- Margherita Moscardini
Inhabiting without belonging
The Renata Fabbri gallery is pleased to announce its collaboration with the artist Margherita Moscardini through the exhibition Inhabiting Without Belonging: a new series of artworks conceived in dialogue with the gallery spaces.
The exhibition will feature sculptures and drawings, created imagining an unpossessable land like the High Seas. These areas of the planet are among the few not subjected to the sovereignty of any state and recognized as a precious resource for the entire humanity; they are a common good which, thanks to international agreements could be crossed and used for research aims and resource exploitation.
The artist identifies those areas as voids full of potential. These, on the one hand, remind us of the inappropriability of the planet, of which each species is a guest, and on the other hand, in line with her project The Fountains of Za’atari, which was developed in Jordan in one of the biggest Syrian refugee camp, they remind us of the necessity of a paradigm shift, able to serve this time. Maybe, starting from an idea of citizenship based on the condition of being in exile, instead of territorial belongings: beyond the division of the planet into nation states and towards universal citizenship.
Margherita Moscardini (Donoratico, 1981) investigates the relations among transformation processes of urban, social and natural order, belonging to specific geographies. Her practice favours long-term projects, which produce large scale interventions, drawings, scripts, sculptures and documentary videos. Among her works: Istanbul City Hills_On the Natural History of Dispersion and States of Aggregation (2013), dealing with the recent urban transformation of Istanbul; 1XUnknown (1942-2018, to Fortress Europe with Love), which presents parts of the 15,000 bunkers of the Atlantic Wall defensive line, built by the Third Reich along the European Atlantic coast to defend Fortress Europe. Since 2016 she has been researching refugee camps as cities where a new idea of citizenship can be experimented. Her work The Fountains of Za’atari developed from the Za’atari refugee camp, conceived in 2012 in Jordan on the Syrian border.
The Renata Fabbri gallery is pleased to announce its collaboration with the artist Margherita Moscardini through the exhibition Inhabiting Without Belonging: a new series of artworks conceived in dialogue with the gallery spaces.
The exhibition will feature sculptures and drawings, created imagining an unpossessable land like the High Seas. These areas of the planet are among the few not subjected to the sovereignty of any state and recognized as a precious resource for the entire humanity; they are a common good which, thanks to international agreements could be crossed and used for research aims and resource exploitation.
The artist identifies those areas as voids full of potential. These, on the one hand, remind us of the inappropriability of the planet, of which each species is a guest, and on the other hand, in line with her project The Fountains of Za’atari, which was developed in Jordan in one of the biggest Syrian refugee camp, they remind us of the necessity of a paradigm shift, able to serve this time. Maybe, starting from an idea of citizenship based on the condition of being in exile, instead of territorial belongings: beyond the division of the planet into nation states and towards universal citizenship.
Margherita Moscardini (Donoratico, 1981) investigates the relations among transformation processes of urban, social and natural order, belonging to specific geographies. Her practice favours long-term projects, which produce large scale interventions, drawings, scripts, sculptures and documentary videos. Among her works: Istanbul City Hills_On the Natural History of Dispersion and States of Aggregation (2013), dealing with the recent urban transformation of Istanbul; 1XUnknown (1942-2018, to Fortress Europe with Love), which presents parts of the 15,000 bunkers of the Atlantic Wall defensive line, built by the Third Reich along the European Atlantic coast to defend Fortress Europe. Since 2016 she has been researching refugee camps as cities where a new idea of citizenship can be experimented. Her work The Fountains of Za’atari developed from the Za’atari refugee camp, conceived in 2012 in Jordan on the Syrian border.
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Inhabiting without Belonging, 2020Bronze, 100x180 cm. Courtesy the artist and Renata Fabbri arte contemporanea. Photo: Andrea Rossetti.
