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The Macro Museum in Rome exhibits until the 30th of October the exhibition Destino Comune by the conceptual Italian artist Esther Stocker, in collaboration with the Galleria Oredaria di Roma.
The Macro Museum is in the old Peroni brewery, restored in 1999. The building was constructed in the early part of the 20th century in the wold Via Regio Emilia and it was recovered by the richness of its architecture which was engraved in a special place, which overlooks Rome completely. Next to the contemporary art museum there are bookshops and restaurants with the best beer in the city, honoring the origin of the place.
Esther Stocker was born in Silandro, Italy, in 1970 and currently lives and works in Vienna. She began to exhibit in Italy at the end of the 90s. Her geometric work impacted for its aesthetic quality that she brought as a reminder of pop art in the 60s, but the depth and the conceptual elaboration on the fragmentation that the system produces in the environment, taking it as a natural and social aspect, is what´s moving from her work.
In Destino Comune, Stocker creates a geometrical structure where she introduces small inexactitudes to point out the damage of the system in its entirety. The reticles are made from industrial black scotch material, of resin, which is used in architecture, on a white background, where inexactitudes stand out.
In Stocker´s works, everything is perfect, clean, without any dissonant elements, only a few small alterations that the spectator has to encounter to give it the sense that it should have. The artist plays with these small imperfections to surprise and make the observer feel curiosity towards it and for him to try to fix these imperfections. It´s a game that is similar to society and the system fixed in a net, where it all seems perfect but you have to find the imperfections to start the process of change.
Her monochromatic works, where the essential thing is contrast, give out the feeling that something is being disarmed in an indefinite temporality. In its perfect reticular construction, it takes on the hypnotic effect, in the same way that reality plays with images, that after seeing them so much they seem to disappear. The emptiness between the lines that form the reticles is there to see as an own element of geometric space, that through fragile modulations, it gives structural shape and precision.
The exhibition plays with minimalism that black and white give -where she sometimes integrates gray in a near incidental way – and it invites one to a soft re-evaluation of the shape in which we conceptualize our immediate surroundings, the social relations that are built in a fictitious system, organized as its dictated by the norm of a system that´s based in order, cleanliness, rejection of chaos, not based on feelings that make livable the natural thing that disorder is.
For more information: http://www.macro.roma.museum/mostre_ed_eventi/mostre/esther_stocker_destino_comune
Nancy Guzman
Not everything that you paint can be seen, according to the saying. That´s the experience of Destino Comune. So if you want to live the hypnotic experience of seeing the reticles that talk about an imperfect system, as well as having some of Rome´s best beer, you only have to spend a few days in apartments in Rome and visit the Macro Museum.
Translated by: aleixgwilliam
