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Curated by Il Colorificio
06.05.2021
24.06.2021
Fondazione ICA Milano presents
TROVATE ORTENSIA
Curated by Il Colorificio
Artists:
Johanna Bruckner, Pauline Julier, Nastasia Meyrat, Real Madrid, Urs August Steiner e Anaïs Wenger
From Thursday, 6th May until Thursday, 3rd June 2021
Fondazione ICA Milano presents Trovate Ortensia, a group show with the artists participating to the 2019-2020 edition of Roma Calling, the transdisciplinary residency program organized by Istituto Svizzero of Rome. The exhibition is conceived and curated by the curatorial collective Il Colorificio (Michele Bertolino, Bernardo Follini, Giulia Gregnanin, Sebastiano Pala) and it is realized in collaboration with Istituto Svizzero and Fondazione ICA Milano.
The project takes its origins from La Libellula (Panegirico della libertà, 1958), “political short poem, feminist as well as poetic” by Amelia Rosselli (1930-1996), poetess, organist and etno-musician. The text by Rosselli, the ghostly figure of Ortensia, inherited from the poem in prose by Rimbaud, oscillates between a tension toward the outside and an intimate and repaired withdrawing. The resonating between these dimensions, together with the claim of an expressive freedom able to overpower the linguistic conventions and with topics related to care, sexuality and death, which appear within the poem as ghostly traces, constitute the grammar of the show.
Free admission, booking is required by email: rsvp@icamilano.it
Pauline Julier, Cercate Ortensia, video, 16min, HD, stereo
Johanna Bruckner, Pylum Lava Sci-Fi, 2021. Courtesy Il Colorificio, Milano and Fondazione ICA Milano. Ph. credits Elena Radice
Installation view of the show Trovate Ortensia at Fondazione ICA Milano, 2021. Courtesy Il Colorificio, Milano and Fondazione ICA Milano. Ph. credits Elena Radice
Nastasia Meyrat, Against all odds, 2021. Courtesy Il Colorificio, Milano and Fondazione ICA Milano. Ph. credits Elena Radice
Nastasia Meyrat, Against all odds, 2021. Courtesy Il Colorificio, Milano and Fondazione ICA Milano. Ph. credits Elena Radice
Real Madrid, Cherries, 2020. Courtesy Il Colorificio, Milano and Fondazione ICA Milano. Ph. credits Elena Radice
Anaïs Wenger, A rose buds in a vase Leaf by leaf I look at it How nice it is, the smell of a flower But the flowers I make, alas Have no smell, 2021. Courtesy Il Colorificio, Milano and Fondazione ICA Milano. Ph. credits Elena Radice
Urs August Steiner, S01E07 Recall, 2021. Courtesy Il Colorificio, Milano and Fondazione ICA Milano. Ph. credits Elena Radice
Urs August Steiner, S01E07 Recall, 2021. Courtesy Il Colorificio, Milano and Fondazione ICA Milano. Ph. credits Elena Radice
Pauline Julier, Cercate Ortensia, 2021. Courtesy Il Colorificio, Milano and Fondazione ICA Milano. Ph. credits Elena Radice
