Botto & Bruno
dal 19/4/2007 al 29/6/2007
Segnalato da
19/4/2007
Botto & Bruno
Laure Genillard, London
A Guitar Plays in a Broken Town
A Guitar Plays in a Broken Town
Botto & Bruno work as a pair based in the suburb of Turin. Their work relates to
suburban life and its flux of changes.
The exhibition entitled ‘A Guitar Plays in a Broken Town’ stems from a short film of two
youngsters playing in the suburb in a public square kicking empty cardboard boxes.
The London exhibition imagines the youngsters having now grown up into teenagers and
playing instead with a guitar and some lyrics, as teenagers do. The cardboard boxes
become the plinths for the band and the stage backdrop created by the artists mixes
collages of suburban photographs and fanzines.
A live performance for the opening by two teenagers will re-enact the proposal and traces of
the performance will become the exhibition afterwards with the left overs, such as the
guitars, microphones, headphones, etc…
The lyrics are chosen by Botto Bruno from a list of their favourite artists (Cat Power and
Sleater Kinney) and will be voiced over on to the film, with the teenagers new recordings.
They typically refer to life in the suburbs, with its fears, dreams and fragments of life.
Upstairs, large photographs depict a lone woman in the suburbs, closing the time loop on
human growth from childhood to adulthood.
The exhibition echoes the surroundings of the new gallery location in Soho/Fitzrovia with
neighbouring record shops and West End flavours.
Private view: Friday 20th April 6 – 9 PM
Laure Genillard
2 Hanway Place - London
Hours: wed - sat 14 - 18
Free admission