METRONOM

Nature in Play is a group exhibition featuring works by artists who reflect on the possibilities of representing nature and landscape through photography. The works display a renewed impulse in photography to observe nature, blending references to pop culture with pure atmospheres. Stripped of any pretentiousness or excessive picturesque qualities, the photographic gaze returns to the beauty of nature with a fresh, thoughtful approach.

Andrea Pertoldeo (Udine, 1971) presents portions of the natural landscape as if we were walking together, offering a way to experience nature that becomes a visual pleasure and, consequently, a physical pleasure.
The two works by Daniele Marzorati (Cantù, 1988) present two different ways of narrating the landscape, leaving the viewer free to insert themselves into the narrative and become its protagonist.

Elena Aya Bundurakis (Crete, 1988) guides the viewer almost by hand to touch the most intimate parts of living beings.

Martina della Valle (Florence, 1981) creates vegetal architectures that reflect on the peripheral areas of urban greenery: the artist proposes a new way of looking at the city’s nature, searching for what normally goes unnoticed.

Mark Dorf (Laconia, USA, 1988) explores the interactions between society, the digital domain, and nature: focusing on the landscape as a habitable and familiar place, the artist analyzes the numerical translation offered by digital observers, proposing new visions yet to be discovered.
Like in a laboratory, Sanna Kannisto (Hämeenlinna, Finland, 1974) presents a scientific visualization of nature and its inhabitants while also setting up a theatrical stage where the protagonists are birds and plants from the Finnish landscape, her homeland.

Marco Signorini (Florence, 1962) weaves a narrative of the landscape through elements borrowed from digital language.

In the work of Christto & Andrew (Christto Sanz, Puerto Rico 1985 – Andrew Weir, South Africa, 1987), nature is shown in a future projection where vegetal elements are irreparably marked by traces of human society.
Nature is also the protagonist in the work of Tilo & Toni (artistic duo founded in 2015 in Siegen, Germany), showing all its power and vitality: recovering typical canons of German Romanticism, the artists reinterpret the relationship between man and nature in a contemporary key.

Andrea Botto (Rapallo, 1973) photographs fragments of nature exploded into a rarefied, almost intangible environment.
The practice of Olaf Breuning (Schaffhausen, Switzerland, 1970) shows us how the relationship between man and nature is metaphorical: what they have in common is also what distinguishes them, and vice versa.

Nature in Play
March 7 – July 29, 2020
Metronom, Via carteria 10, 41121, Modena