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Camille Henrot Monday curated by Cloé Perrone Fondazione Memmo, Rome

May 12 / Nov 11, 2016 “Camille Henrot’s exhibition at Fondazione Memmo takes inspiration from the first and most disorderly of the week’s days. At its heart are a series of bronzes that hover between the figurative and abstract, a cast of allegorical characters embodying the emotional and intellectual states particular to the beginning of the week. Derelitta, inspired by the painting ascribed to Botticelli, is either unable or unwilling to leave her bed; an athlete stands alone on a podium, defeated; a melancholic dissolves into tears while waiting for a text message that will never come; a fickle figure stands caught between states, inconstant like the moon from which Monday takes its name.“

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MM – Mundus Muliebris THAN HUSSEIN CLARK, PATRIZIO DI MASSIMO, GEORGE HENRY LONGLY curated by Nicoletta Lambertucci in dialogue with CURA. BASEMENT ROMA

April 27 / June 17, 2016

“MM is the image of the acronym for Mundus Muliebris, which in Latin can be translated as ‘ornaments.’ When googling the word ornament the first definition that comes up reads: “A thing used or serving to make something look more attractive but usually having no practical purpose.” Which brings me back to that slippery relationship between art and fashion: purpose vs purposelessness. An ornament has both. That limbo of grace is precisely what the identity of our brand MM is.”

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MICHAEL DEAN Stamen Papers Fondazione Giuliani Rome

May 25 / July 22, 2016

“The Stamen Papers draw on a botanical vocabulary (the stamen is the pollen producing part of a flower, composed of filament and anther) for both the significance and structure of the installation that Dean has developed specifically for the spaces of Fondazione Giuliani. For Stamen Papers, his work health (Working Title) produced originally for his solo exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds in 2012 is installed as an anthered filament for a stamen based delivery of previous exhibition based pages.”

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MARK LECKEY UNIADDDUMTHS Gavin Brown’s Enterprise May 25 / July 14, 2016

Sant’Andrea de Scaphis Via dei Vascellari Roma 

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MARC CAMILLE CHAIMOWICZ Now and Then Indipendenza Rome May 26 / Sept 10, 2016

“Elaborated site specifically for the various rooms of the exhibition space, the show "Now and then..." is conceived as a journey through different aspects and moments of the artist’s work.”

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David Maljković All Day All Year T293, Rome

May 25 / July 16, 2016    

“David Maljković’s work is a highly controlled variant exploitation of formalist concerns. While narrative is the driving element at the origination of a project, the artist’s varied means of visual implementation profoundly modifies and compromises its supremacy. The process of construction within a set of formal directives encrypts the narrative and postulates what  Maljković describes as a new semantic logic. His overall project is engaged in the variable relationship between form and content in aesthetic terms, or signifier and signified in linguistic terms. It is within this relationship that Maljković negotiates his formal methods and disjunctive intentions.”