Mazzacana Gallery presents the ten digital artworks created by Simone Bubbico for the exhibition Wallpapers for your phone #7, curated by Federica Lavarini. The artworks will be displayed on the screen of some smartphones installed in gallery, in addition the works will be free to download starting at 6:30 PM (CEST) on October 23rd 2021, and they will become available upon payment at the end of the event – November 23rd 2021 – or after 500 copies downloaded.
Simone Bubbico approches the research on the light-shadow, man-nature dualism to technology: thin wildflowers grow on Venus de Milo, emblem of classical culture, as well as on the studies for sculptural models, custodian of ideal beauty. But it’s nature, in its more hostile manifestation, to draw our attention from a long time. Now it’s among us to recover its spaces. And yet, in the In bloom series, it still shows kindness: it’s elegant, capable of induce a subtle reflection; it’s light but also darkness and, in a game of fantastic illusions, refers to dreams survived to distruction.
Federica Lavarini, curator of the exhibition.
Simone Bubbico was born in 1984 in Turin where he graduated in Decoration at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts. His first double solo exhibition took place in 2013 at PAN in Naples. In 2016 he won the first prize at Arte Laguna Prize (sculpture section) and he was a finalist at Canova Prize in New York in 2018. He exhibited in Berlin, Rome and various national reviews.