Viafarini DOCVA presents Luca Monterastelli‘s solo exhibition. white - endlessy rocking, a project that epitomizes the commitment of the Milanese non-profit organization to foster the dialogue between artistic practices and workshop – oriented, handcrafted and industrial productions.
Monterastelli inquires into the relationship between material and tecnique inside the aesthetic artists’ research. White – endlessy rocking proves how the connection between visual art and other kind of art drives to an accelerated process of creation. In the same way this process establishes a new collaboration between art and designers‘ culture.
The exhibition itinerary creates a sculptural world, marked by Baroque elements, using the Faenza traditional ceramic manifacturing techniques, as well as incision processes and investment casting. The exhibition in characterized by material drifts, condensations and hardenings, organized in a specific Neoclassical installative matrix: compressing without strangling: literary references, coreographic strategies and fleeting architectures, incorporations and impulses’ excessive deployments. Building, stockpiling, drawing and moving.
Monterastelli‘s solo show highlights a real revenge of secondary objects, materializes figures of speech, using material in a citationist way and tautological elements focusing on their deviances and preciousness. Meanwhile, the sculpture refuses the attribution’s game. A non rethorical plaster work, used in a onomatopoeic value. A simple, trivial, phenomenological white. A pornographic scenario. Non fetishist.
 
At 5.30 pm, a conversation with the artist, the curators and the three partners involved will introduce the exhibition. On this occasion, the artist‘s career and a series of publications and documents of project’s partners will be presented.
 

Luca Monterastelli Solo shows: 2012: open studio Parc Saint Léger, Centre d‘art contemporain Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-eaux (F); Graceland - Chez Néon - Diffuseur d’Art Contemporain, Lion; 2011: La camera degli sposi - a work for a couple, MARS, Milan Artist Run Space, Milan. Group shows in 2013: Senza Titolo, Michele Guido, Domenico Antonio Mancini, Luca Monterastelli, Lia Rumma, Naples; nel 2012: MARS mission, Geh8, Dresden; nel 2011: Un problème insoluble, La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille; nel 2010: Una luce rischiara l‘oscuro scrutare. La morte non sa leggere, curated by Marco Tagliafierro, galleria 1+1 Milan; All strange away, curated by Beniamino Foschini, neon>campobase, Bologna; L’uomo ridotto, curated by Luca Francesconi, Brown Project Space, Milan. Residencies in 2012: Residénces secondaires, Centre d'art contemporain Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-eaux; nel 2011: Solid Void, Progetto Diogene Bivacco Urbano, Turin; Residency Suddenly, Beauchery-Saint-Martin; Residency Triangle France, La Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille
Thanks to Luca Francesconi and Lia Rumma Gallery for the organization and the logistical support.