Vedovamazzei

Milan-based artists Stella Scala (b. 1964) and Simeone Crispino (b. 1962) have been working collaboratively as Vedovamazzei since 1991. Using a wide range of media including sculpture, painting, installation and photography, Vedovamazzei’s humorous and poignant works explore the ways in which desire and affect might couple and uncouple images, objects and texts. Their pieces often give form to literal mis-readings, including the translation of a movie into a sculpture, the creation of a narrative around a flawed object, or the depiction of an impossible romantic whim. “For Once In My Life” (2004) recreates the unlikely ornitological story of a stork murdering another stork over a female partner in the form of a neon sculpture. For “Isn’t it Romantic (2/3)” (2005), Vedovamazzei bent the backrests of two wooden chairs to make it appear as though the objects were performing an impossible contortion to touch one another above and beyond their ontological limits.

Vedovamazzei has recently presented solo exhibitions at Espacio 1, Galeria Fúcares, Madrid (2009), Duetart, Varese (2007), Magazzino d'Arte Moderna, Rome (2006), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples (2006), Percymiller gallery, London (2005) and Praz-Delavallade, Paris (2005). Their work has also been shown as part of “Sideshow” at FRAC Languedoc-Roussilon, Montpellier (2008), “Fit to Print: Printed Media In Recent Collage” at Gagosian Gallery, New York (2007), “Isobar” at Fieldgate Gallery, London (2007), “Ironia Domestica” at MUSEION, Bolzano (2007) and “At the Outskirts of Humour”, the 22nd Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Hamburg (2006).

Vedovamazzei is represented by Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome and Galería Fúcares, Madrid.

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