Photo: Carlo Favero
From press release:
Klara Kristalova
Emelie Sandström
Anna Schachinger
Il Sorriso Degli Dèi [The Smile of the Gods] is a three person show featuring works by internationally acclaimed Swedish artist Klara Kristalova, Malmö based Swedish artist Emelie Sandström and Austrian artist Anna Schachinger. Blending three very different practices, the exhibition is entitled from a line of Cesare Pavese’s peculiar oeuvre Dialoghi con Leucò, where the Italian author imagined apocryphal dialogues between some of the most famous figures of the Greek mythology and used these characters as an excuse to reflect on myth, relations, and eventually, art itself. Within an intergenerational perspective and caught in between Nordic myth and religion, fable and queerness, unruliness and feminism, the protagonists of this exhibition are women, as in many of the dialogues by Pavese and in the pan-European mythology. As Medea, Helen and Calypso did at the time of our ancient ancestors, Kristalova, Sandström and Schachinger’s art bring us far from reality and at the same time closer to our own selves, in a magical and feminine world filled with powerful symbols.
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