Primo Marella Gallery presents the group show “Images du Futur”. The show focuses on the work of four young artists who, in different ways, are breaking out of the narrow confines of the art world and getting interested in other areas of knowledge, criticizing the traditional separation between humanistic and techno-scientific culture: appropriating ideas, concepts and tools developed by scientists and researchers; working with scientists, engineers, hackers and programmers, doing residencies in research centres and universities, and increasingly rediscovering the pleasure of “getting their hands dirty”, developing forms of technical know-how that can be very specific, requiring a high level of awareness and skill.

Alessandro Brighetti, Donato Piccolo, Francesco Fonassi and Latvian artist Voldemārs Johansons offer – with the installations, videos and drawings presented in this exhibition – a small yet effective sample of a tendency that is making headway in the field of contemporary art, questioning it as a separate field and working for a better integration of art with other areas of culture. As Domenico Quaranta writes in the catalogue: “The works on show are “images of the future” not because they merely relate to an arena – that of science and technology – traditionally viewed as a driver of progress and innovation, but because they anticipate the lines along which art will develop as soon as it makes up its mind to leave the injurious realm of the short but enduring twentieth century behind.”

-Primo Marella Gallery

Image: © Donato Piccolo