreboding while also nodding at the actual display conceived by the artist, the exhibition meditates on the intersecting of memory, perception and form. An imposing dark wooden structure erected in situ stands halfway between the outstretched back wall and the columns which part the... Read more -
Watching the Earth set
Nour El Saleh 12 Feb - 21 Mar 2025 Nour El Saleh ’s pictorial universe sabotages aesthetics underpinnings. Scraggy figures, disproportionate and grotesque, stare on in their lanky nakedness while they are being seemingly peeked at through a surveillance camera. Selfhood and otherness hold hands in a stirring push and pull of tenderness and repulsion. Bodies like a simulacrum... Read more -
Viscous
María Fragoso Jara, Wang Haiyang, Zsófia Keresztes, Jessie Makinson, Oda Iselin Sønderland 20 Nov 2024 - 24 Jan 2025 Cassina Projects is excited to present Viscous, the latest group show at the gallery featuring works by María Fragoso Jara (*1995), Wang Haiyang (*1984), Zsófia Kerestzes (*1985), Jessie Makinson (*1985) and Oda Iselin Sønderland (*1996). Building upon a synesthetic parallelism with the tactile experience of viscosity, the exhibition mines the... Read more -
Shift
Louisa Clement 19 Sep - 31 Oct 2024 Digging deeper into her extensive exploration of socially disruptive technology and transhumanism, Clement’s new display featuring installation, video and wall pieces zeroes in on a somber scenario where the artificial and the human eerily feed on each other. Compelled to negotiate the perilous potential of genomic manipulations, the show taps... Read more -
Star of a Hero
Gustavo Nazareno 6 Jun - 19 Jul 2024 Setting the artist latest body of work against the imposing architecture of the upper floor of the gallery, the exhibition freely references the homonymous painting made in 1936 by Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947), legendary figure whose studies spanned anthropology, ethnography, occultism, archaeology, theosophy alongside art and painting across 19th and 20th... Read more -
To Romanticize with Indecision | curated by Monia Ben Hamouda and Michele Gabriele
Monia Ben Hamouda, Andrew Birk, Anne de Vries, Michele Gabriele, Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, Bradford Kessler 10 Apr - 1 Jun 2024 Hesitation, contradictions, and fluid paths are the central topics in which this show envelops. Incoherence, transitions, and inconsistency are interrogating the possibilities of working and making art without finding ‘your own voice’, or looking at things without fear; to embrace contradictions in our practices, as a need and necessity within... Read more -
After Reminiscence | curated by Federico Montagna
Camilla Alberti, Leonardo Devito, Carla Giaccio Darias, Aronne Pleuteri, Matilde Sambo, Norberto Spina, VEGA, Martina Zanin 25 Jan - 16 Mar 2024 In contrast to the narrow conception of continuous renewal which is tied to the very idea of contemporary art, talking about reminiscence today actually means addressing a discourse articulated on broad levels of reading. In our country, remembrance, the concept of archive and memory, seem to be entrenched in a... Read more -
Dissolve and Come Back
Sara Birns 28 Nov 2023 - 27 Jan 2024 Hyperrealistic, peculiar grimaces and twisted expressions set the tempo in Sara Birns’ whimsical world of distorting, funhouse mirrors. Using old master oil techniques, Birns paints personified fauna and portraits mingling features of various individuals as well as her own, hinting at a kaleidoscopic universe where diverse beings fuse into new... Read more -
Occhi, lingue, sangue, stelle
Carol Rama - Cecilia Granara 21 Sep - 18 Nov 2023 For the first time, the exhibition brings together ten selected works created between the mid-1950s and 2000s by the renowned artist from Turin, with a new body of paintings and site-specific interventions by Granara freely inspired by Rama’s practice. The dialogue between Carol Rama and Cecilia Granara does not originate... Read more -
When Feelings become Form
Tsai-Ling Tseng 8 Jun - 21 Jul 2023 Cassina Projects is pleased to present NY-based, Taiwanese artist’s Tsai-Ling Tseng (*1991, Taipei, Taiwan) first solo show with the gallery. With the new body of work included in When Feelings become Form, Tseng traverses the parallel universe contained inside the rectangular shape of a canvas opening up to the narrative... Read more -
Outer Skin. Inner Gaze | curated by Giovanna Manzotti
Jens Kothe 21 Apr - 1 Jun 2023 Curated by Giovanna Manzotti , the project revolves around the dialogue between a body of wall sculptures and an installation consisting of three fences, a curved counter and a series of casts of feet and ceramic hands: a sculptural reinterpretation on some of the security signals, such as the palm... Read more -
