Marco Bolognesi
dal 24/6/2009 al 30/7/2009
Segnalato da
24/6/2009
Marco Bolognesi
Olyvia Fine Art, London
Z Generation/The Realm of Ambiguity. The exhibition highlights Bolognesi' involvement in the intersection of film and art. First edition photographs of gorgeous futuristic women will hang alongside the artist's award winning film Black Hole, and both will be exhibited as part of an installation - the interior of a spaceship - which the artist will recreate from a still of this new film.
Olyvia Kwok presents Z Generation/The Realm of Ambiguity, an exhibition of
work by the contemporary Italian artist Marco Bolognesi, which highlights his
involvement in the intersection of film and art. First edition photographs of
gorgeous futuristic women will hang alongside the artist’s award winning film
Black Hole, and both will be exhibited as part of an installation - the interior of
a spaceship - which Bolognesi will recreate from a still of this new film.
In Black Hole Marco Bolognesi creates an alternative universe on a crimson
spaceship, where relationships are redrawn and humans are no longer in
control. An experiment to investigate new forms of life takes an unexpected
turn when technology takes over. Under the helm of Communication Officer
Richard Gore, a computer-generated voice, procedures such as genetic
gender transformation and cyborg implants result in a crew of hybrid retro-
futuristic creations. This situation is exacerbated by a powerful magnetic
force which is beginning to drag them into a Black Hole.
In his photographs Bolognesi uses collage technique to introduce natural and
artificial elements. He challenges our preconceptions. “Gorgeous girls are
rendered speechless and sightless, turned into objects of desire with zippered
eyelashes and lips or eyelids stapled with safety pins. They are beautiful and
submissive but there is a twist, for here in this glamorous yet subliminal world
where Madame Butterfly meets punk fetishism, Bolognesi’s stylish women
artfully confound our readings of what it means to be female. Are they
compliant and submissive or mistresses of their own projections?” (Sue
Hubbard, Marco Bolognesi, Dark Star, 2008).
In addition to his strong interest in film, Bolognesi has worked closely with the
field of fashion. In 2003/2007 he created Woodland, a cycle of stills in
collaboration with cutting edge fashion designers such as Vivienne
Westwood, Alexander McQueen, Kei Kagami and Dolce & Gabbana. Studio
images of powerful, beautiful women were combined with tribal art, fetish
and punk culture, an endeavour which culminated in the series of
photographs in this exhibition.
The exhibition will include photographs from three projects including
SYNTEBORG: Graceful, Antigraceful, Artificial, “cyborg” beauties, created with
mysterious props taken from every day life; CYBORG FACES: The lost beauty of
the future, faces of women constructed with computer components,
connectors and microchips, which are the “ruins” of the modern world;
GEIKO: The silence that shouts, are faces and bodies, veiled or incomplete,
showing women as both executioners and victims.
Since 1994, Marco Bolognesi has collaborated with leading Italian figures from
the arts, including a photographic project with the theatre playwright and
literature Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo in 2001. In December 2009, Einaudi will
produce a collaborative and experimental art/comics/fiction book by
Bolognesi and Carlo Lucarelli, the Italian crime writer, TV presenter and
magazine editor.
Olyvia Oriental
17 Ryder Street, St. James's - London
Opening Times Monday – Friday 10 am – 6 pm, Weekends by appointment only
Free admission