Irene Kung's landscape monuments on display at CAMERA in Turin, Italy.

It will be inaugurated on May 30, 2019, the solo exhibition of Irene Kung (Bern, 1958) entitled Monuments, set up at the Project Room of CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia in Turin until July 28, 2019.

The exhibition, curated by the director of the Turin-based institute, Walter Guadagnini, will start from the juxtaposition of images belonging to two previous photographic series, Invisible Cities (2012) and Trees (2014), to lead to anintrospective and social investigation of the urban, archaeological or naturallandscape. Elements that are for the Swiss artist pure fundamentals of vision: these present themselves to the viewer as courtly portraits emerging from obscurity. Eighteen large-format works depicting trees, ancient ruins and contemporary architecture that take on a salvific character will be on display. They become contemporary monuments that cancel time and order chaos with their constructive harmony.

Irene Kung has been using photography in her artistic production for about a decade, taking advantage of her training in painting, not only to embellish the lyrical and emotional component of her artistic research, but also the gestural and instinctive one. Theessentiality of the framing and the ability to make his subjects emerge from obscurity appear close to the Italian pictorial Renaissance: his works highlight the desire to identify new possible paths to a sustainable future and a renewed attention to the balance between human and natural. However, the artist’s works highlight by contrast theambiguity of urbanization and human neglect. “Describing suffering through a refined and dreamlike representation is an attempt to generate a new meaning from the perceptions of an emotional experience, it is an abstraction that leads me from the most shadowed areas to the meditative dimension, to the unconscious spaces of the soul,” declares the artist.

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Image: Irene Kung, Bamboo Alley (2018; 76 x 152 cm). © Irene Kung. Courtesy Valentina Bonomo Gallery.

Irene Kung's landscape monuments on display at CAMERA in Turin, Italy.

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