25 SEPTEMBER 2021 - 27 FEBRUARY 2022

THURSDAY-SUNDAY   14.00-18.00

Eugenio Tibaldi

Architetture dell'isolamento

curated by Angel Moya Garcia

SATURDAY 26 AND SUNDAY 27 FEBRUARY, 2.00 PM – 6.00 PM

Presentation of the docufilm by Lorenzo Morandi about the exhibition “Architetture dell’isolamento” (“Architecture of Isolation”) by Eugenio Tibaldi

For the last weekend of the Eugenio Tibaldi exhibition, the Associazione Culturale Dello Scompiglio, will screen the docufilm “Architetture dell'isolamento” by Lorenzo Morandi, written jointly with the artist, which documents the artist’s process of conceptual and physical design and construction in composing the project. The video can be viewed in the theatre, on a loop during the opening hours of the SPE – the Dello Scompiglio Performance and Exhibition Space.

SATURDAY 26 FEBRUARY, 6.00 PM 

Talk between Eugenio Tibaldi and Angel Moya Garcia  

Artist and curator retrace the stages of the development and production of the project created specifically for the Dello Scompiglio exhibition spaces. An in-depth study of the references and themes that are the basis for the exhibition, as well as the artist’s research.

The Associazione Culturale Dello Scompiglio presents “Architetture dell’isolamento” (Architecture of Isolation), the solo exhibition by Eugenio Tibaldi, curated by Angel Moya Garcia, which opened on Saturday 25 September 2021 in the internal and external spaces of the Tenuta Dello Scompiglio in Vorno (Lucca, Italy). A complex and articulate project that draws an analysis of fringes, power, crossings and the concept of normality itself.

What is triggered in people’s minds when they take a road that leads inevitably towards a kind of cognitive isolation from the rest of society, an ‘other’ space in which it becomes impossible to define a real will of the individual in creating this same condition? An event that can be assimilated into a landslide, destined to continue until reassembled. In this new order, the inner space begins to coincide with and adhere to the exterior, with no more distinctions or boundaries.

During the first lockdown in March 2020, Eugenio Tibaldi visits an elegant apartment in the centre of Turin, abandoned for a decade. His interest in working on mutations, margins and peripheries, in both social and cultural, and above all in mental, ideological and psychological spheres, leads him to question and investigate the accumulation of objects, of every type and origin, that are found, completely covered in dust, inside the house. A huge amount of materials collected obsessively by the person who has spent the last ten years of his life confined to that space, refusing all contact with the outside.

In the project “Architetture dell’isolamento” the human condition of this persona is not called to witness; it is of little importance who he/she was and how he/she was physically. Instead, there emerges the posthumous construction of the conceptual palimpsest of a choice, a possible way that exists within each of us, in which any concept of external space is cancelled, allowing oneself to drift towards total social disappearance. An external dimension that, in this sense, vanishes in an absolute and objective acceptation. This space becomes only a simplified reference of the porous nature that forms us, that aggregates light and shadow according to our desire for gaze and emotional charge. A project in which collecting and deprivation go hand in hand and in which isolation, madness and the need to deprive oneself of any social life are formalised.

Eugenio Tibaldi

Eugenio Tibaldi (1977) – An artist who has always been attracted by marginal dynamics and aesthetics, by the complex relationship between economy and contemporary landscape. Born in Alba, in 2000 he moved to the Neapolitan hinterland where he began a work that investigates one of the most plastic and dynamic areas of Italy and draws a kind of map of informality; the fringe, in the sense of a condition often more mental than geographic, which represents the only true way able to generate alternative possibilities, other levels of reading, that represent the majority of the human population. He has worked in Istanbul, Cairo, Rome, Thessaloniki, Berlin, Verona, Havana, Bucharest, Turin, Caracas, Brussels, Tirana, Addis Ababa.

Information

The exhibition contains images that could offend. Sports footwear is recommended.
The exhibition spaces can be accessed in compliance with the latest safety provisions in terms of social distancing.
Please be advised that from 10 January 2022 pursuant to Legislative Decree no. 221/2021, in order to access exhibition spaces and participate in any cultural activity in general, it is necessary to show a certificate obtained after vaccination or recovery from COVID-19 (“green pass rafforzato”), as per Legislative Decree no. 172/2021. Moreover, it is necessary to have an FFP2 masque.