Palazzo Zaccaria Pallavicino – FASArchitetti:
Ergo, 1947 – Collectible Picabia, 2023, hand-knitted with merino wool. Courtesy of the artist and Emanuela Campoli, Paris.
Mi-Carême (Mid-Lent), circa 1925 – Collectible Picabia, 2023, hand-knitted with merino, alpaca, mohair wool, hand warm-wash, dry flat in shade. Courtesy of the artist and Emanuela Campoli, Paris.
Trois Mimes (Trois Clowns), 1936 – Collectible Picabia, 2023, hand-knitted with merino wool. Courtesy of the artist and Emanuela Campoli, Paris.
Vol d’oiseau (Bird’s Eye), 1949 – Collectible Picabia, 2023, hand-knitted with merino wool. Courtesy of the artist and Emanuela Campoli, Paris.
La baigneuse (The bather), 1924–1927 – Collectible Picabia, 2023, hand-knitted with merino wool. Courtesy of the artist and Emanuela Campoli, Paris.
Spring (Printemps), ca. 1937-1938/1943 – Collectible Picabia, 2023, hand-knitted with merino, alpaca, mohair wool, hand warm-wash, dry flat in shade. Courtesy of the artist and Emanuela Campoli, Paris.
La femme au masque, 1938 – Collectible Picabia, 2023, hand-knitted with merino and alpacar wool. Courtesy of the artist and Emanuela Campoli, Paris.
Geai bleu, 1938–1939 – Collectible Picabia, 2023, hand-knitted with merino and alpacar wool. Courtesy of the artist and Emanuela Campoli, Paris.
Untitled (Match-Woman I), 1920 – Collectible Picabia, 2023, hand-knitted with merino andmohair wool. Courtesy of the artist and Emanuela Campoli, Paris.
Untitled, ca 1920– Collectible Picabia, 2023, hand-knitted with merino, alpaca, mohair wool, hand warm-wash, dry flat in shade. Courtesy of the artist and Emanuela Campoli, Paris.
Voiles, ca. 1911 – Collectible Picabia, 2023, hand-knitted with merino, alpaca, mohair wool, hand warm-wash, dry flat in shade. Courtesy of the artist and Emanuela Campoli, Paris.
Untitled, 1920 – Collectible Picabia, 2023, hand-knitted with merino, alpaca, mohair wool, hand warm-wash, dry flat in shade. Courtesy of the artist and Emanuela Campoli, Paris.
Paysage à Cassis, 1911-12 – Collectible Picabia, 2023, hand-knitted with merino, alpaca, mohair wool, hand warm-wash, dry flat in shade. Courtesy of the artist and Emanuela Campoli, Paris.
Idylle, 1927 – Collectible Picabia, 2023, hand-knitted with merino, alpaca, mohair wool, hand warm-wash, dry flat in shade. Courtesy of the artist and Emanuela Campoli, Paris.
Victoria Colmegna (1986, AR) explores the dynamics that characterize closed social systems. Her art practice focuses on observing the amateur artist’s creating the artwork to the point where it becomes a form of self-harm or self-abuse. Victoria Colmegna’s works are often characterized by an excessive attention to detail, and a folk vein that makes them somehow apocryphal and transpersonal, as if these were the result of collective rather than individual action. By mixing, engaging, hosting and inviting, Colmegna seeks, through art, to address the unresolved dilemma of self-esteem. Her work lies in a boundary zone where fashion, fan-item and memorabilia intertwine, creating a frenzied boundary-jumping between inhomogeneous industries and cultures. This approach allows her to explore new forms of expression, questioning the now traditional conventions of contemporary art.
The presentation comprises a group of collectible sweaters based on Picabia’s catalogue raisonné. The work frantically border-hops between industries; fashion design, family memorabilia, and art commodities. Increasingly intertwined with the field of luxury goods production, fashion and art conflate in an industry model increasingly operating by season. Colmegna’s hand knit sweaters were first meant to be worn by collector’s kids, turning them into both a mode of display and a way to incite consumer contagion. The ongoing series, that so far comprises around 60 sweaters, aims to complete all artworks in Picabia’s catalogue, hinting at more traditional ideas around collecting, such as competition around acquiring objects, and the emotional attachment to a long pursuit that can never be fully completed.
Main exhibitions: Ênfant Gaté, Emanuela Campoli Gallery, Paris / The Cure, Fitzpatrick Gallery – CFA, Milan / Love Needs Care, Weiss Falk, Zurich / Mirror, Stage, Baby Introspective, Schwarzcafé LUMA Foundation, Zurich. Group exhibitions; Chapter III, Weiss Falk, Japan / September Issues, Peres Projects, Milan / Retail Apocalypse, Centre Canadien d’Architecture, Montreal / Haunted Haus, Swiss Institute, New York / Sartor Resartus, HFKD, Holstebro.