Galleria Franco Noero is happy to current “Stubborn Area,” the second solo exhibition of Eric Nathaniel Mack with the gallery in Torino. For the event, the artist has conceived a brand new collection of works that tie in with the structure and atmosphere of the gallery’s out of doors backyard house, a former industrial website on Through Pollone: this location, which is just a few meters away from the exhibition house on Through Mottalciata and has now change into its out of doors counterpart.

The exhibition brings collectively a physique of works that concentrate on a few of the themes most pricey to the artist. From his most recognizable richly textured compositions via the assemblage of textiles mounted on steel stretchers whose colours and prints function a palette, favoring and emphasizing their sculptural presence via the addition of components reminiscent of house and quantity, and so doing, in a steady effort to synthesize portray with sculpture.

Breaking free from the canonical boundary of the two-dimensional aircraft, Mack makes use of suspended and draped textiles creating immersive environments that dialogue extensively with the prevailing structure and that invite the guests to discover new views and query the relationships between materiality and the encircling house.

Functioning as an archive, these colourful assemblages of materials, being them mounted on stretchers or draping from ceiling and partitions, current and provides new life to the discovered, put on off and fairly often ignored supplies researched and employed by the artist in his regeneration course of which clearly characterise his follow, enhancing and unexpectedly revealing their greatest options.

Impressed by Judd’s present “Stubborn Area: Structure of Donald Judd,” held on the Heart for Structure at Graham Basis in New York in 2018, the place 5 unrealized architectural initiatives by Judd had been introduced for the primary time to the general public, the exhibition by Mack intends to deal with the complexity or quite the relative freedom in making design selections whereas experiencing the shape, house and construction of a given place and, as soon as understood it, to create a continuum throughout artwork and structure with out being compromised by trivial contingencies or variations in scale.

The textiles change into a bridge between physique and house, suggesting subliminally the thought of motion and the perspective that individuals might finally have in sporting them as garments.

Garments as a automobile for self-expression and transitively the modifications in style and vogue are additionally different components quoted by the artist’s work, mirroring the infinite sources of images continually conveyed at any degree—excessive and low, subculture via mainstream—by vogue magazines and fanzines in a relentless renewal of costume and society.

at Galleria Franco Noero, Turin
till September 21, 2024