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HOW THINGS HOLD - Opening July 13, 6-9 pm Ana Benavides, Effie Wanyi Li, Si On, Dan Rees, Jana Schröder July 13 - September 8, 2023 Via Ripense 6, 00153, Rome T293 is thrilled to present How Things Hold, a group exhibition delving into the depths of the human psyche. Featuring works by Ana Benavides, Effie Wanyi Li, Si On, Dan Rees and Jana Schröder, this curated selection aims to explore the intricacies of proximity and balance as fundamental aspects of life and existence. Each artwork coexists and explores potential affinities, simultaneously embodying its own distinctive, unrepeatable, and vibrant inner life energy while becoming a prosthetic extension of the artist's psyche. Coherence and coexistence intertwine, akin to a subtle exchange of glances, through the juxtaposition of colors, geographies, and time.

#dylanroserheingold in her studio in NYC. Her artistic practice is centered around identity, exploring girlhood, memory, and nostalgia within contemporary American culture. Her paintings, which blend abstract figuration and surrealism, serve as a platform for self-reflection and storytelling, delving into the mundane moments of our private lives while reflecting on intimacy and otherness through a feminine lens. Building universal characters is a challenge in and of itself growing up in an American culture which champions sculpted, statuesque-like perfection, especially in white suburbia. The idea of the teenager itself becomes a starting point into the question of what constitutes a whole person, as the adolescent is ultimately neither child nor adult and represents this transitional space. Since perfection is literally the state of completeness, Rheingold is interested in the borderline unfinished, formally and narratively. @dylanrose_rheingold ‘s exhibition is on view at our gallery until June 1st, from Tuesday to Friday, 12-7 pm, Saturday 3-7 pm.

#DemetriusWilson Two final days left to see ‘It’s Not Love, But It’s Glam’ on view through May 5 at T293, Demetrius Wilson’s first major solo show. "My mother is from Haiti, my father is from Alabama so I have Caribbean and southern roots which are respectively rich with their own cultures and histories. Outside of my personal bubble, I find it difficult to put a definite label on what my cultural references are and I think this has changed significantly since coming to New York. I most certainly have common themes and topics that I discuss in my work but I aim to stay open and privy in most areas of art and pop culture as well things that happen in real time every day. I am more concerned with enabling myself to have endless vantage points for me to access to heighten accessible entry points for those to enter my work." Read more from our interview with Wilson by checking out our ‘Current’ highlights or visiting the artist’s page on our site. @_demetriuswilson #DemetriusWilson #T293 #T293gallery

#CarolineMesquita The Ballad is one of three stop motion videos currently on view at Villa Medici, as part of the Academy’s public program ‘Art Club’ curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto. The stop motion videos are on display as a site-specific installment, which can be accessed through the exhibition space containing also eight “masks” in patinated brass. The video works turn Mesquita's sculptural practice into a theatrical space for her metallurgic creations to interact and exchange positions with her. As Mesquita begins to appear almost lifeless and mannequin-like, inhabiting multiple characters throughout, the sculptures slowly takeover her role as author. The Ballad, 2017 Digital video Video 29min #carolinemesquita #t293gallery #t293 #villamedici

#SaveTheDate | On February 3rd, at 18:00, Martín Soto Climént’s latest monograph will be presented at our gallery space in Rome by the artist himself, alongside the editor of the publication, Giorgia von Albertini! The monograph, edited by Giorgia von Albertini and published by Mousse Publishing constitutes the first major assessment of Martín Soto Climént’s fascinatingly rich and intriguingly complex practice. Spanning twenty years of prolific production, it chronicles his exhibition history and documents his most important works. Because of the conceptual coherence of Soto Climent’s exhibition history — the artist conceives of each project as part of a larger narrative, which he continues to write — it was natural for his exhibition history to become the fil rouge of the catalogue. The book includes contributions by von Albertini, Susan L. Aberth, Veit Loers and Chris Sharp. Signed copies of the book will be available during the event. Not to miss! — @giorgiavalbertini @moussemagazine #BookPresentation #GiorgiaVonAlbertini #ArtPublishing #ArtBooks #ArtCatalogue #MoussePublishing #MousseBooks #contemporaryArt #ContemporaryArtist #MexicanArtist #T293 #t293gallery

