In Rome the first Italian solo exhibition of Sylvie Fleury, entitled Chaussures italiennes

Internationally renowned artist Sylvie Fleury (Geneva, 1961) chooses Rome as the venue for her first Italian solo exhibition: from March 29 to June 30, 2019, theIstituto Svizzero in fact presents her exhibition Chaussures italiennes, a show that exhibits several works from her versatile and prolific production, with some historical works and others created especially for the occasion. Among others, the Swiss artist brings back to Rome her Miracle, a large purple neon previously installed at Villa Maraini, home of the Institute, in 2016. The title of the exhibition refers to one of the artist’s most important projects, titled Retrospective, which consisted of the shoe rack in which the artist placed her most extravagant high-heeled shoes, worn during vernissages and performances recapitulating, in part, the idea behind the exhibition.

Fleury’s approach consists of an initial representation of a characteristic form that is later enriched, enlarged and developed through the use of different media. The shape, color and graphic design of shoes, lipsticks, shopping carts or fashion magazines become independent visual systems of representation in their own right, thus entering a new aesthetic realm. Sylvie Fleury’s works constantly re-invent our relationships with artworks by exploiting a clever sense of staging: an act of removal of signs and objects, a deviation of meaning of codes, perspectives or lifestyles, and a strong evocation of the body between presence, loss and absence, entertaining a particular relationship with space.

Through blurring the boundaries between art and fashion, Sylvie Fleury’s intent is not to open the world of art to that of fashion, but rather to emphasize the differences between the two: one cannot have an aesthetic experience by observing fashion. Objects, like works, call the intellect into play and, at the same time, invite us to reflect on what the cognitive process of understanding itself means. In this sense, Fleury’s works are not an appropriation but rather a personalization, in the sense that something is added: “[...] nowadays the readymade has become a really open option for artists. There are so many different ways to create a readymade,” says the artist.

Sylvie Fleury lives and works in Geneva and has held solo exhibitions at international art institutions since the early 1990s. Of particular note are her exhibitions at the Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Graz (1993), at Le Consortium in Dijon (1994), at MAMCO in Geneva (1996 and 2008), at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (1998), at Kunstmuseum Sankt Gallen (2000), at Museum für Neue Kunst/ZKM in Karlsruhe (2001), at Le Magasin in Grenoble (2001) and at CAC Málaga (2001). He has participated in numerous group exhibitions around the world: of particular note are his presence at the Venice Biennale in 1993 and the São Paulo Biennale in 1998. Her works are included in public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe; Daimler Contemporary, Berlin; the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; MAMCO, Geneva; and the Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art, Vienna and the Bass Art Museum, Miami. Sylvie Fleury was awarded the prestigious Swiss Meret Oppenheim Prize in 2018.

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In Rome the first Italian solo exhibition of Sylvie Fleury, entitled Chaussures italiennes

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