ExhibitionsArcheologia della memoria

The graphic works of Friedrich Andreoni and Bernardo Tirabosco on display at the Fondazione Il Bisonte.

“Archeologia della memoria” is the title of the two-person exhibition curated by Silvia Bellotti that explores the graphic work of Friedrich Andreoni and Bernardo Tirabosco.
The exhibition will open, in the presence of the artists, on Thursday 5 December 2024 at 6:30 pm, at the Galleria Il Bisonte, via di San Niccolò 24r and will remain open until 17 January 2025 according to the gallery’s opening hours.

Friedrich Andreoni is an Italian-German artist currently based in Berlin, who has received numerous awards, including the DAAD scholarship in 2020 and the Ducato Art Prize in the Academy section in 2023. His work is configured as a continuous act of mapping, deconstruction, deterritorialization and reterritorialization of reality, capable of challenging any previous narrative. Through the alternation and mixing of various mediums – from sculpture to installation, from video to sound art – the artist stages “devices of relationship” between objects, subjects, knowledge and practices that play on the boundary between what is and what exists only potentially.

Originally from Arezzo, Bernardo Tirabosco is a multidisciplinary artist based in Italy. In 2019 he founded Sottofondostudio and from 2021 to 2023 he was the studio assistant of the artist Giulia Cenci. His practice is characterized by the integration of different artistic languages ​​within his work and by experimentation with materials such as wax, iron and lead. The combination of organic and inorganic materials represents the means through which the artist investigates the relationship between permanence and change, between act and potential, giving life to a work that is placed at the crossroads between being and becoming.

Although adopting different formal solutions, both artists in the exhibition converge in the intent to deconstruct the dominant normative paradigms by replacing them with fragmentary, monadic and peripheral micro-narrations, in which the concepts of identity and memory manifest themselves as fluid and continuously redefining territories.

The curator writes: “Through a practice that could be defined as archaeological, the visual research of the artists inhabits the folds of memory, makes the fragments of history re-emerge and order themselves, placing themselves at the crossroads between past and present, between immanence and transcendence, between matter and spirit, seeking a new form of harmony in the gap of balance.”

The exhibition project starts from the artistic residency “Post Print Media”, an initiative of the Fondazione Il Bisonte curated by Silvia Bellotti, which saw Andreoni and Tirabosco participate in July 2024. “Post Print Media” is an artistic training and research project that promotes art printing as a practice in constant evolution and renewal, capable of combining technical experimentation, creative process and speculative research. The residency combined the use of traditional printing techniques with the innovative practices of the artists, proposing a new conception of graphics as a “theoretical device” in dialogue with philosophy and other expressions of contemporary art.

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Friedrich Andreoni, Bernardo Tirabosco
Archaeology of Memory
Curated by Silvia Bellotti

Opening: Thursday, December 5, 2024, 6:30 p.m.
on display: from December 6, 2024 to January 17, 2025
Galleria Il Bisonte, via di San Niccolò 24r, Florence
Opening hours: Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Free entrance.

 

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