Gaia Fugazza, Studiolo #9 at Spazio Cabinet, Milan

Within her works, artist Gaia Fugazza questions the meaning of presence, its possibilities to be expanded and bridged to a material reality, that the artist sees and elaborates through the remains of everyday life and traditional practices.
In her solo show at Spazio Cabinet, Gaia Fugazza gathered works as a result from an art residency at Atelier Calder, in Saché, France. Isolated in the countryside for three months, she collected stones, bamboos and fish nets, as if to suggest a practice of hunting. But these nets aren’t for fishing, they’re fixed upon a glass. Stones have not been thrown, as they’ve been broken and glued onto a canvas. Bamboos have been put together one by one to become a long stick that cannot hurt, being it suspended in the air and pointed towards the infinity. Gaia Fugazza’s hunt has probably imploded, reflecting a vivid and prolific immobility.
The first artwork comes in three parts, the stones, the long stick – here 7 meters long, while the original is about 38 meters – and the painting of a landscape. Gaia Fugazza drew powder from breaking stones to obtain natural warm colors, and paint the bamboos. The broken stones are indeed significantly exposed and de-contextualized. The landscape comes as third element, painted in complementary shades. The second work is made by fishing nets lugged and fixed on a glass canvas, painted in every single spot, to shape a more genereal idea of a figure.
Gaia Fugazza reinvents materials and techniques from a deep and local reality and provides a space, where to rest and expand the invisibility she investigates, captures and allocates beyond the canvas. It appears as a hidden connection with otherness, obtained by revealing the anima of things that lies in between the natural and material worlds – the place within which the artist moves.

Gaia Fugazza, Studiolo #9 at Spazio Cabinet, Milan through October 19, 2013