EXHIBITION n.90
EXHIBITION TITLE: IL GRANDE FARDELLO
ARTIST: ERNESTO JANNINI
CURATED BY: EDOARDO DI MAURO
PERIOD: 12 FEBRUARY - 31 MARCH 2005

Saturday the 12th of February at La Giarina Arte Contemporanea di Verona is the opening of the personal show by Ernesto Tannini, “, Il Grande Fardello” curated by Edoardo Di Mauro. For the gallery it is an interesting return, having displayed the artist’s works in a collective exhibition in 1996 and then in 2001, and a personal show in 1997. The exhibitions falls one year from the very interesting anthology that the artist obtained at the Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Gallarate (the video documentary of this anthology will be available in the gallery). In this exhibition it will be possible to admire some works which centre is constituted by a thin and strong irony in comparison to the social reality, as those cultural layers that tie up to reality shows, or provide for the appealing images of the Fruit, of the Coffee pots, or the pans, in which the inside is occupied by a grid ever more thin and invaded by microcircuits; or installations very interesting like “Le dejeuner sur l’herbe”: a long enigmatic bridge of illuminated microcircuitsand inspired to the famous painting by Manet. A real constellation of images come to light from a profound formal and conceptual dimension.

As Edoardo Di Mauro writes in the text of the exhibition’s presentation CD: “… Jannini’s fervida creativity is meeting a phase particularly fertile and rich in personal satisfactions, in which the point of excellence, from the point of view of the institutional recognition, was represented from the anthology development in February of 2004, at the Modern Art gallery of Gallarate. Jannini’s most recent works are almost all centred on the theme of nature/culture, wall installations with lively tints where lemons, apples and other familiar elements from the vegetable world are placed on supports and show, from thin cracks, placed at their peaks, the disturbing presence of microchip circuits. Of particular emphasize “Gran Mercato”, a wall sculpture where a basket of tomatoes harmonically contaminated by the technological intrusion, presents itself jealously kept and protected by plexiglas, giving it a touch of sacralità soave, a work which formal relief (emphasis) and the sense of expressive synthesis are worthy to appear next to the best of the American conceptual objectism which came to light in the 80’s, that of Steinbach, Koons and Bickerton, fro example, with the addition of the rejected linguistics supplied by the all Mediterranean irony. Irony that distinguishes itself in one of thelast works by Jannini . . .The title of the impressive installation is “Il Grande Fardello” (the great burden) and his last finish, by admission of the artist, is that of parody with playful and soft ferocity, the world rotton of the reality shows, emblem of the banality that pervades our anthropological universe …”

Selection of images from the exhibition