CRAG

Filippo Bosso - Ad occhio nudo
2020-09-03 08:00 - 2020-09-27 17:00 (Europe/Rome)
Filippo Bosso
Ad occhio nudo
Solo Show
3 – 27 September 2020
Opening 3 – 4 – 5 September from 3.30 to 9 pm
the artist will be present

The exhibition will be open everyday by appointment
PRESS RELEASE (for the italian version Comunicato stampa Bosso 2020)
CRAG is glad to present at the Home Gallery in via Maria Vittoria 45, Turin, the photographs of Filippo Bosso with the exhibition “Ad occhio nudo” from the 3rd of September 2020 to the 27th. The thirty artworks are all selected from a long journey of silent photographic practice, away from the clamor. In the New York pictures of 1979, it is already perceptible the research of the essential, pursued till today, and conducting thought of Filippo Bosso’s work.
His capacity of taking over the “space-time situation”, catching just a few elements considered relevant to his eye, is presented in three series of works: details of Shangai’s architecture, horizons between sea and sky in Wales and refined shots of vegetal elements, at times to the limit of the abstraction.
The pictures, that with extreme quality represent the relationship of the author with the world both natural and constructed, are solved with a freedom sense, a thin emotion that is actually anti-rhetorical. Filippo Bosso’s work fits perfectly with a thought by Diego Mormorio “Who takes pictures thinking about the audience, takes pictures not for himself but for the others”.
In his landscapes is perceived the feeling of the author facing the vastness of nature and only a few lines are needed, the detail of a surfer in the distance or of the wind turbines on the horizon because the observer could complete the scene in his own mind imagining the hidden part.
During the lockdown it was common in the art world and not only, to reflect about the need of finding a dimension that exiles from the continuous spectacularisation of our lives and of our actions: we will understand if these reflections will find their own space and if there will be some changes. For now CRAG Gallery, in this exhibition, through the experience of Filippo Bosso, invites to think again about sobriety, aesthetic beauty and about the intimate emotional tension.

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The exhibition will be open everyday by appointment
For Information
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CRAG HOME GALLERY
Via Maria Vittoria, 45 – 10123 Torino

CHIONO REISOVA ART GALLERY
via Giolitti, 51 – 10123 Torino

La possibilité d'une ile - Mickael Doucet
2020-08-27 - 2020-09-27
Mickael Doucet
La possibilité d’une ile
Solo show
27th August – 27th September 2020

PRESS RELEASE (for italian version please click here Comunicato stampa Mickael Doucet)

La possibilitè d’une ile is the title of the personal exhibition of the French artist Mickael Doucet (1974) which CRAG Gallery is pleased to host from 27th August to 27th September in via Giolitti 51, Turin.
The works on display talk about an island.
A treasure island or perhaps a lost and mysterious paradise, for the artist a true reassuring and contemporary refuge that he identifies as a virgin place, far from the tumult of the world. It is a place that can be both our origin and our relevance.
The representations are born from the artist’s desire to return to a stage of intimacy and solitude, as a rebirth and detachment from an excessively intrusive civilisation. This journey, full of colours and characterised by architectures and seas, it is powered by the love for literature from which Doucet takes a cue, also for the choice of the subjects represented. From Zeus, to Ulysses to Thomas Moore. An Island as utopia, as asylum.
This “utopian elsewhere”, as defined by Doucet, is offered to our eyes, but if we look carefully it is less inaccessible than what it seems. In fact, sometimes it is simply our home, where we have retired far from conflict, to think and meditate, with the help of art and culture.
Curator Marion Guggenheim describes Doucet’s work as “something luxurious. But the luxury of being alone in free spaces, something rare in our urban reality.”

For see the artworks please click here https://cragallery.com/artists/mickael-doucet/

For info
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+39 3351227609
CHIONO REISOVA ART GALLERY – CRAG
via Giolitti, 51 – 10123 Torino
www.cragallery.com

Summer Collection 2020
2020-06-26 08:00 - 2020-07-25 17:00
CRAG Gallery è lieta di inaugurare la Summer Collection 2020 dal 26 giugno al 25 luglio presentando una selezione di opere degli artisti Giacomo Modolo, Mickael Doucet, Alessandro Cardinale, Oscar Contreras Rojas, Giuliano Sale, Yoon IlKwon, Chen Li, bn+BRINANOVARA, Laura Omacini, Diego Zangirolami, Luca Coser, Luca Freschi, Liliana Cecchin, Tomas Tichy, Silvia Argiolas.
Vi aspettiamo!

CRAG Gallery is pleased to open the Summer Collection 2020 from the 26th of June to the 25 of July 2020 with a selection of the artists Giacomo Modolo, Mickael Doucet, Alessandro Cardinale, Oscar Contreras Rojas, Giuliano Sale, Yoon IlKwon, Chen Li, bn+BRINANOVARA, Laura Omacini, Diego Zangirolami, Luca Coser, Luca Freschi, Liliana Cecchin, Tomas Tichy, Silvia Argiolas.
See you soon!

In our eyes - Online group exhibition
2020-04-14 08:00 - 2020-06-15 17:00
Clicca di seguito per visionare la mostra: Nei nostri occhi
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JUSTMAD 2020 - MADRID
2020-02-27 08:00 - 2020-03-01 17:00
We are please to announce our participation to JUSTMAD Madrid from the 27th of February to the 3rd of March 2020 with the artists Diego Zangirolami and Luca Freschi.

Jiri Hauschka - The owls are not what they seem - Turin
2020-02-11 08:00 - 2020-04-11 17:00 | CRAG, via Nole, 57, Torino, 10149
Jiří Hauschka
The owls are not what they seem
I gufi non sono quello che sembrano
Mostra personale

11 febbraio – 18 marzo 2020
Inaugurazione martedì 11 febbraio dalle 17 alle 21
sarà presente l’artista

