Stefano Cagol: The Consequences Of Vacua

C+N Canepaneri gallery is proud to present The Consequences of Vacua, the solo exhibition in Milan of Stefano Cagol. 

In "The Consequences of Vacua" by Stefano Cagol, the idea of emptiness is chosen as possible key to reading of contemporaneity, of our relationship with ideologies and with nature, as common denominator of the exhibited artworks. The exhibition is composed by three videoinstallations: Stars & Stripes, New Experiments on Vacua, Elektron (of the mind). 

In the "Stars & Stripes" series (2002), Cagol created an iconic reinterpretation of such a strong symbol of our era. In an artwork that evokes the current lack of certainty and the change of values and beliefs, a wig waging American flag is shown in a split image that gives rise to new iconic independent forms, stops being a flag and becomes several mutating objects: a fighter, a butterfly, an eagle, a monster ... linking to often opposing meanings. In the "New Experiments on Vacua" series (2016), Stefano Cagol developed a reflection on our relationship with nature and its resources. Perhaps it is a nature in search of new planets to colonize ... or a nature that man is increasingly throwing away to make room ... The sound amplifies the symbolic reference to the elements of nature and refers to electromagnetic waves emitted by the sun, translated here in sound waves. In"Elektron (of the mind)" (2017), recently produced, amber is the central element; the fossil resin that is called elektron in Greek and identified energy, is an unique and somewhat magical material, suspended in the video beyond time and space.