CAE is pleased to host its first artist in residence 2020 – Fiorentina De Biasi
This emerging artist, a native of Italy who has for the past decade been dividing her time between Berlin, Naples Italy and New York is now a New York resident. She will be pursuing the creation of new collage based works in photography and fashion as well as completing an ongoing series of works devoted to the poetry of Tupac Shakur.
“An artist’s work full of poetic moments – signed with the brute force of a stapler. And that’s only one of the various antagonistic aspects of Fiorentina De Biasi’s work. Informed by both academic semiotics and the rough subcultures of the street, the Italian born artist who finds her inspiration in the dense climates of New York City, Naples and Berlin constantly navigates between high, low and simply out there.
“The subject of her most recent series of work is a study of the contemporary human condition as it is magnified in the experience of today’s urban space. A space that is fractured along various fault lines which are being mirrored in De Biasi’s approach to the medium of collage. Prints of analogue photographs taken by the artist herself are torn and re-arranged into complex compositions only held together by the needles of a stapler. Reminiscent of the well known grid structure but way more unstable, these works do not only illustrate how fragile the web-like structure formally known as society has become. As artworks in their own right they also constitute a precarious beauty which in an age of constantly shifting grounds from the personal to the political could not be more up to date.”
Sammlung Gunnar Luetzow
The gallery remains open by appointment.
