Keteleer Gallery is delighted to announce its participation in the first edition of Paris Internationale Milano. The gallery will share a booth with Lia Rumma (Italy) to present a solo project by Luca Monterastelli (Forlimpopoli, 1983).
For the inaugural edition of Paris Internationale Milano, Luca Monterastelli presents “La Tempesta”, a project that radicalizes his exploration of bas-relief as an urban narrative device. A series of plaster panels translates pornographic iconography related to power and submission into the formal vocabulary of rational bas-relief, supported by infrastructural devices derived from the “Synthesis” system by Ettore Sottsass, a furniture structure adopted as a standard in public administration offices.
Monterastelli intervenes in the iconography of power that Fascist architecture once entrusted to bas-relief, replacing its repertoire with a grammar of submissive bodies. The body becomes the site where authority is inscribed and displayed. The surface of the panels bears the marks of a vandalistic gesture that alters their legibility, undermining the monumental rhetoric of the relief from within.
Even the intended function of the bas-relief is dismantled: no longer a frontal monument placed high above, but an accumulation of slabs resting on functional devices. Form loses its celebratory function and presents itself as a relic of a compromised authority.
Entrance to Paris Internationale Milano is subject to accreditation. Once your request has been reviewed, you will receive confirmation along with your access details. Please request your accreditation HERE.
VIP Preview:
Friday 17 Apr.11am—8pm
Public visiting hours (accredited guests only):
Saturday 18 Apr.11am—8pm
Sunday 19 Apr.11am—8pm
Monday 20 Apr.11am—8pm
Tuesday 21 Apr.11am—7pm
Palazzo Galbani, Via Fabio Filzi, 25r, 20124 Milano MI, Italië
More info HERE.
Monterastelli intervenes in the iconography of power that Fascist architecture once entrusted to bas-relief, replacing its repertoire with a grammar of submissive bodies. The body becomes the site where authority is inscribed and displayed. The surface of the panels bears the marks of a vandalistic gesture that alters their legibility, undermining the monumental rhetoric of the relief from within.
Even the intended function of the bas-relief is dismantled: no longer a frontal monument placed high above, but an accumulation of slabs resting on functional devices. Form loses its celebratory function and presents itself as a relic of a compromised authority.
Entrance to Paris Internationale Milano is subject to accreditation. Once your request has been reviewed, you will receive confirmation along with your access details. Please request your accreditation HERE.
VIP Preview:
Friday 17 Apr.11am—8pm
Public visiting hours (accredited guests only):
Saturday 18 Apr.11am—8pm
Sunday 19 Apr.11am—8pm
Monday 20 Apr.11am—8pm
Tuesday 21 Apr.11am—7pm
Palazzo Galbani, Via Fabio Filzi, 25r, 20124 Milano MI, Italië
More info HERE.