Chimera
Reverie 21 Apr - 1 Jun 2023 Displayed on the upper floor of the gallery space the exhibition unveils the artist’s new body of sculptural works which initiates her most recent cycle “Ritualità quotidiana”. On the inaugural night a one-time-only performance titled Primo rito quotidiano will be staged by the artist. A symbolic visual reenacting of birth,... Read more -
Bodies and Souls
Feng Chen, Huang Hai-Hsin, Pixy Liao, Wang Haiyang, Liao Wen 21 Feb - 15 Apr 2023 Bodies and Souls presents the work of Liao Wen , Wang Haiyang , Pixy Liao , Huang Hai-Hsin , and Feng Chen in Milan for the first time. These five contemporary artists grew up in a similar Asian cultural context and their work is characterized by the use of the... Read more -
Hang a Crocodile outside for the Unbelievers
Alessandro Fogo 21 Feb - 15 Apr 2023 The title evokes a Catholic custom dating back to the 15th century, that of hanging a stuffed crocodile inside spaces devoted to the Marian cult. Held high up, chained and hanging upside down from the ceiling, crocodiles were said to be rendered harmless in this way, depleted of the evil... Read more -
Haeji Min. Beyond the Birthplace
24 Nov 2022 - 14 Jan 2023 Timeless and elusive, Min's rich paintings dig the juncture of abstraction and figuration, dancing between the all-encompassing hypnotic flow of life cycle and the representational urge of morphing bodies grappling with nature. Notions of expanded consciousness and oneness with the environment are enacted on a vivid backdrop ranging from liquid... Read more -
Devyanostie (Девяностые)
Nataliya Chernakova, Daria Dmytrenko, Vitaliia Fedorova, Victoria Kosheleva, Bogdan Koshevoy with the special participation and 22 Sep - 10 Dec 2022 Throughthe use of paint, sculpture,video ad installation, in the work of each artists reside cultural attributes of Eastern European, personal childhood memories and a common sensibility which overcomes the geographic boundaries as we know them today. Devyanostie (Девяностые) - literally 90s - is a word that more than pinning an... Read more -
Fluuuuuido | curated by Edoardo Monti
Sara Birns, Daria Dmytrenko, Delphine Hennelly, Léo Luccioni 9 Jun - 23 Jul 2022 Let's not be fooled by appearances. Let us cross the surface of the figure, let us go beyond it. We are bombarded with figures and images. They don't even have the time to hit us and we have already forgotten them. Let us rather focus on the movements, the gestures,... Read more -
Tightrope
Ndidi Emefiele, Nour El Saleh, Alessandro Fogo, Cecilia Granara, Erna Mist, Tsai-Ling Tseng 25 May - 16 Jul 2022 Outside world and inner world dovetail as the works on display delve into the meanderings of human experience laying bare the collapsing of standard binaries of real and fictional. Foundational notions like belonging and selfhood have been shaken by a prolonged liminal experience of spatial alienation and temporal warp. Limbo... Read more -
Gustavo Nazareno. Notas pessoais de fé
curated by Deri Andrade 15 Mar - 30 Apr 2022 Presenting a new body of oil paintings and charcoals on paper, Nazareno expands on his spiritual and visual exploration of the Orishas, deities venerated by the syncretic Brazilian Umbanda cult and other religions of the African diaspora related to the Yoruba, who found their way to most of the world... Read more -
Louisa Clement. Counterpain
28 Oct 2021 - 15 Jan 2022 Reinforcing her ongoing artistic investigation on the hybridization and standardization of the human body, the display of works gives voice to the heterogeneity of Clement's practice providing conceptual framework for the presentation of her latest project to date: Representative. Her own avatar, an artificial clone about as close to human... Read more -
x_minimal | curated by Friederike Nymphius
14 May - 2 Oct 2021 x_minimal (across minimal) is a cross over survey of minimalistic tendencies from the late 70es until today. Each of the selected artists has developed a signature style, which distinguishes his work as an independent artistic position. Despite all differences between the single artists in terms of media, form of expression... Read more -
Iώ
18 Feb - 30 Apr 2021 The myth of Iώ - first priestess of Hera, the wife of Zeus - is quintessentially a story of torment, metamorphosis and, above all, lust. Desire, regarded as a gravitational force transcending aesthetics and form, governs immortal gods and humans alike. Beautiful nymph and mortal lover, Iώ was seduced by... Read more -
Yves Scherer. By Your Side
