Andrea De Stefani / Ugo La Pietra / Diogo Pimentão / Jessica Warboys

Opening reception thursday, june 3 2010  - 7 pm
june 4 – july 24, 2010

After the unbridled urbanisation of the last twenty years and the new wave of immigration, European cities have focused attention on the limitations in the architecture of the past. All the negative aspects of Functionalism have been exposed, which, considering the construction as a commodity in itself, used mankind as an instrument.

Solar skill is an exhibition that examines the life of human beings inside the urban context. Reflecting on the relationship between the Individual and Architecture, in an intense analysis of both the ‘ego’ and happiness.
The Sun acts upon the city in a persistent and total manner, baking it slowly, alluding to a canvas of fading colours scorched by time, becoming empirical and tangible through its warmth and rays.

The opal sky that the city has built allows us to see it is heavy with the effects of progress, which as fine grains of dust enshroud all the people and return inside them via the lungs.

The inexhaustible solar activity upon the city measures the falsity of time, evoking an abstract sensation of the vacuum of ‘being’ that can only be resolved through individual initiatives.

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Andrea De Stefani, born in Arzignano, 1982. Lives and works in Venice. He recently took part to the recidency programs of Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice and Spinola Banna, Turin. Among his recent exhibitions we can mention Persona in meno, Palazzo Re Baudengo, Guarente d’Alba (CN).

Ugo La Pietra, born in Bussi sul Tirino (PE), 1938. Lives and works in Milano. Artist, designer, architect and researcher, since the early ’60 he develops a multifaceted activity, aimed to clarify and redefine the relationship between man and environment.

Among his many solo and group exhibitions, we could mention Venice Biennial, Triennale Museum in Milan, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Diogo Pimentão, born in Lisboa, 1973. Lives and works in France. Among his recent exhibitions: Diferido, Marz Galerie, Lisboa; Au fil de l’oeuvre, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec, Paris; Infinite Fold, Drawing Space, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris.

Jessica Warboys , born in England 1977. Lives and works in London and Paris. Among her recent exhibitions: Ballad of the Green Hoop, South London Gallery, London; Parasol, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris; 54° Salon d’Art Contemporain, Montrouge, Paris; Ne pas jouer avec des choses mortes, La Villa Arson, Nice, France.