FINISSAGE and CATALOGUE PRESENTATION
Ludovica Anversa
Saturday 15 June, 11 a.m.
Fondazione La Rocca, Saturday 15 June at 11 am, invites the public to the finissage of Ludovica Anversa’s first solo exhibition, AUTOTOMIA. During the event, Francesca Guerisoli and Ludovica Anversa will present the exhibition catalogue, which includes an extensive iconographic apparatus accompanied by a critical text by Sofia Silva.
This will therefore be the last day to visit the first solo exhibition of the young Milanese artist, which consists of 23 oil paintings and drawings. A sense of continuous metamorphosis, detachment, of an intermediate state runs through all the works. 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. Ludovica Anversa investigates images in their precariousness and aims 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 the History of Contemporary Art, is the artistic director of Fondazione La Rocca, of the forming MuDi Museo Diffuso in Lentate sul Seveso and of Fondazione Pietro and 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. He 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.
