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Un tempo lungo I ILARIA CUCCAGNA GIULIA MARCHI
26/02/2022

Un tempo lungo I ILARIA CUCCAGNA GIULIA MARCHI

Galleria Ramo, in collaboration with Matèria, is pleased to present a double solo show: Un tempo lungo, by Ilaria Cuccagna and Giulia Marchi.

Un tempo lungo (A long time), just as we are experiencing in this historical moment, inexorably accompanying us throughout our daily routines for two long years, in which everything seems to have stopped, leaving us suspended and waiting. Un tempo lungo, also connects the practice of both artists for whom research and study dilate and extend time and space in their works.

An appeal to dedicate the right time to observing the works on display, an invitation to look by taking breaks, identifying the right rhythm to recognise with awareness what the artists propose. The exhibition project is a result of an intellectual exchange between Ilaria Cuccagna and Giulia Marchi, a meeting and an opportunity that brings the results of unprecedented research into the gallery; a synthesis of works created by Marchi exhibited in a parallel show at the Roman gallery Matèria and Cuccagna’s works to be found at the Swiss Foundation, Museo Mecrì, where it is possible to view their respective solo shows.

The exhibition will be accompanied by two texts, a dialogue between the gallerist Niccolò Fano and the artist Giulia Marchi and one by the art critic Annika Pettini dedicated to the research of Ilaria Cuccagana.

Ilaria Cuccagna's works are real evidence of one or more mutations, the process of which might seem unresolved, as if the viewer had turned into an archaeologist who for the first time finds an ancient sculpture that emerged from the earth. In her new research, presented in the gallery, she uses a building material - polyurethane - to create sculptures that evoke ancient faces wrapped in an expansive force, an (only apparently) uncontrolled explosion. Represented by Galleria Ramo, Cuccagna, in 2019, won the Swiss Young Artists Contest award and has exhibited in various exhibitions including; Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Malta Biennale, Luigi Varoli Civic Museum, Spazio Officina M.A.X. Museum.

The works on display by Giulia Marchi are identified with the artist's latest research, space and awareness of our undergoing limitations and thoughts, as the driving force of our daily life. A purified presentation of reality, abstracted from the convulsive and confusing process that characterises it. The materials investigated are marble, paper, wood and iron, engaged in space without interpretation but managed by attempting a sincere relationship with them and with their prerogatives. Finally, the word acts as a glue for the works on display, the thought becomes concrete through the text and expands thanks to the material. In Como there will be fragments of works exhibited in the Roman gallery, Matèria, where it presents a site specific exhibition focused on the research of space. Currently represented by Matèria and Labs Contemporary, Marchi won the Photography Section of the Combat Award in 2021 and has exhibited in various local and international exhibitions.

From February 26th to May 22nd 2022 the two artists are present within our gallery walls in Via Borsieri 4 / D Como, Italy.

From 19.02.22 to 22.05.22 Giulia Marchi’s solo show Una pietra sopra is viewable at the Roman gallery Matèria and from 20.03.2022 to 19.06.2022 Ilaria Cuccagna is hosted with a solo exhibition at the Mecrì Museum Foundation in Minusio-Locarno, Switzerland.

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