Review

January 20, Galleria OltreDimore opens in Piazza San Giovanni in Monte in Bologna the solo exhibition of Ivana Spinelli entitled Loverrs/Fuckerrs edited by Raffaele Gavarro.

After the project Global Pin-Up, a dummy meta-brand which proceeds between simulated representation and real production, through the employment of different medias (installation, drawing, video, dress-code, accessories), Ivana Spinelli’s imaginary is every time more fluid, soft, irrational.

The woman’s body is an excuse to speak about something else again. It becomes a pincushion in the social and politic dimension of personal relationship, even those that are filtered by the media. The artist’s approach is critical but not cold and remote, indeed deeply involved and surrounded by the images that are proposed by medias, revised as mental and emotional reflection of a visual impression, a simulation of subjective way of perceiving the world.

Starting from the Global Sisters’ project drawings, abstract figures of kamikaze women in alluring poses, Ivana Spinelli shows new visual suggestions: video and video-installations, a ceramic sculpture, images taken by internet, paintings, an emotive but not casual jumble that creates a kind of panopticon of impossible, where we can penetrate and recognize a course made of cultural and emotional references of all personal.

Through the artist’s words, “LOVERRS/FUCKERRS is a little dipper theatre. A narration that doesn’t start from the beginning but maybe from the middle. Endurance competitions, fights, killings, without signs of pain, appears just to escape. Big and invisibles actions, stabbing smiles, impractical kisses. Break on through to the order side.”