- Giovanni Kronenberg
Solo show
Renata Fabbri is glad to announce Giovanni Kronenberg’s second solo show at the gallery. The exhibition includes a series of new drawings and sculptures, most of which have been conceived specifically for this project.
Since the early stage of his career, Kronenberg’s work has been characterized by a tight relation between sculpture – interpreted through a deeply physical approach – and drawing, which anticipates, re-iterates and expands upon its peculiarities as well as its ergonomic, tactile and transcendental features. Throughout the years his drawing practice has become more and more important in the work of the artist: since his use of pure graphite, which used to define the works on paper until few years ago, recently Kronenberg has started to explore colour in compositions of sinuous forms, suspended and free from spatial connotation.
These mysterious figures and the sculptures share an ungraspable materiality, caught in a dimension that is abstracted from time and space. Hard to identify, some of them recall natural structures in progressive ramification – like crystals, gems, sea sponges or precious granites – all materials that Kronenberg has often used in his sculptures, drawn to their properties of self-germination and extension into space without following any narrative direction or chronological handholds.
In recent years, the artist has started using the 22-carat gold leaf, as a characteristic element of the drawing and the sculptures. This passage seems natural considering Kronenberg’s frequent use of precious materials such as silver, malachite, ivory, agate, rock crystal and porcelain. The gold leaf brings his drawings closer to the immobility of the Byzantine aesthetic and in particular to the icons, sharing with them the isolation and the centrality of the image, as well as iconographic timelessness and transcendental characteristics.
Renata Fabbri is glad to announce Giovanni Kronenberg’s second solo show at the gallery. The exhibition includes a series of new drawings and sculptures, most of which have been conceived specifically for this project.
Since the early stage of his career, Kronenberg’s work has been characterized by a tight relation between sculpture – interpreted through a deeply physical approach – and drawing, which anticipates, re-iterates and expands upon its peculiarities as well as its ergonomic, tactile and transcendental features. Throughout the years his drawing practice has become more and more important in the work of the artist: since his use of pure graphite, which used to define the works on paper until few years ago, recently Kronenberg has started to explore colour in compositions of sinuous forms, suspended and free from spatial connotation.
These mysterious figures and the sculptures share an ungraspable materiality, caught in a dimension that is abstracted from time and space. Hard to identify, some of them recall natural structures in progressive ramification – like crystals, gems, sea sponges or precious granites – all materials that Kronenberg has often used in his sculptures, drawn to their properties of self-germination and extension into space without following any narrative direction or chronological handholds.
In recent years, the artist has started using the 22-carat gold leaf, as a characteristic element of the drawing and the sculptures. This passage seems natural considering Kronenberg’s frequent use of precious materials such as silver, malachite, ivory, agate, rock crystal and porcelain. The gold leaf brings his drawings closer to the immobility of the Byzantine aesthetic and in particular to the icons, sharing with them the isolation and the centrality of the image, as well as iconographic timelessness and transcendental characteristics.
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2020Agate, 22k gold leaf, variable dimensions. Ph. Cosimo Filippini.
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Soluzione del cubo di Lemarchand, 2019Iron, 22K gold leaf, 18x21x19 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli.
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2020Vicenza stone, ash, Ø 43 cm. Ph. Cosimo Filippini.
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2020Colored pencils, 22k gold leaf on paper, 43x31 cm. Ph. Cosimo Filippini.
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2020Colored pencils and 22K golden leaf on paper, 31x24 cm. Ph. Cosimo Filippini.
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2019Colored pencils on paper, 43x21 cm. Ph. Cosimo Filippini.
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2019Colored pencils on paper (left) and colored pencils and 22K gold foil on paper, 37 x 27 cm (each), Ph. Cosimo Filippini.
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2020Blocks of agate, chestnut shell, 41x20,3x14 cm. Ph. Cosimo Filippini.
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2020Vinyl, Iranian turquoise, 32,5x31x19 cm. Ph. Cosimo Filippini.
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2020Colored pencils and pastel on paper, 31x23 cm. Ph. Cosimo Filippini.
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2020Colored pencils and pastel on paper, 31x23 cm. Ph. Cosimo Filippini.
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2020Colored pencils and pastel on paper, 31x23 cm. Ph. Cosimo Filippini.
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2019Colored pencils and 22K gold foil on paper, 32,5x24,5 cm. Ph. Cosimo Filippini.
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2019Colored pencils on paper, 44x31,5 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli.
- Giovanni Kronenberg, Untitled, 2019Colored pencils on paper, 44x31,5 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli.


- Giovanni Kronenberg

- Giovanni Kronenberg
Curated by Vincenzo de Bellis and Alessandro Rabottini

- Giovanni Kronenberg

- Sophie Ko,
- Giovanni Kronenberg
April 1-3, 2022
Established
Pav. 3 – Booth B07

- Giovanni Kronenberg,
- Margherita Moscardini,
- Serena Vestrucci
November 5 – 7, 2021
Main Section
Corridor Dark Blue 9