EXHIBITION n. 104
EXHIBITION TITLE: WORK IN PROGRESS
ARTISTS: Marco Bolognesi, Davide Coltro, Daniele Girardi, Assaf Gruber, Santiago Picatoste, Silvano Tessarollo
CURATED BY: ELENA FORIN
INAUGURATION: 27 SEPTEMBER– 29 NOVEMBER 2008
PERIOD: 27 SETTEMBRE – 29 NOVEMBRE 2008

With the group show Work in Progress the gallery La Giarina is opening a path dedicated to the difficult relation between man and environment.
Each of the artists presented (Marco Bolognesi, Davide Coltro, Daniele Girardi, Assaf Gruber, Santiago Picatoste, Silvano Tessarollo) is expressing in different linguistic and aesthetic ways his own vision of this unstable balance, but conveys the inevitability of a confrontation meant to produce continuous anthropologic, social and environmental changes.
In Daniele Girardi's video painting and drawings a terrible fire is devastating a nature which bends down and suffers the painful attack of flames and offers burning material; in Silvano Tessarollo's installation the environment and its poor remains bear the traces of a physical, intimate and mental stripping of the flesh whose weight and violence are to be met in the gloomy and dramatic background of sculpture while in Santiago Picatoste the balance among ecological tensions, the symbolism, the image and urban action are combined in an hallucinated painting with a monumental taste.
The environment and the urban territory are also part of Marco Bolognesi's work, despite the struggle here displayed refers to the need of establish an order between real human beings and humanoid hybridizations created by a certain cybernetic and synthetic-robotic obsession.
And if this cold and elegant rigour of Assaf Gruber is warmed up and reassembled by the mutations which light and environmental conditions can produce in his installations, the same delicate poetry is further amplified in Davide Coltro's Systems, in which not only is the landscape crossed by a filter of a human and humanizing glance, but in which technology intervenes to create a circuit combining the artist's experience to the spectator's emotion which receives it, revises it and makes it his own.

The development of these topics will be continued through the solo shows dedicated to the Israelian Assaf Gruber (December 2008) and the Spanish Santiago Picatoste (end of February 2009).