Giuseppe Ragazzini's Grotesque Collages at The Mori Center in Parma

The Mori Center in Parma hosts a solo exhibition by Giuseppe Ragazzini (London, 1978), featuring works that explore collage across media. The show includes a looped video animating a kiss composed of fragments from Renaissance masterpieces, traditional and digital collages, three-dimensional installations, and ceramics. Ragazzini works with fragments to create grotesque new figures, as the project title suggests. The artworks populate the gallery space with imposing or physical presences, transporting visitors into crowded buses of unsettling characters, before a large mask reminiscent of Picasso (as critics have noted), or seated on a bench beside a solitary sad man. Sketches and drawings accompany the larger works, documenting the artist's creative process.