Arrivada Gallery presents Icons rebirth, a group exhibition that brings together the works of four emerging artists of the latest generation, focusing on those who use the medium of painting to hybridise their inner worlds with various elements of iconographic imagery from popular culture and the history of art, fashion and design, giving rise to visual narratives in which a vision of reality prevails that becomes light and dreamy.
Icons rebirth
Artists: Pietro Di Corrado, Gherardo Quadrio Curzio, Luca Rubegni, Domenico Ruccia
Curated by Andrea Lacarpia
19 March to 30 April 2023 by appointment only
Galleria Arrivada, Milano
In the works on display, stylised forms and bright colours prevail, focusing on the iconicity of the image.
The research of Pietro Di Corrado (born in Comiso, RG, in 1995) draws nourishment from various influences ranging from digital culture to the history of Italian painting and Milanese design. Obsessed with saving, photographing, filing and jotting down what may apparently seem trivial or distant, Pietro Di Corrado transforms these elements into subjects of an ironic, cultured and strictly autobiographical storytelling.
His main exhibitions have included: Dimora Artica (Milan), Spazio Lalepre (Tortoreto), The Balcony (The Hague, Netherlands), Spazio Buonasera (Turin).
The paintings of Gherardo Quadrio Curzio (born in Milan in 2000, where he lives and works) are characterised by characters and settings in which reality and the space-time dimension are called into question, giving rise to a fairy-tale world in which two profoundly human souls coexist: the funny and the dramatic.
Elements of a known past are mixed with an indefinite scenery composed of colours and shapes that hark back to some kind of future or other world. The protagonists wander lost and confused, witnessing an inner and outer chaos that slowly spreads into the present.
His main exhibitions include: Museo della Permanente (Milan), Galleria Lorenzelli (Milan), Frankurter Westend Galerie (Frankfurt), Palazzo Parasi (Cannobio).
The work of Luca Rubegni (born in Rome in 1993, lives and works in Paris) focuses on the representation of everyday objects deposited or abandoned in unreal, dreamlike spaces, staged as if they were part of a theatrical set. His compositions give life to scenes out of time, suspended in an eternal stillness. Hints of figures and flat-coloured elements are lost in the realm of immortal things, where the history of painting becomes a point of dialogue and iconographic appropriation.
On show is a selection of works from a new series inspired by the painting of Paolo Uccello, in which Rubegni frames details from the panels of the Battle of San Romano, making figuration lose itself in an almost abstraction with new content.
Among his main exhibitions, he has exhibited at: Osservatorio Futura (Turin), Galleria La Linea (Montalcino), Hassmann & Liebfrau (Vienna, Austria), Galleria Lunetta11 (Alta Langa), Hello Tiresia (Carrara), Palazzo Gallone (Tricase), The Balcony (The Hague, Netherlands).
In his works, Domenico Ruccia (born in Bari in 1986, lives and works in Milan) proposes a reinterpretation - in a parodistic and at times ironic key - of the Italian and foreign world of entertainment in the 70s and 80s.
References to cinema, fashion and music intertwine and become the ideal means to outline the aesthetics of those decades: thanks to these references, Ruccia tries to highlight how painting is still the ideal tool to dialogue with the past and reflect on what remains of our heritage.
His main exhibitions include: Fondazione Mario Moderni (Rome), Chiostro del Bramante (Rome), Galleria Lorenzelli (Milan), Museo Area Archeologica Arte Contemporanea (Brindisi), Museo d'Arte Grafica Marchionni (Cagliari), Osservatorio Futura (Turin), Co_atto project space (Milan).
