Unmatter
Eduardo Secci is pleased to announce the opening of the new headquarters in the historic center of Milan, in Via Olmetto 1, which joins the exhibition space already present in the city and in Florence. The gallery, on the ground floor of Palazzo Casati, opens Thursday, April 28, 2022 (from 18.00 to 21.00) with the exhibition “Unmatter” which, curated by Alberto Fiz, involves Joshua Hagler, Luisa Rabbia and Maja Ruznic. The group show continues until 5 August 2022. The concept of “Unmatter” is defined as neither matter nor anti-matter, but something liminal, and its existence seems in the universe extremely possible. “Unmatter” involves Joshua Hagler, Luisa Rabbia, and Maja Ruznic, three international artists characterized by their own language, here for the first time together expressing a common alphabet of feelings. As the curator Alberto Fiz explains, the exhibition including mainly painting, some in a large size – conceived in the last year and never before presented – “should not be considered as a simple group show but as an exhibition project able to convey the same attitude towards painting, understood as a territory of methodological comparison destined to go beyond the standardized canons of representation.” Observing the works on view, it appears clear that painting for the three artists is an all-encompassing experience capable of creating a complex web of signs focused on identifying a psychic and emotional matrix.
Eduardo Secci is pleased to announce the opening of the new headquarters in the historic center of Milan, in Via Olmetto 1, which joins the exhibition space already present in the city and in Florence. The gallery, on the ground floor of Palazzo Casati, opens Thursday, April 28, 2022 (from 18.00 to 21.00) with the exhibition “Unmatter” which, curated by Alberto Fiz, involves Joshua Hagler, Luisa Rabbia and Maja Ruznic. The group show continues until 5 August 2022. The concept of “Unmatter” is defined as neither matter nor anti-matter, but something liminal, and its existence seems in the universe extremely possible. “Unmatter” involves Joshua Hagler, Luisa Rabbia, and Maja Ruznic, three international artists characterized by their own language, here for the first time together expressing a common alphabet of feelings. As the curator Alberto Fiz explains, the exhibition including mainly painting, some in a large size – conceived in the last year and never before presented – “should not be considered as a simple group show but as an exhibition project able to convey the same attitude towards painting, understood as a territory of methodological comparison destined to go beyond the standardized canons of representation.” Observing the works on view, it appears clear that painting for the three artists is an all-encompassing experience capable of creating a complex web of signs focused on identifying a psychic and emotional matrix.
- Joshua Hagler, Solfeggio III, 2021Mixed media on canvas, linen, and other fabric
127 x 114.3 cm
50 x 45 in - Luisa Rabbia, Nameless, 2019Colored pencil, pastel, acrylic and oil on canvas
114 x 244 cm
44 7/8 x 96 1/8 in - Joshua Hagler, Night Swim (For Eileen), 2021Mixed media
208.3 x 198.1 cm
82 x 78 in - Joshua Hagler, Out of Existence XXV, 2022Mixed media on found religious tracts
35 x 30 cm
13 3/4 x 11 3/4 in - Luisa Rabbia, Ecstasy, 2019Colored pencil, pastel, acrylic and oil on canvas
260 x 119 cm
102 x 47 in - Luisa Rabbia, Mother and Father, 2021Porcelain
30.5 x 13 x 6 cm
12 1/8 x 5 1/8 x 2 3/8 in - Maja Ruznic, Father (Red Light), 2021Oil on linen
177.8 x 152.4 cm
70 x 60 in - Maja Ruznic, Field (Mother/Deep Red), 2021Oil on linen
193 x 129.5 cm
76 x 51 in - Maja Ruznic, Grandmother (Red Hands), 2021Gouache on paper
26.7 x 17.8 cm
10 1/2 x 7 in - Maja Ruznic, Grandfather (Blinding Yellow Eyes), 2021Gouache on paper
27.9 x 17.8 cm
11 x 7 in