13.12.2024 - 15.03.2024

OPENING 12.12.2024

6-8 pm

Free access

Fondazione ICA Milano presents Wooden Travel, the solo exhibition of Lithuanian artist Augustas Serapinas (Vilnius, 1990), which opens to the public from December 12, 2024 to March 15, 2025. Curated by Chiara Nuzzi, the exhibition is part of the research path that the Foundation has been pursuing since 2019, delving into social and cultural issues that innervate the current art scene.

In his work, Augustas Serapinas addresses pressing issues such as global warming, gentrification, the progressive loss of traditional knowledge and human cultural processes, and the construction of identity through the preservation of memory. Known for impressive site-specific installations that explore the relationship between architecture, memory and perception, in Milan the artist presents a new project specifically conceived in response to the spaces of Fondazione ICA Milano and the urban context in which it is located: a complex wooden installation that continues Serapinas' interest in vernacular architecture, a theme that has long influenced his research.

In Wooden Travel the artist focuses on possible social and political changes in contemporary living space, inviting the public to open up to endless creation possibilities, communication and coexistence toward new formal and structural scenarios. The exhibition on the one hand consolidates Serapinas' investigation on the relationship between the vernacular architectural tradition - characteristic of Lithuania - and modern monumental sculpture, while representing on the other hand an experimental evolution of artistic research on space and the relational potential it enshrines.

Serapinas has exhibited his work in prestigious international contexts such as the Venice Biennale, Toronto Biennial of Art, and the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA). With Wooden Travel, the artist invites the public to explore a new way of perceiving architecture and space, proposing a reflection on the fragility of traditions and historical narratives and on the possibilities they can offer us as individuals in a present in crisis.

We thank Intesa Sanpaolo, the official sponsor of Fondazione ICA Milano, for supporting the programming and activities of the institution.

We thank APALAZZOGALLERY, Brescia and Nicoletta Fiorucci Russo for their support to the exhibition "Augustas Serapinas. Wooden Travel”.

We thank the Lithuanian Culture Institute and the Lithuanian Embassy in Rome for the collaboration in occasion of the exhibition "Augustas Serapinas. Wooden Travel”.