Margherita Moscardini, The High Seas of the Planet Earth. Arctic Region, 2020Pigment on paper, steel, 144×48 cm. Ph. Andrea Rossetti
Margherita Moscardini, The High Seas of the Planet Earth, Pacific Ocean, 2020Pigment on paper, steel, 144x105 cm. Ph. Andrea Rossetti
Margherita Moscardini, The High Seas of the Planet Earth. Atlantic Ocean Northern Hemisphere and Mediterranean Sea, 2020Pigment on paper, steel, 144x105 cm. Ph. Andrea Rossetti
The High Seas of the Planet Earth, Southern Hemisphere, 2020Pigment on paper, steel, 144x98 cm. Ph. Andrea Rossetti
The High Seas of the Planet Earth, Atlantic Ocean Northern Hemisphere and Mediterranean Sea, 2020Pigment on paper, steel, 144x105 cm. Ph. Andrea Rossetti
Margherita Moscardini (Donoratico, 1981)the relations among transformation processes of urban, social and natural order belonging to specific geographies. She often focuses on abandoned and under demolition, whereby the demolitions’ waste system becomes a paradigm of the local complexities. Her practice favours the process and long-term projects, considering the context as a medium: the existing architecture, the landscape (meant as geo-morphological features) where the material environment is designed on, how the urban plans condition the behaviours of local communities. The context often suggests specific issues, materials and methods of the work, which she carries out through large-scale interventions, drawings, writings, scale models and video-documents.
Among her works: Istanbul City Hills_On the Natural History of Dispersion and States of Aggregation (2013), dealing with the recent urban transformation of Istanbul; 1XUnknown (1942-2018, to Fortress Europe with Love), which presents parts of the 15,000 bunkers of the Atlantic Wall defensive line, built by the Third Reich along the European Atlantic coast to defend Fortress Europe. Since 2016 she has been researching refugee camps as cities where a new idea of citizenship can be experimented. Her work The Fountains of Za’atari developed from the Za’atari refugee camp, conceived in 2012 in Jordan on the Syrian border.
Margherita Moscardini (b. 1981, Italy) obtained a BA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna, in 2006 and in 2008 she attended the XIV ACVA Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, with Yona Friedman. In 2015 she was a research fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University. Recently, she held lectures and talks at MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome; Columbia University, New York; SVA e ISCP, New York; Triennale di Milano; NABA, Milan. Over the past few years her work has been shown at MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome; MMCA Changdong and SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul; Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia; Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome; IIC of Istanbul and of Bruxelles; MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome; CCA, Plovdiv; MAMbo, Bologna; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; Quadriennale di Roma, Rome; and Palazzo Reale, Milan.
Margherita Moscardini (Donoratico, 1981)the relations among transformation processes of urban, social and natural order belonging to specific geographies. She often focuses on abandoned and under demolition, whereby the demolitions’ waste system becomes a paradigm of the local complexities. Her practice favours the process and long-term projects, considering the context as a medium: the existing architecture, the landscape (meant as geo-morphological features) where the material environment is designed on, how the urban plans condition the behaviours of local communities. The context often suggests specific issues, materials and methods of the work, which she carries out through large-scale interventions, drawings, writings, scale models and video-documents.
Among her works: Istanbul City Hills_On the Natural History of Dispersion and States of Aggregation (2013), dealing with the recent urban transformation of Istanbul; 1XUnknown (1942-2018, to Fortress Europe with Love), which presents parts of the 15,000 bunkers of the Atlantic Wall defensive line, built by the Third Reich along the European Atlantic coast to defend Fortress Europe. Since 2016 she has been researching refugee camps as cities where a new idea of citizenship can be experimented. Her work The Fountains of Za’atari developed from the Za’atari refugee camp, conceived in 2012 in Jordan on the Syrian border.
Margherita Moscardini (b. 1981, Italy) obtained a BA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna, in 2006 and in 2008 she attended the XIV ACVA Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, with Yona Friedman. In 2015 she was a research fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University. Recently, she held lectures and talks at MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome; Columbia University, New York; SVA e ISCP, New York; Triennale di Milano; NABA, Milan. Over the past few years her work has been shown at MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome; MMCA Changdong and SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul; Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia; Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome; IIC of Istanbul and of Bruxelles; MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome; CCA, Plovdiv; MAMbo, Bologna; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; Quadriennale di Roma, Rome; and Palazzo Reale, Milan.
- Sophie Ko
- Gizela Mickiewicz,
- Alessandro Teoldi
- Giovanni Kronenberg,
- Margherita Moscardini,
- Serena Vestrucci
Nov 5 – 7, 2021
Main Section
Corridor Dark Blue 9
- Margherita Moscardini
Sep 17 – 19, 2021
Established Contemporary
Pav. 4 – Booth C26
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.
- Vlatka Horvat
Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Opening Sept 14
Until 12/11/2023
Curated by Kristina Bonjeković Stojković
