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Don’t Make Them Tell You Where They Come From curated by Gabriele Tosi, Don’t Make Them Tell You Where They Come From is a group exhibition featuring the works of Daniele Marzorati, Marco B. Fontichiari, Gli Impresari (Edoardo Aruta, Marco Di Giuseppe, Rosario Sorbello), and Marit Wolters.

The exhibition brings together works by young artists who share an analytical and philological approach to exploring the relationship between artwork, image, and reality. The works on display, spanning media such as sculpture and photography, seem to construct and traverse a territory of exchange, with space and time dictated by the movement itself. The medium itself, serving as a repository of modern collective memory, allows the artist to instill in the work (which becomes both the medium and the field of action) the necessity for a renewed inquiry into the visual. Beginning with the latent memory of the media, a process is triggered that allows the viewer to understand the image conveyed by the work for what it truly is, as the artist erases the possibility of perceiving it for what we think it might be.

Marco B. Fontichiari (Deer Park, California, 1992. Lives in Bologna) works primarily with video and performance, developing a research practice that explores the capacity of humans and their tools to channel abstract content into a finite plane. Recent exhibitions include Lost in Translation (Pop Corn), Localedue, Bologna (2018); Athanasius Kircher, Porto dell’Arte, Bologna (2018).

Gli Impresari (Edoardo Aruta, Marco Di Giuseppe, Rosario Sorbello) have worked as a collective since 2014. Their focus has always been on the techniques and devices that generate spectacle. Their work appears in the form of sculpture and installation or is activated performatively. They have participated in festivals and exhibitions such as Helicotrema 8 Recorded Audio Festival, Palazzo Grassi and Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice (2019).

Daniele Marzorati (Cantù, 1988. Lives in Milan) works with various mediums such as photography, painting, and drawing, focusing on the revelatory logics generated by the passage of an image between different media. His recent solo exhibitions include Deplacement, Building, Milan (2019); Crossing Line, San Paolo Invest, Monza (2019); In Linea D’Aria, oTTo Space, Milan (2017).

Marit Wolters (Achim, Germany, 1985. Lives in Vienna) primarily works with sculpture and installation, focusing her intervention on the physical and architectural context of the space where she exhibits. Notable solo shows include Everything That Is Solid Dissolves Into Air, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York (2018); Stranger Being, Whitedwarf, Vienna (2018).

Don’t Make Them Tell You Where They Come From
December 1, 2019 – February 8, 2020
Metronom, Via Carteria 10, 41121 Modena