Milan's Clima Gallery focuses on young international talent. Here are the works

A trip to Versilia for Milan’s Clima Gallery, which brought to theHotel Byron in Forte dei Marmi, in an exhibition titled IOU (to be pronounced like the English phrase “I owe you”), some young international talents, plus a couple of already established names, with the intention of using a slogan borrowed from fashion (“IOU” was a successful campaign by fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, presented just this year) to launch, writes curator Chiara Guidi in the exhibition cahier, an “artistic slogan” that can convey the message that a cultural and social revolution with respect to the planet’s climate change is still possible, while at the same time being “very close in sensibility and contemporary aesthetics” to the artists’ works.

An evocative review, starting with the very special Dream portraits of the “doyen” of the group, Matteo Nasini (Rome, 1976), who won the 2016 Talent Prize with these works: these are suggestive conical shapes resulting from the processing of brain waves recorded, via encephalogram, during the REM phase of sleep. The result was then 3D printed, and what we see are, in effect, representations of dreams. The now-classic reflection of how time acts on matter is the subject of the works of Jason Gomez (Los Angeles, 1986), who enriches his research with plant grafts, while countryman Will Stewart (California, 1984) reinterprets American minimalism by proposing to the viewer evocative monochrome landscapes made of plaster, rough canvas and pigments. The American trio is completed by Dana Lok (Pennsylvania, 1987) whose poetics of the double intends to investigate the theme of visual and mental perception with his poetics of the double.

All Italians, however, are the other artists: Cleo Fariselli (Cesenatico, 1982) with his work Loko maka lua proposes two large mirrors that look almost like two big feline eyes observing the observer, while Valerio Nicolai (Gorizia, 1988) presents “revelatory, romantic or ironic visions” with a strong and heartfelt painting that proposes unprecedented points of view (his Sun seen from a sea urchin is very particular) and, finally, Cosimo Casoni (Florence, 1990) proposes an original abstractionism (but with solid references to reality that denote his passion for the art of the Macchiaioli) in which the marks on the surface of the paintings are actually traces left by the wheels of a skateboard.

Here is a selection of the works exhibited at Clima’s summer show:

Matteo Nasini, Dream Portrait (2016; 3D print in porcelain, 30.5 x 15 cm)

Jason Gomez, Clonal Advantage II (2016; bronze and polyurethane foam, 23 x 34 x 13 cm)

Will Stewart, Untitled (monochrome) (2017; plaster, jute, pigment, 20 x 34 cm)

Dana Lok, Double Bunny (2017; pastel on paper, 68 x 80 cm)

Cleo Fariselli, Loko Maka Lua (2016; paper mache, water colors, copper powder, epoxy resin, iron oxide; 48 x 107 x 20 cm each)

Valerio Nicolai, Sun Seen from a Sea Urchin (2017; acrylic, oil, paper, glue, cotton, and resin on artist’s carved canvas; 58 x 30 x 3 cm)

Cosimo Casoni, The Road Home (2016; oil and bitumen on canvas in artist’s frame; 140 x 100 cm)

Milan's Clima Gallery focuses on young international talent. Here are the works

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