Serie inversa_Exh#01

VALERIO MANGHI / ENRICO PARTENGO

Opening  20th  Dicember 2013

at 6:30 pm

21th Dicember at 9th January 2014

DIOGENE STUDIO
via Parma 31, TORINO

Gruppo Diogene is pleased to invite you, at the exhibition Serie Inversa_Exh#01 by Valerio Manghi and Enrico Partengo, on Friday 19 December.
The two artists have been chosen among the participants at Collecting Paolple_Serie Inversa, a serie of meetings at regular intervals open to the Tram’s public, with whom Progetto Diogene wants to focus on the artistic practices that are being consolidated in the territory of Turin.
Serie Inversa_Exh#01 is the first in a series of exhibitions that draw from this survey, to propose to the choosen artists the possibility of producing a new project, and to let it enter into a process of realization and public return. For this first edition, the location of the exhibition will be Studio Diogene in Via Parma 31.

By UNRAVELING HUMANS_01: MEDIA Valerio Manghi will propose a personal decoding mapping of relations between individual and media in contemporary society. An environmental installation that tries to untangle, manifesting them, human mind reactions encountering the basic mean, a magazine page, through
the material development of a chain of meanings.

The project by Enrico Partengo is the fulfillment of his recent reflections on the phenomenon of territory’s anthropization, then of the intervention through which man complies and manipulates the natural environment surrounding him, and the resulting aesthetic benefits. A serie of works focusing on the emotional short circuit that generates watching a sunset made chromatically striking by air pollution, or from the aesthetic appeal that can arouse the vision of an abandoned eco-monster. Among Partengo’s works in the exhibition, there are essays in reinforced concrete, casts of the soil that translate into sculpture the roughness of a mismatch generated by human intervention on a given territory, subsequently loaded of the chromatic value that returns the litmus test of the soil sample.