Entr~Acte
Renata Fabbri is pleased to announce the collective exhibition Entr~Acte, conceived as a special project added to the gallery’s official program, which selects and gathers a series of pictorial and sculptural approaches of young figures in the Italian contemporary art scene. The title, which in English literally means “interval”, is a tribute to the short-film Entr’acte (1924) by the French director René Clair. It is among one of the most significant avant-garde cinema works of the 1920s and the manifesto par excellence of the Dadaism cinema.
Originally created to be projected as an interval between the two parts of the Swedish ballet Relâche by Francis Picabia – with music by Erik Satie and put on stage for the Théâtre des Champs Élysées of Paris by Jean Börlin’s Ballets Suédois dance company – Entr’acte is an absurd and extravagant ballet of grotesque characters and situations. The ever-changing images, together with the playful and experimental editing, aim at stimulating and encouraging the free association of ideas and aesthetic sensations. When faced with eight scenes with no logic continuity, the spectators find themselves projected into an open-eyed dream, into a real conceptual non-sense where the irrationality of the situations and the behavior of the characters themselves – who are overcome by a kind of acred and dissociating humor – re-enact the spirit of the Dada evenings, featuring improvisation and chance.
Starting from this cinematographic avant-garde example, the collective show Entr~Acte brings together and creates a dialogue between eleven artistic practices, which not being connected by any particular narrative or formal intentions, stimulate an expressive vitality that allows each of them to associate, dissociate, get together, come apart and come back together again freely. The opportunity for dialogue which arises within such an extensive and multifaceted scenario, enriched by experiences and subjective views, highlights how variable the perception of one same concept or moment could be. Just like the irrational sequences of the short-film Entr’acte, the individuals become spokespeople of their own identity and their own inventory of thoughts, able to revolutionize the logic of everyday life, questioning the perception of reality and providing new perspectives.
Set up in the exhibition spaces of the Renata Fabbri gallery, it is therefore a choreography, unconscious and distorted, in which each work conveys the spectators into an ever differing dimension and inviting them to feed of new images and stories. The gathering of the works – which have mainly been conceived specially for this exhibition and in dialogue with the spaces – confirms the gallery’s desire to support the many languages of contemporary art, opening up to the interchange with young artists and presenting itself as a place for experimentation and observation of the contemporary needs.
Renata Fabbri is pleased to announce the collective exhibition Entr~Acte, conceived as a special project added to the gallery’s official program, which selects and gathers a series of pictorial and sculptural approaches of young figures in the Italian contemporary art scene. The title, which in English literally means “interval”, is a tribute to the short-film Entr’acte (1924) by the French director René Clair. It is among one of the most significant avant-garde cinema works of the 1920s and the manifesto par excellence of the Dadaism cinema.
Originally created to be projected as an interval between the two parts of the Swedish ballet Relâche by Francis Picabia – with music by Erik Satie and put on stage for the Théâtre des Champs Élysées of Paris by Jean Börlin’s Ballets Suédois dance company – Entr’acte is an absurd and extravagant ballet of grotesque characters and situations. The ever-changing images, together with the playful and experimental editing, aim at stimulating and encouraging the free association of ideas and aesthetic sensations. When faced with eight scenes with no logic continuity, the spectators find themselves projected into an open-eyed dream, into a real conceptual non-sense where the irrationality of the situations and the behavior of the characters themselves – who are overcome by a kind of acred and dissociating humor – re-enact the spirit of the Dada evenings, featuring improvisation and chance.
Starting from this cinematographic avant-garde example, the collective show Entr~Acte brings together and creates a dialogue between eleven artistic practices, which not being connected by any particular narrative or formal intentions, stimulate an expressive vitality that allows each of them to associate, dissociate, get together, come apart and come back together again freely. The opportunity for dialogue which arises within such an extensive and multifaceted scenario, enriched by experiences and subjective views, highlights how variable the perception of one same concept or moment could be. Just like the irrational sequences of the short-film Entr’acte, the individuals become spokespeople of their own identity and their own inventory of thoughts, able to revolutionize the logic of everyday life, questioning the perception of reality and providing new perspectives.
Set up in the exhibition spaces of the Renata Fabbri gallery, it is therefore a choreography, unconscious and distorted, in which each work conveys the spectators into an ever differing dimension and inviting them to feed of new images and stories. The gathering of the works – which have mainly been conceived specially for this exhibition and in dialogue with the spaces – confirms the gallery’s desire to support the many languages of contemporary art, opening up to the interchange with young artists and presenting itself as a place for experimentation and observation of the contemporary needs.
- Adelisa Selimbašić, Le Bagnanti, 2021Oil on canvas, 273x304 cm
- Ambra Castagnetti, BALALAIKA, 2021Ceramic, metallic glaze, 20x20x100 cm
- Giacomo Montanelli, Il mondo è sempre lo stesso, 2020Acrylic on canvas, 35x20 cm
- Andrea Martinucci, Turbomondi (tentativo di presa), 2020Acrylic, graphite and powder on projection canvas, 42,5x30,5 cm
- Francesco Maluta, Non chi comincia ma quel che persevera, 2021Oil on canvas, 200x180 cm
- Jimmy Milani, For us to be one, 2021Dyptich, acrylic on canvas, 23x30 cm (each)
- Francesco Pacelli, I wonder who you were when you weren’t there, 2019Epoxy resine, polyurethane resin, cellulose, ceramic, acrylics, spray, flexible LED light, 88x65x53 cm
- Ottavia Plazza, Ferguson nel quadro, 2021Oil on canvas, 180x130 cm
- Ottavia Plazza, Origame, 2020Oil on pastel on paper, 40x50 cm
- Federico Cantale, Secondo tentativo di immersione o la piscina, 2021Lacquered wood, mdf, 40x100x115 cm, detail
- Federico Cantale, Secondo tentativo di immersione o la piscina, 2021Lacquered wood, mdf, 40x100x115 cm, detail
- Andrea Martinucci, Turbomondi (balletto su Sonata n. 6 Vivace), 2020Acrylic, graphite and powder on projection canvas, 161,5x83,5 cm
- Ludovica Anversa, Kiki’s kiss (I) e (II), 2021Oil on linen, 30x35 cm
- Giacomo Montanelli, Ennesima occasione sprecata, 2021Acrylic on canvas, 35x20 cm
- Ludovico Orombelli, Piumino, 2021Detached tempera on pattina linen cloth, 150x200 cm

- Andrea Martinucci


- Bea Bonafini,
- Andrea Martinucci,
- Serena Vestrucci
Oct 14 – 16, 2022
Main Section
Pav. 12 – Booth H7

- T-Yong Chung,
- Andrea Martinucci,
- Florian Roithmayr
Oct 11-13, 2019
Pav. 12 – Booth SC7

- Rebecca Ackroyd,
- Sophie Ko,
- Andrea Martinucci
Oct 13-15, 2018
Pav. 12 – Booth SC7

Renata Fabbri is delighted to announce that the artist has been chosen to create a project for the Croatian pavilion at the Sixtieth Venice Biennale, to take place April 20 to November 24, 2024.