On and Beyond - A Love Letter to Shadows Group Exhibition
Through different contributions and perspectives, On and Beyond - A Love Letter to Shadows is an exhibition project that expands upon and deepens the exploration of contemporary sculpture started with On and Beyond, the group show on view at the gallery's Venetian venue from December 2024 to March 2025.
Accompanied by a critical text by curator Chiara Ianeselli, On and Beyond - A Love Letter to Shadows features works by Igor EÊkinja, Fondazione Malutta, Luciana Lamothe, Marie Lelouche, Marcos Lutyens, Davide Sgambaro, Michele Spanghero and Esther Stocker.
This group exhibition highlights one of the gallery's defining conceptual approaches: a focus on sculptural and installation pieces that engage in dynamic dialogue with both the space and the viewer.
The incipit of this visual narrative is a site-specific installation by the Fondazione Malutta collective in the gallery’s long entrance corridor. This work sets the stage for a dialogue between various sculptural forms and an array of media, including video, drawings, photographs, and paintings in which a profound conceptual connection to three- dimensionality is essential.
Photographs by Igor EÊkinja and canvases by Esther Stocker, as well as videos and drawings by Luciana Lamothe, are showcased together with a sound work by Michele Spanghero, steel sculptures accompanied by hypnotic induction by Marcos Lutyens, synaesthetic works by Marie Lelouche and an ephemeral sculptural trace by Davide Sgambaro.
Through Ianeselli’s insightful perspective, the exhibition places a particular emphasis on the interplay of signs, traces, echoes, and shadows, subtle yet powerful elements evoked by the three- dimensionality and spatiality of the works.
On and Beyond - A Love Letter To Shadows opens on the occasion of the Venice Gallery Weekend (21-22-23 March 2025), an event organized by the association of contemporary art galleries Venice Galleries View, aimed at highlighting the daily research activity by galleries and their artists.