Luca Trevisani
"Luca Trevisani"

For this year’s edition of Milano Art Week, pconp is pleased to welcome at Spazio Lima a project by Luca Trevisani.

A fossil is a lump of organic matter emancipated from the passage of time, to become a hardened icon, a chthonian mystery, life reincarnated in itself. Every fossil is a transgressive object, because it defies the logic of death and disappearance, as well as every other vital mechanism. The fossil lacerates the notion of the body as we know it, because once dead, it refuses putrefaction and volatility, and follows the path of petrification, becoming a gem and sublimating into a mineral.

The fossil is a small miracle, precious and oracular like the trail of a comet, it is the perfect image of our stumbling upon the mystery of a fragment, it is a figure with a solid body but a liquid soul. To print on an image three hundred million years old is a warning, a scream, a solid doubt, a spiritual provocation that is cultural and cultic, ideological and ethical.

Trevisani’s is an investigation of the imagery and visual constructions with which we shape the world: a way of becoming part of the material edifice to which we belong, remixing its definitions.

When Trevisani superimposes dried leaves on phytomorphic patterns made by various twentieth-century utopians, the artist proposes a reflection on the relationship between the natural and artificial worlds. With these two-dimensional sculptures, Trevisani thus experiments with different disciplinary and epistemological fields, leading to a questioning of our conventional interpretative models of the natural world.

The ultimate meaning of nature is difference, and indifference, a deafening threat to our ego and our anthropocentric sense of possession and completeness.

Special thanks to Pinksummer gallery for their organizational support, and the Botanical Garden of the University of Palermo and its curator Manlio Speciale, for their help and scientific support.

The events of Spazio Lima are in collaboration with studio senzatitolo.

Luca Trevisani (Verona, 1979) is a visual artist.
His works, defined by a multidisciplinary practice, have been exhibited internationally in museums and institutions, suh as Biennale of Sydney, Manifesta 7, Biennale di Architettura di Venezia, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Kunsthalle Wien, Kunstverein Braunschweig, ZKM Karlsruhe, Magasin, Grenoble, MAXXI Roma. Throughout his career, Trevisani has been recognized with prestigious prizes and awards including the Furla Prize for Art, the New York Prize, Italian Council and Cantica21.
Trevisani has published several books including ‘The effort took ist tools’ (Argobooks 2008), ‘Luca Trevisani’ (Silvana Editoriale 2009), ‘The art of Folding for young and old’ (Cura Books 2012), ‘Water Ikebana’ (Humboldt Books, 2014), ‘Grand Hotel et des Palmes’ ( Nero, 2015), ‘Via Roma 398. Palermo’ (Humboldt Books, 2018).
Trevisani research ranges between sculpture and video, and crosses borderline disciplines such as performing arts, graphics, design, experimental cinema and architecture, in a perpetual magnetic and mutant condition. In his works the historical characteristics of sculpture are questioned or even subverted, in an incessant investigation of matter and its narratives.

The Botanical Garden of the University of Palermo is one of the most important academic institutions in Italy. Considered an enormous open-air museum, it boasts more than two hundred years of activity that have allowed it to study and spread, in Sicily, in Europe and in the whole Mediterranean basin, countless species. The peculiarity of this Botanical Garden is represented today by the great variety of plant species hosted, many originating in tropical and subtropical regions, which make it a place rich in expressions of different flowers. The origin of the Botanical Garden of Palermo dates back to the last decades of the 18th century, a period in which the kingdom of Naples and Sicily began a historical phase characterized by numerous reforms and great openings in the sign of the European culture of the Enlightenment.