Francesca Bazzurro Dormo da un cuoco, 2023
Residency. Solo exhibition. Galleria Bonvini 1909, Milan, Italy.
The residency
Since autumn 2022, an experiment between the playful and the serious, between the ironic and the cannibal, drawing on her classic vocabulary. Body parts printed in multiple compositions, mainly using linocut mixed with other techniques such as monotype, letterpress, stamps and manual interventions; on various kinds of paper, including antique sheets already printed by letterpress.
A14 accompanied Francesca Bazzurro through all the stages and printed a series of unique pieces and editions.
The exhibition
In March 2023 the thematic solo show Dormo da un cuoco opened at the Bonvini 1909 gallery with more than ninety works on show.
The exhibition and catalogue are curated by Marta Sironi . The catalogue opens with Marta Sironi's interview-dialogue with Francesca Bazzurro and Daniela Lorenzi, followed by texts by Maria Sebregondi, Giusi Quarenghi, Giovanna Zoboli.
The exhibition and catalogue are curated by Marta Sironi . The catalogue opens with Marta Sironi's interview-dialogue with Francesca Bazzurro and Daniela Lorenzi, followed by texts by Maria Sebregondi, Giusi Quarenghi, Giovanna Zoboli.
Portami in gita. Marta Sironi
[...] Dialogue with Francesca Bazzurro and Daniela Lorenzi in the print studio:
...F. I like to pick up a symbol, make a drawing of it as if it were an icon
and then wait for a sentence, another piece of drawing, to fall into it. My
sketchbooks are made by continuous overlaying. Whoever leafs through the sketchbook
and reads it sequentially finds a collective story, where
each person reads a different story.
M. I read in one of your notebooks: “collage is woman” ... and printmaking? What is
printmaking for you?
F. I chose printmaking because I fix an image and can repeat it and combine it
with others, and every outcome is different. The subject is an excuse to investigate,
to repeat the same icon in various compositions. What interests me is
printing: the alchemy of printing, the encounter with materials, the way they talk
together: plates, inks, papers, rollers, gouges, tarlatans, etching press, press [...]
Dormo da un cuoco. Giusi Quarenghi
[…] heart walls, gastric membranes, lips, the small and the large, ex-votos
of steps, fingers tracing codes, hands on trial, the round line of every beginning,
in front, behind
Every day is a day after, when you start again with what there is.
The papers. Not supports, works. The papers breathe with the colours and with the forms
Together they make the work, writings of forms, bodies of words
The words. She sees them, gathers them, opens them, like almonds.
Of the good ones she makes herself a shell. And sows them[…]
Sonetto spurio del cuoco indiziario. Maria Sebregondi
Fairy of hearts, white lies
fingers and caresses, hand-manias
bluette scraps of an alphabetical body
in every piece I find the archetype.
Clito-follies clito-phorias
wandering vaginas vulvotypes
my panting heart tickles me
burning stomach, perhaps hypothetical.
Cream puffs of arteries and valves
comfortable quilts
from yellow to mordoré the paper is a canapé.
The hands are spider crabs
caressing tweezers
a tango with a casqué on the pelvic pavé.
Opere correlate
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