Quayola
Fondazione Modena Arti Visive presents Ultima perfezione, solo exhibition by the artist Quayola (Rome, 1982). Curated by Daniele De Luigi and produced by FMAV in partnership with Marignana Arte gallery in Venice, it will be held in the Sale Superiori on the second floor of Palazzo Santa Margherita from 18 September 2020 to 10 January 2021. The exhibition, opening on the occasion of festivalfilosofia 2020, this year dedicated to “Macchine” (18-20 September 2020), is the artist’s first solo show in an Italian institution and the result of Fondazione Modena Arti Visive’s participation in the Art Verona 2019 Level 0 Prize, involving 13 of the main museums and contemporary art organizations in Italy.
The exhibition revolves around the idea of perfection and its meaning in the history of western art. In Giorgio Vasari’s The Lives this term is often used to indicate the achievement of excellence by painters, sculptors and architects, in line with the universally agreed canons of harmony and beauty. Quayola makes use of classical, modern and Baroque masterpieces, applying algorithms to them to seek out these canons, and question the fundamental principles of artistry. The rules laid down by historiographers and critics are rendered into sets of information, which, when read by the machine, take on a new value and give rise to new aesthetic codes.
Press
Quayola alla FMAV. La mostra raccontata dal curatore Daniele de Luigi, Artslife, December 2020
Mostre in pillole. Quayola a Modena raccontata dal curatore Daniele De Luigi, Valerio Veneruso, Artribune, December 2020
L’occhio della macchina davanti all’arte: Quayola a Modena, Il Sole 24 Ore, October 2020
Modena, Fmav: alla scoperta della mostra di Quayola, Gazzetta di Modena, September 2020
Quayola in mostra a Modena. Tra storia dell’arte e nuove tecnologie, Valentina Tanni, Artribune, July 2020
Ultima Perfezione at FMAV, installation view