FALLING FROM AN APPLE TREE BY MISTAKE

Maurizio Anzeri, Luca Bertolo, Tim Ellis, Nick Goss, Gian Domenico Sozzi
curated by Rita Selvaggio

July11th – August 9th, 2008

Vernissage: Friday, July 11th, 2008 from 7 pm

German version

The exhibition title "Falling from an apple tree by mistake" is a deliberately repositioned quote from the famous Emily Dickinson verse [ That gravitation, stumbling, / Fell from an apple tree..! ], where Italian curator Rita Selvaggio has gathered the works of five artists: Maurizio Anzeri, Luca Bertolo, Tim Ellis, Nick Goss and Gian Domenico Sozzi, to present the transient state of being and the elusive qualities of creative practice.

With this exhibition, Rita Selvaggio has searched out a state of suspension, an interruption and a deliberate unfinished quality to reflect a place where perhaps nothing is suggested and where nothing happens, but where everything is possible. The exhibition title also points to a re-writing, a re-positioning of meaning in order to suggest that a poetry of nothingness may well contain the force necessary to lead creativity forward in a post-post modern time where 'meaning' is problematic and where everything appears to have been made and said before.

Maurizio Anzeri (IT 1969) has been working mostly with hair, which is both intimate and repulsive at the same time. Due to the nature of his chosen material, the works open up to an investigation of bodily and cultural boundaries and a reading of the deeply personal. Early works by Anzeri, include a full-length gown in synthetic hair, created as a prop for the fashion designer Alexander McQueen.

Luca Bertolo (IT 1968) is concerned with the slippage that can happen unintentionally from a planned and conceptual approach to an artwork. He elevates this 'background noise' into reflections on representation. The outfall, leftovers or clippings from this approach are manifested in drawings, paintings, writings and video works. The source material in the widest sense, arrive from anything with an anthropological or aesthetic value that contains a language worth excavating.

Tim Ellis (GB 1981) paintings and installations investigate the historical and mythological narratives of belief systems. His ideas emerge from a being's primeval desire to belong to something greater than ones self.
The characters that are played out in his works are descendants from humanities rich past, each one a universal metaphor that transcend cultural history. Whether gathered to celebrate a solstice, equinox or a religious ritual, the same metaphors appear encapsulated in the temporal cycles of our world.

Nick Goss (GB 1981) The melancholic landscapes and dense painted atmospheres of Nick Goss always retain a specific present time even if appearing as if by chance, much replicating the functions of a camera lens. His works record a particular movement and aperture addressing the remnants of the direct experience of the natural, or what really exists. Without actually waiting for anything, the wait allows the touch of the eternal to come and go.

Gian Domenico Sozzi (IT 1960) has a keen interest in fragmentary narratives or objects found by chance. His artistic emphasis lies in the relationship between unexpected events and the ordinary happening of things. Works in ceramic that he has completed lately are concerned with the reduction of effects in order to translate the experience of nothingness into poetry. In the series LACRIMOSA (Tearful) the artist has placed onions on a plate and after a period of decay, the rotting onions have been removed, leaving a mark behind, which is literally the source of tears.

opening
Friday, July 11th, 2008 from 7 pm

exhibition
July 11th – August 9th, 2008

opening hours
Tue– Sat | 12– 6 pm

location
WILDE GALLERY
Chausseestrasse 7
D-10115 Berlin
info@wilde-gallery.com
www.wilde-gallery.com