ART ROTTERDAM / 1-4 February 2024, opening 31 January
main section | booth 88
1 > 4 February 2024
opening 31 January
Art Rotterdam
Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam
Chiara Baima Poma
Paolo Bini
Gregorio Botta
Victoria Stoian
Flaminia Veronesi
Lauren Wy
www.simondi.gallery
Via della Rocca, 29 10123 Torino Italy
Tel. +39 011 8124460
ARTISTS ON DISPLAY / booth 88
Chiara Baima Poma
Paolo Bini
Gregorio Botta
Victoria Stoian
Flaminia Veronesi
Lauren Wy
SIMÓNDI GALLERY
Simóndi Gallery, founded in 2023 by Francesca Simondi, represents the continuation of the cultural
research started by Alberto Peola in 1989 in Turin. From its beginnings, the gallery’s attention has
always been focused on young and emerging artists, combining attention to the Italian art scene and dialogue with leading figures on the European and International stage. Alberto Peola was the first in Italy to show the work of Botto&Bruno in 1996, Martin Creed in 1999, Lala Meredith-Vula in 2002, Michael Rakowitz in 2006, and Emily Jacir in 2007. Always alert to new trends that find personal narrative solutions through various expressive mediums, from photography to painting to videos to installations, the gallery has consistently collaborated with artists who have earned numerous international awards and recognitions and have featured in museums, biennials, and contemporary art events.
In September 2023, after three years of shared management between Peola and Simondi, Peola Simondi Gallery changed its name to Simóndi, which Francesca Simondi continues independently. The curatorial approach continues to develop its research line aimed at promoting the work of artists who, despite the diversity of geopolitical contexts to which they refer, address themes ranging from environmental issues to the interaction between diverse cultures, from political and social tensions to the reinterpretation of the historical memory of places and communities.
ARTISTS ON DISPLAY / booth 88
Chiara Baima Poma
Paolo Bini
Gregorio Botta
Victoria Stoian
Flaminia Veronesi
Lauren Wy
CHIARA
BAIMA POMA
CHIARA BAIMA POMA
The predominant themes of Chiara Baima Poma’s works are the sense of identity and the attraction to ancestral and spiritual forms such as myth, fable, andreligions. The interaction of all these elements contaminates each other, giving life to a visual narrative of our present, which investigates the artist’s sense of identity and belonging. Baima Poma looks to the great masters of Italian Gothic painting. In fact, references to Giotto, Simone Martini, Duccio di Buoninsegna, Giovanni da Milano, Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti are evident in her works.
She creates a new pictorial imagery that draws expressive sap from popular narration, sayings, proverbs, and idioms of our present.
Biography
Chiara Baima Poma (Cuorgnè – TO, 1990). She graduated in 2010 from the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin. She lives and works in Gran Canaria.
In 2022, she won the Global Talent Art Prize. In the same year, she exhibited at
Green Alley Studios and Black White Gallery in London, where she returned in
2023 with the solo exhibition It Costs To Be Austere. In 2023, she presented
her works at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven, Connecticut, in
the exhibition Embodied Knowledge. In 2023 took place her solo exhibition at
Simóndi Gallery (Turin), Mirrors for larks.
PAOLO BINI
Paolo Bini experiments with painting, constantly renewing his expressive artistic language. He reassesses materials and processes through a perceptive, meticulous exploration of the primary elements of painting, light and color, which achieve a new emotionally-charged fusion in his work. This results in open works, emotional landscapes and scenes – places of the self that can open new
spaces and windows to the world. Bini’s art ranges from painting to installation.
Biography
Paolo Bini (Battipaglia – SA, 1984). His works have featured in national and international institutions, including: Fondazione Made in Cloister, Naples (2022);
Parco Archeologico Paestum, Capaccio-Paestum (2021); CaMusAC – Museo
d’Arte Contemporanea, Cassino (2020); ISCP – International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York (2019); Gallerie d’Italia Milan (2019); RISO – Museo
regionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Palermo (2018); Madre – Museo
d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples (2017); Pinacoteca Provinciale,
Salerno (2017); Reggia di Caserta (2016); Palazzo Reale, Milan (2016); Casa
Ariosto, Ferrara (2014); Provenance House, Cape Town (2013); Museo de Arte
Religioso, Iglesia de San Francisco de Asís, Havana (2010); and Palazzo Bianco, Genoa (2010). He was winner of the 2016 Premio Cairo.
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GREGORIO BOTTA
In an increasingly dematerialized and digitized culture, Gregorio Botta retrieves the importance of the body (ours as well as of any other thing). To this purpose he employs materials that have an ancient bond with man, and are somehow inscribed in our cultural DNA, such as wax, lead, glass, water, iron, fire, marble, lately even leaves, grasses and flowers – materials transformed into something
more lightweight, ethereal, suspended, which speak to our frailty and ephemerality.
