Andrea Barbagallo's 'Body ache' at Dimora Artica, Milan
Andrea Barbagallo (Rome, 1994; lives in Milan) presents 'Body ache', a solo exhibition at Dimora Artica in Milan. The show explores the intersection of digital technology and corporeality through sculpture and installation. The central piece, 'Vanadio', is a 3D-printed sculpture that replaces synthetic materials with organic ones, resulting in an abstract hybrid derived from shells and animal/human fetuses. Other works adopt an aesthetic of waste, with small objects resembling body fragments based on viruses, bacteria, enzymes, and proteins. On the walls, edible wafer sheets feature phrases engraved by a machine built by the artist, mixing web-sourced citations and high culture fragments. The exhibition combines an underlying sense of trauma with lightness, evoking a post-Internet bucolic idyll.
Key facts
- Andrea Barbagallo was born in Rome in 1994 and lives in Milan.
- The exhibition is titled 'Body ache' and is held at Dimora Artica in Milan.
- The central sculpture is called 'Vanadio' and was made with a 3D printer.
- Barbagallo replaced synthetic materials with organic ones in 'Vanadio'.
- The form of 'Vanadio' derives from shells, animal fetuses, and human fetuses.
- Other works in the show use an aesthetic of waste, with objects resembling body fragments.
- These fragments are based on viruses, bacteria, enzymes, and proteins.
- Edible wafer sheets on the walls feature phrases engraved by a machine the artist built.
- The phrases are pastiches of web citations and high culture fragments.
- The exhibition mixes trauma with lightness, described as a post-Internet bucolic idyll.
Entities
Artists
- Andrea Barbagallo
Institutions
- Dimora Artica
- Artribune
Locations
- Rome
- Italy
- Milan