M<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>i2/1/2Francesca M<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>iAlessandra M<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>iVia Massimiano 25IT-<strong>2013</strong>4 MilanoT +39 022 692 46 71F +39 022 159 64 02M +39 335 784 35 43M +39 347 848 03 28<strong>in</strong>fo@francescam<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>i.itwww.francescam<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>i.itShown at <strong>LISTE</strong>:Riccardo Previdi, 1974, ITMandla Reuter, 1975, DEOther Artists of the Gallery:Ghada Amer, ETBecky Beasley, GBMatthias Bitzer, DEArm<strong>in</strong> Boehm, DEPaolo Chiasera, ITJan de Cock, BEGiulio Frigo, ITDan Graham, USAli Kazma, TRDeborah Ligorio, ITSimon Dybbroe Møller, DKGabriele Picco, ITFrancesco Simeti, ITRiccardo PrevidiInstallation view,Francesca M<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>i,Milan, 2012Photograph:Agost<strong>in</strong>o OsioMandla ReuterInstallation view,Kunsthalle <strong>Basel</strong>,<strong>2013</strong>Photograph:Gunnar Meier128 / 129
Monitor0/6/2MONITORPaola CapataVia Sforza Cesar<strong>in</strong>i, 43A–44IT-00<strong>18</strong>6 RomeT +39 063 937 80 24monitor@monitoronl<strong>in</strong>e.orgwww.monitoronl<strong>in</strong>e.orgShown at <strong>LISTE</strong>:Jesse Ash, 1977, UKClaudio Verna, 1937, ITOther Artists of the Gallery:Francesco Arena, ITAdam Avika<strong>in</strong>en, USGraham Hudson, UKPeter L<strong>in</strong>de Busk, DKTomaso De Luca, ITRä di M<strong>art</strong><strong>in</strong>o, ITUrsula Mayer, ATNathaniel Mellors, UKAntonio Rovaldi, ITAlexandre S<strong>in</strong>gh, FRIan Tweedy, DENico Vascellari, ITKostis Velonis, GRGuido van der Werve, NLZimmerFrei, ITClaudio Verna,Superficie modulareN. 12, 1966. Oil oncanvas, 50 × 50 cm.Courtesy the <strong>art</strong>istand Monitor, Rome.130 / 131Jesse Ash’s (London 1977) work configuresa personal and material relationship topolitics by impos<strong>in</strong>g processes of reconstructionand abstraction upon exist<strong>in</strong>gimages, sounds and words of dissem<strong>in</strong>atedideology. His work often uses the formalsupports of these contemporary authoritiessuch as political convention stage sets,newspaper imagery, rhetorical devises,gestures or advertis<strong>in</strong>g strategies as materialto comb<strong>in</strong>e with processes of delicatecraft and personally driven narratives.In turn, the work tends to convey a sense ofa personal endeavour to get closer, bothphysically and theoretically to the events,speech or content that map relations to eachother and the society that we live with<strong>in</strong>.Interested <strong>in</strong> the radical potential of speech,rumour and gossip Ash’s work is concernedwith the processes of uncover<strong>in</strong>g content –treat<strong>in</strong>g the process of une<strong>art</strong>h<strong>in</strong>g as aplace where content is equally.Claudio Verna (Guardiagrele, 1937) isconsidered to be one of the most brilliantrepresentatives of the ‘analytical pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g’.S<strong>in</strong>ce 1967 his pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g has been free ofany subject reference – not even to anabstract image and it has been totallyconcerned with the dynamics and dialecticsof the elements of pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g itself, especiallycolour. Verna explores the changes thatexternal sources of light effect on dist<strong>in</strong>ctprimary colours, some bright and someopaque. Where colour areas overlap, thereis a sense of form and movement.Geometric forms provide the key to understand<strong>in</strong>gthe work and they are achievedby colour itself – never by draw<strong>in</strong>g. <strong>The</strong>seforms constitute the venue for an ambiguityof the perception and they are alsothe focus of the <strong>art</strong>ist’s attention. In Verna’spa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>gs the colour is the source ofambiguity (Tomaso Tr<strong>in</strong>i, 1973).