Eugenia Vanni
Ognuno sa ciò che l’altro pensa
(‘Everybody Knows What the Otherone is thinking’)

Galleria Riccardo Crespi – Via Mellerio 1, Milan
Preview 18 September 2009, 6:30 pm
19 September 2009 – 7 November 2009
Essay by Gabi Scardi

The Galleria Riccardo Crespi presents the first solo exhibition by the Italian artist Eugenia Vanni.

The show will be made up of about twenty works, ranging from installations to graphic art to drawings on canvas depicting landscapes made out of black cardboard cut-outs, rubber and neon.
The ideal guiding thread of the exhibition is the sense of failure and approximation that accompanies all the works, which look almost like scientific results, but ones that stem from aesthetic processes which the artist has deliberately made technically indefinable.
She does her drawing, for example, on rough surfaces, so that it loses its erasable character and becomes indelible instead.
And it is the drawing itself that naturally contains a continual reference to the art of the Renaissance, an artistic substratum which is an indissoluble part of Eugenia’s make-up, precisely because of the artist’s strong ties with the Sienese region and the history of its art.

In the exhibition, in fact, the very idea of the ‘technique’ and media utilized by Eugenia is brought into question and looked at in an unconventional way, becoming in her hands an almost scientific and objective instrument for the study of the world because, in the artist’s view, techniques are the very image that they bring about.

Thus the space of the gallery, given its distinctive structure, takes on the function of an observatory in which nature and society as discovered as if for the first time, becoming the results of experiments whose objective is the understanding of reality.

Eugenia Vanni was born in Siena in 1980. She lives and works in Siena and Milan.

Among her more recent exhibitions:        
2008: Backpackers-Passaggi Urbani, Associazione Borgovico 33, Como, organized by Marco Scotini and Bert Theis; Il Rimedio Perfetto, Galleria Riccardo Crespi, Milan, organized by Marco Tagliaferro; Global Island Backpack, Spazio Tantrika, Milan, organized by Bert Theis.


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