#CarolineMesquita l Caroline Mesquita’s first solo museum exhibition in the USA ‘Noctambules’ is currently on view at the Blaffer Museum, Houston. A jubilant disquiet presides over her multi-disciplinary work which navigates the increasing intimacy between man and machine as our forms, materials, and desires frolic. Mesquita’s combinatory practice marries the physicality of altered, oxidized, and painted metal and paper with experimental filmmaking and theatrical reverie. Her ensuing voyages into metallurgy and mythology result in life-size figures interacting with one another in carnivalesque vignettes that slide between Hellenistic sculpture and surreal celebration. The video installation ‘Noctambules’ immerses the viewer in a dreamy cinematic encounter between the artist in slumber and her congregating sculptures. French for “night creatures,” this baroque fantasia imagines the actions and desires of artworks if they had the opportunity to reverse the course of art making and re/sculpt their maker. Caroline Mesquita Video extract ‘Noctambules’, 2021 Blaffer art Museum, Houston Courtesy of the Artist and Carlier Gebauer, Berlin — @caroline._.mesquita @blafferartmuseum #BlafferArtMuseum #Blaffer #UniversityofHouston #ContemporaryArt #frenchartist #ContemporaryArtist #ContemporarySculpture #t293 #t293gallery

Save the date! Opening next Saturday, January 22 two solo exhibitions by New-York based artists: “Riddle-Obsolescence” by the artist duo 502 Bad Gateway and “Operating from an Insanely Crowded Room” by Chase Palmer. 502 Bad Gateway’s multimedia project investigates the role of remembrance in the contemporary society and presents a series of 3D-printed sculptures, site-specific installations inspired by the 1990s video-games visual culture, reels projections and interactive hybrid oil-paintings. Chase Palmer presents a new series of oil paintings, in which he depicts a hyperactive work environment of figures competing in an ambiguous institution. With influences ranging from the 20th Century New Objectivity movement to Neo-Futurist architecture, Palmer defies the viewer’s mind by creating a manipulated, chaotic environments, often using dichotomies, such as function versus dysfunction, conforming versus disputing, human versus object, or liberty versus constraint. If in Rome, do not miss the chance to check their works which will be exhibited for their first time in Europe at T293. — @502.bg @robruthco @bausaus @chasepalmer_andstuff #OpeningSoon #Comingsoon #ContemporaryArt #FigurativePainting #NewYorkbasedartist #artisticduo #multimediaart #sitespecificart #3dprintedart #contemporaryart #contemporarypractice #visualculture #90saesthetic #videogamesart #t293 #t293gallery

#TreyAbdella l From tomorrow, August 31th, the gallery will reopen to the public. In the meantime, we can’t help but remember “In The Neighborhood”, Trey Abdella’s outstanding solo exhibition at T293, happened last May. The show was conceived by the artist as a journey through his childhood and coming of age experiences. The works portrayed mundane situations that Abdella experienced while growing up in the suburbs of West Virginia, turning every ordinary scenario into an overwhelming experience. Looking forward to receiving you all for the exciting new projects we’ll be hosting at our space in the upcoming months. More infos to come very soon! Installation views “In The Neighborhood”, T293 Rome May – June, 2021 — @mysticfishstick #InTheNeighborhood #SoloExhibition #Soloshow #AmericanArt #ContemporaryArtist #reopening #ContemporyArt #t293 #t293gallery

