14 November 2024 – 19 January 2025
(mi-lorenteggio.com) Milan, 13 November 2024 – From 14 November 2024 to 19 January 2025 Triennale Milano presents the exhibition Davide Allieri. After Allthe care of Damiano Gullìcurator for Contemporary Art and Public Program at the Triennale.
Davide Allieri’s works, specifically designed to build a dialogue with the space of the Impluvium, bring out some characteristic themes of his practice, imbued with references ranging from cinema to theater and science fiction, including: experimentation with materials, reflection on the coordinates of space and time within dystopian habitats, and the presence of abandoned shell-devices that communicate with each other, within post-apocalyptic scenarios.
Allieri presents a selection of unpublished works – installations, sculptures and drawings – which reflect the altered vision of a possible future in which man, using shells, containment systems, communication and surveillance technologies, tries, in vain, to survive the own ruins.
Installations and sculptures are developed starting from common objects – pylons, helmets, drones – which, modified by the artist, maintain their function as protection and isolation devices, but become alien and disturbing forms, on the border between the organic and the ‘inorganic.
Two examples are: TX9KD POD, a fiberglass sculpture that reproduces a protective shell, e Communication Systeman installation that develops in height and alludes to surveillance technologies. On the walls Lost in the shell, a series of drawings encapsulated in a fiberglass shell, represents abandoned landscapes and brutalist architecture.
Allieri leverages the most common human sensations, such as the discomfort of the present and the fear of the future, to outline catastrophic scenarios capable of transporting the spectator into an “other” world, but at the same time strangely familiar.
The result is a landscape of abandonment, characterized by remains and traces of a now extinct society, a harbinger of an uncertain future. Through the re-semantization of the wreck Allieri reasons on the ambiguity between past and future, abandonment and recovery, destruction and invention, to lead the viewer into a disturbing science fiction film.
The exhibition is part of a process of promotion and valorisation of the Italian art scene started by Triennale Milano some years ago, curated by Damiano Gullì, which has involved talks, exhibition projects, collective exhibitions – such as Italian painting today – and personal, artists of different generations – from Corrado Levi to Lisa Ponti and Mariella Bettineschi, from Marcello Maloberti to Anna Franceschini, from Lorenzo Vitturi to Alice Ronchi, Luca Staccioli and Gianni Politi, from Francesco Vezzoli to Nico Vascellari –, characterized by the ability to move between different disciplines, means and techniques.
The technical partners Officina Italiana Design and Agnelli Metalli, and the institutional partners Lavazza Group and Salone del Mobile.Milano support Triennale Milano for this project.
Davide Allieri
Davide Allieri was born in Bergamo in 1982 and graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. He lives and works in Milan, where he opened his production studio in 2019. He has participated in several collective and personal exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Among the most recent: Very Friendly, edited by Agnes Gryczkowska, House, Berlin, 2023; HOLDERcurated by Alessandro Rabottini, Palazzo Monti, Brescia, 2023; CELLSGalerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, 2023; Re: FUTURE (draft)Kunstraum Memphis, Linz, 2024; NexusKraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2024. In 2024 he won the Bildrecht SOLO Award from viennacontemporary with Galerie Hubert Winter.