COMUNICATO STAMPA (for Engl. //www.cragallery.com/event/jiri-hauschka-owls-not-seem/)
CRAG è lieta di presentare al pubblico torinese le opere dell’artista ceco Jiří Hauschka con la mostra “The owls are not what they seem” già presentate a novembre in occasione dell’apertura della nuova sede di CRAG a Praga.
La mostra è la prima del 2020, dall’11 febbraio al 18 marzo 2020, in programma nella galleria di Torino e non a caso è stata scelta per il legame con il cinema. A Torino capitale del cinema 2020, proponiamo una lettura dell’opera pittorica di Jiří Hauschka con riferimento alla celebre serie “I segreti di Twin Peaks” diretta da David Lynch dalla quale è stata tratta anche l’ispirazione per il titolo della mostra “I gufi non sono quello che sembrano”.
L’artista si muove in una dimensione di simbiosi tra uomo e natura, che domina fortemente la sua esistenza e produzione artistica, influenzata dai paesaggi tipici della sua terra e del nord Europa, tra laghi e foreste. Trattasi di una narrazione pittorica che ci trasporta ad un vero e proprio racconto di memorie, sensazioni e visioni con al centro figure solitarie e silenziose.
La potenza semantica così come quella visuale riescono a coinvolgere lo spettatore, con richiami ad artisti importanti come Tom Thomson, Peter Doig e Daniel Richter, riproponendo la pittura come mezzo espressivo per eccellenza.
“Turbolente emozioni” dunque, come scrive il curatore Martin Dostal, “e colori che ci salvano dalla realtà, trasportandoci nella natura intima e umana dell’artista e forse racchiusa dentro ognuno di noi”.
La mostra è realizzata in collaborazione con Art Lines (Repubblica Ceca) ed ha il patrocinio del Centro di Cultura Ceca di Milano.
Per visionare le opere https://cragallery.com/artists/jiri-hauschka/
La mostra sarà visitabile nell’orario della galleria da martedì a venerdì 15,30 -19,30
sabato 10.30-13.00 / 15,30-19,30 – ogni mattina su appuntamento

Jiri Hauschka - The owls are not what they seem - Prague
2019-11-12 08:00 - 2020-01-30 17:00
Jiří Hauschka – The owls are not what they seem
Paintings by Jiří Hauschka (born 1965 in Šumperk) take us to an environment of confrontation, or rather symbiosis, of man and nature. Nature influences us more than we admit. Some painters have sensed it for a long time – especially in places where there’s a bit more of it, like in the northern regions with plenty of forests and lakes, or in the south with jungles and waterfalls. In those surroundings, events involving man may be more raw, more to the bone. The name of the exhibition is a reference to David Lynch’s legendary TV series that was set in such an environment. After that, nothing was as it had been. This is one of the ways to look at Hauschka’s paintings. And accompany him to the painters’ wilderness.
In recent years, or rather in the last two decades, we witness the art of painting looking back at its history, examining its options, seeking what is still attractive and alive in past layers, and finally realizing, to its surprise, that it can still invigorate today’s audience through its colours, views, compositions and ideas, and be attractive for contemporary artists. And it realizes that figures set in a certain spatial or scenic configuration possess a visual and semantic potency that upsets and attracts a contemporary person just as it did in the decades and centuries before us. Fragments of past visuals are pieced together with the fragments of tomorrow’s imagination.
Jiří Hauschka turns to this type of painting method that utilizes colours and symbolic connotations, prevalent at the turn of the 20th century – he positions himself in that period next to the Canadian painter Tom Thomson (1877–1917) – and used by contemporary painters such as Daniel Richter or Peter Doig. Reality is transformed by the painter’s narration into layered storytelling, where the artist’s memory is interspersed with new experiences, views, desires and emotional turbulences. In the case of Jiří Hauschka, we find ourselves in the wilderness of painter nostalgia, where we look for the conceptual person, and in urban civilization, which has barely any options left and where we can therefore feel and see the colours of wilderness. Ultimately, we can be justified in our impression that nothing is as it seems at the first and second glance – just like in the world of Lynch’s Twin Peaks, where a corpse unexpectedly appears in a quiet town set in the middle of nature, where the trees keep rustling and the waterfalls keep flowing. Colours save us from reality.
Martin Dostál, Curator

The other Art Fair 2019 - Turin
2019-10-31 08:00 - 2019-11-03 17:00
Crag gallery is pleased to partecipate to The Others, independent fair in Italy dedicated to international emerging artists and to the latest trends in contemporary art.
Crag Gallery will present the works by BN+ BrinaNovara, Luca Freschi and Yoon Il Kwon.
This year the Fair will be in a new and beautiful location.

2019 edition: at once an international art fair and a curatorial project, a place for experimental formats of exhibitions and site-specific projects, The Others 2019 goes beyond the traditional concept of fair.

Il tempo che si attende divora - Enrico Minguzzi
2019-10-24 08:00 - 2019-11-16 17:00
ENRICO MINGUZZI
Il tempo che si attende divora
Mostra personale

Dal 24 ottobre al 16 novembre 2019
Inaugurazione giovedì 24 ottobre dalle 17 alle 21
sarà presente l’artista

COMUNICATO STAMPA
In attesa della settimana d’arte torinese, Crag Gallery presenta la mostra personale di Enrico Minguzzi “Il tempo che si attende divora”, a distanza di due anni dalla precedente, dal 24 ottobre al 16 novembre 2019.
In occasione della mostra verranno esposte le opere più recenti dell’artista: pitture di paesaggio realizzate ad olio che si sovrappongono a fondi monocromi dai colori fluorescenti in resina epossidica. Il nuovo percorso tecnico-artistico dell’artista, frutto di una lunga ricerca, è confluito nell’unione tra la pittura che già lo contraddistingue con nuove soluzioni percettive e tecniche.
Minguzzi riporta sulla tela i paesaggi a lui cari, in stratificazioni che includono la natura incontaminata e selvaggia di sponde lacustri, di intrecci di erbe, di boschi, di skyline offuscati e cieli plumbei che esistono nella sua memoria e attinge ai luoghi che lo circondano. Tutto ciò si unisce alla nuova tecnica pittorica che permette all’artista di esprimere originali e dettagliatissime soluzioni formali, che ne esaltano la perizia tecnica ed il lavoro minuzioso di stratificazione pittorica.
La protagonista indiscussa è la luce, sia nella rappresentazione sia nella materia, che crea quel legame immediato con lo spettatore, così indiscutibilmente presente nelle opere di Enrico Minguzzi.

Della divina proporzione - Diego Zangirolami
2019-09-26 08:00 - 2019-10-19 17:00
Diego Zangirolami
Della Divina Proporzione
Solo show

From 26 September to 19 October 2019
Opening 26-27-28 September from 3 to 9 pm
The artist will be present

PRESS RELEASE
( click here to download the Italian version Diego Zangirolami c.s. della divina proporzione)
Three days of opening for the exhibition of the miniaturist artist Diego Zangirolami entitled Della Divina Proporzione, on display at Crag Gallery from 26 September to 19 October.
Della divina proporzione is inspired, for its title, by the well-know treatise of the mathematician and humanist Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli, influenced by the Euclid and Platonic writings. It is a path of discovery within the relationship between Human being and Nature through the vision of the divine. Following different channels of influence, such as male, female, animal, crystalline, molecular, shamanic, scientific, the artist-explorer discovers and reconstructs new symbols and bonds. Zangirolami imagines acts and rituals, invents new visions of the divine, reflects on his role by retracing backwards the steps that led him to take on the role of today in society. The exhibition presents itself as a collection of works from the artist’s imaginary museum. According to a universal conception of the figure of the artist, interpreter of society and the individual, Zangirolami produces artefacts and images and the collection on display is a symbolic representation of existential questions and the birth of rituals. You could play with illusion, in a journey back from some forest or remote area of the planet that gives us objects resembling archaeological finds of mysterious populations, illustrations from logbooks, maps, masks, relics, pages potentially belonged to treatises never written, a new cosmogony. The artist’s will put the visitor in the subtly ambiguous condition of participating in his incredible journey poised between past and present.
The exhibition will be open from Tuesday to Friday 3- 9 pm.
Saturday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.30 every morning by appointment.

