On display, the works of six artists from Italy, Korea, Chile and the United States: Chan-Hyo Bae, Gaetano Costa, Sergio Padovani, Pablo Santibañez Servat, Fabio Timpanaro, Joel Peter Witkin.
Collecting, accumulation, quotation and encyclopedic/classifying desire to collect everything in literal visual anthologies, Noah’s arks that preserve everything, without dissimulating the impetus of horror vacui that informs them.
Museum-paintings displayed inside a wunderkammer – a true small private museum, conceived by a collector to satisfy his personal taste – in a tautological short circuit, more alienating than didactic.
Upon closer inspection, a «catalogue […] that ideally ends in an etcetera», to quote Umberto Eco of Vertigine of the list, to whom the exhibition is a clear homage; an inventory of the uncatalogable, a collection of iconographic listings, which sometimes fades into the blur of unsatisfied desires.
Curated by Eliana Urbano Raimondi
