Walk in and let your eyes settle not on the centre of the walls, but on their extremities. On the top sand the bottoms, and where the walls converge.
The works in this exhibition occupy the solid and the void, the negative and the positive, the passages and the cavities. All possible thoughts, above and below the surface of things, beyond the centre line of our horizon.
Corners constrict our living space, compressing our creativity, demarcating the arena in which each artist stages his or her own tale, occupying a space and measuring up to it with both body and mind.
Our body too is given rhythm by cavities and corners that open up and close tight, welcoming others into our intimacy or closing us off from contact.
Occupying a corner means making a lateral shift, searching among the folds of our everyday world for the infra-ordinaire that Georges Perec spoke about when using fresh eyes to observe normal things and the commonplace, as well as the most mundane, and when listening to the background noise of life, wondering about the hidden value of its mind-blowing ordinariness.
– Eva Brioschi (Norma Mangione Gallery press release)
Artists: Francesco Arena, Richard Artschwager, Talia Chetrit, Daniel Faust, Francesco Gennari, Paolo Icaro, Jochen Lempert, Robert Mapplethorpe, Landon Metz, Maurizio Nannucci, Richard Nonas, Giulio Paolini, Pratchaya Phinthong, SteveMcQueen, Fred Sandback, Rosemarie Trockel, Franz Erhard Walther.
Curated by: Eva Brioschi
Wildwood, 2015, archival pigment print, 28 x 43 cm, ed. of 3
Courtesy the artist and Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin
Dahshur, 2011, archival pigment print, 28 x 43 cm, ed. of 3
Courtesy the artist and Norma Mangione Gallery,Turin
Same words, different thoughts, 2009, neon, variable dimensions
Courtesy the artist
Untitled (fingers), 2006, photograph, 46,4 x 37,5 cm (framed), ed. of 6 + 1 AP
Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Extrême Orient, 2013, book, 166 x 15 x 2,5 cm, ed. of 3 + 1 AP
Photo credit Martin Argyroglo. Courtesy the artist and Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan
Vincent / Armpit, 1981, gelatin silver print, 40,6 x 50, 8 cm, ed. of 10
© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission. Courtesy of Galleria Franco Noero, Turin
Replace me, 2009, b/w digital print, 51,1 x 58,4 x 3,2 cm (framed), ed. 3/6
La Gaia Collection, Busca (CN). Copyright Rosemarie Trockel and SIAE, 2017. Courtesy Sprüth Magers
All is dust, 2011, gold leaf, diameter 45 cm, series of unique pieces
Courtesy the artist and GB Agency, Paris
Bike Seat, 2013, silver gelatin print, 69 x 58 cm (framed), ed. 2/4 + 2 AP
Courtesy the artist and Kaufmann Repetto, Milan
Untitled, 2017, iron, 13,5 cm x 14 cm x 1,5 cm
Photo credit Carlo Favero. Courtesy P420, Bologna
Untitled, 2017, dye on canvas, three canvases 80,6 x 64,5 cm each
Courtesy the artist and Francesca Minini, Milan
Là dove nasce un angolo in scala palmo², 2000, lead sheet, 18,5 x 12,5 x 5,5 cm
Photo credit Carlo Favero. Courtesy P420, Bologna
Wand Ecken II, 1963, nettle, filling material out of cotton, four elements 27 x 27 x 2,7 cm each,
The Franz Erhard Walther Foundation, Fulda
Courtesy The Franz Erhard Walther Foundation, Fulda
Untitled (black), 1974, black acrylic yarn, 162,5 x 162,5 x 122 cm, ed. 3/5,
La Gaia Collection, Busca (CN)
Courtesy Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston
1-2, 2017, collage on paper, two elements 31 x 22,8 cm each (framed)
Photo credit Sebastiano Pellion di Persano. Courtesy Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin
Study for Splatter Chair, 1995, ink on paper, 44,5 x 38,1 cm (framed),
Private collection
Courtesy private collection
Extrême Occident, 2013, book, 166 x 15 x 2,5 cm, ed. of 3 + 1 AP
Photo credit Martin Argyroglo. Courtesy the artist and Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan
Il luogo dove non c’è più posto per la coscienza (angolo n. 1), 2008, silver, 95 x 95 x 0,5 cm, unique,
Marco Ghigi Collection, Bologna
Courtesy Zero, Milan
Untitled (Barcelona Pavilion), 2007, silver gelatin print, 38,5 x 48 cm, ed. of 5
Courtesy the artist and ProjecteSD, Barcelona
Corner, 1968, neon, variable dimensions,
La Gaia Collection, Busca (CN)
Courtesy the artist