For information
info@cragallery.com
+39 3351227609

CHIONO REISOVA ART GALLERY – CRAG
via Giolitti, 51 – 10123 Torino
www.cragallery.com

Circolare, ciclico - Solo show by Chen Li
2019-09-05 17:00 - 2019-09-20 17:00
Chen Li
Circolare, Ciclico
Mostra personale
A cura di Giorgio Bena

Dal 5 al 21 settembre 2019
Inaugurazione giovedì 5 settembre dalle 17 alle 21
sarà presente l’artista

COMUNICATO STAMPA
Crag Gallery presenta i lavori della giovane artista Chen Li nella mostra personale dal titolo “Circolare, ciclico” dal 5 al 21 settembre 2019.
E’ una mostra-progetto la proposta della pittrice cinese Chen Li (Beijing, 1988), che nasce dalla riflessione sull’incontro tra forma ed il senso Circolare, Ciclico.
Più che un’antologia di produzioni individualizzate, il complesso dei lavori in mostra nasce come frutto di una visione semiotica e curatoriale portata avanti grazie alla sinergia tra artista, gallerista ed il giovane curatore Giorgio Bena.
In Circolare, Ciclico la forma archetipica del cerchio, scelta come formato delle opere, è declinata in alcuni dei suoi significati più universali come emblema cosmologico e simbolo della ciclicità del tempo: attraverso le mutazioni cromatiche dei colori acrilici sulle tele, Chen Li dà vita ad un microcosmo che ricostruisce la ciclicità della luce solare nel corso di una giornata, dialogando organicamente con la componente fitomorfa dei soggetti che le sono cari.
Il rapporto tra le scelte cromatiche dell’artista e la volontà di indagare le possibilità offerte da un supporto pittorico dalle forme atipiche, sublimano in una visione complessiva all’interno della quale, senza perdere il proprio valore peculiare, ogni opera concorre alla costruzione di un corpus significante.
Circolare e ciclica è quindi la natura del tempo e della luce, soggetti concorrenti di questo insieme di lavori, ma è anche la natura formale ed espositiva delle opere stesse che il visitatore è invitato ad osservare. Il percorso diventa una scoperta delle variazioni del linguaggio pacato e straniante di Chen Li per entrare in una dimensione senza confini.

English version of the curatorial text
At the intersection of form and circular sense, Ciclico is an exhibition-project by the Chinese painter Chen Li (Beijing, 1988). More than an anthology of individualised productions, the complex of works on show, created during the summer of 2019, was born as the result of a semiotic and curatorial vision carried out thanks to the synergy between artist, gallerist and curator. The relationship between the chromatic choices of the artist and the will to investigate the possibilities offered by a pictorial support with atypical forms sublimates in an overall vision in which, without losing its peculiar value, each work contributes to the construction of a significant corpus.

In Circular, the cyclical archetypal shape of the circle, chosen as the format of the works, is declined in some of its most universal meanings: cosmological emblem and symbol of the cyclical nature of time. Through the chromatic mutations of his canvases Chen Li gives life to a microcosm that reconstructs the cyclical nature of sunlight changes during a day, interacting organically with the phytomorphic components of the subjects.

Circular and cyclical is therefore the nature of time and light, the main subjects of this set of works, but also the formal and expository nature of the works themselves that the visitor is invited to observe following a path of discovery of the chromatic variations operated by the artist .

La mostra sarà visitabile nell’orario della galleria da martedì a venerdì 15,30 -19,30
sabato 10.30-13.00 / 15,30-19,30 ogni mattina su appuntamento

Per informazioni
info@cragallery.com
+39 3351227609

CHIONO REISOVA ART GALLERY – CRAG
via Giolitti, 51 – 10123 Torino
www.cragallery.com

CHEN LI
Nata a Bejing nel 1988, si è laureata all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma nel 2012.
Vive e lavora a Torino.
Principali mostre:
2019
CIRCOLARE, CICLICO, personale a cura di Giorgio Bena, CRAG Gallery, Torino
2018
DE NATURA, a cura di Valeria Ceregini, Villa Vallero, Rivarolo Canavese – Torino
2017
ENEGANART 2017 -“Rinascita”, finalista, ex Refettorio di Santa Maria Novella, Firenze
2016
ARTEAM CUP 2016, Palazzo del Monferrato, Alessandria (Vincitrice del Premio Speciale Tessera Sociale Arteam 2017)
2015
WE ART!, a cura di No Title Gallery, Cantiere Barche 14, Vicenza
START UP FAIR 2015, Lo Quarter, Alghero

2014
FIDENZA 1979, a cura di “Jamais Vu”, Palazzo delle Orsoline, Fidenza
AFFORDABLE ART FAIR, Milano, Art and Ars Gallery, Galatina

2013
SE IL PITTORE NON DISPREZZA LA PITTURA, Galleria Moitre, Torino
PREMIO COMBAT, finalista, Museo Civico G. Fattori, Livorno
2011
FABLES OF DECONSTRUCTION, bipersonale con Andrea Palamà, Underdogstudio, Modena

Awards
2017
ENEGANART 2017 -“Rinascita”, finalista, ex Refettorio di Santa Maria Novella, Firenze
2016
ARTEAM CUP 2016, Palazzo del Monferrato, Alessandria (Vincitrice del Premio Speciale Tessera Sociale Arteam 2017)
2015
WE ART!, a cura di No Title Gallery, Cantiere Barche 14, Vicenza
2013
PREMIO COMBAT, finalista, Museo Civico G. Fattori, Livorno
2012
PREMIO LISSONE, finalista, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Lissone
PREMIO COMBAT, finalista, Museo Civico G. Fattori, Livorno
GIORGIO BENA
nasce in provincia di Torino (1995), città intorno alla quale orbitano la sua formazione accademica e professionale. Laureatosi in Beni Culturali all’Università degli Studi di Torino con una tesi in storia dell’arte contemporanea, prosegue in questa direzione il proprio percorso magistrale nello stesso ateneo. Dopo un anno si sposta alla scuola di Progettazione Artistica per l’Impresa dell’Accademia Albertina di Torino, con l’obiettivo di unire competenze progettuali e curatoriali. È art columnist e editor per la rivista OUTsiders Webzinenasce.

