Damien & The Love Guru
 Installation view
HC ‘Non Dentro Ma Intorno A Noi’
on view until 30. April 2021
opening hours : Tuesday – Saturday from 3 – 7 pm and by appointment
Damien & The Love Guru hosted at CFA Live Via Rossini 3, 20121 Milan
HC: thinking with more than one mind – text by Francesco Tenaglia
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 HC, Kissing Vessels, 2020–2021, mouth blown glass, various colors approx. 18 x 15 x 10 cm / [removed] x [removed] x [removed] in
 HC, Kissing Vessels, 2020–2021, mouth blown glass, various colors approx. 18 x 15 x 10 cm / [removed] x [removed] x [removed] in
 HC, Kissing Vessels, 2020–2021, mouth blown glass, various colors approx. 18 x 15 x 10 cm / [removed] x [removed] x [removed] in
 HC, Kissing Vessels, 2020–2021, mouth blown glass, various colors approx. 18 x 15 x 10 cm / [removed] x [removed] x [removed] in
 HC, Kissing Vessels, 2020–2021, mouth blown glass, various colors approx. 16 x 21 x 9,5 cm / [removed];x [removed];x [removed] in
 HC, Kissing Vessels, 2020–2021, mouth blown glass, various colors approx. 16 x 21 x [removed];cm / [removed];x [removed];x [removed] in
 HC, Non dentro ma intorno a noi, 2021, acrylic on found canvas, 50 x 71 cm / [removed] x [removed] in
 HC, Non dentro ma intorno a noi, 2021, acrylic on found canvas, fragmented frame, 50 x 71 cm / [removed] x [removed] in
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How can a double vase or half a chair transmit a sense of irony within a symmetrical composition? How can the experience of a landscape during a journey be translated into an exhibition display? Does a pedestal still matter despite its hierarchical submission to the object it supports? Does a painting today retain a certain idea of authorship and temporality? Can my individuality be interrupted by our collaboration? These questions deal with issues of perception, the intrinsic possibilities and the very borders of the objects that surround us. Where does the journey begin and where does it end? Non Dentro Ma Intorno A Noi projects us into a formal and informal itinerary of sculpture. The atmosphere in the exhibition space is stylised and naive at once, arranged with symmetrical rigour but unravelling with humor. Insituazione. The inner environment design objects seem to have a congenital need to go outside, in the surrounding.
“They felt surrounded by the idea but it didn’t enter them.” (1)
Invitation to travel. A few kilometres on the way from Frankfurt to Milan. A stop in the Alps. Destination: Via Rossini 3.
Unexpected results in between. Specular coincidences, with more than one head and two legs, with half a chair and two double vases. HC: four hands. They drew a map to get lost. They came to a city hidden by mountains. They painted en plein air among those peaks, exhaling their snowy breath. Objets trouvés. They shared an itinerary, coming to a lake that “was covered with a shattered looking glass.” (2). The deadly season charged a triptych of mirroring mountains with symbols. Two artists on the same journey that a painter took a century ago. They prepared replicas to be exhibited, an immersive appropriation of distorted normality. From one object to another, from one surface to its symmetrical arrangement, the idea of filiation came up. The seriality typical of vessels gave way to the historical conception of uniqueness. It is time to question the traditional categories within ourselves. Let’s ferry them around.
“We ended up taking part in a bizarre ritual.” (3)
(1) All quotes attributed to HC are taken from our conversation during their trip from Frankfurt to Milan. (2) Ibid. (3) Ibid.
⏤ Sonia D’Alto
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Julian Irlinger Europe Divided Into Its Kingdoms 13. March – 15. May 2021 Damien & The Love Guru Brussels
Jannis Marwitz & Raphaela Vogel Rod 20. March – 8. May 2021 Kantine Brussels
Christiane Blattmann The Constant Glitch group exhibition acquisitions for Museum M and Cera Collection of emerging artists residing in Belgium 2. April – 5. September 2021 Museum M Leuven
Margarita Maximova Fifth Wave group exhibition 15. April – 6. June 2021 Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Moscow
Vanessa Disler Fly, Robin, Fly group exhibition curated by Nils Alix-Tabeling 25. March – 6. June 2021 Mécènes du Sud Montpellier-Sète Montpellier
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Anne Fellner & Okka-Esther Hungerbühler Für Ilse 29. April – 24. May 2021 new-home Berlin
Jannis Marwitz The Raid 30. April – 12. June 2021 Galerie Barbara Weiss Berlin
Jasmin Werner Unschuldsengel 30. April – 14. May 2021 Project Space of Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster
Christiane Blattmann Emanuele Marcuccio Bread and Salt Inaugurating group exhibition with permanent works for the next three years May 2021 The Community Centre Paris
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