Olnick Spanu News

Marco Bagnoli at the MADRE Museum, Naples |   February 22, 2016

On the occasion of the exhibition L’albero della cuccagna, nutrimenti per l’arte, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, and on view at the MADRE Museum, Naples, from October 10, 2015 through February 29, 2016, Marco Bagnoli will present a new work: The Voice. In yellow we will make a ladder or two in invisible white.

This work will be a re-elaboration of an earlier installation, a ladder known as La Voce that the artist created in 1974-75 in his own studio in Milan. In this new version Bagnoli’s ladder will have a different shape reaching through the ceiling towards the sky.

Further information on the project can be found here

Francesco Arena in London |   February 13, 2016

A solo show by Olnick Spanu Art Program artist Francesco Arena entitled Autumn Lines recently opened at the Sprovieri Gallery, London (February 11 – April 30, 2016).

The exhibition presents a series of works conceived at the end of autumn 2015 and inspired by the recent mass migration towards Europe by hundreds of thousands of refugees from war-torn Syria and the Middle East.

Arena’s sculptures arise from the geometric shapes of Minimal art and from the more archetypal ones of Arte Povera and are often the translation of formulae and numbers linked to specific histories and narrations.

All the four pieces featured in the show, albeit autonomous, are the translation of a numeric figure into a line, to which the title of the entire project alludes. Further information about the exhibition can be found here.