Opening:
Giovedì 21 Luglio 2016, ore 18.00
Andromeda
Massimiliano Viel
A+B galleria, via Gabriele Rosa 20a, Brescia.
Fino al 30 luglio 2016 giov>sab 15/19 www.materiasonica.it

Audio / Visual Performances:
Venerdì 22 Luglio 2016, dalle ore 22.00 alle 24.00.
Point of Noise:
Menthos
Noumeno
Untitled Noise (Michele Lombardelli e Luca Scarabelli)
Massimiliano Viel
Visual:
Dies_(aka Fabio Volpi)
MusicalZOO Festival presso il Castello di Brescia
via Castello 1, Brescia. www.musicalzoo.it

Niccolò Morgan Gandolfi, Silvia Hell, Simon Laureyns
Curated by Gabriele Tosi

13.02.2016 > 18.06.2016
After Even a Birch Can Be Real, A+B Contemporary Art presents the second exhibition of a three collective project that involves the same three artists in exhibitions different by title, concept and works.

Even a Birch Can Be Real indicates the focus on the three authors research regarding the real, considering however the different specificities of each interest. Urban scenery is the field where Simon Laureyns acts, Niccolò Morgan Gandolfi favours natural landscape, and Silvia Hell operates through the construction of languages aimed at developing knowledge and visualization of a neighborhood made up of people, concepts, rules and narratives.
Slash puts a fractured narrative, a break that refers either to the exhibition triptych and to what heppens during the production of the works on display. The purpose is to show the frame when something becomes something else in order to be what it truly is.
Living up to that background recounted by Even a Birch Can Be Real, Slash focuses its attention on the passage of reality elements within the artistic practice, answering questions concerning the methods and motives of each research.

CS Ita / PR Eng

Marco Gobbi (b. 1985, IT) studied Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and since 2008 has been working with sculpture and installation. In 2013 he was a resident at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa with the collective ‘How We Dwell (Make your own Residency)’. In 2015/16 he was a resident at Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht.

His practice evinces his interest in the analysis of stories and objects, and the gaps found in those stories; the work, then, is used as a mean to fill those gaps. Through the uncovering of the balance between the components of an artwork, a more subjective vision of translation and sensation in poetic forms is proposed. The artist sees objects as potential maps, whose legends contain new and unexplored directions and possibilities.

Biography

Exhibition at A+B: The vibrant vessels – Solo show at AplusB / One minute of truth – Group show at AplusB

The practice in the studio and practice of the world are moments that remain distinct , but that influence incessantly . A relationship that is also the one between the artist and the definition of a space for the image . This manifests itself in Simon Laureyns works. The artist maps the places for poster advertising in the city of Ghent , where he lives , by controlling the recycling of posters . Once they are layered enough, Laureyns waiting for the rain to disconnect a single mass, roll them and take them in the studio. In the closed materials are compounds, mounted on canvas and then stretched in a frame. The exposure of the back , made ​​of glue on the billboard blue , as if it were a complaint made ​​by a silent rebellion against the condensing uniqueness of advertising images, opens a space open and manifold. Here the perception meets a vent field of its mnemonic potential , visual and imaginative.

biography

Exhibition at A+B: Even A Birch Can Be Real – Group show at AplusB / Slash – Group show at AplusB

www.simonlaureyns.com

Download text by Huib Haye van der Werf: Engl – Ita

Marco Gobbi, Brescia, 1985. Lives and works in Amsterdam. Exhibitions: The Vibrant Vessels, A+B gallery 2016 (solo show); B32 & Drawing Front Present, Maastricht 2016; Quotidiana 16, Padova 2016; Van Eyck Recidency, Maastricht, Olanda 2015 (artist in residence); A+B gallery, Brescia 2014; Biennale d’arte Giovanni, Bologna 2014; Passi Erratici, Museo Nazionale della Montagna, Torino 2014; Se di-segno, Padiglione Esprit Nouveau, Bologna 2014; Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia 2013 ; Il Crepaccio, Da Venezia a Porta Venezia, Milano 2013; Padiglione Crepaccio at yoox.com, Venezia 2013; La Materia, Premio Stonefly, curated by Marco Tagliafierro, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia 2013; Group show of the young artists at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia 2012 (residence programme); Casabianca, Bologna 2012.

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Marco Gobbi artist page

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27.02.2016 > 26.03.2016

With Apoteòṡi  Marco La Rosa investigates the hidden possibilities of objects created for a constructive and necessary function. The works, made of lead and concrete casting, appear as landmark between material naturalness and reality origin.

The artist has produced two new series of works for this second solo show by A + B. The works arise like mold of building materials: bricks and water pipes. The vacuum is necessary and is managed punctually and hidden technics. Marco La Rosa has investigated the emptiness as the unknown, working with mergers and withdrawals, without paying attention to volumetric proportions or disguising relationships as real data.

Marco La Rosa centers his sculptural practice in the process leading to the production and to the appearance of images and shapes. The artist focuses on the organic nature of materials, he frees them within wrappers and he returns them thanks to the vitality that characterizes them.

comunicato stampa / press release

Marco La Rosa artist page

19.12.2015 > 13.02.2016

Three group shows over one year, the same three artists, Simon Laureyns, Silvia Hell and Niccolò Morgan Gandolfi, always in the same place. The first show, Even a Birch Can Be Real is opening on Saturday, December 19^th, at AplusB Contemporary Art, Brescia. In this way the project is testing a different repetition of an exhibition scheme.

