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il giardino ("the garden”) is a new project conceived and created by Lutz & Guggisberg for the Collezione Maramotti.

This solo show – the Swiss duo’s first in an Italian museum – is organized in conjunction with the 2018 Fotografia Europea festival, “Revolutions. Upheavals, Changes, Utopias”.

Stretching through five rooms, the exhibition presents more than thirty photographs of various sizes, mounted on panels and incorporating elements of painting, along with several assemblages of found objects that the artists have selected from local warehouses.

 

 

International Archives 1st half of 2018

Lutz & Guggisberg, The garden

Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia (Italy)

22.04 - 30.12.2018

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Exhibition April 22 - December 30, 2018. Collezione Maramotti, via Fratelli Cervi 66 - 42124 Reggio Emilia (Italy). Tel. +39 0522 382484. Hours: Thursday and Friday 2.30pm–6.30pm; Saturday and Sunday 10.30am–6.30pm.

 

 

 

 

 

© ArtCatalyse International / Marika Prévosto 2018. All Rights Reserved

Sheds, tools, tables, chairs, brightly colored plastic tubs, crates, rubber tubing: in these photographs, everything seems uprooted and upended by some hurricane that has just swept through. The post-apocalyptic mood of the scenes hints at the recent passage of a natural disaster, but could also suggest an all-too-human process of violent destruction.

At the same time, the images possess an intrinsic beauty. Within harmonious compositions of colours and forms, the small, lyrical details that leap out at the viewer are sometimes connected to the human realm (a round table top that becomes an earthbound moon, a shed cut in half and reassembled the wrong way around), sometimes to the natural one (snowdrops and crocuses peeping out of rubble, onion bulbs sprouting under tables, a sleeping cat).

 

 

Lutz & Guggisberg, il giardino