22 Jan - 27 Mar 2021 Yves Scherer ’s multifarious language explores the notion of identity, tiptoeing across the porous line between fiction and real life and defying the binaries of individual and collective, private and public. Piecing together diverse bodies of work from the artist recent output, By Your Side builds upon the dissolution of... Read more -
Gert and Uwe Tobias. All your secrets
9 Sep - 19 Dec 2020 Drawing on the artists typically enigmatic language, All your Secrets projects a sense of metamorphic state that embraces the interplay of lyrical abstraction and whimsical figuration across the gallery two floors. Upon entering the exhibition space, black walls and grave compositions conjure an obscure tone amplified by gridded motifs which... Read more -
Area Caproni U8OPIA
16 Jan - 31 Jul 2020 Developing through the two floors of the gallery, the exhibition reveals a transient world populated by humanoid figures suggesting new mechanisms to regulate life. Their recent artworks, some of which never exhibited before, engage an interactive questioning in which way encounters between humans, their bodies and life cycles are evolving.... Read more -
Gerold Miller. The Monoform Show
12 Sep - 21 Dec 2019 The Monoforms are a series of works which came into being in 2014 with Monoform 1 : conceptually and formally, they reveal the maximum material reduction of Gerold Miller's artistic process which draws inspiration from one of his earliest works; Anlage from 1994, a work that established the parameters of... Read more -
Marcel Eichner. Paintings and drawings 2009 - 2019
12 Sep - 21 Dec 2019 Done in different years and moments between Berlin and Barcelona, the paintings on display interact with each other suggesting that the search for tranquillity is a lonely road. Surrounded by altered fragments of language and dripping ink, the characters depicted on a surreal scale are human and semi-human characters, friends... Read more -
Daily Unfamiliar
26 Apr - 27 Jul 2018 In Daily Unfamiliar , diverse generations of Italian artists converge as a result of their bridged interest in the transcendental and evocative qualities of everyday objects, materials, and physical transformations. Through varying practices and visual languages, the artists aim to elevate familiar aspects of daily life while translating them into... Read more -
Yves Scherer. Primal
22 Feb - 14 Apr 2018 Engaging with celebrity culture, online media, and spectacle, Scherer has been particularly recognized for portraying personal experiences in the context of today's globalized society of digitally accessible information. Breaching the gap between the intimate and public, the artist questions our perception of reality through a virtual world of instantly recognizable... Read more -
Gerold Miller
2 Nov 2017 - 10 Feb 2018 Since his beginnings as an artist, the viewer has played an important role as a critical entity as well as an active participant in Gerold Miller 's artistic research. He has never offered a 'painting' or 'sculpture' in the traditional sense, rather his work is based upon the premise of... Read more -
Grimm Tales
7 Sep - 21 Oct 2017 Stories of bravery and horror, of villains, of misty full moons, of dark and mysterious rooms in ancient castles. No matter our age, the folktales collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 19th century never fail to enchant us. The power of these stories lies beyond their fantastic setting and... Read more -
In Praise of Shadows
3 May - 28 Jul 2017 In 1933, the Japanese novelist Jun'ichiro Tanizaki wrote the seminal essay on Japanese aesthetics In Praise of Shadows, outlining some of the key tenets of the country's particular way of perceiving light and darkness. Although specific to Japan, today Tanizaki's essay more widely speaks to an aesthetic sensibility that has... Read more -
After Image
28 Feb - 15 Apr 2017 Stare into to the maxed-out brightness of your smartphone, tablet, or monitor and hold your gaze there. Notice how its immediate surroundings become darker. Now turn away and close your eyes; an optical echo of the screen will remain. This technically termed afterimage is a perceptual slippage that arises from... Read more -
Figure of Speech
10 Nov 2016 - 11 Feb 2017 Figure of Speech is a three-person show featuring the work of David Czupryn, Georg Herold and Katja Seib . A 'figure of speech' is a rhetorical device that enriches text with complex layers of significance: it can be a specific arrangement or omission of words, a particular kind of repetition,... Read more -
Beyond the cartoon
15 Sep - 29 Oct 2016 Beyond the Cartoon explores the language of the cartoon as a way of making sense of the world at large. In doing so, it expands on the multi-faceted universe of cartoons and the impact it has had on various generations of contemporary artists. The animated world is a space that... Read more
