Asa Nisi Masa
The autonomy of objects between real-surreal
The House, a development project focusing on upcoming and research-based art, reopens the Milanese exhibition season with Asa Nisi Masa, a collective show curated by Irene Sofia Comi, who presents a selection of works, some never seen before, by Lula Broglio, Federico Cantale and Davide Mancini Zanchi. Pervaded by a domestic aura, the works by the three artists explore with extraordinary variety the relationship between human and non-human, body and environment, recording the experience of a condition midway between real and surreal perception.
The exhibition forges a dialogue with architecture and furniture and with the everyday habits of the family living in the apartment. Room after room, paintings and sculptures are placed increasingly close to one another, as though dropped onto a film set, often taking the place of household utensils and objects.
The exhibition is a chance to reflect more broadly on the concept of artworks, design objects and magical language, through a public program with three prestigious guests: architect Riccardo Blumer, designer Sara Ricciardi and philosopher Raffaele Ariano will discuss with the artists and the curator the relationships between design objects and artworks, between magical rituals and the animism of tradition and between the concepts of disorientation and perturbation in relation to Fellini’s universe.
