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Garden Ephemeris.
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Garden Ephemeris.:

Andrea Fogli

From 4 May to 21 July 2019

MAC - Museum of Contemporary Art of Lissone

MAC - Museum of Contemporary Art of Lissone

Viale Elisa Ancona, 6, Lissone

Open now from 10:00 to 18:00

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The exhibition Ephemerides of the Garden collects the main series of works that Andrea Fogli (Rome, 1959) has created from 2002 to the present day, drawing inspiration from nature and, in particular, from the plant world. The focal point of the exhibition is represented by the Garden, where by stepping out of ourselves, out of the human enclosure, we find ourselves in harmony with the rhythm, beauty, and otherness of nature and the sky. Of this Garden, the artist follows the "gifted images", especially minimal and inconspicuous ones, like those encountered during his "intra muros" walks. As the artist suggests, the word "Ephemerides" is evoked to indicate "daily" appearances, ephemeral and unpredictable: "I had to try to enter this Garden, or Kingdom, from the opposite side, where there is a forest, without doors or indications, and where you can only follow traces, go in the opposite direction, or rely on chance, on the intuition of a moment that falls on you". At the center of the exhibition, both concretely and ideally, are the 59 small and polymaterial raw earths of the cycle "Ephemerides of the Garden", modeled day after day, from January 19 to March 18, 2019, in different places each time, kneading the elements encountered and collected while walking; each "grain" is accompanied by a photo taken on site and a diary page. Around the grains will revolve the drawings-imprints of the "Planetary Garden" (2017/19), obtained by sprinkling blue pastel powder on leaves and flowers collected in particularly emblematic places, and there created "en plein air" (Todnauberg in the Black Forest, Paradise Plantation by J. Beuys, Monte Verità in Ascona); the drawings of the series "59 Grains" (2010/12) depicting natural elements found and collected as "subject trouvés" during city walks; the large paper of the "Forest" (2002), a vegetal mandala made with small pencil strokes, as if they were identical embroidery points; and finally the images and words found, and recreated, by erasing and repainting in tempera a series of postcards depicting landscapes and gardens (Voyage au centre du monde II, 2018/19), in addition to the "apocryphal holy cards" of the series "59 Grains" (2010/17) obtained with the same process.
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