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10 Exhibitions Opening This Week
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In this solo exhibition curated by Luca Cerizza, Salvatore Arancio’s sublime and psychedelic site intervention—full of both actual and imaginary references—functions as an homage to his native Sicily and its volcanoes, with their mystically and erotically tinged aesthetic elements.
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From a record number of 2,133 applicants, 48 artists have been selected from open submission by a panel of high profile art world figures, including artist Angela de la Cruz, collector Nicoletta Fiorucci, writer and critic Ben Luke, gallerist Jake Millerand Whitechapel Gallery curators Daniel F. Herrmann, Eisler Curator and Head of Curatorial Studies, and Poppy Bowers, Assistant Curator.
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In the middle of Battersea Park, where humans once hunted woolly mammoths on frozen boglands, Pump House Gallery has become a kind of prehistoric encampment. During The First Humans, the gallery has been filled with primitive-looking artefacts and also primeval geological features. But far from being ancient, everything has been made very recently by artists.
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10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch
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In his first UK solo show, Salvatore Arancio presents us with art which appears rooted in science from a time when science in turn drew heavily from art
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Born in Catania, Italy in 1974. Lives and works in London. He received his MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art.
His artistic signature is photo-etching, but he works across a range of media such as sculpture, collage, animation and video. Arancio’s main interest lies in the potential of images. Departing from their literal meaning, he creates new juxtapositions that are both beautifully evocative and deeply disquieting. He looks to nature and science for his sources of inspiration, while unsettling any hint of the sublime by re-framing the images and the viewer’s experience. His constructed landscapes contain a sense of both the familiar and the unknown that enhances their symbolic readings and implications.
Selected solo and group exhibitions: Tropical Hangover, Tenderpixel, London, UK (2017); Evolutionary Travels, Foundación Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2016); Travelling Circular Labyrinths, Museo Civico di Castelbuono, Castelbuono, Palermo, Italy (2016); Oh Mexico! Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland (2016); Teleonomy, Cafe Oto, London, UK (2016); Fashioned to a Device Behind a Tree, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (2015); The London Open 2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2015); Une Taxonomie des Sens et des Formes, Centre d’art contemporain La Halle des bouchers, Vienne, France (2015); Project 09: Salvatore Arancio, Contemporary Art Society, London, UK (2015); The First Humans, Pump House Gallery, London, UK (2015); Birds, Cinéphémère, FIAC, Paris (2014); The Hidden, Ensapc Ygrec, Paris, France (2014); Cathedral, AV Festival, Northern Gallery For Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK (2014); Curiosity: Art & the Pleasure of Knowing, Hayward Touring, UK (2013-2014); Cyclorama, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico (2013); The Cosmos, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK (2012); An Arrangement of the Materials Ejected, Spacex, Exeter, UK (2011); Vedere un oggetto, vedere la luce / To See an Object to See a Light, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba Italy, (2011); SI Sindrome Italiana, Magasin-Centre National d’Art contemporain de Grenoble, France (2010); Catastrophe? Quelle Catastrophe!, Manif D’Art 5, The Quebec City Biennal, Engramme, Quebec City, (2010), Canada I Giovani Che Visitano Le Nostre Rovine Non Vi Vedono Che Uno Stile, GAM - Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy (2009), Sentinel, Kaleidoscope Project Space, Milan, Italy, (2009).
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
