Sonia Andresano and Sebastiano Bottaro Dual Exhibition at Spaziomensa in Rome

A dual solo exhibition by Sonia Andresano and Sebastiano Bottaro is on view at Spaziomensa in Rome, organized in collaboration with Litografia Bulla, which produces special print portfolios for each event at the Via Salaria venue. The show explores Deleuzian repetition as creative affirmation. Andresano (born 1983, Salerno) presents "Ritenta, sarai più fortunata" (2021), an installation involving a video-sculpture device showing four viewpoints of a girl practicing a gymnastics handstand on an old sofa, with discordant temporality. The work incorporates materials from the surrounding environment, such as plaster used to reshape three cathode-ray televisions that display three of the four viewpoints, while the fourth is projected on a wall. The video was shot in the dilapidated Teatro del CityLab. Bottaro (born 1993, Noto) offers four large square canvases (190×190 cm) that rethink gesture through measured hand movements creating obsessive parallel lines (almost desemanticized writing) and chromatic aggressions that break the ritual horizontality, evoking surrealist psychic automatism. The exhibition is accompanied by texts from Giuseppe Armogida (for Andresano) and Gaia Bobò (for Bottaro).