Art Verona 2019
2019-07-23 08:00 - 17:00
Crag is please to announce the participation to Art Verona 2019 in the “Scouting” Section with the artists Giacomo Modolo, Enrico Minguzzi and Paul De Flers.

Summer Exhibition 2019
2019-07-16 08:00 - 2019-08-30 17:00

Thunder Boogie - Solo show by bn+BRINANOVARA
2019-06-13 17:00 - 2019-07-13 17:00 | CRAG, via Nole, 57, Torino, 10149
bn+BRINANOVARA
PROJECT ROOM #2
Thunder Boogie

Dal 13 giugno al 12 luglio 2019
Inaugurazione giovedì 13 giugno 2019 ore 17 – 21
Saranno presenti gli artisti

COMUNICATO STAMPA
“Thunder Boogie” è il titolo della Project Room#2 in occasione della quale CRAG Gallery è lieta di ospitare il collettivo bn+BRINANOVARA, composto da Giorgio Brina (1993), diplomato in scultura all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera e Simone Novara (1994), laureato in pittura al Wimbledon College of Arts di Londra ed in architettura al Politecnico di Milano.
Dal 13 giugno al 12 luglio i visitatori avranno la possibilità di inoltrarsi in una realtà inusuale per la galleria, con un allestimento caratterizzato da un progetto installativo di opere realizzate ad hoc, in dialogo con lo spazio espositivo e con al centro la figura della tigre e la sua iconografia, accompagnati dal testo di Paolo Bonacina.
Il titolo è esplicativo: la parola tigre deriva dal termine persiano che significa fulmine.
La tigre si fa pretesto narrativo per il ballo della luce a contatto con i materiali giustapposti, traendo spunto dal manto striato del felino, in un immaginario vastissimo tra popoli e mitologie. In particolare la figura della tigre viene scomposta in molteplici aspetti e dettagli, attraverso combinazioni formali e di materiali che da una narrazione esistente ci portano verso nuovi orizzonti. L’eleganza della tigre gioca a favore del tentativo di massima raffinatezza dei lavori, che non rinunciano ad una qualità empatica che ne favorisca la piacevole sintonia e interazione.
L’obiettivo della Project Room è infatti la sperimentazione e la presentazione ragionata di progetti in cui viene mostrato al pubblico come i giovani artisti lavorano e sperimentano non solo sui materiali ma anche sulle tematiche.
Nella Project Room il visitatore avrà la possibilità di esplorare diversi lavori: La paura di Narciso, Tiny Dancer, Boccadoro, O Musa, fammi provare l’ebbrezza del fulmine.

La mostra sarà visitabile nell’orario della galleria da martedì a venerdì 15,30 -19,30
sabato 10.30-13.00 / 15,30-19,30 – ogni mattina su appuntamento

Per informazioni
info@cragallery.com
+39 3351227609

CHIONO REISOVA ART GALLERY – CRAG
via Giolitti, 51 – 10123 Torino
www.cragallery.com

Louvre. 1987 - 2017. Solo show of Daniel Pype
2019-05-03 17:00 - 2019-06-01 17:00
per il comunicato stampa Daniel Pype in italiano per favore cliccare qui.

IN OCCASIONE DI FO.TO Fotografi a Torino apertura DOMENICA 5 MAGGIO ORE 10-12 e 15.30 – 18.30

Daniel Pype
LOUVRE 1987 – 2017
Solo show in the occasion of
FO.TO. Fotografi a Torino organised by the Museo Ettore Fico
3rd May – 1st June 2019
Opening Friday 3rd May 2019 from 5 – 10 p.m.
The artist will be present

Crag Gallery is glad to present “Louvre 1987 – 2017” the solo show of the French photographer Daniel Pype from the 3rd May to the 1st June 2019, in the occasion of FO.TO. Fotografi a Torino, organised by the Museo Ettore Fico.
Daniel Pype (1949 – Créteil, Paris) worked as a professional photographer since he was young and went in contact with personalities from the the Parisian and international art and culture world, such as Mirò, Andrè Malraux, Cesar, Tinguely and others.
Crag Gallery decided to exhibit for the FO.TO. event the series of photography “Louvre 1987 – 2017”, which is the result of a curious path began by the photograph in 1987 and ended in 2017. In 1987 Daniel Pype worked at the Louvre as night watchman and moved by the silence and by the night light that pervaded the art works of the museum, he started photographing sculptures and paintings. The results are an elegant and charming game of lights and shadows, clears and darks, details of the art works emphasised by the natural light of the external street lights and by the unusual framing that Pype catches with the longue exposures. The photos were kept by the artist since 2016, when he decided to show them for the first time to the Louvre director Pierre Rosemberg, which moved by their beauty, encouraged him to realise a new series in 2017 with digital photography.
It’s interesting the comparison between the analogic photography which characterises the series of 1987 and the digital one of 2017. The results are two faces of Louvre: lights act in different ways on sculptures and paintings, it comes out a completely new perception and how Pype’s work suggests us:” the work of Art reflects and carry the tracks of the time […] and the night, if listened, has the power to reveals new and beautiful secrets”.
During his long career Daniel Pype has collaborated with the magazines Connaissance des Arts and L’ Art Vivant, published by the Maeght gallery and he has collaborated for years with the Centre Pompidou. The artist is represented by the Photo 12 Gallery located in Paris, Los Angeles and Shanghai.

Opening times
Tuesday-Friday 3.30 / 7.30 pm
Saturday 10-1 / 3.30-7.30 pm
Other days or hours by appointment

Vestiges of seeing - solo show of Yoon Il Kwon
2019-03-21 08:00 - 2019-04-27 17:00
© Filippo AlferoCRAG Gallery – inaugurazione mostra “Vestiges of Seeing” di Yoon Il KwonTorino, 21/03/2019
© Filippo AlferoCRAG Gallery – inaugurazione mostra “Vestiges of Seeing” di Yoon Il KwonTorino, 21/03/2019

PRESS RELEASE (for the Italian press release please click here Comunicato stampa Yoon Il Kwon)
21st March – 27th April 2019

Vestiges of seeing
Solo Show of Yoon Il Kwon
Curated by Karin Reisovà and Chiara Williams
Opening Thursday 21st March 2019 3 – 9 p.m.
The artist will be present

