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Fondazione La Rocca presents Autotomia, the first solo exhibition by Ludovica Anversa (Milan, 1996), from 24 March to 15 June 2024. The exhibition, curated by Francesca Guerisoli, presents 22 previously unpublished works, oil canvases and drawings, created by the artist over the last year and is accompanied by a critical speech by the painter and writer Sofia Silva (Padua, 1990).
The title “Autotomy” ’ is taken from the 1972 poem of the same name by Wisława Szymborska (Poland, 1923-2012), Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, which recalls the process of splitting the body enacted by some animals under attack to distract the predator.
A sense of continuous metamorphosis, detachment, of an intermediate state runs through all the works in the exhibition. Like those animals that voluntarily lose a part of themselves, we too practise autotomy, either to overcome a trauma or to show society...More
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Fondazione La Rocca presents Autotomia, the first solo exhibition by Ludovica Anversa (Milan, 1996), from 24 March to 15 June 2024. The exhibition, curated by Francesca Guerisoli, presents 22 previously unpublished works, oil canvases and drawings, created by the artist over the last year and is accompanied by a critical speech by the painter and writer Sofia Silva (Padua, 1990).
The title “Autotomy” ’ is taken from the 1972 poem of the same name by Wisława Szymborska (Poland, 1923-2012), Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, which recalls the process of splitting the body enacted by some animals under attack to distract the predator.
A sense of continuous metamorphosis, detachment, of an intermediate state runs through all the works in the exhibition. Like those animals that voluntarily lose a part of themselves, we too practise autotomy, either to overcome a trauma or to show society...More
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