- Sophie Ko
ArteFiera Bologna
February 24 – 26, 2020
Main Section
Pav. 15 – Booth C36
On the occasion of Arte Fiera 2020, Renata Fabbri proposes a solo show of the Georgian artist Sophie Ko. The project includes unpublished works from the artist’s famous series Geografie Temporali. As the title suggests, these artworks are the exemplification of something eternally suspended between creation and disruption. The image generates and regenerates itself through the slow but inevitable collapse of the matter.
Created through a conceptual and formal negotiation between sculpture and painting, the artworks of Sophie Ko are made as a poignant metaphor of the impermanence and volatility of the subject. Solid blocks of pigment rise majestically to create a series of compositions that are inanimate in their abstraction but alive in their unstoppable becoming. These works recall the echo of a landscape, the image of a landslide with its own temporality.
Sophie Ko, Geografia temporale, 2019Pure pigment, 150×70 cm
Sophie Ko, Geografia temporale, 2019Pure pigment, 90×50 cm
Sophie Ko, Le rosee palpebre, 2019Pure pigment, 100x70 cm
Sophie Ko, Polittico del cielo e della terra, 2018Pure pigment, 300 x 415 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
Sophie Ko, Geografia temporale. Stella polare, 2019Ashes of burnt images, 45×35 cm
Sophie Ko, Una goccia, 2017Pure pigment, 25x35 cm
Sophie Ko, Geografia temporale. Per ekpyrosis I, 2019Pure pigment, 23×18 cm
Sophie Ko, sophiekobologna
Sophie Ko (Tbilisi, 1981) lives and works in Milan. At the heart of her artistic practice lies the concept of time, which is explored in its intense symbolic interaction with the materials she employs – mostly ashes of burnt images and pure pigments – and the images created. The change and instability of materials in relation to the flow of time are some of the constants of her artistic research. The Temporal Geographies, for example, provide an exemplification of a series of works eternally suspended between the act of creation and that of destruction, where the image is constantly subjected to a continuous process of modification through the slow and relentless collapse of the material of which it is made. Conceived through a conceptual and formal negotiation between sculpture and painting, these works stage “a bond made of weight, pressure, gravity, and the destruction of time on images, but also of formation, depth, return, and rebirth with respect to the passage of time.” Meaningful metaphors of the caducity and mutability of existence, her works recall the trajectory of life that we trace, parallel to a slow but persistent collapsing movement.
Recent solo shows include: Renata Fabbri, Milan (2015, 2018 and 2023); Contemporary Locus, Bergamo (2023); Postmasters Rome, with Marta Kucsora (2023); Museo Marino Marini, Florence (2022); EAST Galerie, Strasbourg (2022); Galleria de’ Foscherari, Bologna (2016 and 2021–22); BUILDINGBOX, Milan (2021); BUILDING Gallery, Milan (2020); Ca’Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice (2019); The OpenBox, Milan (2018). She has participated in group exhibitions at Palazzo Ducale di Gubbio (2022); Fondazione Malvina Menegaz, Castelbasso (2021); Albergo delle Povere, Palermo (promoted by RISO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Sicily, Palermo) (2021); Palazzo Barbò Torre Pallavicina, Bologna (2021); MAC – Contemporary Art Museum, Lissone (2021); and Renata Fabbri, Milan (2020), among others. In 2016, Sophie Ko won the Lissone Prize for Painting organized by MAC – Contemporary Art Museum, Lissone.
Sophie Ko (Tbilisi, 1981) lives and works in Milan. At the heart of her artistic practice lies the concept of time, which is explored in its intense symbolic interaction with the materials she employs – mostly ashes of burnt images and pure pigments – and the images created. The change and instability of materials in relation to the flow of time are some of the constants of her artistic research. The Temporal Geographies, for example, provide an exemplification of a series of works eternally suspended between the act of creation and that of destruction, where the image is constantly subjected to a continuous process of modification through the slow and relentless collapse of the material of which it is made. Conceived through a conceptual and formal negotiation between sculpture and painting, these works stage “a bond made of weight, pressure, gravity, and the destruction of time on images, but also of formation, depth, return, and rebirth with respect to the passage of time.” Meaningful metaphors of the caducity and mutability of existence, her works recall the trajectory of life that we trace, parallel to a slow but persistent collapsing movement.
Recent solo shows include: Renata Fabbri, Milan (2015, 2018 and 2023); Contemporary Locus, Bergamo (2023); Postmasters Rome, with Marta Kucsora (2023); Museo Marino Marini, Florence (2022); EAST Galerie, Strasbourg (2022); Galleria de’ Foscherari, Bologna (2016 and 2021–22); BUILDINGBOX, Milan (2021); BUILDING Gallery, Milan (2020); Ca’Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice (2019); The OpenBox, Milan (2018). She has participated in group exhibitions at Palazzo Ducale di Gubbio (2022); Fondazione Malvina Menegaz, Castelbasso (2021); Albergo delle Povere, Palermo (promoted by RISO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Sicily, Palermo) (2021); Palazzo Barbò Torre Pallavicina, Bologna (2021); MAC – Contemporary Art Museum, Lissone (2021); and Renata Fabbri, Milan (2020), among others. In 2016, Sophie Ko won the Lissone Prize for Painting organized by MAC – Contemporary Art Museum, Lissone.
- Sophie Ko,
- Serena Vestrucci,
- Lulù Nuti
February 3-5, 2023
Main Section
Pav. 25 – Booth B27
- Sophie Ko
Villa Pacchiani, Santa Croce sull’Arno (PI)
December 2-17, 2023
Opening December 2, 2023 from 5pm
Curated by Ilaria Mariotti
- Sophie Ko
CIRCOLO
Via della Spiga 48, Milano
October 23 – December 1, 2023
Opening October 23, 6-9 pm
Curated by Sergio Risaliti
- Sophie Ko
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova
October 22, 2023 – January 8, 2024
Curated by Isabella Puliafito