Crag Gallery is glad to present “Vestiges of Seeing”, the solo show of Yoon Il Kwon (Incheon, South Korea-1990) in collaboration with the Gallery Chiara Williams Contemporary (UK), from the 21st March to the 27th April 2019.
After the selection of the artist as winner of the prize “The Solo Project” and the personal exhibition at the London Art Fair 2019, Crag Gallery will show to the Turinese public the works of Yoon Il Kwon. The art works are realized by using printmaking techniques across 2D and 3D media to question permanence, memory and value, relating to his own personal childhood memories, in a way that the artist hopes is universally accessible. In particular the artist encourages to reflect on the necessity to slow down our daily life; to stop, think and above all to remember. It is important to give a sense to our existence and to identify the failing.
According to the artist, the layering and the print, allow to linger on filtering, on memory, on the empty spaces and on the construction starting from the reconstruction. Describing his work, Yoon Il Kwon says “I continuously try to focus on the diverse possibilities of layers to make an intellectual approach to printmaking”.
During the exhibition the gallery will show art works of parallel series realised by the artist on the same topic. In particular, the sculptural work “Memory” is composed by silk-screen printing on layers of napkins. These napkins represent our consumerism and disposable society, but also memories where Yoon Il Kwon silk screened completely or in part some faces of his classmates. Many of them are forgotten or only distant memories, while those he remembers better resurface for different reasons and, how often happens in our lives, only for a moment.
“The Movement in the Space” is a series of etchings recalling the topic of memory, describing the artist’s childhood, starting by details express in movement. Even if Yoon Il Kwon represents small subjects and objects in black and white, watching the works, our mind instantly remembers the past: the feelings, noises, smells of the moments we all lived and of the places we hanged out at, recalling for example our own playground memories.
Finally “The Path of Eyes” is a series of mixed media works, in which the artist focuses on daily life. We always look for a “suitable” place, we live a tense daily routine and often we forget to live the moment, to give importance to what we see. For the fulfilment of this series, the artist took some photographs along one of his journey. He created for each work a thematic mosaic of smaller images laid over the central image, which represents the present and past “memorable place”. Much value is given to minor images which stand for some of the most important details not only of the artist’s life, but of the lives of all of us.

Find out more about his art works https://cragallery.com/artists/yoon-ilkwon/

BIOGRAPHY
Il Kwoon Yoon (Incheon, South Korea – 1990) studied at the Hong-Ik University (Printmaking, BFA), Seoul, Sout Korea. Now he attends a Master’s degree in Print to the Royal College of Art, London.

EDUCATION
2017 – Royal College of Art (Print, MA), London, UK
2010 – 2016 Hong-Ik University (Printmaking, BFA), Seoul, South Korea

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Chiara Williams Contemprorary Art: Vestiges of Seeing, London Art Fair, London, UK
2017 The Moment, EK Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2016 ‘Yoon Ilkwon’ Solo Exhibition, ART SPACE POP Gallery, Seoul, Korea

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
The Solo Award, Cello Factory, London, UK
WiP show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2016 EK Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
TETSUSON, Tokyo, Japan
EK Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Korean Prints Contest, Seoul, Korea
合, E-Mok Gallery, Seoul, Korea
De Flore Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Grange Galley, Seoul, Korea
2015 Osaka Art Uni. International Exhibition, Osaka, Japan
Art Ulsan, Ulsan, Korea
17th International Biennale of Engraving Sarcelles, France
Graduation Exhibition of Hong-ik Univ (Printmaking Dept), Seoul, Korea

ART FAIR
2016 Art Busan, Busan, Korea
Gyeon-Nam Art Fair, Chang-Won, Korea
Affordable Art Fair, Seoul, Korea
2015 ASYAAF, Seoul, Korea

AWARDS
2018 Winner for 2018 Solo Award, UK
2016 Korean Prints Contest, Korea
2015 Grand Prize (Graduation Exhibition, Hong-Ik Univ), Korea Parsing Properties, Palazzo Pisani, Vicenza

Opening times
Tuesday-Friday 3.30 / 7.30 pm
Saturday 10-1 / 3.30-7.30 pm
Other days or hours by appointment

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London Art Fair 2019 - Art Projects
2019-01-14 08:00 - 2019-01-20 17:00
CRAG Gallery is proud to announce our participation to the 31st of the London Art Fair – Art Project Section from the 15-20 of January 2019 – STAND P26 – ART PROJECTS SECTION.
Artists on display: Enrico Minguzzi, Paul De Flers, Giuliano Sale, Luca Coser, Silvia Argiolas.

Christmas Collection 2018
2018-12-01 08:00 - 17:00

Une traversée sans histoire - Paul De Flers
2018-10-25 08:00 - 2018-12-01 17:00 | CRAG, via Nole, 57, Torino, 10149
Paul de Flers
UN TRAVERSÉE SANS HISTOIRE
Mostra personale

Dal 25 ottobre al 24 novembre 2018
Inaugurazione 25 ottobre 2018 ore 14 – 21
sarà presente l’artista

Apertura straordinaria durante La Notte dell’Arte Contemporanea
in occasione di Artissima 2018

COMUNICATO STAMPA

Crag Gallery presenta i lavori del giovane pittore francese Paul de Flers nella personale dal titolo “Un traversée sans histoire” dal 25 ottobre al 24 novembre 2018.
La mostra comprende lavori inediti dell’artista realizzati per la mostra. Il titolo richiama l’espressione francese Un traversée sans histoire, ovvero “una traversata calma” e sta a significare che si è compiuto un viaggio, un’avventura, ma che, apparentemente, non è successo nulla di particolare. L’artista trae ispirazione dal titolo della poesia dello scrittore francese Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961), famoso per aver saputo intrecciare l’immaginario ed il reale nei suoi romanzi, nei film e nelle sue poesie, ispirandosi a numerosi viaggi e diventando così un personaggio leggendario, amico di artisti come Modigliani, Chagall, Leger.
Nelle opere di Paul de Flers, la vegetazione quasi astratta si fonde spesso con l’architettura funzionalista. L’artista, affascinato dagli edifici di grandiosi architetti come Oscar Niemeyer, Lina Bo Bardi e Charles Eames, ne coglie scorci, atmosfere e li trasferisce sulle sue tele, privilegiando nella scelta le case in cui gli stessi architetti hanno poi abitato. I luoghi del Sud America, in particolare del Brasile ed in Francia della Costa Azzurra (che l’artista ha visitato) sono dipinti con colori profondi e complessi, risultato dell’utilizzo dei pigmenti che egli prepara per le sue tele e che ben rendono il clima della sua “traversata calma”. Talvolta ritroviamo anche figure appena accennate, quasi silhouette, di piccole dimensioni in confronto allo spazio che abitano. Ne risulta un clima sospeso, appena distratto dal vento che scompone le fronde, pervaso da una sottile malinconia, raffinato ed un dialogo universale.