Biography
Gregorio Botta (Naples, 1953). After his first solo show at the Segno Gallery in Rome (1991) he received great attention from critics on the occasion of various exhibitions, such as Transparencies of Italian art on the silk road curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Beijing (1993); XII Quadriennale, Rome (1996); National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome (1998). His works belong to public and private collections, including the Galleria Nazionale, Rome; MAXXI, Rome; Macro, Rome; Palazzo delle Esposizioni (permanent work), Rome; Madre, Naples; Mart, Rovereto; Musma, Matera; European Community Bank, Frankfurt; Philip Morris, New York. Among his solo exhibitions, we remember those at Peola Simondi Gallery, Turin (2023, 2020); Studio G7, Bologna (2021, 2017); Galleria Nazionale, Rome (2020); Chiesa di San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, Rome (2019); MAC, Lima (2016); Triennale, Milan (2015); MACRO, Rome (2012); Fondazione Volume!, Rome (2009); Certosa di Padula, Padula – SA (2005); Galleria AAM-Architettura Arte Moderna, Rome (1997). His group exhibitions include those at Museo Madre, Naples (2022); MAXXI, Rome (2017); MAMC, Saint-Etienne (2015); XIV Quadriennale, Palazzo Reale, Naples (2003); Galleria Nazionale, Rome (1998).
VICTORIA STOIAN
Stoian’s research is strongly connected to her own personal experience. Through plentiful cycles of works, she recounts the memory of her homeland, of places steeped in drama as a result of natural events, such as a devastating earthquake, or a civil war along a border marked by a river. In her canvases we can find no drawing, no horizon line or fixed points of reference. The colour is a stain, a glaze, a figuration that becomes abstraction. Nothing is fixed and defined. The elaboration of such themes as conflict, displacement from one’s homeland, the weight of an uncertain future, involves the perception of an intimate, conflicting and permeable boundary between isolation and sociality, freedom and restrictions, the acceptance of the idea of vulnerability and of limit that the developed western world struggles to accept.
Biography
Victoria Stoian (Chișinău, 1987). Her works feature in the collection of the CRC
Foundation in Cuneo as well as in important private collections. She is among the
winners of the #raccontoplurale prize promoted and supported by the Fondazione
per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT (2020) and Bando Distruzione (2021)
promoted by Fondazione CRC. Her solo exhibitions include those at Peola Simondi Gallery, Turin (2023, 2018, 2015); Studio la Città, Verona (2023, 2015).
Her group exhibitions include those at Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli – TO (2023); CAR
Gallery, Bologna (2023); MEF – Museo Ettore Fico, Turin (2022); Associazione
Culturale Rivoli2, Borgomaro – IM (2022); Complesso Monumentale San Francesco, Cuneo (2022); Giuseppe Pero, Milan (2018, 2017, 2015).
FLAMINIA VERONESI
Flaminia Veronesi explores the fantastic and the marvelous through a ludic approach to artistic practice, creating heterogeneous works with media and materials that are free from hierarchies. She ranges from textile works, sculptures in
polymer clay, ceramics to pencil drawings, paintings, watercolors, glass engravings, and installations.
Biography
Flaminia Veronesi (Milan, 1986). Lives and works in Milan. She attended the
Foundation Course at Central Saint Martins (2006) and earned a BA in Fine
Arts from Chelsea University of Arts and Design (2009). Her solo exhibitions include those at Marni’s flagship store, Milan (2023); Botanical Garden, Palermo
(2023); T Magazine, Villa Necchi Campiglio (2022); Castiglioni Fine Arts Gallery, Milan (2021). Her group exhibitions include those at Peola Simondi Gallery,
Turin (2023); Triennale Milano, Milan (2023); Luxy Club, Milan (2023); Musée
des Merveilles, Tende (2022); the residency project Living Room at Associazione Art.ur, Cuneo (2022); Die Sonnenstube Off-Space, Lugano (2022).
LAUREN WY
Lauren Wy investigates the desiring body and psyche as a fractal narrative generated by embodied experience and manifested with process and color. Auto-theory frameworks, born from feminist writing and activism, inform her critical
and artistic practice. Wy builds stories from fragments found in both real and
digital spaces, focusing on the use of esoteric media to speak of the relationship
between disclosure and exposure in the present and future climate and political crises. Her work centers on the femme, the animal, and the landscape as
subjects, treating each with ennui and bacchanal chaos themes.
Biography
Lauren Wy (Los Angeles, 1987) received her MFA from Northwestern University in 2020. Prior to 2018, she inhabited the underground music scene in South
Florida and Chicago, where she performed as a singer in a band and producer
of animated music videos. Her series AUTODESIRE debuted in 2021, Chapter
9 Grift X of her project AUTODESIRE is in the permanent collection of Castello
di Rivoli, Turin. Her solo exhibitions include those at Western Exhibitions, Chicago (2023, 2021); Société Interludio, Turin (2023); Musei Reali, Turin (2022).
Her group exhibitions include those at Over the Influence, Los Angeles (2023);
Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli – TO (2022); 6018 NORTH, Chicago (2022); Western
Exhibitions, Miami Beach (2021); Practise Gallery, Oak Park (2020); Kunstraum
Walcheturm, Zurich (2019); Apparatus Projects, Chicago (2019); Athens Biennale, Athens (2018); Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL (2012).
