Chris Rocchegiani Sophie Westerlind Il mio Telaio, la tua Laura

Renata Fabbri presents Il mio Telaio, la tua Laura, a dialogue between the artistic research of Chris Rocchegiani (Jesi, 1977) and Sophie Westerlind (Stockholm, 1985) hosted in the project room on the lower floor of the gallery.
The project started out with the aim of fostering a comparison between two distinct pictorial languages, tracing resonances and points of convergence within their individual specificities.

Drawing inspiration from the works Il Telaio by Rocchegiani and Laura by Westerlind, the exhibition picks up the thread of a conversation that naturally unfolded when the two paintings were exhibited together during a collective event. Characterized by circular painting movement (in the case of Laura) and by vertical tension (in the case of Il Telaio), the works dialogued in complementary counterpoint, also due to their different pictorial languages: more figurative in one and more informal in the other. While Westerlind portrays a body lying on a bed in an attempt to capture the subject’s innermost feelings, Rocchegiani draws from inner images, bringing more or less recognizable fragments of reality onto the canvas.

Invited by the gallery to share the intimacy of the same space, Rocchegiani and Westerlind embark on a journey of mutual understanding that sees them engage
in a close correspondence concerning their respective painting research from afar. The project presented is the result of this dense dialogue in which the artists continuously “venture out of only to return to” painting, via stories and personal confidences.

Extracted from a fragment of their conversations, the title suggests an intimate connection between the interlocutors, as well as the profound sensitivity of the artists trying to understand and embrace each other’s vision. Conceived as the prelude to an ongoing dialogue, the exhibition reflects on the mutual influence of the artistic experience, exploring the boundaries where their visions merge and mutually enrich one another, thus giving rise to a vibrant and prolific exchange.

March 20 – April 30, 2024

Via A. Stoppani 15/c 

20129 Milano

Chris Rocchegiani was born in 1977 in Jesi (Ancona), where she currently lives and works. She graduated in figurative arts from the State Institute of Art in Jesi and obtained a degree in Graphic Design from the ISIA in Urbino. She is an artist, art director, graphic design teacher at the ACCA Academy, and Basic Design lecturer at the Department of Design and Architecture at the University of Camerino.

She is the Co-founder of CH RO MO alongside Roberto Montani, a research duo focusing on visual languages in design and art; and the Founder of Pensiero Manifesto, a collective of creatives including artists, graphic designers and illustrators, who use posters as a public utility tool, cultivating practices of listening and giving back to the community. In the field of design, her projects have been awarded at the European Design Awards, at the Aiap Women Design Awards, by ADI (entering the shortlist for the Compasso d’Oro award), and by the Cariplo Foundation for Cultural Innovation.

Recent exhibitions: Pittura italiana oggi, Triennale Milano, Milan (2023); Linea 1201, MAXXI L’Aquila, L’Aquila (2022); Jumelles culturelles, Château de Mayenne, Mayenne (2022); La ripetizione, Projecktraum 145, Berlin (2021); I know you know that you know, Galleria Yudikone, Brescia (2020); Total Recall, Galleria Bianconi, Milan (2020); Libere Tutte, Casa Testori, Novate Milanese (2019); Diagrammi, Cripta747, Turin (2019).

Sophie Westerlind (born in Stockholm in 1985) is a Swedish painter who currently lives and works in Venice. She studied in London, where she graduated from Central Saint Martins (2011) and the Royal College of Art (2013). Her strong interest in anatomy and the Venetian Renaissance led her to Venice, where she earned her degree from the Academy of Fine Arts (2018). In 2019, she was awarded a national grant for her drawings inspired by Tintoretto by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. She has recently completed a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

Recent solo and group exhibitions include: Spring Salon, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm (2024); She affects us, indeed, Swedish Institute, Rome (2023); You danced on the carpet and waited for her, Galerie Norbert Arns, Cologne (2023); Venice Time Case, Monitor Gallery, Rome (2023); Orbe, Galerie Ariane C-Y, Paris (2022); Think of Knut!, Casa Testori and Teatro deSidera, Milan (2022); Yes, I used to be a great dancer, Spazio NEUTRO, Reggio Emilia (2022) ; Venice Time Case, Galleria Tomaso Calabro, Milan (2021); Premio Combat, Livorno (2021); Dialogues 01, Center for Recent Drawing, London, UK (2021).

GIOVANNI KRONENBERG SOLO SHOW IN MILAN

Milano - Renata Fabbri announces Giovanni Kronenberg’s second solo show at the gallery.
The exhibition includes a series of new drawings and sculptures, most of which have been conceived specifically for this project. Since the early stage of his career, Kronenberg’s work has been characterized by a tight relation between sculpture – interpreted through a deeply physical approach – and drawing, which anticipates, re-iterates and expands upon its peculiarities as well as its ergonomic, tactile and transcendental features. Throughout the years his drawing practice has become more and more important in the work of the artist: since his use of pure graphite, which used to define the works on paper until few years ago, recently Kronenberg has started to explore colour in compositions of sinuous forms, suspended and free from spatial connotation. These mysterious figures and the sculptures share an ungraspable materiality, caught in a dimension that is abstracted from time and space. Hard to identify, some of them recall natural structures in progressive ramification – like crystals, gems, sea sponges or precious granites – all materials that Kronenberg has often used in his sculptures, drawn to their properties of self-germination and extension into space without following any narrative direction or chronological handholds.
In view of the current health emergency, they inform that the gallery will remain open by appointment only, until further notice. In the meanwhile they are available for appointments or for any informations by email and phone.

 Milano - Renata Fabbri presenta la seconda mostra personale in galleria di Giovanni Kronenberg.
In mostra saranno presenti sculture e disegni inediti, la maggioranza dei quali realizzati in occasione di questo progetto. Fin dai suoi esordi, il lavoro di Kronenberg si è caratterizzato da uno stretto rapporto tra la scultura – interpretata in un senso fortemente materico e formale - e il disegno, che della scultura anticipa, riprende o espande le particolarità ergonomiche, tattili e trascendentali. Negli anni, la pratica del disegno ha assunto una sempre maggiore centralità nel lavoro dell’artista: dall’uso della pura grafite nera che definiva le opere su carta fino a qualche anno fa, Kronenberg ha più recentemente iniziato ad esplorare il colore in composizioni di forme sinuose, sospese e libere da connotazioni spaziali. Queste figure misteriose condividono con le sculture una materialità indefinibile, sospesa in una dimensione astratta di tempo e spazio. Di difficile identificazione, alcune di loro ricordano conformazioni naturali in progressiva ramificazione - come cristalli, pietre preziose, spugne di mare o graniti pregiati- materiali che Kronenberg ha spesso utilizzato nelle sculture, attratto dalle loro proprietà di autogerminazione e di estensione nello spazio senza una direzione narrativa o appigli cronologici.
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