Giovanni Kronenberg's third solo show at Renata Fabbri explores coded languages
Giovanni Kronenberg's third solo exhibition at Galleria Renata Fabbri in Milan presents a dual register: raw, object-like artifacts on the floor and vibrant, polished pastel drawings on the walls. The drawings depict mutating, protean forms with uranic or radioactive chromaticity, suggesting incomplete potential and shifting identities. A stone slab torn from an old post office counter, wrapped in a steel cable, lies at the entrance, questioning its passage and memory. In the second room, a cylindrical stone container holds a rudimentary iron blade that insinuates itself into cracks, emphasizing material vulnerability and transience. Kronenberg's 'combinatory grammar' produces continuous torsions, occlusions, substitutions, and superimpositions, creating indecipherable languages and elusive meanings.
Key facts
- Giovanni Kronenberg was born in Milan in 1974.
- The exhibition is his third solo show at Galleria Renata Fabbri.
- The show features pastel drawings on walls and stone artifacts on the floor.
- One artifact is a stone slab from an old post office counter wrapped in a steel cable.
- Another artifact is a cylindrical stone container with an iron blade inside.
- The drawings exhibit protean forms with uranic or radioactive chromaticity.
- Kronenberg's work employs a 'combinatory grammar' of torsions, occlusions, substitutions, and superimpositions.
- The exhibition is reviewed by Alberto Mugnaini on Artribune.
Entities
Artists
- Giovanni Kronenberg
- Alberto Mugnaini
Institutions
- Galleria Renata Fabbri
- Artribune
Locations
- Milan
- Italy