Giuseppe Gabellone's Site-Specific Installations at Fondazione Memmo

Giuseppe Gabellone, born in Brindisi in 1973, presents a series of site-specific installations at Fondazione Memmo in Rome. The exhibition features works that force viewers to lower their gaze, subverting ordinary perspectives and reflecting on time and material decay. In the first room, a tin sculpture shaped like a mandible contrasts sharply with the travertine floor. Layered paper forms rest on uncertain bamboo supports in 'Untitled Black' and 'Untitled Orange' (2017). The centerpiece is a pair of cypress trees suspended and stretched, almost trapped in a web of string, unable to hold their debris ('Untitled', 2017). The interplay between artificial and natural is heightened by the contrast between the patio's external light and the cold, aseptic interior illumination.