26/05/2011

FLAVIO LUCCHINI IN VENICE AND IN MILAN

An extraordinary event that brings in Venice a well-known artist from Milan's cultural scene. Flavio Lucchini, invited by Vittorio Sgarbi at the 54° Biennale di Venezia, Italian Pavilion, Lombardy in Milan, Palazzo della Regione, is in Venice during the Biennale with the project/exhibition What Women Want(?), curated by Alan Jones, that shows images of burqa and niqab, veiled gazes for the ironic magazine covers and the street-art version posters. Today these veiled women, much more objectified than those dressed up as dolls by fashion designers, represent the most controversial image of femininity, the symbol of a past which never fades but recurs in fact more peremptory and even seems to mark a path for the future.
Along with the solo exhibition, Lucchini also takes part in Sign Off Design, a joint sculpture exhibition curated by Luca Beatrice, where other famous artists and designers are present too (Denis Santachiara, Karim Rashid, Alessandro Mendini, Marc Sadler just to mention a few). Event produced by Slide Art, housed in the striking monumental cloister of SS.ma Trinità.
And also, the exhibition 100 artworks/20 years archive in Milan in MyOwnGallery, one hundred works from the beginning to the present: evolution of a path and archive of an artist's life, waiting for Italian Pavilion, Lombardy in Milan, Palazzo della Regione, vernissage June 27th.

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