Surface Tensions
14 November – 22 December
Opening Tuesday 14 November: 6-9 pm
15 November – 22 December: by appointment

In a culture marked by the virtual and the rapid succession of new media, what place do we give to the surface, the very expression of physical substance? This is the question posed by Giuliana Bruno, author of ‘Surfaces. Regarding aesthetics, materiality, and media’.

Surface Tensions, the new exhibition at ESH Gallery, seeks to provide a personal answer through a selection of works that, with different techniques, explores the artistic possibilities of rendering surfaces. The surface is the outermost layer of matter, the one we can see and touch, the one that first almost unconsciously communicates to the observer, transmitting a multitude of sensations and expressive messages, from the most tactile and material to the most conceptual. Hence the idea of tension in the title, the same tension that develops between the artwork and the observer, in that dynamic, never banal interplay between contemplation and the invitation to touch.

Artists present: Ichiyo Sawada, Leonardo Bartolini, Simone Negri, Marta Palmieri, Clara Holt (ceramics); Kyou Hong Lee, Ōki Izumi (glass); Shingo Muramoto (lacquer); Giovanna Strada, Manuel Bonfanti (painting); Aki Rusu (metal).