Gloria Maria Gallery is pleased to announce the new group exhibition curated by Attilia Fattori
Franchini.
A guide, is a collection of information leading through unknown topics or places often utilized with the aim of exploration.
The exhibition takes its title from a 1977’s science-fiction comedy series created by Douglas Adams and used as inspiration for the first web open encyclopedias.
The concept of classification and presentation of worldly knowledge is taken as a point of departure to reflect about perception, reality and the internet in a post-digital age.
The show revolves around the constitutive textual and visual elements of digital interfaces, as layout, audio and content accessibility, overlooking at their legacy and influence within contemporary artistic practice.
Computer, i-phone and i-pads rapidly evolving formats and mass-producing images and (mis) information contribute to a new configuration of the world often biased, constantly shifting between physical and digital, fictional and personal, influencing the way we absorb and understand reality.
This duality and its contextualisation is explored through the work of eight international artists, looking at the convergence between embodied media and mixed reality in social and physical communication, artistic creation and digital vision.
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Artists
Rhys Coren
www.rhyscoren.co.uk/
Paul Flannery
www.paulflannery.co.uk/
Aude Pariset
www.audepariset.net
Yuri Pattison
www.yuripattison.com/
Lorenzo Senni TBC
www.prestorecords.com/lorenzosenni.html
Travess Smalley
www.travesssmalley.com/
Priscilla Tea
artevisuale.it/artist/priscilla-tea/cover
Amalia Ulman
www.amaliaulman.eu/

“Three (Talents) in a Boat”:
Kate Fichard / Bernhard Kahrmann / Erica Nyholm
curated by Domenico de Chirico
 
Do you know the sense of humour of British writer and journalist Jerome Klapka Jerome?
Definitely far from the ways of farse, easy puns and obscene innuendos, this humour in fact derives from observation of common and daily circumstances. From the unsuspected.
His name is most commonly associated to his most famous work, the comedy Three Men in a Boat (1889). Boating upstream in river Thames, friends Jerome, Harris and George, with their loyal friend Montmorency the dog, travel on their boat for days and live new and unexpected adventures that never fail to move.
Three main characters at comparison, each with their own unique language. Three artists compared: Bernhard, Erica and Kate.
Only one will: communicate. Here they are on the same boat. Playing.
They suggest three different readings of the surrounding world, all joined by a strong sensitivity, attention and aesthetic research.
 
Bernard Kahrmann (German, born in 1973), Erica Nyholm (Finnish, born in 1982) and Kate Fichard (Anglo-French, born in 1987) launch the first collective exhibition curated by Domenico de Chirico. Two of them were among the “Jeune Talents” in the Paris Photo edition of 2012.
While the water and family sceneries frame self-reflection wishes (Erica Nyholm) and the light shows itself in hues of gleams, so dear to Giuseppe Ungaretti (Bernard Kahrmann), the suspension and capsizing highlight the unforeseen with a touch of witticism (Kate Fichard).
“To Say Nothing of the Dog”!