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Apparatus 22 at GALLLERIAPIÙ

December 9, 2018

Artist: Apparatus 22

Exhibition title: Arrangements & Haze

Venue: GALLLERIAPIÙ, Bologna, Italy

Date: October 13 – December 1, 2018

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and GALLLERIAPIÙ, Bologna

GALLLERIAPIÙ has the pleasure to announce “Arrangements & Haze”, the second solo show at the gallery of Apparatus 22, art collective based in Bucharest and Brussels.

While the previous series of leather works “Several Laws. The Elastic Test” was placed in the misty times we are living as a critique of countless norms shaping the body in contemporary society, “Arrangements & Haze” shifts the perspective.

By moving the reflection about the body in a far-away future, the collective advances poetic thoughts meandering between visceral and digital, between pleasure and abuse and most importantly between impossible and something that could be plausible only by way of radical imagination.

Prosthesis for wild imagination, Arrangements & Haze is all about the process of placing together and intertwining thoughts, energies, objects and elements beyond what is known, irrefutable and manifest in order to conjure Apparatus 22‘ (possible) realities of the body in the future.

A section of the “Arrangements & Haze“ exhibition is the set of eight texts on large pieces of leather exploring radical-body scenarios in relation to work, technology, spirituality, extreme ergonomics and economy.

No holding back to the imagination, nor linear traces of realism.

To highlight the tension built between the limited formal means – a rectangle of white leather tattooed with text – and the intense, quintessential quality of the wording, Apparatus 22 coined their approach hardcore minimalism.

Intensity delivered in such a restrained form turns out to be possible, paradoxically, through an overflow of imagination, love and criticality combined.

It is a process very much related to SUPRAINFINIT, a world-making attempt by Apparatus 22 to imagine a universe where hope is used as a critical tool.

Which brings in the exhibition the other body of work: some tools, some outcomes of a fictional rudimentary prototyping studio set by Apparatus 22, this group of works unfolds a ritual space to engage with essential problems of imagining a radical new body.

At once clumsy and driven by imagination, rough and fragile, shamanistic and imbued with (peculiar) logic, the heretic daydream is shaped over and again.

Crafting the titles of the works has as much importance as crafting the objects and the ways to overcross the arbitrary limits of today.

All these well aware of the very long-term perspective of any form of radical change, but also on the need to tackle the ethical trouble and the danger of scientific research to be arrested in the hand of corporations etc

A clandestine fluxus-like prototyping could be.

In penumbra, little things grow.

Apparatus 22, Arrangements & Haze, 2018, exhibition view, GALLLERIAPIÙ, Bologna

Apparatus 22, Arrangements and haze V1, 2017, object (leather, laser inscription, hand dyed in white), 100×140 cm

Apparatus 22, Arrangements and haze V2, 2017, object (leather, laser inscription, hand dyed in white), 100×140 cm

Apparatus 22, Arrangements and haze V3, 2017, object (leather, laser inscription, hand dyed in white), 100×140 cm

Apparatus 22, Arrangements and haze V4, 2017, object (leather, laser inscription, hand dyed in white), 100×140 cm

Apparatus 22, Arrangements and haze V5, 2017, object (leather, laser inscription, hand dyed in white), 100×140 cm

Apparatus 22, Arrangements and haze V6, 2017, object (leather, laser inscription, hand dyed in white), 100×140 cm

Apparatus 22, Arrangements and haze V7, 2017, object (leather, laser inscription, hand dyed in white), 100×140 cm

Apparatus 22, Arrangements and haze V8, 2017, object (leather, laser inscription, hand dyed in white), 100×140 cm

Apparatus 22, SAMPLES BANK. THE RUSH OF POSSIBILITIES IS FORMIDABLE 1, 2018, installation (bricks, prosthetics, acrylic, leather), 240x40x20cm

Apparatus 22, Those Flames are burning (m) Complete name of the work: THOSE FLAMES ARE BURNING. CRYSTAL FERTILITY GODS SEND ECHOES OF LOVE FROM LONG DEAD BOOKS, 2018, Installation| skeleton of lightbox (photography printed on backlit textile, LED neon, rubber band, metal, wood stick), 128x95cm

Apparatus 22, Hand tools D + E + M. Form molding deep convictions, 2018,Installation (one piece of 6 elements: wood, leather, golden pins, black glass, photography printed on blueback), 280x140cm

Apparatus 22, Amulet (2), 2018,Object (leather, prosthetic metal stick, red wool, variable dimensions), 130-150cm

Apparatus 22, Amulet (3), 2018,Object (leather, prosthetic metal stick, red wool, variable dimensions)

Apparatus 22, Amulet (4), 2018, Object (leather, prosthetic metal stick, red wool, variable dimensions)

Apparatus 22, Amulet (5), 2018, Object (leather, prosthetic metal stick, red wool, variable dimensions)

Apparatus 22, Quantum Machine 1, Complete name of the work: QUANTUM MACHINE (1). EMPATHY SO DIFFICULT TO CRACK, FORM NO LONGER FOLLOWS FUNCTION, NEO-ERGONOMICS HAUNTED BY THE CHAOS OF FLESH, 2018,Installation (prosthetic sticks, leather, rubber band, bricks, acrylic, plastic foil, LED), 160x170cm

Apparatus 22 – QUANTUM MACHINE (2), Complete name of the work: QUANTUM MACHINE (2). EMPATHY SO DIFFICULT TO CRACK, FORM NO LONGER FOLLOWS FUNCTION, NEO-ERGONOMICS HAUNTED BY THE CHAOS OF FLESH, 2018, Installation (prosthetic sticks, leather, rubber band, LED, photography printed on PVC, acrylic), Ø120x135cm