GIACOMO GUIDI'S NEW GALLERY

NEW OPENING yesterdy, September 16 in Largo Cristina di Svezia 17 in Trastevere, Rome!
Three exhibitions: Gerold Miller, Melissa Kretschmer and Ettore Sottsass.
Giacomo Guidi opens the new gallery premises next to the Botanical Garden in the historical heart of Rome - an overall 1000 square meters space of which 500 will be dedicated to exhibitions.
The space, originally a typography and for ten years the studio of artist Sandro Chia, is a unique location in Rome, able to foster a more dynamic use of the gallery space. A place for contemporary creativity, where visual art will be in simultaneous dialogue with literature, music, photography, poetry, food, fashion, design and cinema.
 The vision of Giacomo Guidi is to conceive a place that may act as a new enzyme for a Roman renaissance. The premises are equipped with two large independent exhibition spaces, and a hybrid space for work, exhibition viewing and conviviality, a kitchen and two apartments – one is home to Giacomo Guidi himself and the second will serve as guesthouse.
 MOTELSALIERI will also be present inside the new premises with its activity and initiatives. The exhibition program will be articulated in three yearly opening events, each presenting two large exhibitions and a curatorial project.
The space aims to become a hub where students, art lovers, intellectuals, professionals, collectors and artists converge. In addition to the main exhibition activity, Giacomo Guidi intends to activate a calendar of events, talks, conferences, presentations, involving artists, curators, designers, architects, musicians, chefs and much more.

Gerold Miller

Gerold Miller

'What underlies Gerold Miller's work is, on the one hand, a fundamental refusal to create images, and on the other, a strategy for overcoming it. The pathetic sublime becomes aesthetic figuration. This applies to both the form and the content of the new work. Formally, in its pictorial emptiness, contentwise, in the intensity and wealth of the colour schemes, which mosty include stark contrasts, e.g. black and white, but also striking colour combination, such as red, blue, green and silver. The powerful effect of the objects is a product of the contrast between fullness and emptiness.'

Gerold Miller

Jacopo Quaranta Motelsalieri

Jacopo Quaranta Motelsalieri

Ettore Sottsass

Ettore Sottsass

In the translucent chromatic variety of these enamels, we can recognize the same extraordinary capacity of using colour as a basic element of design, that will be typical of the later subversive experiences of the Anti-Design movement and of the #Memphis collective by which Ettore Sottsass will distance himself from purely functionalist design. This exhibition gives the public a chance to discover a less known – but fascinating – aspect of the production of an artist who has been a protagonist and a great innovator in the culture of design in Italy and all over the world.

Ettore Sottsass

Melissa Kretschmer