Davide Cascio
dal 27/10/2008 al 15/11/2008
Segnalato da
27/10/2008
Davide Cascio
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
Insert III, in the frame of the group show Rooms Look Back. Using a simple wooden construction, the passage from one exhibition space into the other is transformed into a time machine, where 2 big letters questioning the utopia of modernity await the visitor at the end of the journey.
In the frame of the group show Rooms Look Back at Kunsthalle Basel, Davide Cascio
(*1976, Lugano, Switzerland) presents a series of works which form a complex model
of thinking. Using a simple wooden construction, the passage from one exhibition
space into the other is transformed into a time machine, where two big letters
questioning the utopia of modernity await the visitor at the end of the journey.
Based on Le Corbusier’s Esprit Nouveau (En) – magazine and name of the exhibition
pavilion for the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (1925,
reconstructed in 1977 in Bologna) – the artist scrutinizes architecture as ‘Living
Units’ in its historical and social meaning. The motives Davide Cascio is combining
in wall paper, collage and sculpture refer to Minimal Art, geometrical forms found
in nature and the alternative way of living by Thoreau (Walden, 1854). One could
compare Cascios approach to that of a scientist working on a laboratory experiment:
Existing structures are being thought over and their elements bound together and
extended as long as new possible forms crystallize.
Rooms Look Back
21.9. - 16.11.2008
Rosa Barba, Ursula Mayer, Margaret Salmon
Inserts: Davide Cascio, Swantje Hielscher, Manuela Leinhoß
Curated by Simone Neuenschwander. Inserts co-curated with Annette Amberg.
The exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel is generously supported by Dreyfus Söhne & Cie
AG, Banquiers Basel as well as British Council.
Opening: 28.10.2008, 7pm
Kunsthalle Basel
Steinenberg 7 - Basel