TARWUK: Ante mare et terras / Studio Visit

Collezione Maramotti is glad to present Ante mare et terras by TARWUK and Studio Visit: Thoughts and practices surrounding ten artist’s studios with works by Andy Cross, Benjamin Degen, Matthew Day Jackson, Mark Manders, Enoc Perez, Luisa Rabbia, Daniel Rich, Tom Sachs, TARWUK, Barry X Ball.

Ante mare et terras is the first solo exhibition in Italy by New York-based Croatian artists TARWUK (Bruno Pogačnik Tremow and Ivana Vukšić), comprising four large-scale sculptures and a series of drawings displayed in the Pattern Room and on a long wall at Collezione Maramotti’s entrance.

Different levels and layers of times and materials coexist in their shape-shifting works, balancing being and becoming. The sculptures seem to originate from an archaeological and totemic past full of fragments and relics, which, filtered through a subjective yet universal reflection from the present, are transformed into tormented futuristic—perhaps even dystopian—fantasy creatures.

TARWUK’s art weaves together and mixes various media and forms of expression: sculpture, painting, drawing, performance, costumes, pieces of scenery and publications are all covered with great freedom, in work that is completely interconnected with the lives of the two artists. The duo have considered themselves to be a single entity ever since they together immersed themselves in investigating the boundaries of the self.

Studio Visit: Thoughts and practices surrounding ten artist’s studios is a group exhibition stemming from collaboration with ten artists whose work is already on display at Collezione Maramotti, and who accepted an invitation to discuss and present their ideas on studios.

A studio is a place of creation and production, a workshop or factory, but it is also a space for personal reflection and a sort of interior landscape representing multiple physical and creative dimensions, a complex, densely packed space, whose various elements can form an outline self-portrait of the artist who works there.

Starting with Claudio Parmiggiani’s 1976 work Sineddoche, the exhibition takes visitors on a winding route through artworks and archive materials that are already part of the collection and others shared or created specifically for the occasion, giving rise to a display developed through direct dialogue with the artists, and at the same time a form of archive of the present.

Free admission during the opening hours of the permanent collection.

Closed: November 1, December 25–26, January 1, January 6

Entry to Collezione Maramotti and the exhibition is subject to government COVID-19 restrictions.

To visit Collezione Maramotti you will need to show a Green Pass at the entrance.