Nicolas Pallavcini | Emiliano Coletta

The exhibition DISTANT INVENTIONS invites viewers to engage in moments of remembrance. As Walter Benjamin postulated, the real has retreated into spaces that are difficult to find. Nicolas Pallavicini and Emiliano Coletta show in the dialog between their painting and sculpture what forms things can take in the distancing retrospection of memory.
The major theme of Nicolas Pallavicini, born in Buenos Aires in 1976, is the landscape, which he stages as a synonym for the disorientation of the viewer, which is particularly virulent in these times. In his canvases, he breaks down brochures into fragments, fragments horizons, abstracts and collages, ultimately arriving at an impressively homogeneous overall composition of details that alternately lead into deep space or shimmer on the surface.
The medium of Emiliano Coletta, born in Rome in 1974, is sculpture, which for him is a carrier of individual emotional experiences as well as poetic, philosophical and time-critical concepts. In Munich, we are showing a wonderful conceptual range of his ceramic sculptures, which are created with great physical effort and sometimes aggressive gestures. The starting point for his series of ‘Bagatelles’ were unfinished works by his students, which he reworked to give them a new, completed identity.

Nicolas Pallavicini, Eclipse (Tryptichon), 2021, Acryl u. Spray auf Leinwand, 30 x 30 cm