Exhibition view
Exhibition view
Grid Fragments. Corner Piece 1 plywood and ceramic tiles 133,3 x 15,4 x 15,4 cm
Grid Fragments. Corner Piece 4 plywood and ceramic tiles 29,5 x 15,4 x 15,4 cm
Grid Fragments. Corner Piece 4 plywood and ceramic tiles 29,5 x 15,4 x 15,4 cm
Drawing Block Silhouettes Single Woman 97 x 187 x 1 cm
Drawing Block Silhouettes Single Man 76 x 177,5 x 1 cm
Exhibition view
Luca Resta Shut up and dance, 2018 black marble, dimensions variable
Drawing Block Silhouettes Woman and Man 160 x 187 x 1 cm
Exhibition view
Exhibition view

2018: IT HAPPENS

duo exhibition with Luca Resta
curated by Paola Tognon

Galleria Il Ponte, Florence, Italy

21 September – 9 November 2018

In this exhibition the artists constructed a geographically and temporally ambiguous environment, somewhere between 1980s socialist Romania and 1970s radical Italian architects’ utopian socialism, between the future as envisioned in the past and the past as envisioned in the future. Architectural silhouettes were placed among Vlad Nancă’s new works “Grid Fragments. Corner pieces” (inspired by the work of Superstudio group of architects) and Luca Resta’s hand polished Belgian black marble sculptures resembling mobile phones and other handheld devices. Throughout the exhibition space several “Polenta Radar” works by Luca Resta (upside down polenta mixers) were twisting constantly, their noise and hypnotic movement creating further confusion of time and scale. Nancă’s new series of enlarged “Drawing Block Silhouettes”, taken from the cover of 1970s-1980s Romanian drawing blocks, a type of art supply product that was country wide distributed by state monopoly so anybody who lived in that period would know it. The basement of the gallery was dimly lit, with twitching neon lights, a hacked robot vacuum cleaner avoiding invisible targets (both new works by Luca Resta), some more difficult to notice “Grid Fragments. Corner pieces”, “Original Adidas” (2003) lightbox and “Mother and Daughter” silhouette, works by Nancă
Documentary photographs by Torquatto Perissi