La mostra sarà visitabile nell’orario della galleria da martedì a venerdì 15,30 -19,30
sabato 10.30-13.00 / 15,30-19,30 ogni mattina su appuntamento
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via Giolitti, 51 – 10123 Torino

Tomas Tichy - About a digital dream
2018-09-13 14:00 - 2018-10-20 19:30
Tomas Tichy
ABOUT A DIGITAL DREAM
Solo Show

13th September – 20th October 2018
Opening 13th October 2018

Catalogue on Show with text by Karin Reisovà and Vlatislav Tokos
Comunicato stampa Tomas Tichy

For the first time in Italy Crag Gallery presents in Italy the work of the young artist from Prague Tomas Tichy in a solo show entitled “About a Digital Dream” from the 13th September to the 18th October 2018.
The choice to exhibit Tichy’s work starts from the attention of the gallery towards the new generation of painters born in the mid 80s in Czech Republic. The artist is part of a trend which tries to renew the classic painting through current themes. This “Painting Renaissance” is deeply supported by the tradition of the Good Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Prague, where the artist studied.
The artworks shown are coherent with the past cycles, but they also present themselves as research medium of new and current contents that the artist expresses with technical skill, starting from figuration to join abstract original elements.
In his paintings Tichy proposes a scenic plant in which he unites sparks from the reality that surrounds him and hypnotic timeless details. The artwork is permeated by a sensation of silence and stillness. They originate by the severe rationality of the impersonal and technical design typical of his city. The architectural aspect is then connected to the central skill of the new technologies and of their impact on people. The artist wants to give a double vision: on one side the technology offers himself to the man reassuring him, supporting him, instead on the other side it becomes creator of stress and doubts, bringing the man to ignore the importance of empathy between humans. The artworks contain details difficult to catch, but that influence and sometimes are crucial in the existential questions of our life.
The series of shown works includes the key painting Signal in which the artist starting from pictures taken in the Australian rainforest, replaces a tree, climbed by a friend, with a prefabricated chipboard structure to represent the flows that surround us and that we love, but that most of the time we lose. Chaos and order combine themselves to represent the society and how Tichy says “ What seems like chaos may sometimes have its own hidden pattern, and where we see order, chaos often prevails…”

ABOUT A DIGITAL DREAM
Mostra personale

Dal 13 settembre al 20 ottobre 2018
Inaugurazione 13 settembre 2018 ore 14 – 21
sarà presente l’artista
Catalogo in mostra con testo di Vlatislav Tokos

Giornata del Contemporaneo 13 ottobre 2018
Crag Gallery presenta per la prima volta in Italia il lavoro del giovane pittore praghese Tomas Tichy in una mostra personale dal titolo “About a digital dream” dal 13 settembre al 18 ottobre 2018.
La scelta di proporre il lavoro di Tichy nasce dall’attenzione della galleria verso la generazione di pittori nati nella metà degli anni ’80 in Repubblica Ceca. Il lavoro dell’artista fa parte di una tendenza che cerca di rivitalizzare la pittura classica affrontando temi attuali e questo “rinascimento della pittura” è fortemente sostenuto dalla tradizione della buona pittura all’Accademia delle Belle Arti di Praga dove l’artista si è formato.
Le opere in mostra sono coerenti con i cicli passati, ma si pongono anche come mezzo di ricerca di nuove ed attuali tematiche che l’artista esprime con assoluta abilità tecnica, partendo dalla figurazione per unirvi elementi astratti originali.
Nei dipinti Tichy propone un impianto scenico in cui unisce spunti della realtà che lo circonda e dettagli ipnotici e atemporali; la composizione che ne risulta è pervasa da una sensazione di silenzio ed immobilità che derivano dall’austera razionalità del design impersonale e tecnico tipico della sua città. L’aspetto architettonico viene poi legato alla centrale tematica delle nuove tecnologie e del loro impatto sull’uomo. L’artista ne vuole dare una doppia visione: da una parte la tecnologia si pone al servizio dell’uomo e lo rassicura, per certi versi lo sostiene, dall’altra parte invece è creatrice di angoscia e dubbi, e lo porta a tralasciare l’importanza dell’empatia tra esseri umani. I lavori contengono dei dettagli che a prima vista non si scorgono ma che in realtà influiscono e talvolta sono decisivi di questioni esistenziali nella nostra vita.
La serie di lavori in mostra comprende il quadro guida Signal in cui l’artista, partendo da immagini fotografiche scattate nella foresta pluviale in Australia, sostituisce ad un albero in cui un’amica si era arrampicata, una struttura di truciolato prefabbricata a rappresentazione dei flussi che ci circondano e che amiamo, ma che spesso perdiamo. Si combinano il caos e l’ordine a rappresentazione della società e come sostiene Tichy “Sembra che il caos a volte abbia un suo ordine nascosto e dove vediamo l’ordine, il caos invece spesso prevale … “.

La mostra sarà visitabile nell’orario della galleria da martedì a venerdì 15,30 -19,30
sabato 10.30-13.00 / 15,30-19,30 -ogni mattina su appuntamento
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BIOGRAFIA
Tomas Tichy è nato a Praga nel 1984, dove vive e lavora. Dopo aver conseguito la laurea presso l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Praga, sta continuando con un dottorato di ricerca nella stessa università.
Rappresenta in modo originale la nuova tendenza artistica dell’arte emergente in Repubblica Ceca e collega, con originalità, la qualità pittorica e lo studio tecnico alla ricerca tematica, unendo classicismo e innovazione. Le opere in rapido sviluppo di Tomáš Tichý presentano uno dei concetti più originali della nuova ondata della pittura ceca. È stato in grado di collegare tecniche di pittura ben studiate e accuratamente studiate con l’abilità e la volontà di continuare a cercare e scoprire nuovi temi per i suoi dipinti.
Negli ultimi anni ha partecipato a diverse mostre ed è stato finalista al Columbia Threadneedle Prize, Premio Celeste, Art Prize CBM (Torino, Praga, Londra).

Summer exhibition in Capri
2018-05-30 08:00 - 2018-06-30 17:00
CRAG GALLERY will be in CAPRI for all the month of June with a selection of the represented artists and new collaborations.
For more info please write to info@cragallery.com

Occurrens - Silvia Argiolas, Enrico Minguzzi e Giuliano Sale
2018-05-03 18:00 - 2018-06-23 18:00
CRAG Gallery is pleased to open the exhibition “Occurrens – Silvia Argiolas, Enrico Minguzzi and Giuliano Sale”, organised as part of the project of the first edition of “Fo.To. Photographers in Turin”, an initiative conceived and promoted by the Museo Ettore Fico (https://www.fotografi–torino.it).
With great enthusiasm, CRAG decided to participate, presenting a project that combines photography and painting, to discover a multi-faceted night time in Turin.
The exhibition period also includes numerous initiatives, including the Notte Bianca and the presentation of artist’s books on the occasion of the off events of the Salone del Libro.

