Giuditta Branconi, Exhibition Maramotti collection, Reggio Emilia

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Giuditta Branconi:

Cannon Fodder

From 8 March to 26 July 2026

Maramotti collection

Via Fratelli Cervi, 66, Reggio Emilia

Closed now: open at 14:30

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For Cannon Fodder, the first solo exhibition by Giuditta Branconi in an institutional space, the young artist has created a series of new paintings and a large installation composed of painted canvases, in which the audience can physically enter. The title of the exhibition ("cannon fodder") refers to expendable bodies, to a material destined to be consumed by a larger system. In the shift from the military field to the visual and symbolic dimension, Branconi's images are transformed into ammunition denouncing a violent and oppressive present: compressed, charged, ready to detonate on the surface of the canvas, in an explosion that is not only formal, but also emotional and political - an excess that rejects composure. Branconi's painting, rich and overflowing, is often characterized by an overwhelming visual density and develops on both the front and back of the thin fabrics she uses as a base, multiplying expressive possibilities and levels of interpretation. By combining iconographic references from high and popular culture, excerpts from literature, comics, newspapers, songs, and instant messaging, the artist transforms the space of the painting into a teeming and oxymoronic place, a semiotic labyrinth where seemingly incongruent images, words, and symbols coexist freely as in a stream of consciousness. The exuberant interweaving of the composition is accompanied by an extremely meticulous stylistic investigation and painting technique. Each grapheme that composes Branconi's works derives from the appropriation, and from her subsequent personal recontextualization of codes and references drawn from heterogeneous sources, from Asian art to Victorian engravings, from children's books to arabesques, from comics to tattoos, to illustrated manuals. This free iconographic accumulation saturates the gaze and cancels out any hierarchy of styles and subjects. Hearts, chains, hunting scenes, clouds, faces, stars, numbers, letters, flowers, birds, skeletons, butterflies: all the elements of these contemporary grotesques coexist, hybridize, in an eclectic, layered, and visionary imaginary - a kind of "fantastic middle ages" that approaches the thought of art historian Jurgis Baltrušaitis on the powerful vitality of medieval Gothic art. For this exhibition, Branconi has chosen to enhance the text as a central element, making it a pervasive presence and declined in a myriad of languages, alphabets, and fonts, giving life to an inner diary of fragments in which to get lost or try to trace new connections. The central installation of the exhibition - configured as an atypical, three-dimensional triptych, in which both painted sides are exposed to the viewer's gaze - is the point of access to a new vision, to a reading without secrets or hiding places of Branconi's universe, where the canvas absorbs tensions and releases visual violence, transforming it into pictorial energy. These new works become a battlefield, where signs and figures are pushed to the point of collapse. What remains is not ruin, but a new possibility of meaning that arises from the deflagration. On the occasion of the exhibition, a book will be published with a text by Flavia Frigeri, art historian and curator at the National Portrait Gallery in London. With the invitation to Giuditta Branconi, the Maramotti Collection continues the long journey of exploration and public sharing of the work of emerging artists who, through the language of painting, conceive new bodies of work expanding personal research and practices in an ambitious project.

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Giuditta Branconi:

Cannon Fodder

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