Giulia Andreani: L’improduttiva

Collezione Maramotti is pleased to announce the new exhibition L’improduttiva by Giulia Andreani.

For her first solo show at an Italian art institution, Giulia Andreani is presenting a project that features a cohesive body of new work and watercolours. Andreani’s work grows out of collective memories, fragments of history at risk of being lost, which the artist recovers and transforms into complex pictorial compositions, archives are her primary source of inspiration. Transforming the technique of photomontage, Andreani juxtaposes elements drawn from real pictures with other, imaginary details, the subjects gradually take shape on the canvas in a single colour: Payne’s grey.

The conceptual starting point for L’improduttiva was iconographic material from several archives in Reggio Emilia, where Andreani investigated the historical and sociopolitical context of the city, focusing in particular on the ideas of internal exile and imprisonment, so closely tied to women’s history.

A catalogue will be published in conjunction with the show, featuring essays by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, curator at Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin, and philosopher Emanuele Coccia.