Rosa Aiello at DREI – Art Viewer

Artist: Rosa Aiello

Exhibition title: The All Attractive

Venue: DREI, Cologne, Germany

Date: March 2 – April 22, 2023

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and DREI, Cologne

Note: Text by May Alkharafi is available here

The All Attractive, Rosa Aiello’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, features three wall based works as well as two single-channel videos and a sound installation. Parts of the exhibit premiered in the artist’s latest solo exhibiton Traffic at Kevin Space in Vienna (December 4, 2022 — January 28, 2023).

Rosa Aiello, (*1987, Canada) is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her works have been shown at various institutions and galleries. Recent solo and duo exhibitions took place at Kevin Space, Vienna (2022); Drei, Cologne; Arcadia Missa, London (both 2021); Lodos, Mexico City; Cell Project Space, London (with Patricia L. Boyd); and Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada (2018), a.o. Recent exhibition contributions include Fluentum Collection, Berlin; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (both 2022); Hessel Museum of Art, Hudson, United States; Stadtgalerie, Bern; Bel Ami, Los Angeles (all 2021); Salts, Basel (2019); Bureau des Réalités, Brussels (2018); Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan; ICA, London; Künstlerhaus,Stuttgart (both 2017) a.o. Her works are included in the collections of Frac Lorraine, Metz; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and The Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, a.o.

Rosa Aiello, The All Attractive, 2023, exhibition view, DREI, Cologne, photo by Rosa Aiello

Rosa Aiello, The All Attractive, 2023, exhibition view, DREI, Cologne, photo by Cedric Mussano

Rosa Aiello, Untitled (craving), 2023, 10 infrared motion activated speakers, multi-channel sound, Dimensions variable

Rosa Aiello, The All Attractive, 2023, exhibition view, DREI, Cologne, photo by Cedric Mussano

Rosa Aiello, Dear Sirs, 2022, Digital art print, aluminium frame, museum glass, 45 × 80 cm (17 3/4″ × 31 1/2″), 46 × 81,5 × 3 cm (18 1/8″ × 32 1/8″ × 1 1/8″) (framed)

Rosa Aiello, The All Attractive, 2023, exhibition view, DREI, Cologne, photo by Cedric Mussano

Rosa Aiello, Yours Faithfully, 2022, Single-channel HD video, color, multi-channel sound 00:17:56 (excerpt)

Rosa Aiello, The All Attractive, 2023, exhibition view, DREI, Cologne, photo by Cedric Mussano

Rosa Aiello, Memory of a gesture in a hospital cafeteria, 2023, Laser cut found HDF board, pen on paper, aluminium frame 45,5 × 36,5 cm (17 7/8″ × 14 3/8″), 47,2 × 38,2 × 3 cm (18 5/8″ × 15″ × 1 1/8″) (framed)