La Rocca Foundation
AUTOTOMIA
Talk with Ludovica Anversa, Francesca Guerisoli, Saverio Verini
Tuesday 4 June at 18:30
As part of Ludovica Anversa’s solo exhibition ‘Autotomia’, on Tuesday 4 June at 6:30 pm Fondazione La Rocca presents a talk with Saverio Verini, director of the Musei Civici di Spoleto and independent curator, in dialogue with the artist and Francesca Guerisoli.
During the course of the evening, the speakers will outline a number of keys to interpreting young contemporary painting, providing a framework for reading the work of Ludovica Anversa, who will discuss the characteristics of her research with the audience.
The meeting will be an opportunity to visit, together with the curator and the artist, the exhibition ‘Autotomia’, set up at Fondazione La Rocca until 15 June 2024. The exhibition, curated by Francesca Guerisoli and with a critical text by Sofia Silva, presents 23 oil canvases and drawings, created by the artist in the last year. A sense of continuous metamorphosis, detachment, of an intermediate state runs through all the works on show. Like those animals that voluntarily lose a part of themselves, we too practise autotomy, to overcome a trauma or to show society our more acceptable face. The figures in the paintings on show inhabit non-narrative spaces in which the body emerges as a permeable and receptive entity. The figures in the paintings in the exhibition inhabit non-narrative spaces in which the body emerges as a permeable and receptive entity. Ludovica Anversa investigates images in their precariousness and intends to generate a sense of vulnerability that blurs the boundaries between what is perceived and what is seen.
Admission free while places last.
Biographies
Ludovica Anversa (1996) lives and works in Milan. She studied Painting and Visual Arts at NABA (New Academy of Fine Arts, Milan). She participated in the residencies at Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence (2020) and Palazzo Monti, Brescia (2020). His exhibitions include: MAC Museo d’arte contemporanea, Lissone (2023), Galleria The Address, Brescia (2023), Galleria Massimo Minini (2022), New Galerie, Paris (2022), ArtNoble, Milan (2021), Galleria Renata Fabbri, Milan (2021), Mana Contemporary, Jersey City (2020), Fondazione Adolfo Pini, Milan (2018). In 2021, she was the winner of the Francesco Fabbri Prize for Contemporary Arts. ‘Autotomy’ is her first solo exhibition.
Francesca Guerisoli, Dott in sociology of culture and graduate of the School of Specialisation in History of Contemporary Art, studies the relationship of art with the social dimension, the museology of the contemporary, and new artistic trends. She is the artistic director of Fondazione La Rocca, of the newly established Museo Diffuso in Lentate sul Seveso and of Fondazione Pietro e Alberto Rossini. She collaborates in the curatorial programme of the Fondazione La Quadriennale di Roma and teaches at the University of Milan Bicocca. He has curated dozens of exhibitions and new productions, including – with Fondazione La Rocca – Eugenio Tibaldi’s project for the Italian Pavilion at the Malta Biennale 2024 and Daniela Comani’s solo exhibition. She has published numerous popular and academic essays, as well as critical texts in exhibition catalogues. He has written for ‘Il Sole 24 Ore’, ‘Arte e Critica’, ‘Alfabeta2’ and is currently a member of the editorial board and contributor to ‘Quaderni d’arte italiana’, Treccani.
Saverio Verini is curator of exhibition projects, festivals, cycles of meetings related to contemporary art and culture. He has collaborated with institutions such as the National Gallery, the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris, the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art, MACRO, the Quadriennale in Rome, the Academy of France in Rome – Villa Medici, the American Academy in Rome, the Memmo Foundation, the Ermanno Casoli Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the ArtVerona fair. He is currently director of the Civic Museums of Spoleto. He collaborates with Artribune magazine and writes critical texts for solo and group exhibitions in museums, private galleries and other exhibition spaces. In 2018 he published for Postmedia Books the monograph Roberto Fassone. Quasi tutti i racconti; he is also the author of La stagione fatata, published by Castelvecchi in 2022, an essay on the relationship between childhood and contemporary Italian art.
