Mandla Reuter
Umbria, Milan, 05/07/2017 - 07/29/2017
Via Massimiano 25
Francesca Minini is pleased to announce Mandla Reuter’s third solo exhibition at the gallery.
Point of origin of Mandla Reuter’s work in recent years often was a piece of land on a paper street near downtown Los Angeles. Purchased for the exhibition, A Plot, at De Vleeshal in Middelburg in 2010, Reuter has regularly drawn from this empty lot as a fount of source material. While sitting vacant in East L.A. with an occupiable area of around 400 square meter the site served him as a studio of endless dimensions unlimited by geography.
Similar to Gordon Matta Clark’s anarchitecture, this piece of land exists only through the translation the artist provides through his works.
Lately Reuter’s approach broadened up to other parts in the world like e.g. Iquitos, Peru, Buenos Aires, Argentina or, most recently, a block of white marble in a 20ft sea-container traveling on a ship between Thasos, Greece and Los Angeles, USA.
