FLORENCE.- The Eduardo Secci Gallery is presenting the group show “Structural Tensions #2”, curated by Angel Moya Garcia.

The “Structural Tensions” trilogy is an organic project divided into three independent yet interconnected exhibitions, which are presented within the gallery’s spaces step-by-step. If the first exhibition, which was carried out last February, focused on the central role of the individual in the construction of the perceived space, through environmental installations by Carlo Bernardini, Monika Grzymala, Roberto Pugliese and Ester Stocker, the second one analyses the different possibilities of matter as an element of representation and, finally, the third one, scheduled for next year, will study the entropic processes of the everyday environment.

The five guest artists developed the second chapter of the trilogy as an analysis of the possibilities and limits of matter in its different structures, aspects and meanings. The exhibit presents a series of works that interrogate themselves, in very contrasting ways, on the subtleties and nuances that are concealed within the recesses of the atavistic dichotomies between physicality and abstraction, what is tangible and what is indefinite, stability and uncertainty. A study of phenomena where what is real appears and is shown through traces, references and signs in which the individual may reach to recognize and comprehend it exclusively through personal experience. In doing so, the exhibition is conceived as a series of impulses, clues and hints in which the artworks slow down, cancelling any attempt of taxonomic classification or categorization, and rejecting all objectifications of what is real.

In particular, in the first room, Aeneas Wilder questions the durability and static security of matter through “Untitled #191”, a work structured just through balance and the force of gravity, and in which there is no trace of any fastening system among the installations’ numerous elements. In the second room, “Lontanodentro”, by Davide Dormino, which shapes into a waterfall built with iron threads that cover the entire room and converge from the ceiling’s perimeter to the center of the floor, leaving the viewer with the option of observing it from a peripheral perspective or by crossing it to reach it’s core. In the third room we find “All Is Shining the Same”, by Marzia Corinne Rossi, consisting of a tangle of self-supporting industrial pigmented sandpaper elements, a material that characterizes the artist’s production, which align in the exposition space, mutating its physical and perceptive characteristics. Opposite, Diamante Faraldo presents “A Nord del Futuro”, a large upside-down map that requires the viewer to stop and scrutinize it carefully in order to distinguish nuances, details and traits concealed behind a material that tries to hide behind its ambiguity. Finally, in the last room, Andrea Nacciarriti, with his work “Crystallize #002 [matter]” investigates the capacity of transformation and the fragility of matter, dilating suspension and analyzing the category of transition through an act of fragmentation that drags beyond our possibilities to reach it.

Davide Dormino (Born in 1973 in Udine. Lives and works in Rome). He teaches Sculpture and Drawing at the R.U.F.A. Rome University of Fine Arts. His work is expressed through sculpture and design. He has realized public artworks worldwide: in 2011 “Breath”, the Monument to Haiti, created on behalf of the UN one year after the earthquake disaster. A recent art project is “Anything to say?”, an itinerant sculpture dedicated to courage and freedom of information, which began its journey in Berlin (Alexanderplatz) in 2015 and then in Dresda (Theatrerplatz, Ostrale), Geneva (Place des Nations), Paris (Place Georges Pompidou), Strasburg (Place Klèber), Tours (Gare de Tours), Perugia ( Piazza IV Novembre), Belgrade (Dev9t Festival), Ptuj-Slovenia (Art Stay Festival). For this work, he received the Prix éthique 2016 from the French organization AntiCor.

Diamante Faraldo (Born in 1962 in Anwerp, Belgium. Lives and works in Milan).He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples until 1984 and then presented his first solo exhibitions in Naples (Castel dell’Ovo) and Grenoble. In 1986, he moved to Berlin to further explore his arts education. Once he returned from Germany, he settled in Milan, where he still lives and works. Recent solo exhibitions include: “Dentro l’occhio dell’occidente”, Galleria Oredaria, Rome (2010), “A Nord del Futuro”, Galleria Nina Lumer, Milan (2007) and “L’Enracinement”, MUDIMAdrie Galleria G. Ranzi, Antwerp (2006). Recent group exhibitions include: “Flash art event”, Palazzo del ghiaccio, Milan (2013), “Artis for nutopia”, curated by Arianna Baldoni, Museum of New Art, Nutopia (2013) and “Tra la terra incolta e il campo arato”, Biennale di Ogiogno, Verbania (2012).

Andrea Nacciarriti (Born in 1976 in Ostra Vetere, Ancona. Lives and works in Milan). He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, attended the XI Advanced Course in Visual Arts at the Ratti Foundation, has won numerous awards such as the White Pages of Author, the third edition of the Terna Prize, Celeste Prize in 2011, the New York prize 2014/2015 and the International Contemporary Art Competition - to call for a line 2015. He has participated in residency programs in Beijing, Ekenas (Finland), Imlil (Morocco) and New York at the ISCP. Among his recent solo exhibitions: “STILL LIFE - dimensions variable”, Kunsthalle Eurocenter, Lana (BZ); “You might get breathless”, ISCP, New York; “And the ship sails on,” Fish Market Foundation - Visual Arts Center of Pesaro; “No one Knew what anyone else was doing,” CAB, Grenoble, “Crystallize”, Franco Soffiantino Gallery, Turin. It has been presented in numerous group exhibitions in Italian and international museums: Macro Rome, PAC Milan, Museum of Villa Croce Genoa; Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains Tourcoing cedex, France, MAMM, Moscow, La Maison Rouge, Paris. Special projects: “LESS THAN AIR”, Elica Showroom, Milan, on the occasion of the 49th edition Salone Internazionale del Mobile, “Sculpture Park”, Reagent’s Park, London, on the occasion of the Frieze Art Fair. His work is in private and institutional collections including Foundation Antoine de Galbert of Paris and La Gaia Collection of Busca.

Marzia Corinne Rossi (Born in 1984. Lives and works in Lima, Perù). She attended the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milano until 2010 and she has taken part in several residencies: residency Triangle France La Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille, 2011; Résidence Suddenly, Beauchery-Saint-Martin, 2011. Marzia collaborated with the Personal effectsonsale, Padiglione Esprit Nouveau of Le Corbusier, Bologna, 2012; Hitch Hike, CARS Cusio Artist Residency Space, Omegna; 2011. Recent solo exhibitions include: “Afterglow”, curated by Marta Cereda, Museo MAR, Ravenna (2015) and “Flesh Out”, Néon, Lyon (2014). Recent group exhibitions include: “Anelli 8”, spazio Morris, Milan (2016) and “Les Sublimes. Cose Cosmiche”, a project by Silvia Hell and Helga Franza, Fondazione Arthur Cravan, Milan (2015).

Aeneas Wilder (Born in 1967 in Edinburgh. Lives and works in Japan). His practice includes a wide array of supports and techniques, among which installation, video, photography, architecture, design and performance. After having studied sculpture (DJCA, Dundee and ECA Edinburgh, United Kingdom), his first principle of exploration was focused on structure and the physicality of matter. He completed 189 installations as external works in galleries, public artworks, or research projects, most of which were intentionally transient. Wilder has been a practicing visual artist for 22 years. During this time he has participated in numerous exhibitions and arts projects around the world. Currently solo exhibitions include “Origin”, Chateau du Seneffe, Seneffe, Belgium (2016), “Transmission”, Frank Taal Gallerie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2013) and “Untitled # 162”, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK (2012). Recent group exhibitions include “IQ”, Kunstisland, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2016), “Amusing Ourselves To Death”, De Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2015), “Art @ Tsuchizawa”, Hanamaki, Iwate, Japan (2014). Aeneas Wilder is a two-time recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation award.