In Milan, 18 artists interpret David Lynch's universe in an exhibition

An exhibition dedicated to the universe of the great American director David Lynch interpreted by contemporary artists: this is Lynch Highway, the exhibition that Soggettiva Gallery presents in Milan from January 17 to February 11, 2023. With to its credit a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achie vement awarded as part of the 63. Venice International Film Festival (2006) and an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement (2019), David Lynch (Missoula, 1946) is one of the most significant and acclaimed figures in the elite of American cinema. Films such as The Elephant Man (1980), Dune (1984) and Mulholland Drive (2001) have marked the milestones of a successful career that, spanning the past decades, has garnered both critical celebration and applause from the general public.

The imagery of David Lynch thus bursts into the spaces of Via Sottocorno in Milan, through the looks and revisitations of eighteen artists, both emerging and not, from international backgrounds. Fully meeting the style of Soggettiva Gallery, the works of art that make up the exhibition Lynch Highway intend to give back to the visitor the personal vision of each artist, invited to interpret one or more films from the director’s rich production by providing their own unprecedented expressive reworking. From the melancholy snapshot that George Townley proposes of Mulholland Drive to the sharp black-and-white spiral with which Przemek Debowski evokes Dune; from the pop atmospheres studied by Jeffrey Everett to interpret Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks to the rural landscape with which Eva Planet pays homage to A True Story: a path for different expressive declinations, where each artist celebrates David Lynch through his or her own unprecedented and original stylistic mark.

On the occasion, the new collaboration activated between Soggettiva Gallery and Milano PrintMakers kicks off, which is realized in the debut of the COLLECTIVE project. In line with the gallery’s commitment to the generation of surprising paths and expressive hybridizations, the project involves creatives, illustrators, graphic designers, printers and artisans in the realization of a work conceived in a choral manner at every stage, from the origin of the idea to the concrete production of the object. COLLETTIVA debuts as part of the Lynch Highway exhibition with a multi-voice interpretation of The Elephant Man, which aims to restore all the complexity of David Lynch’s work in a delicate reinterpretation of the theme of wonder given by the unveiling of a curtain that opens. Soggettiva Gallery’s tribute comes to life in conjunction with the theatrical debut of the re-release of the film Strade perdute (Lost Highways, 1997), restored in 4K by The Criterion Collection under the supervision of David Lynch and distributed by the Cineteca di Bologna.

The exhibition is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 4 to 7:30 p.m. For all information you can visit the Soggettiva Gallery website.

In Milan, 18 artists interpret David Lynch's universe in an exhibition

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