BRUNA ESPOSITO | allegro non troppo
solo exhibition
exhibition opening:
thursday march 9th, 2017 – 6pm
exhibition closing:
september 23rd, 2017
opening hours:
tuesday to saturday, 4–8pm
or by appointment
about.
STUDIO STEFANIA MISCETTI is proud to present allegro non troppo, the first solo gallery exhibition dedicated to Bruna Esposito, one of today’s most significant Italian artists. She has just been invited to the 2nd Ostend Biennale in Belgium, curated by Joanna De Vos and the Belgian artist Jan Fabre.
The exhibition offers two bodies of work in which the artist considers subjects and themes dear to her. A site-specific piece with multi-coloured hammocks reveals an innovative dialogue of colourful assemblages, material ruses, seemingly carefree soubrettes. Amid madly overlapping netting, tissue paper from old brands of orange, pine needles, ads for ‘discount’ products, bitumen and tar, Bruna Esposito immerses us in—and reveals—the dynamics of everyday life, in a mood or colour that is ‘allegro non troppo’.
A versatile, uncompromising artist, this reworking of normal, ordinary materials is a feature of Bruna Esposito’s work, one which poetically invites both meaning and meaninglessness.
Major recognition for Esposito’s work includes the Golden Lion awarded to her and four other Italian female artists for the non-existent national pavilion, dAPPERTutto, curated by Harald Szeemann at the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999. Her work recently was presented in Ecuador at the XIII Biennale in Cuenca, curated by Dan Cameron.
From May 2017 her work will be part of the next exhibition curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, The Place to Be, at MAXXI Museum of Rome.
The artist’s work is presented as a solo show for the very first time at STUDIO STEFANIA MISCETTI, Rome, one of the galleries she is most closely associated with.
Read and download the exhibition’s press release.
artist.
BRUNA ESPOSITO was born in Rome in 1960, where she lives and works. In 1979 she graduated from the IV Liceo Artistico in Rome, where she studied with Carmengloria Morales. In 1980 she attended the Faculty of Architecture at La Sapienza University, Rome, and later studied aerial dance in New York with Batya Zamir.
In 1984 she was selected to take part in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Studio Program. In the late 1980s she moved to West Berlin, where she was awarded two scholarships by IBA Berlin in 1987 and 1988, for the project and feasibility study for Two public biotoilets.
She has worked with artists, poets and musicians including Paola d’Agnese, Federico Fusi, David Hammons, Enzo De Leonibus, Stefano Maria Longobardi, Kristine Lovejoy, Progetto Neola, Annie Ratti, Andries van Rossem, Barbel Rothaar, Stalker-Osservatorio Nomade and Penelope Wehrli.
Her work draws on numerous material and sensorial elements, such as our sense of smell and hearing, and tends to be made using simple materials and techniques. Her practice includes drawing, photography and collage, as well as sculpture, video, installations, live performance, artistic actions and site-specific projects.
For a more complete artist profile, see the artist page.
works.
here below some images from BRUNA ESPOSITO’s allegro non troppo.
more exhibitions.
more exhibitions by BRUNA ESPOSITO with STUDIO STEFANIA MISCETTI.
BABIES ARE KNOCKING
group show
may 27th, 2021 - october 2, 2021
BRUNA ESPOSITO
altri venti - ostro
october 22th, 2020 - january 2021
more catalogues.
more catalogues by BRUNA ESPOSITO with STUDIO STEFANIA MISCETTI.
Bruna Esposito
altri venti - ostro
exhibition catalogue
CURA., rome, 2022
BABIES ARE KNOCKING
group show
exhibition catalogue
SSM, rome, 2021
BRUNA ESPOSITO
altri venti
exhibition catalogue
multiprint, rome 2020