OLD Exhibitions

Wake-up call

Solo exhibition – Luca Staccioli
With a critical text by Irene Sofia Comi

26th January – 9th March, 2023
Opening 26th January, 15:00 – 21:00

ArtNoble gallery is pleased to present Wake-up call, a solo exhibition by Luca Staccioli accompanied by a critical text written by Irene Sofia Comi.
Wake-up call transforms the gallery space into a place of play and re-imagination. The dialogue between the artist and his child ‘alter ego’ acts as a centrifuge: leisure and recreation, productivity and work, places and dreams mingle and intertwine, offering the visitor unexpected critical perspectives.
Toy-sculptures depicting shopping trolleys are scattered on the ground to form an alienating playground, remains of a playtime that, instead of being a spontaneous and carefree construction of identity, is actually eroded by consumption. The series ‘Checkout’, in fact, reformulates the hyper-present and hyper-fast icon of online shopping that becomes a fetish, as fetishised are the goods it contains. The trolleys thus appear both as a votive ruin and as precious material with which childhood trains for adulthood: a gymnasium of homologising consumption and productivity.
On the other hand, a photographic series is visible on the wall, immortalising maquettes of domestic places reconstructed in play-doh and inhabited by figures from archival photographs of prisoners, redrawn and contoured. The artist imagines a child browsing through family albums, discovering figures of war and violence and transforming them into characters of his game. His gaze lays bare the absence of freedom, the anguish and the theatricalisation of our intimate places in the mass media, revealing the nightmares hidden in everyday life.
Continuing this dialogue, on the wall can be found drawings of landscapes where prisoners free themselves, dance, transform oneself into patterns to build and inhabit places of the imagination.
Entering deeper into the space of the gallery, one finally finds oneself in front of ‘Castello (di sabbia?)’, an installation made of ceramics that recalls the bas-reliefs of antiquity, decorative greeks, metopes and columns. Instead of battles, heroic deeds and moments of bucolic life, however, the work depicts busy streets, car parks, supermarkets, offices and aseptic domestic places, stripped of all human presence. A collection of false myths characteristic of the present, thus composing the turrets, parapets and loopholes of a dream castle, a projection of future beauty and prosperity but also of limitations and constraints.
And suddenly, Wake-up call! Do we still feel free? The sound of bells fills the gallery, a call to arms that awakens us and urges us to transform the reality in which we are immersed?

Past Exhibitions

Tagli’s residency restitution exhibition with works by Maite de Orbe, Ludovico Orombelli, Luca Staccioli and Davide Stucchi, curated by Tagli

Martina Cassatella, Roberto de Pinto and Emilio Gola, group exhibition curated by Antonio Grulli

Antonio Della Guardia’s site specific intervention for Una Boccata d’Arte 2022, project by Fondazione Elpis and Galleria Continua

Alberto Selvestrel, solo exhibition

Roberto Alfano, solo exhibition curated by Piergiorgio Caserini

Giulia Mangoni, solo exhibition with a critical text by Giulia Floris

Nelson Makengo, Georges Senga and Pamela Tulizo, group exhibition

Campostabile’s site specific intervention for Una boccata d’Arte 2021, project by Fondazione Elpis and Galleria Continua

Artoday: group exhibition with works by Manuel Fois, Alina Vergnano, Alan Borguet, Andrea Carpita, Marco Bongiorni, Cosimo Casoni, Stefano Perrone, Ludovica Anversa, Jimmy Milani and Maddalena Tesser

Giovanni Chiamenti, Simon Nicasz-Dean, Michele Guido, Katherine Jones, Giulia Mangoni, Edoardo Manzoni and Silvia Mariotti, group exhibition with a text by Michele Guido

Alice Visentin’s site specific intervention for the first edition of Una boccata d’Arte, project by Fondazione Elpis and Galleria Continua

Alberto Selvestrel, solo exhibition

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