Giacomo Modolo - Project Room #1
2018-04-05 08:00 - 2018-04-30 17:00
Thanks to the Project Room of Giacomo Modolo we can overcome the opposition between the life of the creative process and the loneliness of a single work from which the artist has to part, leaving it alone in the moment of its presentation. No axiom to show and then impose on the viewer. What can be seen is that evidence that otherwise would not be visible, the articulating of a process that is at the same time creative and narrative, a complex system of quantitative and qualitative relations making each work the extension and the same time the contraction of another. We are allowed, going through the different paintings, to follow the artist in the development of his work, the birth of his intuitions and inconclusiveness that let us down or otherwise promise something greater.
We are in a cloud unable to calculate the value of the sum of all the element presented in front of us, for we are mere hosts in a system whose richness on fecundity are still at work. It is up to us to walk through, from the real to the language itself, letting us being transported from the movement of the narrative or rather chasing it, make it and unmake it, letting it go and taking it back again in a completely arbitrary position in space. If every sign is also a symptom, the fruit of a conditioned stimulus, the character of the artist continuously emerges from the paintings, creating, though the small variations of its greys, roses, blues and greens, in an extraordinary refined syntax, the rhythm of a visual path that becomes symphonic. Where is then the fulcrum of the work? This is exactly what is tormenting us, it can be found! It must be sought and this research is a continuous aesthetic urge.
Where are we then? This Project Room is not a simple representation where an object, made in the artist’s studio, can be found. The dimension to prevail is the intimate one. The space is to be considered as something the artist cannot keep out from himself, an inner dimension where the artistic product is continuously growing, where creating means finding an origin in the work itself, dominating the self. The perimeter from where we can understand the work becomes bigger and make the surrounding area a ground for multiple actions, a scenography, a place where the work is constantly struggling between the definition of the single work and the never ending referencing to other works. The wall is not the one of the gallery anymore, a structural element converted into a passive surface whose only aim is to glorify a single painting, but it becomes the ground where the narration proceeds asking the observer to follow, to walk on its same path. If a narrative is indeed present it develops itself not in calligraphic terms, but through the instinct and the ability to stimulate those emotive functions through which the paintings must be translated. It there a text and a precise reading time? No, the chronologic evidence is denied because for the artist, in the moment of its creation, it is not a relentless flowing forward but a continuous that carries discontinuity within, doing and undoing, idleness and action, waiting and inspiration.
His habit of working on multiple paintings at the same time, the polytonal articulation of the composition, refer again to a symphonic structure: the observer is drawn into a tangle of artistic relations, in a myriad of trembles and pauses, of challenges and drawbacks, of resistances and splits, of optical glitches and tonal scores that seems like showing off these beings one after the other, one into another, in a visual path constantly inconclusive.
In Modolo’s painting the situations and the objects are interpreted as moment of pure revelation, letting out a glimpse, through blunt signs, of the underlying composition dynamics, the lyrics leaps and the nervous interruptions of the images, a syncopated and convergent reality, characterised by an instability that shows itself through fragments and mysterious effects, with discontinuities, sequences and mutations, in a disposition showing an intense passion. Everything is kept together by a tense and suffered intensity. The eye of the observer is challenged by this fragmentation, its right to clearly see through it is ignored and the frustration originating from it is exactly what can lead him to the art of Modolo’s art, to this bundle of anger and love that characterises life.

Marco Petrocchi

Project Room #1 - Giacomo Modolo
2018-04-05 - 2018-04-28 | CRAG, via Giolitti, 51, Torino, 10123, Italy
CRAG Gallery inaugura la mostra PROJECT ROOM #1, parte di un più ampio e nuovo progetto che coinvolge giovani artisti e curatori.
Con Project Room #1 CRAG propone al pubblico il lavoro pittorico di Giacomo Modolo (Vicenza, 1988). Sono opere che l’artista ha realizzato al di fuori del proprio spazio atelier e iniziato in galleria direttamente a gennaio. E’ il risultato dell’interazione tra l’artista e lo spazio-galleria, ed una città a lui nuova. E’ un percorso di confronto solitario con se stesso e la sua pittura. Le opere esposte sono figure di uomini e animali decontestualizzate.
Come scrive Marco Petrocchi nel testo che accompagna il catalogo “Attraverso la Project Room nell’interpretazione di Giacomo Modolo superiamo l’opposizione tra la vita del processo creativo e la solitudine dell’opera singola da cui l’artista deve separarsi, alienandola nel momento della presentazione.[…] Questo allestimento non è una semplice atopia in cui si ricolloca un oggetto edificato altrove, ad esempio il suo studio. E’ la dimensione intima che prevale. In questo caso lo spazio va vissuto come ciò che l’artista non può tenere al di fuori di sé, una dimensione interiore in cui il prodotto artistico lievita tanto più egli si digerisce, dove creare significa originare se stessi nell’opera”.

– versione italiana (curatore Marco Petrocchi) ita:testo project room
– versione inglese (curator Marco Petrocchi) english text project room

Christmas Collection - 2017
2017-11-30 00:00 - 2018-01-20 23:59

Enrico Minguzzi - Ricordo di non esserci mai stato
2017-10-26 18:00 - 2017-11-25 21:00 | CRAG, via Giolitti, 51, Torino, 10123, Italy
(For the English version of the press release Minguzzi please have a look at the bottom in this page)
CRAG Gallery apre la stagione invernale con la mostra personale dell’artista Enrico Minguzzi, “Ricordo di non esserci mai stato”, a cura di Karin Reisovà, dal 27 ottobre al 25 novembre, in vista della settimana di Artissima.
Quella di Enrico Minguzzi è una pittura che si dà nel campo della visione, che permette un numero incalcolabile di viste, che dilata lo sguardo e lo scioglie in se stessa. Ed è proprio nello spazio della visione che connette spettatore e oggetto, che la poetica dell’artista lavora sviluppando non solo tutte le possibilità del campo ottico stesso, ma usandolo come la porta d’accesso per arrivare fin dentro quei labirinti calati l’uno nell’altro che sono coscienza e sistema nervoso. Guardando le opere di Minguzzi non ci è possibile distinguere ciò che il nostro sguardo opera su di esse e ciò che da esse è stato ricevuto. Quello che l’artista ci offre non è soltanto un modo di vedere il mondo ma la possibilità di coglierne l’espressività intrinseca, il fenomeno della sua vitalità. E’ così che Marco Petrocchi descrive nel testo in catalogo i lavori inediti realizzati negli ultimi mesi dall’artista ed esposti nella nuova sede di Crag Gallery in via Giolitti 51.