“A group show always runs the risk of providing a univocal, arbitrary and partial view of the artists’ work”, so the project’s curator Gabriele Tosi, “starting such a process, we hope to respect the complexity of the individual research and to convey the potential of the available resources at best”.

The artists involved are Niccolò Morgan Gandolfi (Washington D. C., 1983 – Lives in Bologna), Silvia Hell (Bolzano, 1983 – Lives in Milan) and Simon Laureyns (Ghent, 1979 – Lives in Ghent) – this will be his first show in Italy. Never have they exhibited together. Their artistic education, their research, their manners are different; though they are linked both from a strong attention towards what affects reality’s perception and the ways to experience the world, and from the ability of synthesize the stratification of their attitudes in one piece of art or in a series of works.

“I brought Gandofi, Hell and Laureyns together”, states Tosi, “because I’m persuaded that the complexity and the variety of the visual and perception systems resulting from the three shows may mirror an idea of art which is free from the purpose of supporting one kind of artistic research over the others, but still represents a privileged medium to look at the aesthetic potential of what surrounds us, by relating us to the different dimensions of the world, to their fullness of substance and meaning”.

The works of Even a Birch Can Be Real come from the artists’ ateliers, where they were chosen since they are emblematical of the physical and mental contexts they investigated.

The project is continuing with the second and third show in May and September, 2016.

comunicato stampa / press release

Curated by Rossella Moratto

26.09.2015 > 18.11.2015

Comunicato stampa Ita / Press Release Engl / Testo Critico (ita) / Essay By Rossella Moratto (eng) /

57°38’53”N 10°24’22”E is the current location of Rabjerg Mile, the biggest shifting sand dune in Northern Europe, located near Skagen, in Denmark. Nazarena Poli Maramotti chose this natural phenomenon as a metaphor of the continuous evolution of her painting towards a new direction of her research, highlighted in this new series of paintings where the artist creates and develops an idea of landscape, overcoming it. This is her second solo show at A+B Contemporary art in Brescia.

pdf presentation of the show with texts ita/engl and images

Nazzarena Poli Maramotti artist page

Born in Soltau (D). Lives and Work in Val di Zoldo (I). MA in painting at Venice Accademy.

Martini breaks down the gestural continuity of the creative act in the painting, experimenting different ways, times and materials in his multi-phase works. His paintings are like stratified visual fields, deeply marked by the perseverant need to deny a planned result, strongly decked to find the unexpected potential of complex, precarious and unique material conditions. His research celebrates many substantial features of painting but makes symbolic and narrative attention become redundant.
Many and different procedures are to be found on the space described on the frame. Through the artist’s action, the colorful matter creates various transformations because of its physical and chemical features. Simultaneously, work time and space are somehow recorded on the artwork, whose almost absorbent nature can potentially be sediment of bordering matters and gestures.
The ludic rawness of this inclination intensifies the character of the compositional elements. The weight of the canvas could spread out the color, as much as gravity could play a significant role in creating the shapes in which the matters solidifies. Fleeing from what is said and repeated, the painter himself takes somehow distances from his work and becomes an instrument of it. Like a film director who leaves the supervision of the movie to become an operator and decides to manage the operations when a new amount of arbitrariness is needed in order to proceed. (Gabriele Tosi text)

Biography

Ehibitions at A+B: Monsieur Fanta! – Solo show at AplusB / Phasmes – Group show at A+B wiht Osamu Kobayashi, Max Fritrop, Zoro Feigl / Oltre il pensiero. Quattordici ricerche attraverso la materia – Group Show at Palazzo Guaineri delle Cossere.

 Tobias Hoffknecht‘s working process begins on paper. His drawings, the sculptural basis of his works, are subjected to a substractive process. By increasingly reducing the preliminary sketch, he creates a minimalist spatial layout, which then takes on the form of an installation. The combination of installation and sculpture emerges out of a conceptual analysis of sculptural activity within the drawing, with the intention of breaking down and breaking through the respective space. Spatial references within the exhibition situation are witness to this symbiosis. Hoffknecht creates volumes through surfaces. Surfaces, which defer to the space, divide, usurp and break it. As a result, the space is created anew. Surfaces form the main components of the works in the exhibition “Rehearsal”, which occupy the space with their clear and highly reduced formal language.

Tobias Hoffknecht (Bochum, 1987) lives and works in Koln. In 2013 he finished his studies at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf in the class of Rosemarie Trockel.  Solo show: (2015) BOBBI, (with Stephanie Stein), A+B galleria, Brescia I. Softline, Kunstverein Bochum, Bochum, D. Rehearsal, Jan Kaps, Colonia, D (2013), Auf den Sitzen, Kunstverein Leverkusen Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, D (2013). Group Show: L’Avventura – Die mit der Liebe spielen, Palazzo Guaineri delle Cossere, Brescia (2014), Frauen, Die Ausstellung, Autocenter, Berlino, D (2014), Body Light, Venus & Apoll, Düsseldorf, D (2013), 5X5 2013, Espai d’art Contemporani de Castelló, Castellón, ES (2013), The End, Q-Box Gallery, Atene (2013).

Exhibition at A+B: BOBBI – Group show at AplusB / L’Avventura – Die mit der Liebe spielen – Group show at AplusB