Cecilia Alemani curates 'The Magnetic Fields' at Gió Marconi in Milan

Cecilia Alemani curated 'The Magnetic Fields' at Galleria Gió Marconi in Milan, a group exhibition evoking a house-museum of artificialia. The show features totemic wood sculptures by Louise Nevelson, Man Ray's 'L'Enigme d'Isidore Ducasse' and 'Venus restaurée', and surrealist photographs by Man Ray influenced by Eugène Atget and anticipating Helmut Newton, notably 'First Steps (Coat Stand)/Coat Stand'. In the main room, works engage in generational dialogue, including Genesis Belanger's 'Same old song', a porcelain and stone turntable with a braid of hair. Hannah Levy contributes a phallic asparagus in silicone and polyurethane and a looped video of hands stimulating earphones, emphasizing sexual symbolism.