La mostra sarà visitabile nell’orario della galleria da martedì a venerdì 15,30 -19,30
sabato 10-13.00 / 15,30-19,30 – ogni mattina su appuntamento
sabato 4 novembre: performance musicale di Seymour Wright – solo sax ore 21.30 – Notte bianca delle arti

Gotico Sardo e inaugurazione nuova sede
2017-09-15 16:00 - 2017-10-21 19:00 | CRAG, via Giolitti, 51, Torino, 10123, Italy
Inaugurazione 15-16 settembre 2017 ore 16/20.
In occasione dell’apertura della nuova sede nel cuore di Torino in via Giolitti 51, CRAG – Chiono Reisova Art Gallery propone al pubblico torinese la mostra “GOTICO SARDO” a cura di Camillo Langone dal 15 settembre al 21 di ottobre 2017.
La Galleria ha accolto con entusiasmo la proposta artistica del curatore e giornalista Camillo Langone seguendo la predilezione per la pittura che caratterizza la galleria, e proponendo i lavori degli artisti Silvia Argiolas, Antonio Bardino, Nicola Caredda, Silvia Idili, Giovanni Manunta Pastorello, Vincenzo Pattusi, Giuliano Sale, noti nel panorama dell’arte emergente italiana.
Dalla regione italiana geologicamente più antica, i cui vulcani sono spenti da molti milioni di anni, proviene una pittura nuova ed accesa che Camillo Langone definisce per l’appunto Gotico Sardo.
“Si può parlare oggi di pittura lombarda, veneta, toscana? Riferendosi ai secoli scorsi senz’altro, riferendosi al terzo millennio solo se dotati di una notevole capacità di arrampicarsi sugli specchi. L’identità artistica sarda è dunque un’anomalia, una controtendenza, un fenomeno che fra l’altro non ha nulla di folcloristico e di residuale vista l’eccellenza dei risultati, l’ampiezza dello sguardo, la bassa età media dei suoi pittori. Naturalmente l’architettura gotica di tante cattedrali medievali non c’entra nulla. La mia accezione di gotico somma quella di Giorgio Vasari, ossia gotico come barbarico, quella del romanzo gotico inglese (spesso ambientato sulle coste dell’Italia meridionale), ossia gotico come romantico e tenebroso, quella della sottocultura goth sonorizzata da Bauhaus, Cure, Siouxsie & The Banshees, ossia gotico come dark e ipnotico”.

La mostra sarà visitabile nell’orario della galleria da martedì a venerdì 15,30 -19,30
sabato 10-13.00 / 15,30-19,30
ogni mattina su appuntamento

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Luca Moscariello - Fasmidi
2017-06-08 17:00 - 2017-07-02 17:00 | CRAG, via Nole, 57, Torino, 10149
FASMIDI
Solo show of Luca Moscariello
From June 8th to July 2nd 2017
Opening June 8th from 5 – 10 pm
The artist will be present

PRESS RELEASE
From June the 8th to July the 2nd 2017, as last exhibition of the season, CRAG Gallery proposes Fasmide, the solo show of the artist Luca Moscariello with a selection of works on table realised in the last two years.
Since ever the work by Luca Moscariello is link to ancient writing experiences: he moves shapes in a space of synthesis for extracting the stillness and the silence that they guard; he deconstructs and assembles creating different modes and creative novelty. In his work everything in the same time is moving and resting, hugging the eye in a simultaneous way by the proliferation of surfaces that aiming to be a whole. The actual impossibility to penetrate those “eteropics” spaces determines that that “everything” remains suspended in the a temporality of an infinity wait and for this reason absurd.
In this series, where Fasmide is the lead art work, the artist creates a compositional stake, that is the results of the emersion in the image and of his contemporary camouflage.
Moscariello takes inspiration from the “La conoscenza accidentale” by the great historic Georges Didi-Huberman where a chapter speaks about the Fasmidi, insects that Insects that camouflage themselves in the environment feeding themselves and fit undisturbed.
The artist starts from analysis similar to the aforementioned paradoxes and he moves himself thinking about the artwork as a very colourful writing that, through repeated excesses, loses her linearity for opening to an synesthetic impression, In which the user’s perception suffers a contamination of image, colour and sound. In the painted table everything is “hidden in a full view”, as suspended on the surface of memory.

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Mattia Novello "Morfologia dello spazio - Fotografie dal 2008 - 2016"
2017-03-29 08:00 - 2017-05-14 17:00
Morfologia dello spazio
Photographs from 2008 to 2016
Solo Show by Mattia Novello
from April 7th to May 14th 2017
Opening 7th and 8th April from 4 – 10 pm (continued)
The artist will be present

PRESS RELEASE
CRAG Gallery presents the first photographic exhibition of Mattia Novello in the solo show entitled “Morfologia dello spazio – Photographs from 2008 to 2016”.
Mattia Novello (Thiene, 1985), an eclectic and sophisticated artist, studied between Milan and New York. He was a finalist of the Cairo Prize and of the Art Prize CBM, and he collaborates with CRAG Gallery, which has decided to exhibit the photo shoots that the artist has taken during the different and fruitful journeys around the world, especially in the United States, China, Japan, Spain and Italy.
Novello’s work, not only the photographic one, is characterised by an approach free from any prejudice and conformism. The artist is an extremely curious observer who finds inspiration both from the single details of daily life and from the great “obstacles” such as skyscrapers and urban structures.
With irony, he tries to deduce the universality of places and situations through the lens, freeing them and ourselves from a utilitarian and domesticated approach.
In the exhibition the series of skyscrapers Forma cittadina and Pareti Urbane will be supported by two videos that will accompany the visitors throughout the exhibition, showing the human and geographical experience of the artist.
Carolina Lio wrote about Mattia Novello: ” The artist creates a balanced, realistic and at the same time intellectual and practical perspective that connects silence to noise, social relations to isolation, extraneousness to absorption, good to evil.He doesn’t need to belong to an extreme anymore and he lives in a simple purity of clear and strong awareness. “.

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In the middle of something - Jiri Hauschka
2017-02-24 16:00 - 2017-03-26 19:00 | CRAG, via Nole, 57, Torino, 10149
scarica il comunicato stampa in italiano cs Hauschka
CRAG Gallery opens the 2017 with the exhibition “In the middle of something” of the Czech painter Jiri Hauschka (1965) from February 24 to March 26, 2017.
Hauschka belongs to the “Stuckism”, an international art movement founded in 1999 by artists Billy Childish and Charles Thomson in the UK in order to promote an artistic research oriented to figurative painting, in opposition to the conceptual art of the Young British Artists.
The works on display were created in 2016. Woods, roads, mountains, lakes, rivers and architecture are part of a process during which the artist explored his relationship with nature and the environment around him, expressing a painting in balance between abstraction and realism.
Robert Janas, art historian, founder in 2004 of the Stuckism in Prague, wrote about Jiri Hauschka that in his paintings the Neo-Expressionism joins a strong feeling for the composition, based on open spaces bounded by accentuated contours and by the colors used symbolically to give liquidity to the form.
The beauty of his work is therefore what he calls the “story”, his story, that he wants to share in the middle of something with the public. His work brings the viewer in the balance between simple landscapes and the greatness of our surroundings.
The exhibition is organised in collaboration with the Cerna Labut Gallery, ArtLine of Prague and has the patronage of the Czech Centre of Culture of Milan.
