LUCA BOFFI
FUORI COME FIORI
27 November, 2024 - 21 February, 2025
LUCA BOFFI
FUORI COME FIORI
27 November, 2024 - 21 February, 2025
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Galleria Fumagalli presents Fuori come fiori, the first solo exhibition in Milan by Luca Boffi (Milan, 1991).
Artist and farmer based in Campogalliano in the Modena Po Valley, Luca Boffi studies visual perception, landscape transformations, processes of transition and reciprocity between living beings, between the natural and the artificial. Luca Boffi’s artistic practice develops from the scientific study of the grid as an optical device through which to measure, order, and reinvent the environment.
Fuori come fiori is a body of work that is material, metaphorical, tactile, olfactory, as well as visual. They are meadows to walk barefoot on, landscapes to glimpse in photographs, printed on fabric and overlapping materials. Installed to recall the line of the horizon, the works tell a story of two daily surroundings: that of the various elements collected, exhibited in details close to the senses, and that of the most distant surroundings: the horizon, the farmhouses that stand on it, the aqueducts, the agricultural machinery, the trees.
«Outside I collected. I collected the silt of the Secchia river after the flood; the white flowers of wild carrot, shaped like the Sun; the prickly thistle almost blown away by the wind; the red berries of viburnum, then dark like those of the elderberry in late summer; the panicum Glaucus (Pabi, in the Modena dialect), an unwanted presence in the fields. As if they were flowers, I also collected corn, poplar wood, cow shit, long corn leaves, ivy, red and clayey earth of the plain that makes up hills. I collected white millet, the favorite meal of the birds around the house, and the shavings of the horses, and the coal. I composed them, mixed them, fixed them on panels of the same size, so that the geometric repetition of the paintings would recall the geometries of the lands divided in the same way» tells Luca Boffi.
The images of the artist’s daily movement are also revealed by the film on display Pioppo Ciao, realized with Francesco Tosini: a diary of visual notes arising from the larger project Caro Campo, which recounts the human, artistic and environmental experience lived by the artist from December 2019 to April 2021 in Campogalliano (Modena) in symbiosis with a field of two hundred and ninety poplars until they were cut down.
The exhibition also features the images of the environmental installation Monochrome RGB, specifically conceived and created for the event Forever Is Now at the Pyramids of Giza (24 October – 16 November, 2024) in partnership with Galleria Fumagalli. The work stands as the encounter between the grid and the desert landscape of Giza, and the sequence of colors opens the gaze from the Pyramids to the emptiness of the panorama.
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Galleria Fumagalli presents Fuori come fiori, the first solo exhibition in Milan by Luca Boffi (Milan, 1991).
Artist and farmer based in Campogalliano in the Modena Po Valley, Luca Boffi studies visual perception, landscape transformations, processes of transition and reciprocity between living beings, between the natural and the artificial. Luca Boffi’s artistic practice develops from the scientific study of the grid as an optical device through which to measure, order, and reinvent the environment.
Fuori come fiori is a body of work that is material, metaphorical, tactile, olfactory, as well as visual. They are meadows to walk barefoot on, landscapes to glimpse in photographs, printed on fabric and overlapping materials. Installed to recall the line of the horizon, the works tell a story of two daily surroundings: that of the various elements collected, exhibited in details close to the senses, and that of the most distant surroundings: the horizon, the farmhouses that stand on it, the aqueducts, the agricultural machinery, the trees.
«Outside I collected. I collected the silt of the Secchia river after the flood; the white flowers of wild carrot, shaped like the Sun; the prickly thistle almost blown away by the wind; the red berries of viburnum, then dark like those of the elderberry in late summer; the panicum Glaucus (Pabi, in the Modena dialect), an unwanted presence in the fields. As if they were flowers, I also collected corn, poplar wood, cow shit, long corn leaves, ivy, red and clayey earth of the plain that makes up hills. I collected white millet, the favorite meal of the birds around the house, and the shavings of the horses, and the coal. I composed them, mixed them, fixed them on panels of the same size, so that the geometric repetition of the paintings would recall the geometries of the lands divided in the same way» tells Luca Boffi.
The images of the artist’s daily movement are also revealed by the film on display Pioppo Ciao, realized with Francesco Tosini: a diary of visual notes arising from the larger project Caro Campo, which recounts the human, artistic and environmental experience lived by the artist from December 2019 to April 2021 in Campogalliano (Modena) in symbiosis with a field of two hundred and ninety poplars until they were cut down.
The exhibition also features the images of the environmental installation Monochrome RGB, specifically conceived and created for the event Forever Is Now at the Pyramids of Giza (24 October – 16 November, 2024) in partnership with Galleria Fumagalli. The work stands as the encounter between the grid and the desert landscape of Giza, and the sequence of colors opens the gaze from the Pyramids to the emptiness of the panorama.
