Claudia Wieser: Stories

Studio Sales di Norberto Ruggeri is proud to present Stories, the second solo exhibition at the gallery by Claudia Wieser. Claudia Wieser is currently having a residency in Rome at the German Academy – Casa Baldi and these months spent in Italy have given her the opportunity to work closely with the local territory and the institutions of the country. This experience gave birth to three projects, of which the solo show at SALES is the first appointment.

Stories is the title of this solo show at Studio SALES. For those who are familiar with Claudia Wieser’s work this title might sound unusual and it introduces an element of newness in respect of her previous exhibtions, where the fill rouge was always traceable in a formal element common to the exhibited works: their “being objects”, their spacial and architectural character or the medium of the artwork, thus leaving the viewer free to deduce the poetry and the harmonies intrinsic to the visual composition. The exhibtion Stories is shaped in a different manner. On the walls it is presented a new series of small coloured pencils and gold leaf drawings expressly realized by the artist for this occasion. Next to them, there are 5 black and white photographs: their subjects are details of a few videostills taken from the the 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo film, The Battle of Algiers.