Gabriele Dini
Avenir Avenir
05.09.20 - 22.10.20
The Balcony is happy to present new works by Italian artist Gabriele Dini (IT).
The exhibition includes guided tours during The Hague Contemporary Art Weekend (10-12.9) and Hoogtij - The Hague’s Art route (25.09).
In the exhibition Gabriele Dini proposes at The Balcony, the artist will explore the nature of the given space and propose a site-specific intervention in the vitrine.
Fascinated by the editorial construction of ‘The Arcade Project’ where the 19th-century Paris is shaped as a collage of quotations from a wide variety of sources, the entry point of his investigation meets Walter Benjamin’s structure of the book: how to arrange a selection of goods in the same way that shop windows and signs are arranged in a congested street?
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Jegens & Tevens
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Imagining compounds of natural and artificial materials becoming the 'passers-by' or the flâneur themselves, perishable and exposed to processes of decadence and transience displayed in the shop vitrine. This might invert the process of consumerism object/subject and the installation would question the role that the consumers takes.
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Through processes of alterations, juxtapositions of fragments and the appropriation of materials from different eras (from online 3D model of ancient artifacts, GPS systems, animal dwellings) the installation will open a dialogue between the sentient agents, the exhibition space and the surrounding landscape.
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︎︎︎ Gabriele Dini