#LorenzoVitturi l The word ‘Jugalbandi’ means "entwined twins” and is commonly referred to a performance in Indian classical music that features a duet of two solo musicians, playing on an equal footing while acting both as lead players. Lorenzo Vitturi’s solo exhibition took place last October at T293 and its title “Jugalbandi” was inspired by the creative process that guided the execution of the artworks, an interesting collaboration between the artist himself and the Indian artisans of the Jaipur Rugs Foundation. “The potential of Vitturi’s work stands precisely in his ability to tuning asynchronous rhythms into a performance with the weavers, as the etymology of the exhibition title – Jugalbandi – recalls. The works do not function then as singular objects; but rather as transitional sculptures, since they mediate between several individualities at once, bringing them together in the ritual of transformations”. — Giulia Colletti on Vitturi’s solo exhibition “Jugalbandi” @collettigiulia Indian Artisans, Jaipur Installation views “Jugalbandi”, T293 Rome, Oct – Nov, 2020 — @lorenzovitturi @jaipurrugs @jaipurrugsfoundation #JaipurRugs #JaipurRugsFoundation #Textiles #IndianCraftsmanship #IndianArtisan #ContemporaryPractice #T293 #t293gallery

#SaveTheDate l T293 is pleased to announce the participation of Patrizio di Massimo with “Caro Mondo” to PANORAMA | Procida, an island-wide exhibition on Procida (off the coast of Naples) from Thursday, 2 September to Sunday, 5 September 2021, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis. It is the first in a series of exhibitions, each with the title Panorama, organised by ITALICS to tell the story of some of the most fascinating places in Italy, in an offline continuation of the extraordinary journey begun in October 2020 on the pages of the website italics.art.   The exhibition brings together about fifty works of art spanning sculpture, painting, video, performance and installations from a wide range of historical and production contexts. Spreading the project throughout the island, Panorama presents not just Procida’s works of art but also its houses, churches, streets, terraces, piazzas and even residents. A project by @italics.art, curated by @debellisvincenzo — @patdimass #PatriziodiMassimo #ItalicsArt #Procida2022 #Campania #ItalicsPanorama #PanoramaProcida #VersoProcida2022 #ContemporaryArt #t293 #t293gallery

#SiOn l Remembering the impressive artworks exhibited on the occasion of Si On’s inaugural solo exhibition at the gallery “Burial and Sowing”. By exploring topics such as sociocultural identity, grief, anger and sexual politics, Si On translates her personal experience of trauma into a broad range of formal approaches, creating vigorous and highly expressive paintings and sculptures. The artist is mainly interested in exploring the human condition, especially its oppressing and traumatic characteristics. On her practice Giuseppe Armogida, Roman curator and philopher wrote: “Her art has a cathartic function: Si On leads the viewer back to the fundamental scenes of the Great Theater of the mundus imaginalis (whose cartography is masterfully traced in the painting I lived well), allowing him to look at the depth of things, acquire an overall vision of reality and transform into other forms of energy those dark emotions that could prove harmful to him.” @giuseppearmogida — Si On in her studio, Krakow, Poland Installation views “Burial and Sowing”, T293 Rome, Feb - May, 2021 — @si_on_si_on #SoloExhibition #VideoExhibition #MixedMedia #HyonGyon #ContemporaryArtist #ContemporaryPractice #ContemporaryArt #ContemporarySculpture #t293 #t293gallery

#HangamaAmiri l Looking back to Hangama Amiri’s “Bazaar, a Recollection of Home”, the Afghan-Canadian first exhibition in Europe which presented a body of work that combined the artist’s recurring thematics: feminism, geopolitics and gender. Deliberately choosing to figure forefront women-dominated spaces, for “Bazaar, a Recollection of Home”, Amiri embroidered a poetic of social-political narratives, extremely sensible to the current problematics. Hangama Amiri shared her perspective on the ongoing Afghan situation. To read her precious and heartfelt statement, check the following link: http://www.t293.it/on-afghanistan/ ”I am deeply concerned and raged to witness the current torque and horrific situation in my homeland Afghanistan. Once again history repeats itself the most abruptly, tragically and forcibly.” Hangama Amiri in her studio, New Haven Installation views “Bazaar, a Recollection of Home”, T293 Rome, Nov 2020 – Jan 2021

