Oasis. Project Room by Davide Genna

Curated by Anna Vittoria Magagna

Gallery Area 35

Address: Via Vigevano 35, Milan

Opening June 6 from 6 PM to 9 PM

Until June 24, 2024

Gallery Area35 presents Oasis, a project room by Davide Genna (1983, Milan), a conceptual artist known for his three-dimensional forms, curated by Anna Vittoria Magagna. Designed as an enclave within the urban fabric, the project room transforms into a place that materializes like a mirage in constant change; capable of dividing the present into modules of geometries, ancestral figures, and flows of swirling, articulated figures in complete harmony. Genna works with an index that investigates the partnership between figure and background, often with references that evoke archetypes, classic figurations, both sacred and profane, Renaissance profiles, along with surrealisms and emblems of matter. The works on display are organized according to these poetic registers, at the intersection of a dancing satyr and a complex geometric space where the female figure is exalted, between transgression and reverence. Often the faces of the figures are emptied of their features in favor of further elements that enhance the symbolism of the compositions, inserting cut-outs, fabrics, or portions of shapes that explore the space and mark its rhythm. Oasis is the story of a regenerative platform, where the artist's work becomes a fleeting apparition, a journey through the representation and symbolism of human complexity, marked by a harmonious path of juxtaposed geometries and colors.

Davide Genna

Milan, 1983. Lives and works in Milan.

After graduating in Political and Economic Sciences in 2008, he attended painting courses with Alberto Garutti and sculpture courses with Gianni Caravaggio at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts from 2011-2014. Key solo exhibitions include: "Will Leaving a Mark Today? Nothing Will Remain" (2020, itinerant exhibition route in the Porta Venezia neighborhood in Milan in collaboration with Isorropia Homegallery), ARIA (2017, PlasMA Plastic Modern Art), The Poetry of Things (2016, Slow Wood Lab, Milan), Anchor – Crossing on Such a Vast Surface (2015, Musée du Croco, Milan), The Artist Must Engage in Things He Does Not Understand (2013, Magazzini dell’Arte, Trapani), Anchor (2012, Studio Guido delli Ponti, Milan), The Great Ashtray (2010, Estro, Bergamo).