Sara Enrico. Under the Sun, Beyond the Skin
Furla Series

For the seventh edition of the Furla Series program, Fondazione Furla and GAM – Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano announce Under the Sun, Beyond the Skin: a solo exhibition by Sara Enrico, curated by Bruna Roccasalva.

Under the Sun, Beyond the Skin is a site-specific project which, for the first time since the collaboration between Fondazione Furla and GAM began, will be developed exclusively in the outdoor spaces of the Villa Reale gardens, providing new scope for interaction between contemporary art, the natural landscape, and public spaces.

Sara Enrico is an Italian artist whose sculptural research revolves around notions of materiality and corporeality. All of Enrico's work deals with the notion of "transition" as well as constant experimentation and the mixing of languages to explore the relationship between the surface or "skin" of the object and its form and material substance. Integrating approaches from tailoring, choreography and architecture, the artist combines materials such as concrete, pigment, fabric, and steel in configurations that evoke a latent vitality and articulate a fluid relationship between body, clothing, and space.

Under the Sun, Beyond the Skin presents a series of new productions designed specifically for the unique context of the Villa Reale parklands, stemming from a reflection on the garden as a place where nature is functional to the landscape design: a human construction, modelled and designed according to aesthetic, philosophical or social canons, where natural elements and cultural superstructures intertwine.

Starting from this dualism between nature and artifice, Sara Enrico has created "a landscape within a landscape" through a series of sculptures that inhabit the garden without seeking to mimic it but, on the contrary, triggering a subtle tension between the plant kingdom and an idea of synthetic vitality, between what arises spontaneously and what is the upshot of a deliberate gesture. Ever a place of representation and reflection, the garden becomes a sort of stage on which the artist's works confront the surroundings in a relationship of unstable equilibrium, playing with the continuities and frictions between work, environment, and viewer.

This project represents the seventh event in the Furla Series, the exhibition cycle that Fondazione Furla has been developing since 2017 in partnership with major Italian art institutions, featuring an all-female program designed to celebrate and promote the contributions of female artists to contemporary culture.... read the rest of the article»