ARCHIVE - EXHIBITIONS
MARGHERITA MORGANTIN
25 April - 23 May 2009
In collaboration with Galleria Continua, San Gimignano - Beijing – Le Moulin
Margherita Morgantin Born in Venice, and now
living and working in Milan, Morgantin uses a range of media in
her work: from performance and video (for which she is internationally
known) to drawing, photography and installation.
Her artistic research originates from the observation and description
of concrete things or situations in order to open them up to an
ulterior state. Observing and imagining become two moments in
her work which co-exist fluidly and without interruption: as in
her videos, drawing may be overlaid on the film, underlining the
metaphorical value, or it may be in a reciprocal state of dissolving
and transforming.
Contact and co-existing, observing and imagining, but with her
eyes open. It is this interval which animates Morgantin’s
work. The strongly individual aspect of her work in actual fact
holds an invitation to activate our own imaginative ability, so
that from a situation which seems to have no way out, from a condition
of possible shipwreck, that which will allow us to re-emerge comes
out.
One of her most recent works, shown for the first time at the
Galleria Contemporaneo, seems to perfectly encapsulate this. It
is based on the use of a common object, but one which is indispensable
in case of being shipwrecked: a life belt. But this is not the
only element taken from the ensemble of common things. Also the
reflective material, normally used for safety purposes, is transformed
into a new icon, without losing any of its concrete nature (as
happens in the large image of the work “Catarifrangente”).
In the same way that the thermographic surveys used for observing
the effects of the wind on the earth’s surface) can be read
as a reference to phenomena of turbulence. It is difficult not
to see how research such as that undertaken by Margherita Morgantin
becomes a broad reflection upon the times we live in.
Margherita Morgantin was born in Venice in 1971; graduated in Architecture at I.U.A.V. (dept. of Phisycal Science), she lives and works in Milan, Venice, Palermo. She took part in exhibitions (solo and collective) in Italy and abroad.
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