Exhibition at Istituto Svizzero Milano

May 15 – June 13

The first exhibition in the series “Inflected Objects” titled “Abstraction” analyzes the relation between the increasingly abstracted technological and economical flows that structure our lives and the material objects produced. It investigates how abstracted, computational and economical processes leak in, mingle, underlie and structure our physical materiality.

With: Philippe Decrauzat, Harm van den Dorpel, Katharina Fengler, Femke Herregraven, Lars Holdhus, Pierre Lumineau

Curated by: Valerio Mannucci and Melanie Bühler 

Istituto Svizzero Milano, Via Vecchio Politecnico 3 - 20121 Milano

www.inflected-objects.com

Full website including an online commission by Jenna Sutela will be launched on June 8

Artists:

Philippe Decrauzat (1974) lives in Lausanne where he teaches at ECAL and in 1999 founded the CIRCUIT Centre for Contemporary Art. He works with paintings, films, installations, drawings and sculptures, which often comprise geometrical compositions and combine multidisciplinary influences. He has exhibited widely: in 2014 he presented NOTES, TONES, STONES at Le Magasin in Grenoble, in 2008 he had solo projects at the Bonner Kunstverein and at Secession, Vienna, in 2006 he showed Plate 28 at the Swiss Institute in New York.

Harm van den Dorpel (1981) is an artist whose work presents self-programmed intuitive and associative information systems that reflect on the algorithmic and market-driven organization of popular social media platforms. He has exhibited at Abrons Art Center and American Medium, New York City, and in group exhibitions including Art Post-Internet, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, Image Employment, MoMA PS1, and Free at the New Museum, NYC. 

Katharina Fengler (1980) studied Photography at Zurich University of the Arts. Her work deals with different aspects of psychology, perception and abstraction. Recent exhibitions include SUPERFOOD at Acapella, Naples, Friday at Autocenter, Berlin, One Bite NO SPACE @ OTHER Projects, Berlin, Space is the Place 2014, Basel. 

Femke Herregraven (1982) is an artist whose research traverses global finance, information and geopolitics. In her work she investigates which new material base, geographies and value systems are carved out by contemporary financial technologies and infrastructures. Her work has been presented at the Dark Ecology project, Serpentine Extinction Marathon and exhibited at T293 (Naples), Bureau Europa (Maastricht) and V&A (London).

Lars Holdhus (1986) graduated from Städelschule, Frankfurt and Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. Central to his practice is how we can navigate new and increasingly complex technology-based scenarios. In his works he has been addressing tendencies in machine learning, AI and human interaction. Recent exhibitions include: Refraction. The image of sense at Blain Southern, London, Shattered Preface, OSL Contemporary, Oslo and LIQUIDATE at Sandy Brown, Berlin. 

Pierre Lumineau (1986) is a Swiss artist based in Zurich whose work focuses on writing and illustration, reflecting on themes like anonymity, artificiality and automatization as effects of software applications and digital platforms. He graduated from the Zurich University of the Arts in 2010 and his illustrations have appeared in the Post Internet Survival Guide 2010 (Revolver Publishing) by Katja Novitskova, on State, an online exhibition platform curated by Adam Cruces among others. Recent group shows include Brands - Concept/Affect/Modularity at S.A.L.T.S. in Birsfelden.