Luca Rossi
Galleria Six, Milan
16 décembre 2023 - 18 janvier 2024
If you don’t understand something search for it on YouTube, 2023
53x90 cm, reproduction of Leonardo Da Vinci's 'Lady with an Ermine'
purchased online, pre-spaced in red on its own box
© Luca Rossi, Courtesy Galleria Six
The exhibition at Galleria SIX presents the development of three project lines that LUCA ROSSI has been working on constantly since 2009.
The first series of works represents the development of the project Luca Rossi presented in 2019 on the occasion of his first solo exhibition at Galleria Six. Some iconic works from the history of art are confronted with their own "empty box" in an exciting dynamic between ancient, modern, postmodern and the current "altermodern" phase (c.f. Nicolas Bourriaud, The Radicant, Postmediabooks, 2014).
The second series of works, complementary to the first, still focuses on the "management of information" as a central element of contemporaneity: some works where three modern and contemporary artists meet are exhibited "hidden" and with only the possibility of seeing the three names in the work. This choice 'protects' the work of art from a chaotic and hyper-digitalised present where our imagination, like the values of expectation and surprise, are systematically stifled and anaesthetised.
The third series of works presents a large collective action organised by Luca Rossi in Kassel in 2022 and in conjunction with the Documenta 15 event. The project, still in progress, opens up to a transcendent and mysterious dimension whereby our screen becomes a sort of "amulet" and "pagan idol" to which we are asked to "believe" or "not believe".
Since 2009 "Luca Rossi", artist, open collective, blogger, critic, curator, controversial figure in the art system, has been trying to stimulate more critical discussion on a daily basis in the field of contemporary art, as a subject that could play a fundamental role in our present. Luca Rossi has been described by Fabio Cavallucci as the most interesting artistic personality in Italy.
In 2014, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, interviewed in Artribune, referred to Luca Rossi as the future promise of contemporary art.
Luca Rossi's critical reflections, which have reached 900,000 people on social media in the last 12 months, conducted for years with unwavering faith, have led him to an unconventional artistic practice, also characterised by popularisation and training projects with the creation in 2016 of the 'Luca Rossi Art Academy' (www.documenta.live).
Despite some "critical nodes" being extremely well known in the art system (identified and disclosed by Luca Rossi as "Evolved Ikea", "Young Indiana Jones Syndrome" "Grandparents Parents Foundation", etc.), Luca Rossi still lives a condition of ostracism in a system that struggles to accept some of his "uncomfortable" reflections and alternative strategies, which are increasingly necessary and urgent.
In 2014, the famous art critic Angela Vettese declared that since reading Luca Rossi's texts, she has decided to no longer dedicate herself to the practice of art but only to theory.
GALLERIA SIX
Piazza Piola 5, 20131, Milano
