On 11^th May 2012, OltreDimore contemporary art gallery presents in its venue  Marcus Egli. Uno, nessuno e centomila, the first Marcus Egli (Zurich, 1957)’s solo exhibition in Italy.

The exhibition encompasses a series of works inspired by the city of Bologna but at the same time connected with the artist’s constant obsessions: the waiting, the absurd, the anonymity, the crowd and the loneliness.

Capture and Idéntites aléatoires spur from the artist’s emotional impact towards the memorial of the terrorist attack at Bologna train station in 1980. According to the artist, the clock which stays still at 10.25 is the symbol of the exact moment when the fate chooses who will be struck down among the crowd and who will be spared.

The four geographical maps which constitutes the work Bologne view were born out of the artist’s need to orient himself in an unknown city. Beside, the treasures hedged-in libraries and museums around the city hinted to the artist the work Archives, as the religious relics inspired the installation In Vitro.

Aluminum is, as usual, Egli’s main medium. With it he creates his Hominium, a set of asexual, selfsame characters, standing alone or within a group, funny and serious like tin soldiers, whose faces mirror literally the personalities of who stares at them, changing shape with them. So similar, at heart, to the masks of Pirandello.

“Individual” is the word used by the artist to speak about the entire humanity. Used alone is a cry, together with others, it becomes sentence, text, book, which everybody can interpret according to what he/she is ready to see, listen and undertstand.