#AnnaPark l Starting with Anna Park’s solo show “On Tilt”, on the weeks to come we will look back into the gallery’s program, highlighting the exhibitions we are proud to have hosted in our space. “Park’s work is a portrait of a strange time, masked, but also chaotically beautiful. The surface level environments resemble an abyss, but could also be the most delightful place we’ve ever been. Look at every tone, every shade of black and grey, every space defined by light— grisaille— and be open to read in between the lines.” – Katy Diamond Hamer (@katyhamer) Anna Park in her studio, New York Installation views “On Tilt”, T293 Rome, Oct – Nov, 2020 — @annaparkart #OnTilt #SoloExhibition #CharchoalDrawings #ContemporaryArtist #ContemporaryArt #Charchoal #SoloShow #t293 #t293gallery

T293 will be closed from August 7th until August 30th. We wish you all an wonderful summer break. Looking forward to seeing you in September, for a new season filled with exciting projects. Happy Summer! #SummerBreak #t293 #t293gallery

#AustinMartinWhite l A closer look on Austin Martin White’s solo show, part of our Also On View project, currently on view at the gallery. The practice of Austin Martin White embodies questions of race, identity and post-colonialism, focusing on the Critical Theory of Race as a critique of Western Art History. Primarily interested in the documents and visual evidence that contributed to the creation of the concept of “ethnographic image”, the artist undertakes an extensive search for etchings and drawings in historical and anthropological archives. These documents are reworked through an artistic process aimed at understanding the intellectual and ideological construction of race, creating confluent forms that expose the multivalent nature of memory and representation. The exhibition will change looks from next week onwards. The works currently on view will be replaced by another selection of watercolors, completing the second part of the exhibition. Stay tuned! Photos by Daniele Molajoli @daniele.molajoli — @austin_martin_white #SoloExhibition #ethnographicart #ContemporaryArtist #Colonialism #criticalracetheory #postcolonialtheory #contemporaryart #americanartist #t293 #t293gallery

#DavidMaljković l Opening today ‘Daily Geometry’, the fourth round of our special project ‘Also on View’, presenting a new production by David Maljković.   Maljković’s has been problematizing the studio space, both on the personal level and in the general sense, since 2003/2004. The research led to several projects throughout the years, including his last solo exhibition at T293 All Day All Year, in 2016. ‘Daily Geometry’ is a continuation of this investigation, as the studio space stands as the central object of the new production. In this occasion, the focus is put on the everyday routine, and the ritual aspects behind it are emphasized through the motiv of vegetal elements of the artist’s studio environment. The drawings and paintings, fragments of Maljković’s studio, are destructed by the overlapping of repeated grids, which are, on their turn, colored according to the base of the artwork's color scheme. The process of destructuring the studio space into several frames creates a new reality of presentation, which goes along with Maljković’s intention: an attempt to organize the broken reality of the artist’s daily space. 
 Photos by Daniele Molajoli @daniele.molajoli — #DavidMaljković #CurrentlyonView #Grids #AlsoOnView #DailyGeometry #ConceptualArt #AbstractArt #ProjectRoom #ContemporaryArt #ContemporaryArtist #t293 #t293gallery

#LitoKattou l Lito Kattou participates on the group show ‘Body Snatchers (The House)’ currently on view at Polignano al Mare with her AI video ‘Closer’, 2020. On the 20th of April 2020, San a fabricated digital character, an ungendered AI hybridly conceived with human, divine, and animal traits created to embody an ecological subjectivity alien to human thoughts and inhabiting Kattou’s video projects since 2017, was programmed to get to the outskirts of its original ecosystem. On that evening at around 18:20 local time, the creature started following the Sun witnessed and recorded by the artist. The exhibition, curated by Like a Little Disaster and Pane Project, runs through June 30th at Foothold, Polignano al Mare. Video: Lito Kattou “Closer”, 2020 HD video and sounf 8' 38'' — @litokattou @like_a_little_disaster @paneproject #LikeAlittleDisaster #PaneProject #BodySnatchers #PolignanoalMare #AIvideo #HybridArt #PostHuman #DigitalArt #VideoArt #ContemporaryArt #ContemporaryArtist #t293 #t293gallery