In Modena the first Italian solo exhibition of Quayola

In Modena, at Palazzo Santa Margherita, Quayola ’s first solo exhibition in an Italian institution will be held from September 18, 2020 to January 10, 2021. The exhibition, titled Quayola. Ultima perfezione, is curated by Daniele De Luigi and produced in collaboration with the Marignana Arte gallery in Venice; it is the result of Fondazione Modena Arti Visive’s participation in the 2019 edition of Art Verona’s Level 0 Prize, which involved thirteen of Italy’s leading contemporary art museums and institutions.

Quayola confronts the Western artistic tradition and reinterprets it through the most advanced contemporary technologies, to which he assigns a new role: no longer a tool, but a partner with whom to confront and explore new possible ways of reading reality.

The exhibition revolves around the idea of perfection and its meaning in the history of Western art. The artist traces classical, modern and baroque masterpieces and applies algorithms to them in search of the canons of harmony and beauty. The rules codified by historiography and criticism are rendered into sets of information, traces that in the machine’s reading take on a new significance, originating new aesthetic codes.

On display are a video installation and four series of works, two of which were produced especially for the exhibition: a sequence of sculptures and a cycle of works on paper, some of which will become part of the drawing collections managed by Fondazione Modena Arti Visive.

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In Modena the first Italian solo exhibition of Quayola

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