Loose Ends
Renata Fabbri is glad to announce Loose Ends, a project curated by Branka Benčić.
The exhibition Loose Ends takes form through unstable and temporary performative strategies of improvisation, replacement, repetition, or reconfiguration. As the title refers to the unsolved or unfinished, open-ended and vague, the exhibition unfolds as a set of provisional dialogues, echoing a suspended meaning. The exhibition brings together four artistic positions, each one dealing with protocols of reproduction and repair, testing and redoing, different conceptual and formal procedures in a process that encompasses contingency. It reflects uncertainties of the contemporary momentum – changing landscapes, economies of tension and collapse, spatial and temporal discontinuities.
The works converging in this project address the materiality of artistic processes as they unfold through production and display. In particular, they look at aspects of precariousness, fragility, (in)stability and ephemerality inscribed to such procedures, as well as to the production modes and methodologies behind them. The display is articulated through a series of formal elements, analogies, juxtapositions and reciprocities that characterize these works in their re-configuration of minimalist, post-minimalist, conceptual and abstract formal languages. Performativity is enacted in staging relations between objects and the viewer, in a choreography of the space.
We are often led to think that every action is projected towards a specific end or purpose. However, there is a distinction between actions that are “means to ends” and those that are not, that are “ends in themselves”. Loose Ends explores and enacts such element of suspension, a gap standing in between the reality of an object, an action, an image and its meaning. A space that remains vaguely defined by loosely connected or disconnected parts. Situations or actions become articulated as possibilities and attempts, either to reach, to avoid or to mark possible new ends or, again, to embody a space without ends. Awaiting for the meaning to be re-inscribed, Loose Ends stages a situation of both aesthetic, spatial and conceptual terms, to form a visual language of fragments, temporary, unstable and precarious forms. Structured as a fragmentary narrative, a set of potentialities is emerging on the horizon.
Renata Fabbri is glad to announce Loose Ends, a project curated by Branka Benčić.
The exhibition Loose Ends takes form through unstable and temporary performative strategies of improvisation, replacement, repetition, or reconfiguration. As the title refers to the unsolved or unfinished, open-ended and vague, the exhibition unfolds as a set of provisional dialogues, echoing a suspended meaning. The exhibition brings together four artistic positions, each one dealing with protocols of reproduction and repair, testing and redoing, different conceptual and formal procedures in a process that encompasses contingency. It reflects uncertainties of the contemporary momentum – changing landscapes, economies of tension and collapse, spatial and temporal discontinuities.
The works converging in this project address the materiality of artistic processes as they unfold through production and display. In particular, they look at aspects of precariousness, fragility, (in)stability and ephemerality inscribed to such procedures, as well as to the production modes and methodologies behind them. The display is articulated through a series of formal elements, analogies, juxtapositions and reciprocities that characterize these works in their re-configuration of minimalist, post-minimalist, conceptual and abstract formal languages. Performativity is enacted in staging relations between objects and the viewer, in a choreography of the space.
We are often led to think that every action is projected towards a specific end or purpose. However, there is a distinction between actions that are “means to ends” and those that are not, that are “ends in themselves”. Loose Ends explores and enacts such element of suspension, a gap standing in between the reality of an object, an action, an image and its meaning. A space that remains vaguely defined by loosely connected or disconnected parts. Situations or actions become articulated as possibilities and attempts, either to reach, to avoid or to mark possible new ends or, again, to embody a space without ends. Awaiting for the meaning to be re-inscribed, Loose Ends stages a situation of both aesthetic, spatial and conceptual terms, to form a visual language of fragments, temporary, unstable and precarious forms. Structured as a fragmentary narrative, a set of potentialities is emerging on the horizon.
- Vlatka Horvat, Frame Painting (Felt Strip), 2018Wooden frame, felt, 37x39x5 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, Frame Painting (Felt Hole), 2018Wooden frame, felt, corrugated cardboard, 55x55x3.5 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, Equivalents (III), 2014From left:
Claybord panel, archival artist tape, acrylic, 13x13 cm
Wooden panel, cotton string 31x23 cm
Claybord panel, felt, foam , 24x31 cm
- Ištvan Išt Huzjan, Unnamed image, 2013Bleached textile, 16x(10×5) cm
- Dino Zrnec, Untitled, 2018Found cleats, sliced stretchers, cotton, acrylic glass, 100x50x5,5 cm
- Dino Zrnec, Untitled, 2018Found cleats, sliced stretchers, cotton, acrylic glass, 44x8,5x5 cm
- Ištvan Išt Huzjan, Unnamed figure, 2018Stretcher and armature metal net, 2x79x87 cm
- Dino Zrnec, Untitled, 2018Acrylic glass, sliced stretchers, 50x25x4,7 cm
- Dino Zrnec, Unnamed figure, 2018Oil on cotton, 116,5x86,5 cm
- Dino Zrnec, Untitled, 2017Oil on cotton, 116,5x86,5 cm
- Dino Zrnec, Untitled, 2017Oil on cotton, 116,5x86,5 cm
- Sophie Ko, Geografia temporale, 2019Pure pigment, 140x80 cm
- Sophie Ko, Geografia temporale, 2019Pure pigment, 140x80 cm

- Sophie Ko

- Vlatka Horvat,
- Tim Etchells

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.

- Sophie Ko
Contemporary Locus 15, Bergamo
Sept 16 – Nov 5 , 2023
Opening Sept 16, 5 pm
Curated by Paola Tognon

- Vlatka Horvat
Feb 4- Apr 2, 2022
PEER Gallery, London, UK

- Sophie Ko
Sept – Oct 24, 2022
Museo Marino Marini, Florence
Curated by Marcella Cangioli and Antonella Nicola