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ALEXANDRA BARTH

The door hinge

a cura di Massimiliano Scuderi

Sabato 11 Giugno 2022 ore 18.00

Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 10, 4° piano

65121 – Pescara (Italia), Palazzo UZA

Alexandra Barth's second solo show is held in Pescara. The exhibition, curated by Massimiliano Scuderi, represents the latest pictorial research of the Slovak painter who finds origin and inspiration in American Precisionism, a movement that saw, between the two great wars, artists such as Charles Scheeler and Giorgia O'Keeffe which articulate a language by merging cubism with realism.

Alexandra Barth (1989, Malacky, Slovakia) is interested in the peculiar aspects of human activity, in the systematic arrangement of space, in the intimate aspects of the architecture of utility objects. The use of airbrushing allows her to work with the imprint of “photographic reality”.

By merging minimalism with a postmodern taste for fragmentation and the infra-ordinary, she open the critical horizon of painting over painting. Giulio Carlo Argan in 1976 speaking of "painting-painting" stated that it is not a language, that is, a meaning beyond itself. Painting can only move within its own limits, painting cannot be judged except from within the painting, that is, that the critical operation is coextensive and contemporary with the pictorial operation.

The numerous paintings in the exhibition at A SUD gallery represent the essay of a careful pictorial practice that recalls illustrious predecessors such as Domenico Gnoli who worked by focusing attention on the details determined a new way of looking at everyday life, in the many aspects of a monumental ordinariness or the construction of Magritte's enigmatic images.

 The exhibition, promoted by Fondazione Zimei and supported by the Slovak Arts Council, will be open from Saturday 11 June 2022 at 6.00 pm at the A SUD gallery, in compliance with anti-Covid 19 measures.

Alexandra Barth (1989, Malacky, Slovakia) Born in 1989, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava (2013-2016). Lives and works in Sanguinetto.

Education:

2007 – 2013 Academy of fine arts and design Bratislava, dpt. of painting (M.A.) 

Solo exhibitions / selection: 

2022 Mechanical bath, Stone projects, Prague; 

2021 Od istého bodu, Phoinix, Bratislava;

2021 Scenography, Chris Sharp, Los Angeles;

2021 Meno domu, Photoport, Bratislava;

2020 Configurations of the banal (in a dramatic lighting), Phoinix, Bratislava; 2020

          The Elevator, Fondazione Zimei c/o Urban gallery, Pescara; 

2019 Evidence of Absence, Hotdock project space, Bratislava;

2018 Memorabilia, Žumpa, Bratislava; 2018 Stav vecí, Sumec, Bratislava; 

2017 Pôvodný stav, Temporary Parapet, Bratislava; 

2017 Poriadok vecí, Kunstverein Bratislava; 2015 Pokoj, PRFR studios, Bratislava; 

Group exhibitions / selection:

2022 The bright side of the moon, Annarumma, Napoli;

2021 The dreams in which I’m _ are the best I’ve ever had, Mauve, Vienna;

2020 Like a picture, Photoport, Bratislava;

2019 The Elevator, Temporary Parapet, Bratislava;

2017 MDŽ, White&Weiss, Bratislava;

2016 Kunstverein Selection 2016, PRFR Studios, Bratislava;

          2016 Jej svet, OGV Jihlava, CZ;

2014 Diversity required, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava;

2013 Master’s diploma work, House of Arts, Bratislava;