Souvenir 3,4,5, 2004, woodcarvings, 27 x 15 cm.
Press Release
FULLY FUNCTIONAL
Michelle Naismith (Glasgow/Nantes) Chu Yun (Shenzhen) Simon Moretti (London) Marcos Davidson (Melbourne) and My International Family (various places)
OPENING FRIDAY 8 OCTOBER 2004 18:30-20:30
After the first exhibition ‘A level of trust. After Kurt Cobain’ which gathered works by artists from Los Angeles, Melbourne, Milan, New York, Naples and Nice, spazio More Fools in Town is happy to host it’s second edition ‘Fully Functional’.
As we live day-to-day what is natural and artificial, or logical and functional, is often not visible. In the supermarket in via Santa Giulia in Turin the rabbits in the freezer come from China, the prawns from Argentina, there is wine from Australia. Our cultures are socializing more and sometimes hide their identities to do so. We are eating-at-the-same-table. And yet our idea of what is natural is a prejudice because our ideas of nature are built-up representations made at some point in our history to provide logical responses about who we are and what we are doing here on earth.
Chu Yun, Marcos Davidson, Michelle Naismith and Simon Moretti present works that escape from logic and functionality, yet they are never dysfunctional. They offer the viewer a possibility to remain in a state of uncertainty about what the works are and what their function would be, opening a void in our catalogue of expectations and certainty. My International Family, a collaboration of Alessandro Ceresoli and Diego Perrone, gathers together images and documentation of works by the artists they like. The project, which is shared with others from time to time, draws a subjective map of contemporary sensibility for fully functional forms and practices.
More Fools in Town is a collaborative project of artists A Constructed World and curator Charlotte Laubard. More Fools in Town organize exhibitions and events in an apartment in the center of Turin in a responsive and impulsive way that seeks a wider audience. It is a lo-fi, lo-hi energy interface with big aims.
Open Friday 8 and Saturday 9 Oct from 16:00-19:30
closed the week-end of Frieze Art Fair
Friday 22 and Saturday 23 Oct from 16:00-19:30
and by appointment tel: 340 707 1837
exhibition ends 30 October
More Fools in Town
via Guastalla 19. 10124 Torino