Nicolás Lamas: Corpus serialis at Ca’ Pesaro, Venice

Fatti principali

• Nicolás Lamas: Corpus serialis runs from 23 September to 22 November 2026 at Ca’ Pesaro – Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, Project Room, Venice.
• The exhibition is curated by PROGETTO LUDOVICO in collaboration with Max Goelitz Galerie.
• The show features sculptures and images combining organic elements, body references, technological objects and human-used materials.
• Planned Obsolescence (2019) includes a plaster bust of Isocrates on an obsolete photocopier with exposed internal infrastructure, plus a wasp nest, book, coral and other materials.
• Posthuman Portrait (Blue Wafer) (2026) places a blue silicon wafer over a sculpted portrait of a Roman emperor.
• Vectorial Body Collapse (2026) merges historical body representations with technical structures, treating body and machine as interconnected systems.
• Biomechanical Equipment (2021) presents an incomplete set of ratchet wrenches with missing tools replaced by human bone fragments from an archaeological excavation.
• The Agony of the Past (2023) compresses a book between two blocks of Portoro Leonardo marble, making its content inaccessible.
• What Does the Future for Storage Hold? (2025) arranges a bone flute, wasp nest in a helmet, hand prosthesis, old smartphones and 3D prints inside an industrial refrigerator with glass doors.
• The exhibition is described as a material archaeology of the present, where conservation and decay, technological development and geological time, singular and serial coexist.