Davide Allieri. After All

From November 14, 2024 to January 19, 2025 Triennale Milano is presenting the exhibition Davide Allieri. After All, curated by Damiano Gullì, Curator for Contemporary Art and Public Program at Triennale.
Davide Allieri's works have been specifically conceived to establish a dialogue with the Impluvium space. They reveal various themes characteristic of his practice, steeped in references ranging from cinema to theater and sci-fi, including experimentation with materials, reflection on the coordinates of space and time within dystopian habitats, and the incorporation of abandoned shell devices that interact with each other in post-apocalyptic settings.

The artist is presenting a selection of new installations, sculptures, and drawings, which reflect the altered vision of a possible future in which humans use shells, containment systems, and communication and surveillance technologies, in a vain effort to survive their own ruins.
Installations and sculptures are developed from ordinary objects – structures, helmets, drones – which, modified by the artist, maintain their protective or isolating function but also become disturbing alien forms between the organic and inorganic.
The following are two examples: TX9KD POD, a fiberglass sculpture representing a protective shell, and Communication System, a vertical installation alluding to surveillance technologies. Displayed on the walls is Lost in the Shell, a series of drawings of deserted landscapes and Brutalist architecture, enclosed in fiberglass shells.
Allieri plays on the most common human feelings, like unease concerning the present and fear about the future, to create catastrophic scenarios that transport the viewer into a world that is "other," yet strangely familiar.

The result is a landscape of abandonment, characterized by the remains and traces of a now extinct society, which foreshadows an uncertain future. Allieri considers the ambiguity between past and future, abandonment and recovery, destruction and invention, giving a new meaning to the relic and projecting the viewer into a disquieting sci-fi movie.

The exhibition is part of a program to promote and boost the Italian art scene, launched by Triennale Milano some years ago. Curated by Damiano Gullì, the program has featured talks, projects, group shows – like 'Pittura italiana oggi' – and solo exhibitions, involving women and men artists from different generations. Participants have ranged from Corrado Levi to Lisa Ponti and Mariella Bettineschi, from Marcello Maloberti to Anna Franceschini, from Lorenzo Vitturi to Alice Ronchi, Luca Staccioli and Gianni Politi, from Francesco Vezzoli to Nico Vascellari, and all the featured artists are characterized by their being equally at home with diverse disciplines, media and techniques.
Technical Partners Officina Italia Design and Agnelli Metalli, and Institutional Partners Lavazza Group and Salone del Mobile.Milano, are supporting Triennale Milano on this exhibition.

Davide Allieri
Born in Bergamo in 1982, Davide Allieri graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. He lives and works in Milan, where he opened his studio in 2019. He has taken part in various solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad. The most recent include: 'Very Friendly," curated by Agnes Gryczkowska, House, Berlin, 2023; 'HOLDER,' curated by Alessandro Rabottini, Palazzo Monti, Brescia, 2023; 'CELLS,' Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, 2023; 'Re: FUTURE (draft),' Kunstraum Memphis, Linz, 2024; 'Nexus,' Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2024. In 2024, he won, with Galerie Hubert Winter, the viennacontemporary Bildrecht SOLO Award.