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Spazio mentale = ambiente

Curated by Marco Tagliafierro, Bianchizardin gallery

Milan, Italy

  • Open wall niche with a boiler and a small pale object inside, part of Spazio mentale = ambiente by Federico Clapis at Bianchi Zardin, Milan
  • Sculpture of three veiled female figures beside a monitor showing a similar group, a work by Federico Clapis at Bianchi Zardin gallery in Milan
  • Blue and white porcelain vase topped with a stone block on a parquet floor, in Federico Clapis' exhibition Spazio mentale = ambiente, Milan
  • Old child's scooter with a yellow wheel clamp on a concrete base, a work by Federico Clapis at Bianchi Zardin Contemporary Art in Milan
  • Large pale blue sculpted head in profile before a wall projection of a face, Federico Clapis' Spazio mentale = ambiente at Bianchi Zardin
  • Cream wall-mounted bust with a blank, smoothed face by Federico Clapis, shown in Spazio mentale = ambiente at Bianchi Zardin, Milan
  • Close view of a glossy magenta gas canister on concrete beside a radiator valve, in Federico Clapis' exhibition at Bianchi Zardin, Milan
  • Pale blue figure of a woman with clasped hands near a white film projector with a wire basket, works by Federico Clapis at Bianchi Zardin
  • Pale blue female figure, white film projector on a plinth and an open boiler niche, installation view of Federico Clapis at Bianchi Zardin
  • A tree branch fitted with green pipes, an open meter box and a Super Mario mask among wiring, works by Federico Clapis at Bianchi Zardin, Milan
  • Radiator valve capped in red felt, with a vase blurred in the background, a detail of Spazio mentale = ambiente by Federico Clapis in Milan
  • Installation view at Bianchi Zardin, Milan: blue female figure, magenta canister on concrete and capped vase in Federico Clapis' solo show
  • Gallery room with a clamped scooter, branch sculpture, blue figure and magenta canister, installation view of Federico Clapis at Bianchi Zardin
  • Wall-mounted cream bust, magenta canister, film projector on a plinth and open cabinets, installation view of Federico Clapis at Bianchi Zardin
  • Poster of Spazio mentale = ambiente by Federico Clapis, curated by Marco Tagliafierro at Bianchi Zardin, with a fish-shaped jerrycan at sea

Spazio mentale = ambiente ("mental space = environment") was a solo exhibition of Federico Clapis at Bianchi Zardin Contemporary Art, the gallery on Via Maroncelli in Milan, curated by Marco Tagliafierro. The curatorial text placed the works between an archaeology of the future and an avant-garde of the past, between utopias and "retrotopias". The show's poster used the image of a white fish-shaped jerrycan tied to a yellow buoy floating at sea.

The installation views show a sparse arrangement across the gallery's white rooms and parquet floors, where sculptures and found objects enter into dialogue with the building's own fittings. A pale blue figure of a woman with clasped hands stands near a white film projector fitted with a wire basket; a magenta gas canister rests on a concrete block; a blue and white porcelain vase is capped with a block of stone; an old child's scooter is fixed with a yellow wheel clamp. On the walls hang a cream bust whose face is smoothed into a single blank surface and a large blue head, while open utility cabinets, a boiler niche and a meter box become part of the display, one of them housing a Super Mario mask among electrical wiring. The documentary video was shot from a remote-controlled car moving through the rooms.

The exhibition shows a more conceptual side of Clapis' practice, close to assemblage and to the readymade, in which the domestic and technical environment of the space becomes material for the work.

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