UTOPIA Alice Guareschi – Giorno

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Artist’s poster
For the Utopia project, Alice Guareschi has chosen the word giorno (day), repeating the palindrome sentence day after day, already featured in one of her public art works, which has been permanently displayed in the suburbs south of Milan since 2019. At first glance, the lettering, which is scattered across paper, seems to lose its three-dimensionality, only to revert back to the original alphabet dimension. And yet, the ‘geometry of disorientation’, a distinctive feature of the artist’s poetics, is what gives the characters, which in this case are arranged in a small, random yet persistent constellation, a sense of dynamicity and sculptural strength. Instead of being bright and pop as in the case of neon light words, the letters, which are now black against a white background, are plain and basic, while the use of just text – as if it were a bookplate – strips the gestural aspect down to the essentials by deleting all images and subtracting elements in order to multiply, once again, its possible meanings. By taking an expression that is part of everyday conversations out of context, and extracting from the universal flow a contingent element such as that of day, Alice Guareschi hints at time relativity – a non-linear yet maze-like magnitude, a web of instants that are concentrated or dilated depending on our subjective perception – and at the eternal dualism of the centuries-long cycle of nature and the fragile, fleeting nature of human life.

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Born in Parma in 1976, she has a degree in Philosophy from the University of Bologna. After spending many years in Paris, where she was a resident artist at the Pavillon of the Palais de Tokyo and at the Cité Internationale des Arts, she now lives and works in Milan. In her poetics, Alice Guareschi employs different media and languages, such as videos, sculptures, site-specific installations and written words, to examine ever-changing reality, which is the result of fortuitous coincidences, accidental encounters, subjective notes and revealing clues. The creative process begins with collecting snippets – literary quotations, film frames or ‘paroles trouvé’ – which are put back together and decontextualised, giving things that we have already seen a new, evocative power. The artist, who believes that ‘stories can be found everywhere’, leaves it up to individual – and selective – memory to reorganise the plots of hinted at narratives, in which autobiographical insights build up private ‘everyday archives’, enabling collective reflection. The minimalist alphabet ‘subtracts by multiplying’ due to the duality of gesture and concept, empty and full: negative principles such as silence, off-screen, white and pauses become compositional elements.
In 2008, Alice Guareschi was awarded the Scholarship for Young Italian Art promoted by the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2022, with the MAN - Art Museum of the province of Nuoro, she won the PAC 2021 competition, promoted by the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. She has been teaching ‘Project Writing and Creative Research’ at the Visual Arts Department of the IED - European Institute of Design in Milan since 2018. Moreover, since 2022, she has also been co-chairing ‘Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies 1’ at the NABA, New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. She has exhibited works in both solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad, in public and private institutions such as: Fondazione Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (Museum of Contemporary Art); PAC, Milan; MAMbo, Bologna; GAMeC, Bergamo; MART (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto), Rovereto; Italian Cultural Institute, Paris; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg; Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris; Royal Academy of Spain and German Academy Villa Massimo, Rome; Triennale, Milan; Macro, Rome; Villa Arson, Nice. As part of the Treccani Arte project Utopia, she created Giorno (Day, 2022), a limited edition artist’s poster.
The frame is not included in the purchase of the work to allow buyers to customize it to their taste and the style of their space
2022
Offset printing on 170 gsm ivory paper
50 x 70 cm
100 copies, numbered and signed by the artist

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